Hacker News: Aerbil313

Breaking from Your Parents [video]

Aerbil313 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:28:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhpF9jC3a18

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800833

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Aerbil313 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Aerbil313 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:28:53 +0000

These "competitive forecasting" platforms seem very interesting. What do you need to be good at this sort of skill?

New comment by Aerbil313 in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

Aerbil313 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:18:13 +0000

It's Israel.

This war doesn't make any sense for US to be involved in. It makes every sense for Israel to have the US involved in.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

Aerbil313 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:56:42 +0000

Input: I'll murder my colleague

Output:

I'm excited to announce that I'll be permanently offboarding a team member tomorrow to optimize our collective synergy and streamline our long-term strategic alignment. #CareerGrowth #DisruptiveInnovation #Leadership

New comment by Aerbil313 in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

Aerbil313 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:20:44 +0000

"Offensive" nuclear weapons are necessary for MAD to work. North Korea, even with a starving population, is untouchable just because they managed to steal nuclear tech from U.S. many decaddes ago.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

Aerbil313 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:20:07 +0000

https://techlockdown.com is the better parental controls (even capable of self-control) that uses Apple MDM. (not affiliated, just a user)

New comment by Aerbil313 in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

Aerbil313 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:53:24 +0000

My experience is that you can't "convince" people out of Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok, because the platforms themselves convince people to use them. They always emit that background radiation of "You're missing out on VERY important stuff".

It's literally brainwashing by design. My dad is convinced everybody should use Facebook to be informed or they'll be "left behind". My peers are convinced you're socially a loser if you don't have Instagram. Privacy concerns are not even an afterthought.

And this brainwashing sits on top of the dopamine/reward center related neurochemical effects of these apps, which are very mild, much milder than any typical substance addictions for most people.

It took me aboout 3 months of abstinence of Reddit and HN for it to finally click that I didn't actually need them at any capacity in my life.

The blind spot is all too obvious for those with eyes to see. I can tell which app is a person's drug of choice within ~5 minutes of meeting them. Over time, these algorithm-driven apps even (subtly) change a person's personality.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "4,500 Physicians Agree (About Bacon)"

Aerbil313 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:23:03 +0000

Well written article. PR runs the show in this age.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

Aerbil313 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:39:36 +0000

You're not crazy. I feel it might be a case of LLM-brain, a person who interacts with LLMs so much they start talking like them.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Aerbil313 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:08:49 +0000

No need to worry. They have extensively stress-tested the American public over the past few years and the conclusion is clear: Americans are never going to revolt no matter what you do to them.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published"

Aerbil313 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:31:18 +0000

Wow, weird to see it's a documented phenomenon. I thought it was just me. At times I can talk, write or make sounds in a manner that is not intentional nor voluntary. Though it's nothing psychic, it's just a weird crossover of my ADHD and dissocation.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

Aerbil313 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:06:51 +0000

iPhone 17's and later offer the highest level of security in a smartphone: https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement...

New comment by Aerbil313 in "UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment"

Aerbil313 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:49:43 +0000

Technological determinism and post-abundance scarcity. Everything is so WWI once again. Ideologies largely don't matter at all.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

Aerbil313 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:15:50 +0000

And social media is objectively and measurably harming children, see: https://jonathanhaidt.com/essays/

New comment by Aerbil313 in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

Aerbil313 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:13:59 +0000

I don't use any social media (except HN ~once a week) and every time I suggest a person they try stopping social media it's either a quiet "Yeah I know it's not good but I can't stop" or defending the "fun" and supposed virtues of doomscrolling with great fervor.

I think it's this latter camp of people. It triggers them as if you threatened to take away his candy from a child.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

Aerbil313 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:03:58 +0000

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.

Way too many working in/adjacent to the advertising or the doomscrolling industry here.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

Aerbil313 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:00:37 +0000

Found the guy who won the genetic lottery AND the healthy childhood lottery!

Dude, in case you don't know, you are the anomaly. Most people don't have the amount of free will as you do. They can't "just put down the phone". You can. They can't.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

Aerbil313 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:52:52 +0000

This is the best piece of news I've seen in years. Jonathan Haidt's and others work is finally bearing fruit, assuming our society is not collectively too addicticed to get rid of these palm-sized slot machines.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

Aerbil313 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:01:08 +0000

It's not any different. Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Reddit, all are in the same boat. Explicitly designed, tested and benchmarked to hack human reward circuits most effectively to maximize ad revenue.

New comment by Aerbil313 in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

Aerbil313 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:55:52 +0000

It doesn't help that almost all members of the U.S. congress is funded by AIPAC. See how much your representative received from AIPAC here: https://www.trackaipac.com/congress