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New comment by rsingel in "Tiny Little Office"

rsingel — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:17:29 +0000

What was the recent site here on HN that let you do this but with signs and QR codes?

New comment by rsingel in "Now that information is free, what's a college campus for?"

rsingel — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:08:19 +0000

Higher education isn't just about facts or a career; it's mostly about creating citizens

New comment by rsingel in "An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot"

rsingel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:00:01 +0000

And my point is you, like Trump and Kobach, can't prove there is a voting fraud problem so instead share, at best, anecdotes.

Not sure why your OG post is still up.

Voter ID solves a non-existent fraud problem and does so by making voting harder.

New comment by rsingel in "An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot"

rsingel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:55:27 +0000

This sounds like some third-hand anecdata. Trump et al (Chris Kobach, for one) have spent millions of dollars trying to find voter fraud and they have all come up with zilch.

And you have some memory of some account from someone 12 years ago in a state you can't remember saying that a third of voters had someone pretend to be them?

If this were close to true, it wouldn't be some blog post that you can't remember; it would have been a national scandal and it would have been something that we would never forget because the election stealer conspiracy theorists would never let it go.

Really, you should just delete this post as it's irresponsible and lacks any data.

New comment by rsingel in "All I wanted was a custom domain email"

rsingel — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:13:48 +0000

Not sure why the cloudflare option to a personal gmail, and then setting up Send as in Gmail doesn't work for OP.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

Fine for small needs.

And then when bigger pay $5 a month per email address to a decent provider. At that point, you're spending more energy to save money than it's worth.

New comment by rsingel in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

rsingel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:04:05 +0000

I asked Claude to estimate the cumulative salaries of US only journalists over the last hundred years:

$500B for all kinds including TV and online

$300B for newsrooms including all staff

$140B for newsroom reporters only

So yeah, I think the price of the information ingested is way higher than training costs

New comment by rsingel in "Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models"

rsingel — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:36:13 +0000

Too true. I worked there.

Ask Jeeves hired hundreds of cheap liberal arts majors to classify data, some users thought Jeeves was real, the stock spiked when big companies hired Jeeves to automate support thinking it was a silver bullet, and the whole thing collapsed when a better model came along, and it degenerated into ripping off rubes with bottom of the barrel ads.

New comment by rsingel in "DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why"

rsingel — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:40:37 +0000

Journalism is labor

California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand

rsingel — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:17:33 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/california-may-gut-state-net-neutrality-law-to-comply-with-trump-admin-demand/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735670

Points: 9

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Feds Want California to Give Up 14 Years of Broadband Protections. It Should Sue

rsingel — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:09:36 +0000

Article URL: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2026/09/california-is-being-asked-to-give-up-14-years-of-broadband-protections-it-doesnt-have-to/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49730769

Points: 38

# Comments: 1

New comment by rsingel in "A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found"

rsingel — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:09:33 +0000

The site has a client-side registration wall loaded by JavaScript to obscure the full text that is already loaded in your browser.

If scripts are turned off in your browser or if you press a reader mode button, those kinds of registration walls won't load.

New comment by rsingel in "A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found"

rsingel — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:06:51 +0000

It's written by Ed Yong, who is a national treasure.

Hell yes, you should read it.

New comment by rsingel in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

rsingel — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:22:58 +0000

So Wargames is a documentary

New comment by rsingel in "Substack writers, you need a website"

rsingel — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:45:22 +0000

Substack has gone out of its way to platform the right and has been very proud to work with folks like Andrew Tate, Graham Linehan, and anti-vaxxers whose disinfo helped kill tens of thousands of Americans.

https://counterhate.com/blog/substack-generates-at-least-2-5...

New comment by rsingel in "Substack writers, you need a website"

rsingel — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:18:29 +0000

I'll put my money where my mouth is. We at Outpost will host your site on Ghost for a year for free and migrate all your substack subscribers, with the only caveats that 1) you put a tip jar link (either to Ghost's or Outpost's) at the end of every email with some text like support us being on an indie platform and 2) at the end of the year or earlier report how it went.

New comment by rsingel in "Substack writers, you need a website"

rsingel — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:01:05 +0000

With 66k subscribers you could cover that without even really trying by setting up a $5/month donation tier or putting a tip jar on the site. With a tiny bit of effort, you could make thousands a month.

Substack lets you get away with sending that many emails without attempting to monetize because you pay them in clout and with your reader data.

I think they are getting the better deal given how good your writing is and your reputation.

New comment by rsingel in "Substack writers, you need a website"

rsingel — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:49:59 +0000

You could do the same thing through Ghost, which has an API, and not be using a service that proudly platforms the Tates and nazis.

New comment by rsingel in "Substack writers, you need a website"

rsingel — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:46:50 +0000

Substack notes is non exportable; the newsletter now no longer have a link to read it on your site on substack and instead link to the substack app, and subscriptions started in the app pay Substack through Apple and Google and you can't export them.

Substack has become a roach motel but they pretend otherwise

New comment by rsingel in "Substack writers, you need a website"

rsingel — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:41:47 +0000

Not true. Ghost sites grow quite well and much of Substack's network effects don't turn into real subscribers

New comment by rsingel in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

rsingel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:53:47 +0000

I can only hope that bigger companies go all in on agents integrated into slack-like software. More fake work, slower orgs, and easier targets for companies that prioritize building stuff over fetishizing overengineered IRC with emojis pretending to be productivity software.