<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: whydoineedthis</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whydoineedthis</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=whydoineedthis" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthem Blue cross pays $125-$150/hr.  $80/hr is cheap.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:53:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579942</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They started slapping my kids hands, forcibly shoving him back in his chair, and grabbing my kids face and torquing his neck.  Jon Paul Saunders, a leader in ABA, swore up and down 'this is the best in ABA'.  When I looked at the data, my kid had all but stopped screaming/crying with other RBT's, but was more than double the crying/screaming with the rbt's doing the slap, push, face yank teqnique.<p>At this point, my son had done 18 months of ABA and was being used to train new RBT's (high turnover field of course). The prescribed hitting was creating behavioral problems at home, but was being used to justify extensive hours of ABA.<p>I dont think a profit driven model is great for these kids.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:51:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579908</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The last financial crisis was 2008. Are you saying there was a tech bubble in 2008?  The economy can do bad in lots of sectors while others are gaining traction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:17:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953743</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just look at recent funding rounds?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:15:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953730</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Alchemy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some people make art for the sake of art though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:46:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949163</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its silly to talk about a bubble when all of the major AI companies just recieved 3-5yrs runway in VC.  I normally hate the term FUD, bit in this case it's proveably true.  Even if these companies collapse in 5 years, thats a lifetime away in tech years, not an immediate bubble.</p>
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<p>I dont think so. I run a VPN whitelabel and its parent company is based in China.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:57:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938752</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938752</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Cars Killed a Cat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having jobs like uber and Lyft available - self employed on your own time - are terrific stop gaps when people lose thier real job, or need a little extra for thier familly. Doing away with them will create a much worse society.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:49:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938694</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Show HN: I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If there were a servbay.yaml file that a person could export & commit this would probably go down smoother from some folks.<p>If you added a feature to push/fetch and sync the local development database from an s3 (or like bucket) it would solve one of the real core problems of new developers getting started.<p>That nginx proxy probably works 99.999% of the time, but oh boy, is that .001% going to tick someone off. Proxy's always add a small layer of complexity that can fubar things in strange ways, i know from running many of proxies in production just fine until that tiny little app/proxy config change that borks it.  I haven't dug in enough yet, but i hope it can be bypassed.<p>Ambitious project that I think has some legs.  A lot of devs dislike docker and many teams struggle to use it well anyway (for instance, a good dev Dockerfile is usually not the same as a good production Dockerfile).  You will need to make this more "IAC-like" if you want to beat it though, imho.<p>Keep going and good luck!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:02:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647062</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I personally think we are in the pre-broadband era of AI.  That is, what is currently being built will contribute to some AI dot-com 1.0 bubble burst, but after that there will be some advancements in it's distribution model that will allow it to thrive and infiltrate our society at a core level.  Right now it's a bunch of dreamers building the pets.com that no one asked for, but after all the competition is shaken off, there will definitely be some clear winners, and maybe an Amazon.com of sorts for AI that people will adopt.</p>
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<p>I dont understand why I would use this. Can someone eli5?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:34:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45241157</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45241157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45241157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "In the long run, LLMs make us dumber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similar fear mongering when calculators came about. No one got dumber, we just got faster at doing simple math.  WOrking out complex math will always be interesting to those who really want to do it, and the rest likely wont contribute mu ch anyway - thier just consumers.  Let the kids have thier wordy calculators, it actually may unblock critical paths of success needed for someone to really go deep.</p>
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<p>Until firefox fixes it's identity model it will never be useful for me, a systems engineer.<p>Yes, i'm aware of firefox profiles. it's implementation is hard to use and generally confusing. it requires going to secret pages, and quite frankly, i found it worked like hot garbage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:17:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44561208</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44561208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44561208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, like, a public ss# tied to an address.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 03:50:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122947</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to work for Lark. They raised $140mm to solve this problem and the best they could do was a non-ai chatbot that whined at users for not eating enough vegetables.  The Lark app has 100% user drop off in 60 days and yet is still the silicon darling in the diabetes space.<p>Your platform has more science & more solution than 100 engineers in 3 years could produce.  Keep at it and know with confidence that there is great value in what you are building.  I know it's not your primary goal, but this will be lucrative if you keep going.  I wish you a lot of luck, this is very cool!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836119</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>pile - a framework & cli for managing a large number of docker-compose files running on the same machine.<p>Inspired by a pile-of-poo SOA application where essentially every service was dependent other services such that the entire app stack needed to be run in order for any 1 service to work.<p>In addition to organizing the array of docker-compose files, which may live in different directories, i also add some helper functions to bring clarity to the usual docker cli output.  Ugly "docker ps" output can be gathered by using pile ports, pile commands, & pile state - all of which output what you think they do, but in a way that is actually legible and useful when running 20+ containers locally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:05:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836007</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's only "intellectual theft" because we consider peoples thoughts their own property.  On many levels, that doesn't really make sense to me.<p>Tons of historical documents have shown that inventions, mathematical proofs, and celestial observations were made by humans separated by continents and time.  What that shows is that it is certainly possible for two persons to have the same exact or similar thought without ever having been influenced by the other.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:18:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584592</link><dc:creator>whydoineedthis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whydoineedthis in "Volkswagen Bringing Back Physical Buttons, Says Removing Them Was a Mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Return of common sense. Let's keep the trend going!</p>
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<p>Author states its lower "Once tax incentives are factored in".  As she is not my CPA, I must call BS.</p>
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<p>Rayts. They bring rats. Lots of them.  Ok if your in the countryside with big land and farms, horrible home infestation s if not.</p>
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