<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: saimiam</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saimiam</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:51:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=saimiam" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saimiam in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>fine. Place a log on your own property - equivalent of posting a prompt on your own blog - then leave the gate open (equivalent of posting on the internet) only to have someone drive over that log uninvited and blame you for it.<p>Is writing a prompt in your blog any different from laying a hunting trap on your own property and catching someone's pet? Are you liable for the pet wandering on your property?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:54:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595263</link><dc:creator>saimiam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saimiam in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shouldn’t that extra population in a limited amount of land lead to more demand and better outcomes for rail and roads?</p>
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<p>Say I loosen the bolts of your car tires which causes a crash, that’s malware.<p>Say I lay a log on a road which you can clearly see and avoid but choose to drive over and crash your car, that’s prompt injection.<p>One is way worse than the other.</p>
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<p>> won’t work<p>A datacenter (earthbound or space) itself is a fantastical idea until a mix of events and inventions made it feasible to build them to sell compute.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:57:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424643</link><dc:creator>saimiam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saimiam in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds to some extent like advertising and marketing in a market like India which is still predominantly offline and driven by visibility.</p>
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<p>Not just undergrads. Even folks who believe in astrology or numerology depend on finding patterns in unrelated events to explain human behaviours.</p>
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<p>The comment you were replying to was about school kids, not foreign students in post secondary programs looking for work/immigrant visas.<p>Also, foreign students enrolling in American colleges are (a) here as a result of decades of conscious policy choices (b) provide a not insignificant portion of the operating budget of many institutions (c) would go elsewhere if America wasn’t an option - so you aren’t really gaining much by keeping them out.<p>Source: former F1 visa masters student here</p>
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<p>What would this new system look like that doesn’t involve the trade offs between having cabs on demand if you need them and having a walkable city if you don’t that the person you replied to spoke about?<p>Uber and friends have indeed democratised giving rides to people - though where I am, a few rich people have bought numerous cars and have daily wagers driving them finding fares via Uber - but at the cost of far more cabs on the road.<p>Others, notably motorbikes and scooter ride aggregators have emerged to replicate Uber. These motorbike cabs are even harder to regulate than cabs.<p>Uber, imo, has broken the equilibrium that existed before.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 03:13:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342691</link><dc:creator>saimiam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saimiam in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I blame apps and products like WhatsApp and Nextdoor. We've created these online means of connection (and conflict) which allows us to communicate without having to actually meet anyone in person.<p>Absent these forced meetings, parents barely know their neighbors and consequently, their kids barely know anyone even two doors down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 11:19:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278159</link><dc:creator>saimiam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saimiam in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FD - I pay Insta to advertise a product for parents.<p>The results of above mentioned advertising have been great. I get inbound enquiries, parents get their curiosity about the usefulness of what I offer whetted. I don’t understand how the ad was unhelpful to the parent and me.</p>
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<p>> other parts of the stack<p>As a web developer, you’re the like the guy standing with a clipboard outside a fancy club checking if people requesting entry are allowed or not. Basically, level 1 security.<p>If someone is not on the list, your job is to default to declining them access, not granting them access assuming level 2 security will handle them at a deeper layer.<p>It’s possible that the teams you work with expect fuzzy behaviour from the website but that’s a choice, not a practice.</p>
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<p>If you’re good at something, never do it for free…or something.<p>Let OP make his “hire me and I’ll tell you why your AI first approach is bunk” market.</p>
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<p>After reading your comment, I was reminded of my first and last visit to a zen meditation center where we had to meditate by staring at a wall sitting on some sort special cushion designed for this sort of meditation.<p>I think your parallel is spot on!</p>
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<p>It’s such a shock to the system to realise that “unprincipled enemy” referenced here is the US.</p>
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<p>The trouble is that no one has a cogent definition of creativity. Without that, how would you even know whether you are being creative or not?<p>Or is it like "I'll know it when it see it" smut?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:50:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365267</link><dc:creator>saimiam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saimiam in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Now if agents do get so good that no human review is required, you wouldn’t bother with the library in the first place.<p>The comment you responded to is (presumably) talking about the transition phase where LLMs can help implement but not fully deliver a feature and need human oversight.<p>If there are reasonably good devs in low CoL areas who can coax a new feature or bug fix for an open source project out of an LLM for $50, i think it’s worth trialling as a business model.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:09:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042867</link><dc:creator>saimiam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saimiam in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> certainly found elsewhere<p>I agree that if someone discovered the artist elsewhere, Apple has weaker standing in claiming a huge commission. But if they found an artist elsewhere, they would also know that they can support that artist elsewhere and not through the iOS app. If the patron found them through the patreon iOS app and use the app to consume the artist's content, then clearly the patron has indicated that they prefer the iOS experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:09:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811228</link><dc:creator>saimiam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saimiam in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If a user almost exclusively uses the Patreon ios app to consume the artist’s content and likes to live inside the ios ecosystem for frictionless payments using the card on file/privacy/UX/whatever, then I feel apple should get to set the terms of engagement.<p>If you were a chain store in a high end mall where customers cars were all parked for free by valets, mall staff knew their names, and generally made them feel special, you’d not balk at a higher commission to be paid to mall for access to their customers, right? Airports come to mind for this.<p>I believe apple lets you set whatever price you want on their store, just not tell customers that they could get a lower price elsewhere/on the vendor’s website (I don’t follow App Store policies very closely so my info is probably out of date).</p>
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<p>Looks like they took Peter Thiel’s animosity towards competition too literally by blocking BYD from the US market. Without competition, they had no incentive to innovate since they were selling into the wealthiest market in the world for their product, the US.<p>No innovation made them stagnate. Being blocked from the US made BYD innovate.</p>
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<p>I can think of birthdays when even the most diehard asker turns into a guesser - they would never go out of their way and ask to be coddled on their birthday but still don't mind bit of a fuss being made on their behalf.</p>
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