<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: torton</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=torton</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:35:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=torton" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, the antisemites are rejoicing all over the world. Let's not confuse negativity and hatred with genuine popularity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:32:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189574</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Also don't trust any of the managers. Don't take anything people say at face value.<p>"Did you enjoy Game of Thrones? You'll love working here!"</p>
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<p>You can't rely on UDP experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:27:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978234</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did the flow ask them explicitly for scopes? If not, then they should know there are no restrictions.<p>It also seems, from the post, that customers were "long asking for scoped tokens" so who and why assumed that this particular token can only add and remove custom domains?<p>The author is getting roasted here and not without reason.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:17:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917020</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Things have changed. I worked with a very senior and professional recruiter at FB during that time. While things didn't work out then, someone else reached maybe a year and a half ago for a fairly similar role -- massive difference, strictly a disposable drone style process and barely a conversation. I chose to not even start the process.<p>A sample size of one but many anecdotes together can make a trend.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:10:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885028</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Another Day Has Come"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>iPad is the best consumption device in existence. Reading, video, casual games, it handles all without breaking a sweat. And as speech recognition and translation into intent using LLMs and other tools continues to improve, the keyboard will become less critical and so will be the shortage of screen real estate.<p>I'm excited about the future of the tablet form factors.</p>
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<p>People can have different lived experiences and it's OK; they are differently valuable and beneficial. I'm a certified unc, easily double the age of your oldest, and I have 0 animals depending on me for survival. It means, among other things, that I can simply decide to leave town for a week and don't need to arrange for replacement humans to take care of other living beings -- and this is a valuable freedom to have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:52:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871806</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think people living outside the US don't realize how few disputes here are actually allowed to use the official legal system when dealing with companies of non-trivial size. Many employment contracts, many service contracts, and even website terms of use require mandatory arbitration in lieu of pursuing one's claims in court.<p>And arbitrator companies (some of which are explicitly for-profit) know the hand that feeds them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640524</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "We Will Not Be Divided"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apparently, OpenAI already folded.<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/tech/openai-pentagon-deal-ai-systems" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/tech/openai-pentagon-deal-ai-...</a><p>A unified front from tech companies could have stood a chance, but there's too much money to be made and the imbalance of power is too great without departing the area of influence of the US government entirely (and then go where? China, UK, Australia, etc. are equally not shy of coercing commercial capabilities in pursuit of government goals, including military goals).</p>
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<p>The housing market is a textbook example of the opposite of a free market. In most markets, anything that does not "improve the character of the neighbourhood" is impossible to build by design.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:35:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037791</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NotJustBikes doesn't have a particularly great reputation among transit enthusiasts. A lot of his videos have become repetitive and focused on complaints rather than specific ways of making things better. Understandably, few people are willing to spend an hour listening to someone complain on the Internet.<p>> "Autonomous cars will clog up existing cities..."<p>Congestion charges. Limited licensing for TNCs. Dedicated public or private holding areas rather than "milling about". All of these have solutions.<p>> Meaning fewer "difficult" intersections, straighter roads, no bike lanes or pedestrian sidewalks.<p>It is already best practice in urban design to separate cars that need to quickly transit an area without interacting with it into completely independent routes where there are no bikes or pedestrians, and combine transit/bikes/walking into livable mixed mode streets where cars are not allowed. NotJustBikes has many examples of this, most commonly around Europe.<p>> To get anywhere one will need to hail one of those autonomous taxis and then zoom in it to a destination where it's again safe to walk in whatever pocket of human activity.<p>This is what already happens in places that don't have usable, safe, or car-competitive transit, modulo autonomous, including currently most of North America. The solution to needing fewer cars -- self driving or not -- is investment in transit and in ground-up overhaul of existing cities to optimize for transit and deprioritization of cars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:52:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998384</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is true for all algorithmic iterative learning. I'm sure early models from Tesla, Waymo, Zoox, etc. were also driving a few hundred feet before the operators had to take over at first as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:31:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998255</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "How I've run major projects (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some projects, where the constraints are hard (immovable deadlines, inflexible scope, etc.) can still benefit from detailed estimation as far as possible. This way any problems or misalignments have a chance to come out early.<p>Most stuff I do that is long term isn't that critical and gets broken into reasonable size phases; the closest one is planned in detail, the next one has no major open questions, and the rest have a brief summary of what will be accomplished / what is the goal of that phase only.<p>That gets rid of a lot of the lack of flexibility of waterfall, and it does happen that priorities change a lot and many projects don't get to the latter phases (often, by definition/priority, the less "immediate fire" ones).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:26:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955384</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even the most cursory research into mail-in voting shows a number of safeguards designed into the process; one summary can be found at <a href="https://responsivegov.org/research/why-mail-ballots-are-secure-layered-safeguards/" rel="nofollow">https://responsivegov.org/research/why-mail-ballots-are-secu...</a>. Instances of mail based voting fraud are extremely rare despite the extremely high motivation of some actors (such as the current US federal leadership) to find any evidence to the contrary.</p>
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<p>Isn't that the exact description of the current U.S. car market?</p>
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<p>Excellent troll post. I've had a good chuckle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:24:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659857</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>iPhones and MacBooks can be serviced to replace the battery.<p>My iPhones typically get a fresh battery around the 3-year mark, or whenever the battery health dips below 80%, and do a second tour of duty with someone in the family. In all cases so far, the OS goes out of support and apps stop working before the second battery degrades.</p>
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<p>I'm old enough to remember having an individual office (and, a bit later, two-person offices). Great for collaboration, because it had a whiteboard and enough space/furniture for a few people to huddle, and for focused individual work, and for meetings with remote people without disrupting anyone and without taking up a meeting room. Nowadays we have unforced poor conditions and outcomes, mostly for pretend savings on facilities.<p>And, of course, serendipitous collaboration rarely happens when everyone is sitting with noise cancelling headphones, focusing on hitting their ambitious individual goals for the quarter/half/year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:48:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46116802</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46116802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46116802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Landlock-Ing Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On your desktop/laptop, most tasks probably don't run inside VMs or containers. Perhaps some applications use Flatpak or snaps or similar, but the default state for many currently popular Linux distributions is "no sandboxing of any kind".<p>Linux holds on to a negligible share of the overall desktop market OS, but it is marginally more popular among tech savvy people, which have plenty of disposable income, meaning the platform has steadily growing interest for malware authors and distributors despite its relatively low usage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:45:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093467</link><dc:creator>torton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torton in "Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had a fairly fun time using Auth0 a few years back. The ability to run arbitrary code hooks at various points allowed us to do pretty interesting stuff in a managed way without resorting to writing or self-hosting something that was entirely flexible.</p>
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