<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: treebeard901</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=treebeard901</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:44:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=treebeard901" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:18:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599389</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Muse Spark 1.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or placed in an asylum next to the people who designed XML</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:38:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545657</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If AI has a major impact on the job market as some believe, then it would be interesting to see a society where AI related profits are used to provide free education for everyone who wants it.<p>At some point they will begin running out of human created data for model training and schools with strict AI policies will be the best source of non AI data going forward.<p>Thats kind of a symbiotic relationship that makes sense for students and AI companies.<p>Once AI output begins replacing human output and the models begin training on it, there may be increasingly few places left for data that isnt likely to lead to a model collapse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:05:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543806</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was just adding more context than your post included</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:51:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511208</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "'Talk to Mom': Burning Man attendees use this phone to call home (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>San Francisco should bring back the original Burning Man at Bakers Beach.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:50:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511197</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>DHH was on the Lex Fridman podcast talking about this recent release of Omarchy in that most of it
is "vibe coded". It is mostly just a bash script to configure Linux, but his approach is interesting.<p>AI as a core part of the OS that can just change or add anything you want. Linux is great for this because it has access to the source code for everything.<p>He said he didnt review the code line by line, just looked at the shape of it. Whatever that means.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:28:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503465</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kalshi hired Donald Trump Jr as a strategic advisor with a salary reported to be around $300,000 per year. Recently there was a meeting between him and various State Attorneys General, where the message was back off prediction markets. Not too long after that other areas of the Trump Admin sent a letter basically saying the same thing.<p>And so the circuit courts coming to very different conclusions from the 9th circuit represents the inherent political corruption involved in the court system.<p>Circuit splits get resolved at the Supreme Court and I would make a prediction that it isnt a coin flip, probably more of a safe bet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491312</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "The turbulent AI era is here"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every person says this even in notes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:24:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456748</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "AI Chip Architectures"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Recently I started thinking about an analog optical device capable of matrix multiplication. After some online research, the Mach-Zehnder interferometer seems to have been adapted by a German company into a full addon optical based matrix multiplication system.<p>It is a very interesting concept and the company Q.Ant has delivered working products and software. Apparently it can greatly speed up certain training applications and future designs will solve some of the current problems.<p>The energy and performance advantages seem to be worth the R&D. If some form of optical memory to replace DRAM in the chain could be designed, that would solve several conversion costs between optical to digital.<p>Either way it is pretty cool to do math this way, basically just using light.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:02:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444627</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using the above post example of a delay when typing in a terminal, the path that text takes from the keyboard to the screen is much more complicated. Some of it comes from security changes. Back in the day everything had direct memory access. And the memory layout wasnt randomized by things like ASLR. Not that this specifically should impact terminal input but it becomes a factor with memory access more generally. Now you have to deal with user mode and other security barriers. Drivers can still get direct hardware access but then as has been mentioned you have the bloated software layer with stuff like electron. Increased concurrency has a latency cost as well and we have many more things (usually unnecessarily) running today.<p>Im sure there are many more things that add up to focus more on throughout over latency as mentioned above.</p>
