Hacker News: 2close4comfort

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench"

2close4comfort — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:24:33 +0000

yeah like the palantíri in Lord of the...oh god its too late.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism"

2close4comfort — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:38:39 +0000

That is the point. Nebulous however that has more to do with the multifaceted approach of those behind these activities trying to show that there is not just one bad actor. The purpose is to get you to click on those links at the bottom to learn more. If you got that far and did not feel the need to learn more then you have already chosen a side in this discussion.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

2close4comfort — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:14:17 +0000

I too was wondering how they feel about the potential downsides which is not really mentioned.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

2close4comfort — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:06:10 +0000

I was not able to find this role on the link.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

2close4comfort — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:51:40 +0000

It is an interesting time to be at the peak of accumulated knowledge of a 50 year career and then see a tool that has the ability to create the code to preform a task I need. But that creation doesn’t feel the same and does take interaction from outside usually to make that code useable. I think that time for required interaction will be short lived and as code bases are slowly supplanted with generated code things will be more homogenized. I pray that will lead the people being allowed to solve more complex issue and I can’t wait to see the advancements to come. I just hope we can look back and say it was worth it, that don’t we end up with a bunch of AI generated crap that degrades technology by obscuring the useful and we end up worse than before.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

2close4comfort — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:30:32 +0000

Agreed, Reddit as a source of truth is the issue. Who in the their right mind would look at Reddit as whole and say that is an open, unbiased community focused on true and accurate information. And as the article and comments in this very thread show how moderation and its application within Reddit are "contaminated" which is a very good way to describe the situation.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety"

2close4comfort — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:08:57 +0000

Yes, but there is nothing that says that I have to consent to a random 3rd party monitoring where I go for either of those licenses.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety"

2close4comfort — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:57:29 +0000

Just one more data point for any 3rd party to buy from Flock and use how ever they please. Well you know as long as the check clears.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety"

2close4comfort — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:45:16 +0000

I dont't recall this being anywhere in the documentation or terms of the licensing of a vehicle. Did I miss that part?

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Ask HN: This is not the place for political discourse..so where is?"

2close4comfort — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:29:44 +0000

It is harder to separate technology and political discourse as they seem to becoming more and more intertwined. This is probably the most respectful open forum that I know on the internet. My problem is much like yours if not here where? If we cannot discuss this here, then the people driving these technologies will not be able to reconcile technology's place in our political landscape and how our contributions ultimately are actively shaping the world around us. Unfortunately, Hacker News has the most literate and well thought out responses to extremely technical issues on the internet, seems like this would be the ideal place. You don't have conversations on X and Reddit etc. like you can find here on HN. The whole reason I love it here is getting to sift through all these comments here is for the knowledge people share here and I have seen highly charged ideologies discussed here in detail and it is still standing. But is that because the community has been actively avoided certain divisive topics?

New comment by 2close4comfort in "GM software boss: we have 'high conviction' ditching CarPlay is the right path"

2close4comfort — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:20:06 +0000

I feel like this might be the Dunning-Kruger effect in action.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format"

2close4comfort — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:14:58 +0000

Agreed just because a company thinks my threat model doesn't require anything but letters and should be short enough to memorize, sure does not mean they are correct. Apple is collectively dumbing down complexity for selfish reasons and then not allowing you the user to change default complexity and length. Looks like the only problem they were trying to solve was reuse which might be a plus one for the Apple device population but I am not sure the trade off is really worth it. But hey it's free!

New comment by 2close4comfort in "FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia"

2close4comfort — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:35:02 +0000

After seeing how much they are going to charge for it, I am not sure if it will not cause more homelessness.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience""

2close4comfort — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:30:57 +0000

WHQL - Gamer Edition! taxing hardware with cost increases passed on to the lucky consumers. Gee thanks Microsoft.

Splunk IP suit against Cribl

2close4comfort — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 01:07:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/bulletins/splunk-files-intellectual-property-complaint-against-cribl.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33103157

Points: 110

# Comments: 101

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with reading in Siberia"

2close4comfort — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 01:33:15 +0000

I think that permafrost loss being accelerated and the affect it has had on overall temps is concerning. I wonder what man-made acceleration of permafrost loss like the hydraulic mining has speed up this process that has been taking place since 2013 and I think we are seeing the results. Sad really.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "FF Sandbox Escape"

2close4comfort — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 02:04:50 +0000

Meh...escape must mean something different at Google

EO on Platforms

2close4comfort — Thu, 28 May 2020 11:30:14 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1JnK80wk4Smcu3lt4TCwajQNTk0_v1sNR-FGhnoMZyWM/mobilebasic#

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23336070

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?"

2close4comfort — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:26:47 +0000

YES! Totally agree but they can't continue to give the market the weapons that are being used to maintain that repression.

New comment by 2close4comfort in "Facebook is down"

2close4comfort — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:23:35 +0000

for good, finally!