Hacker News: 34679

New comment by 34679 in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

34679 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:02:13 +0000

The same thing it was designed to do and has always done: create unimaginable sums of money out of thin air that it loans to the government, with interest.

New comment by 34679 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

34679 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:15:12 +0000

You can just click on your username in the upper right and change "showdead" from "no" to "yes".

New comment by 34679 in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

34679 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:48:05 +0000

It won't find the correct answer. Garbage in, garbage out.

New comment by 34679 in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

34679 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:55:28 +0000

I can't shake the feeling that the RAM shortage was intentionally created to serve as a sort of artificial moat by slowing or outright preventing the adoption of open weight models. Altman is playing with hundreds of billions of other people's dollars, trying to protect (in his mind) a multi-trillion dollar company. If he could spend a few billion to shut down access to the hardware people need to run competitor's products, why wouldn't he?

New comment by 34679 in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

34679 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:51:55 +0000

"Reviewed 15 sources."

Maybe it should've reviewed 20.

New comment by 34679 in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

34679 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:01:45 +0000

They're probably looking at DDR4.

New comment by 34679 in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

34679 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:41:31 +0000

In my late teens, I worked as a bill collector. If I suspected an account owner was deceased, I'd call the Social Security Administration and ask them if they had a certificate of death on file. If they didn't, they'd tell me they couldn't comment. If they did, they'd say so, because dead people don't have a right to privacy.

New comment by 34679 in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

34679 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:39:53 +0000

Everyone has easy access right now. Everyone had easier access before the TikTok deal. That's the wrong direction for a free country and it's particularly alarming because the deal was forced by the government.

New comment by 34679 in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

34679 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:49:34 +0000

You should see what Google has done with the latest version of the Phone app. You used to be able to click on contacts and that would show you.. your contacts. Now it shows recent calls with a search bar for contacts. Say I want to call a friend named Dave. As soon as I start typing, search results begin populating, but none of the names it offers start with "D", they just contain "D" somewhere. It could be the middle of a last name. And I can't figure out why they'd fuck this up. There are no ads to be injected into my attempts to find a contact, so I have to wonder if this is just the beginning of a push to ruin every convenience so users will turn to Gemini for everything.

The Memory-Transfer Episode

34679 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:18:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/06/memory-transfer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680712

Points: 1

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New comment by 34679 in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

34679 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:10:48 +0000

Apple picks [ad company's] [ai ad server] to power Siri.

New comment by 34679 in "Companies Have Made $1M as ICE Bounty Hunters"

34679 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:57:43 +0000

Payment information and license plate scans are combined with biometric data to build profiles on every individual. It doesn't matter what shade your skin color is.

New comment by 34679 in "Companies Have Made $1M as ICE Bounty Hunters"

34679 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:44:42 +0000

>anyone being targeted by facial recognition by definition has to be known to law enforcement already

Or they could use the self-checkout at Walmart, or walk through a Target, or buy a hammer at Home Depot. The government buys data from a wide variety of sources, without warrants or other oversight. Yours too.

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/privacy/bipa...

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/courtside/lawsuit-claims-...

https://www.homedepot.com/privacy/privacy-and-security-state...

From the Home Depot link:

"Biometric Information What Information Does This Include?

Facial recognition. Where Do We Collect It From?

    Via cameras at select stores, in parking lots, and at other facilities as permitted under applicable laws.

Why Do We Collect and Disclose It?

    Fraud prevention, security, and asset protection.

Who Do We Disclose It To?

    Service providers that process information on our behalf, such as security and fraud prevention services.
    Law enforcement, public and government authorities, and other entities as we deem reasonably necessary to comply with law, support investigations, and protect the rights and property of you, us, and others.
    Any successor to all or part of our business.
    Advisors and consultants.
    Our affiliates and subsidiaries."

New comment by 34679 in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

34679 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:39:07 +0000

I'm in favor of a property tax multiplier that increases with the number of properties owned.

New comment by 34679 in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

34679 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:35:52 +0000

Does anyone believe that the US regime, an entity that utterly ignores the needs of its masses in favor of a relative handful of lobbyists, is really going to install a representative government that exists to improve the lives of Venezuelans instead of enriching the same powers that it's beholden to?

New comment by 34679 in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

34679 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:24:11 +0000

I've met Ron Paul.

You, sir, are no Ron Paul.

New comment by 34679 in "Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous"

34679 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:59:18 +0000

>which, should be noted, is entirely optional

I wouldn't say entirely. I had a client with a large company contact me on LinkedIn saying that they wanted to buy my product but no one would respond to their emails. Their system was nuking my responses until I set up DMARC reporting, and I had no indication it was happening on my end. No "failed to deliver" message and nothing in the logs, just email that vanished into the ether.

New comment by 34679 in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

34679 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:22:13 +0000

The excessive emojis were enough for me to move on. I haven't touched an OpenAI product in over a year. I've maintained an ad-free household for over a decade. OpenAI will not ever be a part of my life any more than it is now. Just like Facebook.

New comment by 34679 in "The three thousand year journey of colchicine"

34679 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:22:12 +0000

Same here. I have a bottle in my freezer for that purpose.

New comment by 34679 in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

34679 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:12:33 +0000

I agree. Back in the 90's there was plenty of skepticism, along with some mockery, surrounding the internet. But you never saw headlines like "Lawyer caught using the internet" or "Artist busted using the World Wide Web".

With AI, it's different.