<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: sfblah</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sfblah</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:08:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sfblah" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honest question: On what basis do people even trade crypto? Like, how would one even decide when to buy and when to sell? Is it just based on looking at the charts? Are there any "fundamentals" (like there are for actual companies) that can be used to make investment decisions? From an outsider's point of view, the whole thing looks like a casino where people bet on random price movements on underlying assets that have no actual value.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:23:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037324</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Stop Flock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With most of these things, people are against state power until they are victimized. It’s a common pattern.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:38:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773655</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Must be using some strange definition for tech or valuations, because last I'd heard tech was some huge percentage of the S&P 500, and the index has dropped like 10% from its ATH.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:36:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745262</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just don't think space is as useful or profitable as people think. Time will tell.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:58:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617871</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you give an example? Because I'm currently unable to understand the point of this product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:02:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346683</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346683</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Big deal. I had a set of human brain cells playing DOOM in the 1990s.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:30:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305848</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I generally agree that it's difficult and counterproductive to try to eliminate talented programmers who put together the core of systems and set up the patterns that things like LLMs can emulate.<p>But, the modal programmer at this point is some person who attended a front-end coding bootcamp for a few months and basically just knows how to chain together CSS selectors and React components. I do think these people are in big trouble.<p>So, while the core, say, 10% of people I think should remain in the system. This 90% periphery of pretty bad programmers will probably need to move on to other jobs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:51:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199454</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the best way for a teenager to get involved in one of the projects you maintain? I've been trying to help my kid find an entry point into the industry, and I'm one of those annoying folks who relies on open source but rarely contributes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:04:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190689</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is my number 1 complaint with iphone, even above battery life with their new crappy 3d effects. I bet these issues have actually cost a bunch of lives, given that people type while driving, and this nonsense makes it far harder. It can't be that hard to do this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:03:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007788</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The installation is straightforward, but the problem comes when you want to connect to the grid, because you have to get it approved by the utility. I'm sure getting a DYI installation approved by the utility is _possible_, but I wouldn't count on it. And, you may not know that you got disapproved until you've made the investment and are sort of screwed.<p>What I did was install solar with batteries and inverters that have the ability to never export power to the utility. That way I didn't have to tell them or seek their approval.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:59:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942376</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Do you have a mathematically attractive face?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The people at the top of the leaderboard aren't particularly attractive in my opinion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:33:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931084</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They would if they could bilk more taxpayer money for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859796</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tesla's high-priced sports cars are the wrong product. The right product is a low-cost car like the BYD cars that aren't legally allowed to be sold in the US. The US has probably already lost the EV war, and Tesla is principally responsible. Everything Musk touches turns to garbage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:25:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841023</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot of people _need_ the S&P to stay where it is to keep their standard of living stable. If it drops to a rational valuation (say, 2500-3000), there will be a lot of pain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:18:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833048</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Self Driving Car Insurance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thing that was unclear to me from the stats cited on the website is whether the quoted 52% reduction in crashes is when FSD is in use, or overall. This matters because people are much more likely to use FSD in situations where driving is easier. So, if the reduction is just during those times, I'm not even sure that would be better than a human driver.<p>As an example, let's say most people use FSD on straight US Interstate driving, which is very easy. That could artificially make FSD seem safer than it really is.<p>My prior on this is supervised FSD ought to be safer, so the 52% number kind of surprised me, however it's computed. I would have expected more like a 90-95% reduction in accidents.</p>
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<p>Good-faith products that launched, were bad ideas, and failed. Musk is absolutely unique in world history for the sheer number of fake products he's used to garner investment (mostly from the government if we're being honest) and then line his own pockets. If Trump is Darth Vader, Musk is The Emperor.</p>
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<p>Consider this: What tech might we have if the entire world economy weren't infested with termites like Musk who lie continuously to pull in investment that could have gone elsewhere?</p>
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<p>We can both be correct. I'm not saying he's done nothing. I'm saying he lies, A LOT.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:03:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826901</link><dc:creator>sfblah</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sfblah in "Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. Sorry for the brief answer. Too bad I got downvoted. There's no size improvement.</p>
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<p>It's not.</p>
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