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<p>The main arguments presented are that databases do not support modern types.. And that this system replaces tested authentication systems by emailing a UUID in plain text?<p>It does mention UInt64 which is not a modern type and as far as I know is supported by every database.<p>It also compiles to SQL but it isnt clear where the advantage comes from other than using a different syntax to do things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:34:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352304</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Norway Should Buy OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If AI has a negative impact on employment as some think then AI should be required to fund free college for everyone that wants it. Then the schools can have a strict rule that only limited AI can be used during your education.<p>Then set up a pipeline between the human generated content from the colleges back into future AI models. Everyone gets an education and there is ongoing non AI training data to advance AI without any model collapse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:10:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351933</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "People are worried about America's solvency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the United States tried to make various geopolitical moves to sabotage its reserve currency and ultimately become insolvent as a result of a self inflicted debt crisis then I don't see how the current agent orange situation could be topped.<p>There are so many plumbing issues with the financial system happening at once that people really do not have a clear picture of what is happening in totality.<p>Start with Japan... Still the largest foreign creditor. However they are facing a situation where the yen carry trade that began after the plaza accords in the 1980s is unwinding. The recent Treasury intervention and the associated expansion of the repo market so they do not sell treasuries directly reveals a hidden structural weakness. This leads to the AI boom because cheap Japanese debt was recycled into larger yields in the U.S. And it's different this time because companies like Microsoft have what is rated as safer debt than the US Treasury itself. The yield on financing part of the AI boom has been much better than yields back home in Japan. So even Japanese institutional investors may start seeing domestic debt as more attractive as the carry trade unwinds and domestic Japanese debt starts paying more. This ties back into the recent treasury intervention and offering a way to unload U.S. debt without impacting the markets directly.<p>Which brings us to an ongoing structural change that will remove the largest foreign investor in U.S. debt. Which as we all know, is approaching $40 trillion with over $30 trillion of that being held as public debt. Meanwhile, the budget deficit is continuing to rise causing even more issuance of debt. After the 2008 crash, and over the next decade, the U.S. was able to issue debt basically for free and it issued a ton of it. But that debt matures and when it matures, it has to largely be reissued at current rates. There was no free lunch. With the Japanese largely pulling back and at best not selling the debt they have now to defend their currency or to chase domestic yields in Japan, that goes to the UK as the second largest foreign investor. And the UK clearly can't absorb what the US has to issue and refinance. China has been reducing its holdings because as the BRICS bank, etc, replace their need for dollars, they will begin using it in more creative ways.<p>Some speculation is that the U.S. intervention into the yen carry trade is being challenged by foreign actors, which did not happen during past interventions. Monitoring the daily spread, and if the yen continues climbing over 160 then this will be the first time the U.S. intervention failed to work. To prevent selling existing Treasuries to defend the currency, the Japanese investors will unload it in the repo market.<p>But this brings us to a new structural problem in response to the insane amount of debt being issued and refinanced and this is called the weighted average maturity. Recently, the U.S. Treasury implied that they are going to begin moving more issuance to shorter term debt because those markets are currently still much more liquid than the longer term markets that had issues revealed by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. When SVB needed to cover deposits, they found the 20 and 30 year Treasury market was not as liquid as they had hoped. This same fact likely pushed the Treasury to have Japanese investors move towards the repo market instead.<p>But this brings a new problem, because there is only so much appetite for increasingly taking long term debt and reissuance and moving it towards the front of the weighted average. Currently around 6 years, and the goal is to move it between 2 and 4. Imagine the liquidity impact on moving large amounts of new debt issued and refinanced debt from the 30yr to more short term funding.<p>Next up, there is a need to have the Federal Reserve unwind its balance sheet even more quickly at the same time all of the above is happening. But it is the Feds balance sheet and forms of QE that have propped up the repo market itself under times of stress. So after Japan, the UK and China all have reasons to continue cutting back, and after the short term funding gets eaten up, the yields will have to rise dramatically to continue attracting investors for even the short term. The immediate response to this will first be to stop issuing the 20 year and reduce the 30 year. They may debate the 50 year but odds are if the 30 has a weak showing that there would be even less appetite for the 50.<p>But with the unwinding yen carry trade, we have to consider the impact on funding the AI boom going forward. Clearly this has been on the mind of nVidia recently, with the move to create a form of mortgage backed securities for GPU capacity. The largest tech companies have something like $2-3 trillion in shell companies set up specifically for the data center buildouts. The rest of the revenue seems to be going in a circular motion among several large companies. They know as soon as they stop funding the AI buildout, or are forced to by the unwinding of market forces, that the party will end. This is the very reason for the move from nVidia recently. And if mortgage backed securities don't make you feel better about it, they have also compared it to how airlines trade airplanes as assets. Neither is a comparison that they should want to make for historical reasons.<p>Now in the past, the U.S. allies would see the value in the financial alliance and would ride to the rescue of something like a 50 year bond to lock up these bubbles for a long time. After so many years of tariffs and other forms of coercion, even the recent yen internvention broke norms between the U.S. Treasury and the European Central Bank. Maybe in the past the Saudis, UAE, etc would have jumped in to invest, but clearly those days are over too... With massive implications for the petrodollar. Which itself is another major factor in the reserve currency system and is clearly under strain from the Iran War and other geopolitical factors.