<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: shubb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shubb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:20:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=shubb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are we post peak?<p>Everyone is worried about AI for good reason but if he's the promise is true then we see significant productivity improvements.<p>The pie might be shared out worse than even today but there would be more pie.<p>We are in a period of deglobalisation, but also a period of reorganisation.  Today's supply chain is less efficient than 2021s. We are materially poorer as a result. But after the dust settles, it will be a lot more efficient than it is right now.  Even with no ai.<p>Potentially we are in a dip. Stuff for worse,  but it can get better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:51:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106276</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Net worth is a funny metric.<p>Joe has a 300k house with 100k equity and 200k mortgage. He has 100k in stocks in a 401k. Net worth negative 100k.<p>Pete has $300 in his cheques account,  and isn't eligible for loans or mortgage. Net worth positive $300<p>Obviously Joe is richer than Pete though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:40:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106203</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Take a Damm Small Linux. Package manager (apt) optional.<p>I do think a lot of what you are rejecting (automatic updates, centralised package signing,  permissions) are solutions to security problems that you might actually have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:47:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991637</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "My Tesla Robotaxi "safety" driver fell asleep"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Something to be said for requiring the human to do something related like press go every time the vehicle starts from a complete stop, or annotate "threats" detected in the 3d view.<p>This is a safety problem that needs solving. Just detecting when they sleep isn't a good solution.</p>
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<p>I think citymapper tried to execu this as a pivot. They had an idea to do it in London and other countries and did trial it for a while.  Not sure why it (presumably) failed.<p>I'd note that startup money of the is much harder to get in London, so a US startup might be able to force the idea from experiment to profitability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:29:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794350</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We live in a very complex system, beyond any one persons comprehension. Some people think devolved decision making allocating resources to things like, advertising better, is the most efficient way of allocating resources. The invisible hand. How much is bullshit and how much is just beyond your awareness? If you were king and allocating so the work,  would it be better? For who? I'm doubtful about bullshit jobs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:23:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45724533</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45724533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45724533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like ofcom picked thier targets to create precedent fur using ISP blocks against non compliant companies.<p>Case law is important in the UK because laws are vaguely written and thier specifics are established in court.<p>By going after entities that can't comply and don't have a big legal budget like 4chan, they can go through the motions and establish that ISP level blocks against non complying companies are okay.<p>They can then hit progressively more difficult targets until they get to X and tiktok.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:01:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721779</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it needs a water gun.  If the diaper was a spray on layered rubber, like a sponge then an impermeable layer,  and then you sprayed a solvent to clear the old diaper and poop and then spray on a new one.  
You'd just need to slot them into styrups briefly or some socks on strings to move the legs into a good position.<p>But can this be done with baby skin and lung safe chemicals at a reasonable temperature?<p>Point being humanoid designs for robots that manipulate objects designed for humans are an artificially hard problem we have decided to fail at solving.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:06:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611266</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry, typo, I meant to ask 'what'. Agree there are tropes in llm outputs, specific and strangely not specific to a vendor.  Very useful for recognising generated content. I was hoping you were aware of a good article to find more in.</p>
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<p>Sorry, but wear is the recursive protocol trope? Also do you know a good list of these tropes for llm spotting?</p>
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<p>Accurate virtual try on however is quite difficult,  and users will quickly learn to distrust platforms that just generate something that"looks right".<p>You can prompt with a normal size 8 dress and "kim jungle un wearing a dress" and it will show you something that doesn't help you understand whether that dress would fit or not. You can ask for a tube dress and it will usually give him a big bust to hold it up.  It's not useful for the purpose of visualing fit.<p>It will definitely be used for such just like image models already are for cheap tenu clothes, and our onions shopping experience will get worse.<p>Maybe this needs purpose built models like vibe-net or maybe you cab train a general purpose model to do it, but if they were spending the effort necessary to do so they'd be calling it out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:14:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431345</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "Ask HN: Do you use personal AI Agents?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds very interesting. At you releasing your api commercial?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:50:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44899300</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44899300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44899300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I read this suggestion it sticks out that un-spoonfed, people with deficits in thier study skills, executive function,  and institutional literacy would be most disadvantaged.<p>So, you have 2 kids who are equally bright, and you tell one "you don't have to do these assignments but there is a test at the end" and the other "you have an 80% chance if failing if you don't do these assignments.  Analyse each assignments and feedback for shiboleths like the way they ask you to structure your introduction and optimize for demonstrating you know these shiboleths over everything else"<p>University is a wonderful petri dish for growing into who you want to be.  You have access to expertise and resources abs a certain kind of institutional credibility.  Few students actually use these fully and the ones who do were told to.  You need some idea who you want to be and why,  and this is developed in you by other people.  Children don't just know stuff.<p>I think these are positive changes if and only if we accompany them with systematic study skills and self management courses and bridge this gap.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797967</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I was that developer, I'd blacklist embedding of all British MPs and councilors to avoid fraud. This would also block the entire UK political class from accessing adult materials (I got blocked by a wine forum), which would be a very effective protest...</p>
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<p>"Much engineering was required"
Archaic but still used a bit in articles or to give a certain vibe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:53:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44420979</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44420979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44420979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you think semi-legal weed made the conspiracy  / "it's 4d chess" / bitcoin (don't trust the financial system) demographic larger? A lot of this is stuff people who smoked a lot would talk about back in college and it's interesting it went mainstream as the position on those drugs changed. You'd also expect opioid to create a more depressed lethargic population.  Would be cool to see a study of substance use change vs political change...</p>
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<p>They already outsourced thier ecomerce offerings- to ocado - and that's up and running.<p>What remains is mostly logistics - this company runs farms and abertoires, food import and packaging and a network of warehouses and stores. The drop in cots product is SAP.<p>The whitelabel ecomerce site is kind of an insurance/ legacy thing while ocado is thier shopfront.  Presumably they are prioritising what matters,  the logistics, and might sunset this part of thier offer anyway.</p>
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<p>Right, but isn't this sort of the opposite to the usual companies VC funded which were about massive potential scale based on solving a very common problem?<p>Like, I thought the whole point with VC was to find ideas that could 100x your return, which by definition would be horizontal markets.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 20:58:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957109</link><dc:creator>shubb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shubb in "In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think there is something like a pyramid scheme of people who sell classes, and people who sell classes about how to sell classes. The top level slowly pull the whole chain to the next fad and then the next. Drop shipping, ghost writing books for kindle unlimited, various flavors of wellness... you can watch them flow into a space and usually destroy it.<p>I'm curious how centralized the operation is. Individually it's a bunch of hustlers running their own little personal branding operation, but if each of them is in a masterclass, and the masterclass leaders are in a masterclass, has a small group of mega-influencers formed, and who are they?</p>
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<p>Is that true for the current board arrangement?<p>I thought they were set up a some kind of non profit and thier mandate was to pursue other goals not profit. That was what caused the issue with the altman firing previously right?</p>
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