<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: simplesocieties</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simplesocieties</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:04:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=simplesocieties" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GPUI does use native controls. I'm not sure what you mean<p><a href="https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:21:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395339</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Felony Bench"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Morality is defined by the people with the most dollars. Until enough people cancel subscriptions over this (spoiler: they won't) nothing will happen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:20:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395329</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why are there an endless flood of comments like this on HN and other social media insisting that because there’s such high demand, it’s IMPOSSIBLE that these tech companies are overvalued and over leveraging debt.<p>Reality is way more nuanced. Something can have high demand AND be on the precipice of financial catastrophe. See: Spirit Airlines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:54:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242033</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What about the current ecosystem is lacking that made you want to write a new one from scratch? (gpui, Dioxus, Slint)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:54:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240653</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll be honest given the article title I was hoping for a detailed rant on the complex installation process that most Windows apps hide, but this was also a nice read. And as a user of Raycast they do indeed have a very nice installation background.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:35:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219379</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Go ahead and go live next to one then and show us how it's nothing but propaganda.<p>Quite convenient how the same people trying to run roughshod over the others to get these bubble mania mausoleums built NEVER live near them but are HAPPY to make others who can't afford a second home live next to them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:10:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195580</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Our position on open-weights models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's political doublespeak. They want to have their cake and eat it too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:48:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076531</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t have some grand theory on SO’s downfall. All I will say is that sometimes us programmers try to optimize <i>every single thing</i> in life and that’s simply not how humans work.<p>SO tried to optimize the Q/A by eagerly rejecting repeat questions, without considering what the consequences of that were. If you’re in a classroom / lecture hall, your teacher / professor isn’t going to chide you for asking an “obvious” or “repeat” question (bad ones might). Imagine if every time you wanted to talk to a TA or professor you first needed to lookup previously asked questions in a database and then, iff your question hasn’t been asked before, you may ask the professor or TA after hours. Programmers might call this system “efficient” but most people would be pretty unhappy with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:04:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976613</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cyberpunk 2077 is such an accurate picture of the future. Megacorps will own and control everything, we will be lucky to get the leftover scraps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:35:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694294</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having Deja Vu reading this. Remember just recently when Spacetime DB fudged their benchmark numbers for their 2.0 release.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7gJ_UxVnSk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7gJ_UxVnSk</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:51:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681812</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Been using it for half a year now in prod to collect sensor data from IoT devices.<p>My only complaints are:<p>1) Memory usage is a bit high. We went with the AWS instance they recommended in the docs and even that went over our provisioned memory. It's not much but I think it could be improved<p>2) You need to buy their enterprise plan if what you're storing is remotely sensitive like health data, PII, etc. Any row level security or credential features are locked behind that license. Our use case isn't that sensitive so we can get away with putting it in a VPN and password protecting it, but if you need DB-level security the FOSS license is severely behind Postgres in terms of features.<p>Other than that, it's never gone down, it's very, very fast and comes with it's own webui for querying your data. We migrated from AWS Timestream and couldn't be happier with the switch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:48:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681796</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Google Flight Simulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a fun toy program but calling this a flight simulator is doing a disservice to the communities and efforts putting in an immense amount of work to make actual flight simulators.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:26:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548486</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the time before LLMs, humans made satellites, Concorde, life-saving medical surgery, James-Webb Space Telescope, communication at the speed of light, the list goes on.<p>What changes have LLMs (Not AI, not machine learning in general, I'm not going to waste time discussing the definition), <i>LLMs</i> made in the past 4 years that indicate anything close to the above? Solving a whiteboard math problem?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 22:26:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341202</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "DeepSeek v4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's clear the OC was using hyperbole but we're honestly not too far off. Just a few examples:<p>- Sam Altman & Worldcoin collecting everyone's eyeball scan
- Discord attempting to roll out worldwide age & id verification 
- LinkedIn collecting data on your web browser extensions 
- WhatsApp collecting browser data via a local server running on device</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:25:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898636</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Supposedly humans have become “100x”™ more productive with these AI tools, but nowhere to be seen are the benefits for the wielders of said tools. Is your salary 100x higher? Are you able to spend more time with your family/friends instead of at the office? Why are we still putting up with these outdated work practices if LLMs have made everybody so much more productive?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:43:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648068</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Thing x happened in the past, therefore it will continue to happen in the future” is perhaps one of the most, if not the most pervasive human-created fallacies anywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:36:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648025</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "My “grand vision” for Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was the <i>exact</i> same argument used to push new c++ features and look where the language is now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:18:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304839</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "My “grand vision” for Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The rust maintainers need to learn from the mistakes of the c++ design committee and understand that not adding a feature at all is in itself a desirable feature.<p>For example, your section on effects:<p>> Functions which guarantee they do not unwind (absence of the panic effect)<p>* I actually don’t see how this is any more beneficial than the existing no_panic macro
<a href="https://docs.rs/no-panic/latest/no_panic/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.rs/no-panic/latest/no_panic/</a><p>> Functions which guarantee they terminate (absence of the div effect)<p>> Functions which are guaranteed to be deterministic (absence of the ndet effect)<p>> Functions which are guaranteed to not call host APIs (absence of the io effect)<p>The vast majority of rust programs don’t need such validation. And for those that do, the Ferrocene project is maintaining a downstream fork of the compiler where this kind of feature would be more appropriate.<p>I think rust is in a perfect spot right now. Covers 99.99% of use cases and adding more syntax/functionality for 0.001% of users is only going to make the language worse. The compiler itself provides a powerful api via build.rs and proc macros which let downstream maintainers build their desired customization.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:17:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304832</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rooting for Ladybird <a href="https://ladybird.org/" rel="nofollow">https://ladybird.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:47:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400018</link><dc:creator>simplesocieties</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400018</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simplesocieties in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> From what I understand these systems are legal because there is no expectation of privacy in public.<p>This is a common line of phrasing parroted by Flock and their supporters to no end but it's a myth. The SC, as much of a joke as they are now, established that a person has a reasonable expectation to privacy in their long term movements in Carpenter v. United States (2018). To date there is NO precedent carved out in the constitution or ANY Supreme Court case stating that people have zero expectation to privacy in public.<p><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf</a></p>
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