<p>The U.S. response to a debt crisis won't be to default, it will do what it always has done, and try to inflate itself out of the situation. It's just that they can't really take this path either. The more the Federal Reserve becomes the lender of last resort and expands its balance sheet to backstop moving all this to the short term repo market, the end result will be extreme inflation. The yields will begin rising on short term debt faster than we have been seeing on long term debt. Before long, it will be early 1980s style interest rates, and if they don't find a solution, this process will be self repeating... The $40 trillion, with roughly $1.2 trillion in deficits every year, and past reissuance, all into short term funding markets, where the only buyer capable of absorbing it all is the Federal Reserve, there is just no real way out of it.<p>Even all the structural problems with mortgage backed securities haven't been fixed since 2008. If the AI bubble pops, the energy prices keep increasing, the yen carry trade continues to unwind, any South East Asian conflict with North and South Korea, China/Japan/Taiwan, etc... Or with the Ukraine war ending poorly with Russia moving further into the baltic states...<p>Maybe hope that a guy who bankrupted several casinos can figure out to do when the largest casino in history runs out of money? I don't know.<p>EDIT: Sorry for the wall of text. Had a lot to say.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:11:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341926</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All officers of the court have various forms of immunity. All of the rights, rules, and statutes they are required by law to uphold only goes as far as how much of that in group someone is, or how much money someone has to uphold their rights when infringed upon.<p>In practice the entire system has become political, corrupted or both. As a result, the only rights most people have are those where officers of a court are only limited by where their immunity ends. They can and do violate the law and ignore large parts of it if it suits them.<p>Assuming someone has the resources to even get any oversight at all, in most cases those involved will investigate each other and decide they have done nothing wrong. Even in the unlikely event that someone proves an illegal act, they will just claim immunity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:41:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332826</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The repo market angle is an important one. Not sure if this has been as widely reported but they want to expand the repo market to directly support the yen intervention: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/03/bessent-fed-japan-yen-fima-repo-facility.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/03/bessent-fed-japan-yen-fi...</a><p>What I find more interesting though is a recent comment by the Treasury Secretary that deflation in Japan has "stopped". If that is true, then doesn't the yen carry trade unwind automatically? Kicking off the above cycle in the U.S.? It's only a matter of time, hence the need to expand the repo market as soon as possible.<p>But this presents so many more problems, because that repo market is meant to be used for short term funding, not refunding foreign creditors over long term debt. It also implies that the normal mechanisms to provide liquidity to Japanese investors and institutions who pull money out of the U.S. is not exactly solvent to the point to be able to do so. Hence, again, the need to expand the repo market.<p>So now, depending on how fast the yen carry trade unwinds, and how fast money moves back to Japan, combined with the fact they will likely stop funding further issuance of debt, all leads to a very bleak picture.</p>
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<p>Yen carry trade unwind, inflation in Japan, hit to the NASDAQ, AI bubble pops, Japanese investors pull money back home and Treasuries lose its largest foreign creditor. Who knows what happens next.</p>
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<p>National fusion centers collect all kinds of data... If the US has even a remote interest in you, they know where you are at all times. They will be in all of your devices. Services. Banking. Etc.<p>It is just a search away... I really believe even technically minded people do not fully understand the scale and scope of it. And it gets more intrusive every day...<p>Even the recent Supreme Court ruling on geofencing wont go very far in limiting this form of collection.<p>It is all archived too. So even if today youre not on the radar, you might be in the future. With this historical view into someones life, you can find a criminal in anyone...</p>
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<p>Financial cost is one if the many ways the Government intentionally limits your access to your ability to uphold your rights.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:32:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604591</link><dc:creator>treebeard901</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by treebeard901 in "Pentagon says Grok has been used to launch missiles at Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah as soon as the early reporting came out about the use of LLMs during the operation, it kind of made sense thinking through how a target like that could be selected. The LLM is going to use variations of clustering algorithms, calculated centrality scores for all the targets, and tried to find a location where they were all in the same place at the same time (for bombing purposes)... It just so happens there are only a few schools that the Iranian elite have their children attend. And without the context of a human seeing the target and knowing it's a school, well, that's how you get this result.<p>At least in the Terminator, etc, there is debate about building skynet and giving it control... In reality it's just like yeah go ahead let it loose.</p>
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<p>The powers that be are concerned about AI disrupting all the corruption.</p>
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