Hacker News: CircuitSeuss

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

CircuitSeuss — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:21:48 +0000

I think it might be symptomatic of broader tech illiteracy: People don't know anything else or anything better. They want their software to Just Work, and ultimately the decision is made by an executive who decides that microsoft products are “the most stable” or “easiest” route.

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion"

CircuitSeuss — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:50:14 +0000

What a terrible fucked up system.

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "Chopping up books when they're physically too big"

CircuitSeuss — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:15:07 +0000

Chaotic neutral behavior.

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information"

CircuitSeuss — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:34:54 +0000

I think parent is within bounds to complain here. This is a pretty horrendous font that is an accessibility issue not just a “tangential annoyance”— this is also a uniquely nauseating multi color font with flicker effects that is both interesting in its own right and hardly common.

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "The Interim Computer Museum"

CircuitSeuss — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:54:36 +0000

If you’re in the area, check out the Connections Museum too! https://www.telcomhistory.org/ConnectionsSeattle.html

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "A/I shuts down"

CircuitSeuss — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:37:22 +0000

Not all problems are best served with technical solutions. This is a political problem.

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

CircuitSeuss — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:56:51 +0000

Eerie how easy it is to leverage these always on network connected sensors we keep putting everywhere to get precise data profiles

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

CircuitSeuss — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:03:36 +0000

I have a pipe dream that Apple will pull a 180 and offer support for GrapheneOS.

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "Juul gets OK to sell vaping device with age-gating technology"

CircuitSeuss — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:07:20 +0000

Age verification continuing to chart hitherto unheard levels of absurdity.

You'll Learn to Love the Cage

CircuitSeuss — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:50:50 +0000

Article URL: https://frameros.substack.com/p/how-youll-learn-to-love-the-cage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481261

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made "large-scale, disruptive actions""

CircuitSeuss — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:50:29 +0000

> “Internal posts also reportedly pointed to AI agents making “large-scale, disruptive actions that humans are unlikely to execute” and leading to a 40 percent increase in major technical and security incidents compared to the prior year. Employee time spent resolving those problems increased by as much as 70 percent. Meta declined to comment on these internal posts.”

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

CircuitSeuss — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:41:55 +0000

FTC study, Jan 2025 https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p246202_surveil...

Frequently sited investigative video journalism on grocery delivery prices (and more): https://youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo

Airlines: https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminatin...

Insurance: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/technology/gm-l...

Frankly, it’s everywhere— if a company is large enough, they will leverage consumer data to increase profits as much as the consumer will bear. There are many other examples, but I’ll just link you this as a jumping off point if you want to go further: https://epic.org/krogers-surveillance-pricing-harms-consumer...

Ongoing US house oversight committee investigation http://pallone.house.gov/media/press-releases/pallone-launch... https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Lette...

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

CircuitSeuss — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:49:41 +0000

If you have time and are interested I highly recommend reading Privacy Is Power by Carissa Véliz https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442343/privacy-is-power-by-c... https://annas-archive.gd/md5/11585979e43939b8175e1cba336bc9f...

If you don't have time, you can find brief but less compelling argument here: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/why-privacy-matters/

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

CircuitSeuss — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:26:25 +0000

Yes, but typically only on the retailer/ Point of Sales side. Your bank is not selling that information. Of course, things get weird when you have additional intermediaries like Apple or Google pay. In principle at least, there should be some measurable difference vs credit.

Would be very curious to see studies on this if anyone finds one!

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

CircuitSeuss — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:03:44 +0000

This ignores the aspect of consumer data. Credit issuers generate profit through issuing rewards programs in part due to the sale of their customer’s behavioral spending data. Cash and debit users largely retain their data privacy here.

It’s hard to put a real world number on what the cost to the consumer is for losing this data ownership, but it is not zero: these data are increasingly used for targeted pricing practices which extort additional margins from the consumer at a later date.

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers"

CircuitSeuss — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:46:57 +0000

The scale of wealth imbalance, the scale of money in politics, the scale of grocer prices, the scale of data collection and abuse of targeted price manipulation, the scale of climate catastrophe, the scale of electric bills, humming noises, draught conditions. It’s about realizing the scales are uneven, and seeing a tangible incarnation of that being built. All those problems are starting to seem awfully close to home. You can’t reach the trillionaire, but maybe you can keep it out of your back yard, so you protest the data center.

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers"

CircuitSeuss — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:37:28 +0000

Things are getting literal… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442998

Guillotine found near US Capitol, California man arrested

CircuitSeuss — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:17:54 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/guillotine-capitol-police-california-arrest-cf3c9f181382bfc3fb9c5c47f45cacb2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442998

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by CircuitSeuss in "Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model"

CircuitSeuss — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:23:08 +0000

Keep in mind line items can be deceptive. e.g. “Corporates” can mean “money we make from selling access to individual’s biometric data to the government.”

https://ir.thomsonreuters.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

US debt is rising by about $90k every second, or $7.8B a day

CircuitSeuss — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:51:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d8z72nn02o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383577

Points: 5

# Comments: 9