<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: postflopclarity</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=postflopclarity</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:22:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=postflopclarity" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by postflopclarity in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you might be underestimating how much money can be spent at a ski resort.</p>
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<p>the damage is already done.</p>
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<p>more of a completely unforced self-inflicted error than some kind of naturally occurring "bust cycle"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:33:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587143</link><dc:creator>postflopclarity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by postflopclarity in "New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think this is quite true. in my industry & city, noncompetes are very common and commonly enforced.</p>
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<p>your imagination is wrong. obviously.</p>
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<p>> What is the evidence of US government being "toppled" with layers and layers and layers of diverse (financial, legal, military, political, social, you name it) protections in place?<p>I mean.<p>Do you read the news?<p>these protections are not working very well these days. the administration is getting away with _so much_ criminality in plain view.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:06:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508341</link><dc:creator>postflopclarity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by postflopclarity in "An incoherent Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> the compiler has no sane answer once both impls are in the graph<p>but the user could provide an answer.<p>Julia allows something called "piracy" which is spiritually similar to the orphan rule. and while it is strongly discouraged, the compiler allows it. and when "ambiguities" arise (here called "coherence") it becomes a social problem, not technical, to resolve. and usually package authors are pretty willing to cooperate to resolve it!</p>
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<p>> but we have very comprehensive data and statistics concerning air travel<p>somehow I feel like conditions may have changed since that data was collected. just a hunch.</p>
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<p>just because rents fell doesn't mean developers couldn't recoup their investment. 2008 was completely different.</p>
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<p>how surprising, never would have seen that coming</p>
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<p>> but mostly in skills and token use optimization.<p>I have heard rumors that token use optimization has been a recent focus to try to tidy up the financials of these companies before they IPO. take that with a grain of salt though</p>
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<p>> "Drastic increases in capability have happened the last 3-6 months" have been a constant refrain.<p>well, yeah. because that's been the experience for many people.<p>3 years ago, trying to use ChatGPT 3.5 for coding tasks was more of a gimmick than anything else, and was basically useless for helping me with my job.<p>today, agentic Opus 4.6 provides more value to me than probably 2 more human engineers on my team would</p>
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<p>please don't use AI to write comments</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:39:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334800</link><dc:creator>postflopclarity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by postflopclarity in "Iran War Cost Tracker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>sometimes there are more than two options between<p>"do nothing"<p>and the clusterfuck the current administration has embarked on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:46:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238728</link><dc:creator>postflopclarity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by postflopclarity in "Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no. I'm not going to boost links to the incel pipeline. it's already easy enough to access.</p>
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<p>is this bad-faith naivete ?<p>obviously, in isolation, there is nothing hateful about wanting to improve your appearance. but if you spend any time at all on these forums in which "looksmaxxing" discussions tend to occur, the hatred towards women (and other groups) is profuse and apparent.</p>
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<p>"what people subconciously believe" != "lot of truth"<p>the State should not be boosting the rhetoric of what mostly amounts to a bunch of hateful losers blaming their problems on women.</p>
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<p>I don't think you read or understood the article if this is your takeaway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:29:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154660</link><dc:creator>postflopclarity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by postflopclarity in "Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm even sympathetic to some of the concerns. I say that as someone deeply embedded in the Julia community. but seeing this same repost over and over for years honestly starts to get pretty frustrating.</p>
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<p>it's so infuriating how bad I am at typing now.</p>
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