Hacker News: Cabal

New comment by Cabal in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

Cabal — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:33:56 +0000

> The doctor who was to perform it literally said "I want you to think of this procedure in terms of a cure"

I have difficulty believing a medical professional would say that.

New comment by Cabal in "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)"

Cabal — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:00:21 +0000

I wouldn't spend too much of your time deep diving - it's an AI slop project.

When the Power Went Out in San Francisco, So Did Waymo's Robotaxis

Cabal — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:15:13 +0000

Article URL: https://insideevs.com/news/782523/waymo-robotaxi-san-francisco-outage-power/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355354

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by Cabal in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

Cabal — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:21:09 +0000

Many radios don't have "a phone".

New comment by Cabal in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

Cabal — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:24:07 +0000

Same. This app was specifically used to incite violence against law enforcement.

New comment by Cabal in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

Cabal — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:22:56 +0000

Doesn't seem like it. From the Economist's front page as I type this:

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/03/trumponomics-20...

New comment by Cabal in "Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank"

Cabal — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:47:40 +0000

12 hours later, this has not aged well.

New comment by Cabal in "Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions"

Cabal — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:29:48 +0000

> I am beyond sick of my current company pretending like everything is going to go back to normal one day.

> management has refused to accept the current situation

You don't state what country you're in, but in the US, the pandemic is effectively over. Everyone (that wants to be) is well-vaccinated, many 3 or 4x, Omicron blew through the country and left us mostly unscathed, and the news hasn't talked about daily numbers in at least two months. There is little reason to wear a mask indoors unless you want to lessen your chances of catching the flu - which is ticking up a bit.

We probably don't meet the scientific/medical definition of the end of a pandemic, but socially, we're there.

However, if you're in the US and still feeling this way, you may be suffering from some low-grade PTSD. Don't be afraid to reach out for help.

New comment by Cabal in "Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech"

Cabal — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:32:07 +0000

None of this matches my experience serving, but it turns out this person didn't serve at all and is just trolling. Sad, man.

New comment by Cabal in "Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found security flaw in state site"

Cabal — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:42:02 +0000

Flagged. From the article:

> The video is produced by Uniting Missouri, a political action committee created by Parson supporters to back his 2020 election campaign. [...] It operates without direct input from Parson on its activities.

New comment by Cabal in "VSCode deprecates Enable Telemetry, auto-enrolls you in Telemetry?"

Cabal — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 15:11:00 +0000

How is this in any way false? I just updated to the latest stable release and it turned telemetry back on, despite my old settings being off. Same as the original screenshot.

New comment by Cabal in "The Most Dangerous Censorship"

Cabal — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 03:51:28 +0000

I don't see requiring an ID to vote as a very big hurdle. I needed to provide a lot more than that to get my COVID vaccine.

New comment by Cabal in "How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler"

Cabal — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:18:24 +0000

> Parler was a hate site, filled with conspiracy theories, radicalization and racism

Citation needed. Neither I nor my friends or acquaintances used it for any of these things. Hell, I've hired people off of Parler.

Millions of Users Are Flooding Encrypted Apps After Social Media Purges

Cabal — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:29:18 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/2021/01/12/millions-of-users-are-flooding-encrypted-apps-after-social-media-purges/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25748083

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Cabal in "Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support"

Cabal — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:37:24 +0000

I've been a Parler user for multiple months and have never seen any of the activity like the above poster is claiming. While I occasionally read the far-right stuff for fun (and the far-left stuff on Twitter), my interests are mostly in tech. Never once has someone tried to "recruit" me for any of the above.

I can only assume this nonsense is trolling/preaching to the choir, etc.

Revoke Social Media's Legal Shield, but for the Right Reason

Cabal — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:53:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/revoke-shield-for-twitter-and-facebook-but-for-the-right-reason

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25724249

Points: 7

# Comments: 7

New comment by Cabal in ""Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs"

Cabal — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:21:53 +0000

For one thing, if you give your employer a wildly wrong address (i.e. different state), your taxes will end up pretty screwed up.

Your example could possibly work for NYC vs. upstate, middle-of-nowhere NY, though.

Britain Imported the American High School

Cabal — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:05:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/how-britain-imported-the-american-high-school/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25123830

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Cabal in "Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro"

Cabal — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:13:09 +0000

I think more results are needed to smooth out the curves. If you check all the results by model so far,

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=Macmini9%2C1

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=MacBookPro17%2...

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...

it looks like they're all in the same ballpark (i.e. the Air is not leading others, just comparable).

New comment by Cabal in "Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)"

Cabal — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:27:11 +0000

We've had similar experiences in the swinging lifestyle (not to compare the two in any way, it just seemed like a good place to add our experience). We moved to a new area 2500 miles away, tried our best to make friends, had kids a few years later, tried again to make new friends with other parents (had a few successes), and then later on got into swinging.

WOW. You will never find a friendlier bunch of people who are always looking for new friends, even when there isn't attraction present (a common mistake in the vanilla world is that lifestylers have sex with anything that moves). It is the most welcoming community we've ever been a part of.