<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: tadfisher</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tadfisher</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:25:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tadfisher" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Asus Bike Booster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They could have made basically the same thing except with a sprocket to help drive the chain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:57:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316499</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe an "event outcome prediction contract" simply ought not to be considered a "commodity" under any consistent interpretation of the law and the English fucking language.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:03:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267042</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Visas are capped and farmers don't want to pay for pesky safety things like seatbelts in the transportation vans.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:23:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263940</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, there is such a rich history of exploiting the underprivileged in the US. The more interesting bits lately center around a special visa for agricultural migrant workers, called the H2-A, which offers some basic worker protections (a minimum wage indexed to inflation, freedom to leave the farm, etc) so the employers can continue to pay low wages for long hours, keeping food prices low and profits high.<p>Except the farm businesses complained, and the Trump Department of Labor rolled back a bunch of the protections. For example, apparently a sticking point was the requirement that vehicles transporting visa holders have seatbelts for all occupants, so that was eliminated. Another was the requirement that workers be allowed to have guests visit them on employer-provided housing; an often-cited example is worship services provided by a priest. Also rolled back, too onerous.<p>This is all being stressed at historically high levels as immigration crackdowns continue. Essentially, food production in border states is increasingly forced to go through this visa program that has terrible oversight and protections that I consider below-par. It's not a sexy issue to yell about with a megaphone though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:20:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263902</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your narrative is embellished and does not correlate strongly with the data [1].<p>Embellished: marriage rates are 33.8% for Black women and 37.8% for Black men, neither of which I would round to 25%.<p>Uncorrelated: marriage rates dropped sharply among people of all single races on the Census except for Asians. It has dropped more sharply for Black respondents, but anything disproportionately affecting the lower and middle economic classes would disproportionately affect Black families.<p>Show me some data, and not outdated welfare policies from the 1980s, that supports the "social engineers" causal narrative better than plain deindustrialization. Or deindustrialization combined with good old American racism and mass incarceration. I am willing to change my position on this.<p>1: <a href="https://usafacts.org/articles/state-relationships-marriages-and-living-alone-us/" rel="nofollow">https://usafacts.org/articles/state-relationships-marriages-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:58:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253558</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One answer is that ALPRs have much too high an error rate (John Oliver claims it exceeds 30%) to rely on them for dragnet surveillance.<p>Maybe it makes sense to track specific vehicles, with safeguards such as warrants and also checking make/model/color, but it makes less sense to just give the government a 30-day rolling database of the public's movements in total, especially when 30% of those data points are inaccurate and thus not useful as evidence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:35:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238941</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Careful, I was called a "radical" on this site for suggesting a corporate death penalty. Because jobs are so important that when a corporation risks its own existence so it can break laws, dissolving the corporation as punishment is the government's fault and not the corporation's.</p>
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<p>The problem here is not the ATC union failing to enforce safety measures, it's the federal agency whose job that is failing to do their job, and Congress for failing to oversee the organization effectively.</p>
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<p>This deserves about as large of a "[citation needed]" as one could draw. Are you well-studied in neuroscience?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:13:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157741</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "PaperOS: A native Linux E Ink OS running on BOOX hardware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly, Linux is so thoroughly Tivo-ized on these things that it is not really worth the effort. You will be forever locked into the official firmware's kernel, nonfree drivers and firmware blobs. Pretty much the same problem as most Android devices, as mainline Linux support is a pipe dream.<p>On top of that, this is supporting BOOX, known GPL violators who will never release sources. There are other E-ink vendors out there who aren't totally antagonistic to the community who builds the software they profit from; Supernote and ReMarkable are two of them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:09:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140107</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What does debugging Markdown even mean?<p>What is a Markdown-heavy project?<p>Is this a generated comment?</p>
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<p>Receipts please. This is counter to everything I've read about the technology.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:42:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052984</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Claude Opus 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>D'oh, they are running the benchmark themselves. Reasonable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:43:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039192</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Claude Opus 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In what world is 55.7 the same number as 54.8?<p>What variance is acceptable to publish without a retraction?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:31:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039019</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you talking about driver ABIs or something else?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:53:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038358</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not a blog, but I handwrite presentation slides sometimes. And, of course, pages of notes. I use my ReMarkable 2 for that, so it's pretty easy to import to desktop and run scripts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:52:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024681</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "We got California to intervene about OpenAI's corporate switch from nonprofit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In case you are paywalled, the complaint is that the OpenAI PBC is controlled by the OpenAI 501(c)(3), thus will be subject to constraints its competitors do not face, and investors aren't sufficiently aware of the risk. Thus the non-profit control and the public-benefit mission is at odds with generating shareholder value, threatening to take down the economy if it fails.<p>Regardless of how you feel about their product, it seems like a silly argument when the risk is that there isn't actually a market for trillions of dollars of AI spend.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:29:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012984</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in ""Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The LLMs themselves are not doing the developing or learning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:34:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002254</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then everyone is open source if you have $20 to spend on tokens, I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:54:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000879</link><dc:creator>tadfisher</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tadfisher in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If weights are the source for models then ELF binaries are the source for software.</p>
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