<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: whiddershins</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whiddershins</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:29:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=whiddershins" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whiddershins in "Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>we had this thing called apprenticeship and it is now illegal</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:44:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796869</link><dc:creator>whiddershins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whiddershins in "Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They would meet the requirements to not have to work. Having nothing to do with terminally ill status and everything to do with the things you just listed. The article doesn't say anyone is proposing to change that.</p>
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<p>thanks! i have been trying to articulate why i built this, and in what ways the approach is fundamentally different.</p>
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<p>for the app or the keys?<p>for keys we support openai, google, bytedance, and wavespeed which is an aggregator that gives you access to most models.<p>if you are asking is Windows in the works, not near term. unless enough people ask i suppose.</p>
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<p>shameless plug burlap will let you just use keys from gemini studio or openai and try stuff out without messing with the web interfaces. that's (one reason) i made it<p><a href="https://www.burlap.app/download" rel="nofollow">https://www.burlap.app/download</a></p>
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<p>I am under the impression this does not apply to for example o-1 visas. Possibly not for h1-b. Is everyone clear about what they are commenting on here? Is the news coverage clear?</p>
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<p>You are right, the downvotes people gave this comment are wrong, the replies to you are wrong. Feeding evil in the hopes you will also feed a little good is not only bad morally, but bad practically, bad in a utilitarian calculus, and just dumb.</p>
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<p>vulnerable how?</p>
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<p>I appreciated Scott Adams, and am sad he has passed away. I learned a lot from him and his perspective helped me through difficult times.<p>The comments here are very unfortunate. When someone dies, it is appropriate to speak of what you appreciated about them.<p>That's it. That's all you need to say. And you aren't required to say anything at all.<p>Apologizing for liking him because of x or y or explaining that you liked him despite z is in poor taste and, frankly, cowardly.<p>I appreciated Scott Adams, and am sad he has passed away.</p>
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<p>congresss did not declare war for any of the post wwii wars.</p>
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<p>How many conservatives do you socialize with regularly?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012261</link><dc:creator>whiddershins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whiddershins in "The Death of the Middle-Class Musician"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>all this was obvious the moment napster became popular. and for more than a decade anyone who explained what was happening was ridiculed, especially in tech circles.<p>spotify in particular cemented a payment structure that disadvantages any “serious” music versus endless repeat pop songs, while also being completely corrupted by conflict of interest from record labels with an ownership stake. now they manufacture their own muzak and steer your playlist to it, draining the last bits of revenue possibility away from these “middle class musicians.”<p>youtube streamed music for free for years, paying no artists, and it was one of its core growth engines. completely asymmetrical outcome.<p>the whole thing denigrated musicians, and music itself. hordes of early online young tech professionals making great money at their office jobs poo pooing the concerns of an entire industry which previously enabled some of the most sophisticated artistic endeavors our culture ever attempted.<p>just dumb. a complete victory of lowbrow values.<p>baffling someone is writing this article in 2025. at every fork in the road, the path was taken that would give less revenue to the musicians. and ~no one in tech felt it was a problem.<p>talking about it like there is a revelation or an emerging phenomenon here mystifies, while rubbing salt in the wound.</p>
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<p>The trend towards opaque is inexorable.<p><a href="https://noisegroove.substack.com/p/somersaulting-down-the-slippery-slope" rel="nofollow">https://noisegroove.substack.com/p/somersaulting-down-the-sl...</a></p>
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<p>I'd be curious about the total carbon emissions, all in, to produce this because it seems like an excellent carbon sink. And especially when compared to steel.</p>
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<p>I would like to take this moment to point out that in NY it is ~illegal for me to hire an unpaid intern and train them by for example saying:
- this is codex, here is a bunch of tickets
- enter each ticket into codex, then review each change and understand what it did. if you think what it did is good, open a PR
- twice a day we will meet and i will review all the codex PRs with you and explain what is and isn't working<p>etc.<p>This would <i>not</i> save me time. It would be paying it forward. And I cannot do this.</p>
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<p>So can I just sign up and get started using it on my blog, or how does this work?</p>
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<p>LLMs in data pipelines enable all sorts of “before impossible” stuff. For example, this creates an event calendar for you based on emails you have received:<p><a href="https://www.indexself.com/events/molly-pepper" rel="nofollow">https://www.indexself.com/events/molly-pepper</a><p>(that’s mine, and is due a bugfix/update this week. message me if you want to try it with your own emails)<p>I have a couple more LLM-powered apps in the works, like next few weeks, that aren’t chat or code. I wouldn’t call them transformative, but they meet your other criteria, I think.</p>
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<p>"i can't understand my son, he doesn't listen to a thing I say!"<p>-- Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People</p>
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<p>argh, just have the back wall recede away from you as it gets lower. tilt it the other way. you could even use a curve.</p>
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<p>this is such a fantastic comment because it makes a charitable attempt to explain how data driven decisions go off the rails.<p>and it matters because this seems to be an omnipresent phenomenon.<p>everything everywhere seems driven by this unless someone with decision making power is executing a specific and conscious strategy that pushes back against it.</p>
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