<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: spatley</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spatley</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:42:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=spatley" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI slop everywhere on social is terrible; I grant you that.<p>But AI tool in the hands of professionals that care about what they produce is becoming revolutionary. We are doing things we would never have done. Projects I never would have even started I am doing with new enthusiasm. I and the people I work with are using agents to learn new topics so fast. AI makes mistakes all the time, I found myself getting gaslit last week that refreshing my auth token would update my permissions (authentication and authorization are not the same thing)<p>If you are just looking at the output in images and garbage posts. Yes it is an abomination that must be stopped. But I cannot imagine a world without it now. And for the better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:52:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858270</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately psychopathy may be the most desirable trait.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:32:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106705</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Further, Public Sans was developed by the US govt under the first Trump administration and appears to be an excellent font. That seems to be a wise choice against TNR or Calibri on multiple angles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:39:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437079</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly, for the narrowly defined condition of running k8s on digital ocean with a managed control plane  compared to Hetzner bare metal:<p>AWS and DigitalOcean = $559.36 monthly or Hetzner = $132.96 The cost of an engineer to set up and maintain a bare metal k8s cluster is going to far exceed the roughly $400 monthly savings.<p>If you run things yourself and can invest sweat equity, this makes some sense. But for any company with a payroll this does not math out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:34:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619446</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems pretty clear that the US needs strict regulation on any device connecting to the internet.<p>* no default password *
* no login if not on the local wifi or wired ethernet *</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:44:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574966</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>savage</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:04:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648982</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "EchoLeak – 0-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from 365 Copilot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is the exploitation further expecting that the evil link will pe presented as a part of chat response and then clicked to exfiltrate the data in the path or querystring?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 02:29:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253776</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I built a chicken coop, mostly as a hobby, and the eggs were a bonus.
the 1,000 in materials for the structure and 25 bucks a month in food and bedding make that amortization table go out a couple of decades before you see ROI.<p>I joke that they are the most expensive organic eggs you can buy. ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:52:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42951353</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42951353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42951353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "<dialog>: The Dialog Element"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>and/or making the website using the most modern design trends sets us apart and reinforces that we are a cutting edge company.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:50:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42345877</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42345877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42345877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Har! should have seen that one coming :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175699</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Working from home is powering productivity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my field of IT consulting I find the opposite to be true. Developing a shared understanding of client challenges, getting leaders to make and follow through on decisions, and learning our way around customer ecosystems takes <i>forever</i> over Teams, slack, or email.<p>If we knew exactly what needed to be done and were just cranking code I see how solitude works. But the constant streams of low bandwidth meetings to make decisions is brutal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:37:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41814999</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41814999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41814999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Avoiding Test-Case Permutation Blowout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This relates closely to a software test technique known as Equivalence class partitioning. 
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_partitioning" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_partitioning</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:44:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449083</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "How I think about debt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My view has always been that buying gives me price stability. $1000 in mortgage + taxes + fees is only going to change by a hike in taxes but rent changes at the whim of the market. 
Here in my west coast city, the mortgage on a 4 bedroom house purchased 10 years ago is the same as a 2 bedroom apartment today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 23:34:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280683</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280683</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Ask HN: What tool for negotiating/discussing scope items for fixed quote?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disagree on T&M. Billing by the hour penalizes those that have developed the patterns and skills to go faster. Fixed price is the only way to be better than the other firm and have that lead to an advantage on your bottom line.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:12:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018587</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Ask HN: What tool for negotiating/discussing scope items for fixed quote?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A support desk/ticketing or sales pipeline service feels like the way to go here. Zendesk is a good low cost ticketing/support and Hubspot is marketing/sales. You could set it up so emails go through the service so you have the full history of the conversation in a single easy to read thread.<p>You could then attach an SOW contract to the ticket and update the contract as the client’s needs evolve.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:08:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018571</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Peter Thiel's $100k offer to skip college is more popular than ever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And for that matter, I did my fucking around working low stakes jobs in packing warehouses and going to house parties. Goofing off does not require 1%er priveledge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493047</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Investigating Rock Radio with Rick Beato"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Proof of Post Malone is his covid concert in his house where he and the band played all Nirvana covers. he and his band are 100% legit rock players. I wonder why thay make so much shallow pop usually.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7eaGcIyhPU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7eaGcIyhPU</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:08:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957180</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "The AI Trust Crisis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well Github says it out loud:<p>“ GitHub Copilot is trained on all languages that appear in public repositories.”<p>Note it says “public” and not “open source”<p><a href="https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/overview-of-github-copilot/about-github-copilot-individual#" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/overview-of-github-copilo...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:59:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644614</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Hackers stole access tokens from Okta's support unit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure, not as catastrophic as getting prod root keys directly, but the breach was detected by an Okta customer that found a bad actor using session cookie data the was provided to Okta by their user in a support incident.<p>It is nearly certain that sometime in that 15 days a bunch of Okta customers got breached and are infiltrated now without their knowledge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:15:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37960982</link><dc:creator>spatley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37960982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37960982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spatley in "Jesus nut"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who needs backup when you just rsync every 10 minutes?</p>
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