Hacker News: Longlius

New comment by Longlius in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

Longlius — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:07:17 +0000

Paxton's decision was incredibly narrow (because it specifically targeted sites that served pornography and only pornography) and it's unlikely the court is willing to grant anymore ground.

New comment by Longlius in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

Longlius — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:03:45 +0000

Most of these "online safety" acts have been sitting around in congress for half a decade at this point. Mike Johnson keeps blocking them because he has serious doubts about their constitutionality (which keep getting borne out whenever the laws end up in court).

New comment by Longlius in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

Longlius — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:52:03 +0000

Keep up with that rhetoric. I'm sure it will go well for you come election season.

New comment by Longlius in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

Longlius — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:44:34 +0000

Then offshore the work. Americans aren't getting the jobs anyway and the imported labor now competes for things like groceries, gas, housing, etc. which drives up prices.

New comment by Longlius in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

Longlius — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:17:50 +0000

The American revolution literally engaged in systemic attacks against British property.

New comment by Longlius in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

Longlius — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:16:48 +0000

Except cable is the more apt comparison here - broadcast rules exist because airwaves are an extremely finite resource and so we can argue that the government has a vested interest in what kind of speech can happen on them. No such scarcity exists with web services.

New comment by Longlius in "The MacBook Neo"

Longlius — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:43:13 +0000

>(Surely, the tough 8 GB RAM decision was influenced by the three factors 1. current DRAM cost and 2. limited DRAM availability considerations as of 2026, and 3. the massive Neo market size resulting from its attractive price tag, and this may get reconsidered in future editions.)

Actually it's because the A18 Pro only supports 8GB of RAM. It's packaged on top of the SoC itself using TSMC's InFO-PoP.

New comment by Longlius in "Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification"

Longlius — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:17:28 +0000

Discord offered more features. Voice chat was part of the initial sell for the platform, but these days most users don't even use the voice functionality and instead use it for long-running hypermedia chats with retained history.

New comment by Longlius in "Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification"

Longlius — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:15:07 +0000

I don't think Discord is going anywhere, but people always vastly overestimate the power of market leaders. Reddit didn't see a big change in MAUs but it did see massive declines in the amount of time spent on reddit per user and posting activity.

I could see Discord going the same way - declining interest from users while they keep it around for the few 'essential' communities/friends on the platform, but very little tethering them to it if a disruptive competitor comes along.

New comment by Longlius in "US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says"

Longlius — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:04:01 +0000

Good. Secular declines in consumption from the US would be healthy.

New comment by Longlius in "Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows"

Longlius — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:15:29 +0000

They're not really a thing in the US either, outside of people trying to engagement bait on social media.

New comment by Longlius in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

Longlius — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:47:16 +0000

ASML is a Dutch company.

New comment by Longlius in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

Longlius — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:40:06 +0000

I think the world would be better on the whole if such people returned home and improved their countries. The US cannot brain drain the entire world for its own benefit.

New comment by Longlius in "Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns"

Longlius — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:46:15 +0000

USB3.2 is almost twice as fast as SATA. If you want extra storage, get a USB-C or thunderbolt external drive.

New comment by Longlius in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

Longlius — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:34:30 +0000

If China doesn't want or need anything from the West, then why do they kvetch so loudly when the US implements trade barriers?

New comment by Longlius in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

Longlius — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:31:25 +0000

I mean if we're talking about generations that didn't have enough children to sustain organic domestic economic growth, then China is actually ahead of us there. Their birth rate plummeted below replacement well before the US's did.

New comment by Longlius in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"

Longlius — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:56:43 +0000

I feel like rms just doesn't like human interaction generally. I've noticed that a lot of visionaries are that way.

New comment by Longlius in "EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act"

Longlius — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:06:57 +0000

I mean, is there really any reason to continue offering the service in Europe? I highly doubt the revenue is really worth the trouble.

New comment by Longlius in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

Longlius — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:11:38 +0000

It's front page on the site currently.

New comment by Longlius in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

Longlius — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 05:37:13 +0000

KF is being spammed with CSAM currently to the point where registrations are closed unless the admins are online to manually watch new user regs.

Seems to be the new tactic now.