Hacker News: tao_oat

New comment by tao_oat in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

tao_oat — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:51:44 +0000

If you consider factory farming horrific, then yes

New comment by tao_oat in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

tao_oat — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:41:46 +0000

A lot of the good is still there -- e.g. the nature, the unusually high level of drive/determination/spirit/openness. At least compared to northern Europe where I'm from.

Unfortunately tilting towards fascism outweighs those.

New comment by tao_oat in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

tao_oat — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:07:05 +0000

I love the US; I’ve lived there and held an H-1B visa. Moving there permanently was a teenage dream of mine.

Unfortunately the country in that dream no longer exists. I now avoid jobs that require travel to the US. As a non-American it makes a lot more sense to focus on building up the tech centres closer to home.

New comment by tao_oat in "'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech"

tao_oat — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:42:30 +0000

> The west has not got rich at the expense of the global south

What timeframe are you considering in this opinion?

New comment by tao_oat in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

tao_oat — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:20:17 +0000

Yes -- it's definitely alpha software, but usable for open source. There are interesting experiments like tack[1] to wire in custom CI. I imagine they'll be able to support private repos eventually once ATProto supports private data, but that may take some time.

[1]: https://tangled.org/mitchellh.com/tack

New comment by tao_oat in "Redis and the Cost of Ambition"

tao_oat — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:59:37 +0000

There was really good discussion of this article on lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/s/oznirn/redis_cost_ambition

Magical thinking about magical thinking

tao_oat — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:07:27 +0000

Article URL: https://heatherburns.tech/2026/05/13/magical-thinking-about-magical-thinking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122098

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Forge We Deserve

tao_oat — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:05:02 +0000

Article URL: https://btao.org/posts/2026-05-09-the-forge-we-deserve/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122063

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Worlds Left to Conquer

tao_oat — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:55:45 +0000

Article URL: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-worlds-left-to-conquer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081617

Points: 15

# Comments: 8

Death of a Software Developer

tao_oat — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:00:06 +0000

Article URL: https://isthisanart.substack.com/p/death-of-a-software-developer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077317

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by tao_oat in "We need a federation of forges"

tao_oat — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:51:02 +0000

Aha, I was mistaken -- I was under the impression that repos were also stored on the PDS.

Looks like that's where knots come in -- you could replace "PDS" with "PDS and knot" in my earlier comment and it holds true, I believe.

New comment by tao_oat in "We need a federation of forges"

tao_oat — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:40:56 +0000

In this case the benefit would be:

- your data lives in one place, your Personal Data Server (PDS). You can self-host this if you like - The AppView (in this case, tangled.org) aggregates the data from many PDS's into one view. - If tangled.org enshittifies, you can do all the same things from any other AppView -- tangled.org itself is not privileged in any way.

Social logins on independent forges help, but personally I'd rather have a single account to manage -- and the AT protocol means that any individual forge can go down, but the data remains accessible from other AppViews.

New comment by tao_oat in "We need a federation of forges"

tao_oat — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:12:20 +0000

There's an AT protocol working group for private data: https://atproto.wiki/en/working-groups/private-data

But you're right, the protocol doesn't currently support this.

New comment by tao_oat in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

tao_oat — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:54:28 +0000

Effective Altruism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

New comment by tao_oat in "Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the Iran war"

tao_oat — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:53:51 +0000

Was not meant ironically. I understand how in practice it's a political role (as most positions of power are) but I think it's applying the wrong standard to expect religious leaders to communicate like politicians.

New comment by tao_oat in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

tao_oat — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:50:38 +0000

And a few paragraphs before:

> And then, and I’m sorry to be so blunt, then it’s die or kill.

New comment by tao_oat in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

tao_oat — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:39:32 +0000

The author seems to have some cognitive dissonance. For a piece saying that you cannot justify violence, there sure seems to be an awful lot of justifying violence in here.

New comment by tao_oat in "Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the Iran war"

tao_oat — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:27:46 +0000

The Pope is not a politician.

New comment by tao_oat in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

tao_oat — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:35:04 +0000

https://archive.is/c2sBh

New comment by tao_oat in "AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier"

tao_oat — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:55:48 +0000

> The current tech is a sigmoid

What makes you say that? I'm only asking because the data I've seen looks pretty cleanly exponential still, e.g. https://metr.org.