<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: testemailfordg2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=testemailfordg2</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:04:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=testemailfordg2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you are on a framework, that gives prospective public sector buyers assurance that certain basic checks/ due-dilligence about your business has already been done. 
So even if you have not made a sale to a public sector entity in recent times but are on a framework then makes sense to keep your details up-to-date...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:30:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326410</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not the right approach as classifying someone as a bully is left to someone's subjective perception. This makes caning legal in the hope it would reform those boys and leaves room for misuse. Once bullying is proven in front of PTA group then other formal methods should be used, starting with counselling-> monitoring for improvement -> separating them from their peers and moving them up seniors, that might turn the tables -> community service with final recourse being termination from school and in worst case / rarest or rare scenarios the country would already have a juvenille justice system to reform.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 08:51:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060450</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This problem has been talked about and answered as back as 500BCE.
It's like the parable of the blind men and an elephant.
Each blind man feels a different part of the animal's body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the animal based on their limited experience and their descriptions of the elephant are different from each other.
In some versions, they come to suspect that the other person is dishonest and they come to blows. The moral of the parable is that humans have a tendency to claim absolute truth based on their limited, subjective experience as they ignore other people's limited, subjective experiences which may be equally true.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 06:11:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032850</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's interesting, then that UAC prompt asking to enter login credentials to view existing saved password is useless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:34:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020092</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "GitHub Is Down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably the solution is not using the centralized Github for all work related to agentic coding but rather a distributed/local github repository from get go. This way only what hits the centralized github and becomes public, is something vetted and signed off by the human in the loop, hopefully reducing the AI slop and increasing the quality of commits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:58:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011423</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A similar large scale success in India decades ago:-
AMUL is an Indian multinational dairy cooperative, founded on 19 December 1946. With a turnover of US$6.2 billion (2022) and 3.6 million farmer-members, it is the world's largest dairy cooperative and a household name for milk and milk products across India.<p>The cooperative was born out of exploitation: farmers in Kheda, Gujarat, were forced to supply milk to Polson Dairy, which held a monopoly and paid farmers unfairly through commission-taking agents.<p>AMUL returns 85% of every rupee earned back to farmers — far above the global average of 33% — and procures milk at rates 15–20% higher than private dairies.<p>AMUL's democratic governance ensures farmers elect board members who represent their interests, and the Managing Director of each unit is appointed by this farmer-led board — not the state government — preventing political interference and corruption.<p>AMUL demonstrates how a business can achieve large-scale commercial success while prioritising social justice and environmental care — through collective ownership, democratic governance, equitable profit-sharing, and community investment — offering a powerful model for cooperatives worldwide.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 04:36:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004684</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004684</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funded by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC) — an industry body — which is a notable conflict of interest the authors disclose but don't extensively discuss</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:54:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886112</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess people making swords and arrows in the past had similar ethical dilemas in the begining, until they were attacked and then it became business as usual.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:31:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764794</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't it the same for tobacco and alcohol ads?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:49:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452451</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Time does...Microslop is an example</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:56:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255706</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "I am happier writing code by hand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feel hand/human written code of an experienced individual should be more valuable for a business than one created by agents. Surely, agents and humans might be using the same underlying frameworks or programming languages, but the value difference depends on the breadth and depth of experience. Agents gives you the breadth but an experienced individuals give you the depth in understanding/problem solving.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:16:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934952</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is or Was?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:40:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307598</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Cloudflare was down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like this post somehow is not even on the front page of HN anymore. CF pulling some strings maybe, they don't have this incident on top of their current list.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:22:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162468</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When liability of a corporation and its owners is limited, does it benefit their business to be dilligent in every step or have a mentality of move fast and break things?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:01:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147177</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Cloudflare outage should not have happened"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/</a><p>"Customers deployed on the new FL2 proxy engine, observed HTTP 5xx errors. Customers on our old proxy engine, known as FL, did not see errors, but bot scores were not generated correctly, resulting in all traffic receiving a bot score of zero."<p>This simply means, the exception handling quality of your new FL2 is non-existent and is not at par / code logic wise similar to FL.<p>I hope it was not because of AI driven efficiency gains.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:42:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46063613</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46063613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46063613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Customers on our old proxy engine, known as FL, did not see errors, but bot scores were not generated correctly, resulting in all traffic receiving a bot score of zero."<p>This simply means, the exception handling quality of your new FL2 is non-existent and is not at par / code logic wise similar to FL.<p>I hope it was not because of AI driven efficiency gains.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:52:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974460</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "National Blockchain Framework"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>India’s current governance systems often rely on centralized databases, which can be prone to errors, fraud, and lack of transparency. Blockchain technology addresses these challenges through its tamper-resistant, distributed ledger system, where records are securely maintained across multiple nodes. This design makes unauthorized modifications virtually impossible and significantly enhances data integrity and trust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:21:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723756</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Blockchain Framework]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2182023">https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2182023</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723755">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723755</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:21:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2182023</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like we need more anti-trust cases on AWS or need to break it down, it is becoming too big. Services used in rest of the world get impacted by issues in one region.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:02:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45642522</link><dc:creator>testemailfordg2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45642522</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45642522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by testemailfordg2 in "Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Privatize the profits and socialize the losses, is this too difficult to understand of being the core motto of a private equity firm. A PE firm will not have patients at the top of their priority, unless legislation enforces and regulates that.</p>
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