Hacker News: Simulacra

New comment by Simulacra in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

Simulacra — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:23:24 +0000

Again?

New comment by Simulacra in "What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers"

Simulacra — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:25:53 +0000

New comment by Simulacra in "I don't like passkeys"

Simulacra — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:59:16 +0000

Passkeys are really an abdication of cyber security responsibility by the vendor. Offload everything onto the consumer, and you have plausible deniability for anything that happens.

New comment by Simulacra in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"

Simulacra — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:44:23 +0000

Neither did AOC. Respectfully, stop talking yourself out of it. Most voters are desperate for someone different, but they are only ever given the same two choices.

Look into it. Seriously consider it.

New comment by Simulacra in "Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows"

Simulacra — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:42:49 +0000

Siri, and Alexa, would be significantly more useful if it could be connected to ChatGPT etc.

New comment by Simulacra in "Data collected by cars and sold to third parties"

Simulacra — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:44:05 +0000

What did you do, or what are you going to do? That would piss me off until i found the antenna and broke it

New comment by Simulacra in "Data collected by cars and sold to third parties"

Simulacra — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:42:44 +0000

I drive a restored 2002 Citroen C5.

New comment by Simulacra in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"

Simulacra — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:40:03 +0000

Absolutely horrible. They show up on Saturday's yelling at empty buildings. Very rarely does an American protest against a government body change policy. If you want to really do something, show up on a Tuesday morning, stop traffic, flood the phone lines, and the email systems, relentlessly day after day. Americans are far too comfortable to truly protest.

New comment by Simulacra in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"

Simulacra — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:38:31 +0000

The real trick, is to stop going to these meetings, and start running against these politicians. Get the forms, stand out in front of your local post office, collect the signatures, and primary them. Run against them. That's the only thing they listen to

New comment by Simulacra in "Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic"

Simulacra — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:35:28 +0000

Which is why I think very soon there will be development of dark AI, think of it as darknet AI. You can ask anything and it will tell you. It's only a matter of time. How to make a bomb? Sure, here's a shopping list for your local hardware store…

New comment by Simulacra in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

Simulacra — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:45:46 +0000

So very strange every time I visit Tomshardware.com, I get a pop-up on my iPhone that asked me "Do you want to download "sync-pixel" on "usync.ingage.tech"?

What is that? And why does it only happen on that website?

New comment by Simulacra in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

Simulacra — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:35:22 +0000

Depends on how you feel about guns. I think people who are opposed to them would agree with this, people who are in favor of guns would be alarmed by this.

New comment by Simulacra in "I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold"

Simulacra — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:22:35 +0000

This article seems a little condescending. They are neither a mechanic nor a farmer, as they say, and from there it just sort of goes off the rails.

New comment by Simulacra in "The EPA Is Planning to Scrap Public Review Rules for Data Center Pollution"

Simulacra — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:14:01 +0000

Well, that's not gonna happen, under the administrative procedures act they'll have to open it up for public comment, which opens it up for lawsuits.

New comment by Simulacra in "Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm"

Simulacra — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:46:46 +0000

I don't really see people using Instagram anymore, it seems like it's mostly turned into a static photo album. For example, I've seen people use Instagram links on dating profiles. For more, see IG @...

New comment by Simulacra in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

Simulacra — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:29:21 +0000

After reading about his behavior over the past couple of years, I'm sad that it took this long. He has far too much hostility for the community to continue.

New comment by Simulacra in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

Simulacra — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:52:09 +0000

Who has enough friends past 30 to even justify a lan party? Lol

New comment by Simulacra in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

Simulacra — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:14:56 +0000

Sometimes the government feels like it needs to make an example. And once the government decides something like this, they can't back down, so they have to march forward. No matter how bad it looks.

New comment by Simulacra in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

Simulacra — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:13:50 +0000

It's not impossible for a judge to rule based on public opinion.

New comment by Simulacra in "Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia"

Simulacra — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:12:04 +0000

I was running around alone through the woods and neighborhoods of my childhood from about five years old. Along with dozens of other kids. I feel that these nanny laws sometimes are just too overly applied. I'm shocked that she was convicted, unexpected to be overturned on appeal, but who knows…