Hacker News: aestetix

Hope Talks – Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files

aestetix — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:47:50 +0000

Article URL: https://schedule.hope.net/hope26/talks/#Leaking-and-Investigating-the-Epstein-Files

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041385

Points: 3

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New comment by aestetix in ""What's Your Age Again?" Major Discussion on Age Assurance at HOPE 26"

aestetix — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:49:56 +0000

For some reason the form chopped it off, so the direct link is: https://www.hope.net/talks/#What%E2%80%99s-Your-Age-Again?-T...

"What's Your Age Again?" Major Discussion on Age Assurance at HOPE 26

aestetix — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hope.net/talks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911372

Points: 2

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A Statement on AI Talks at Hope

aestetix — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hope.net/a-statement-on-ai-talks-at-hope/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660311

Points: 4

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New comment by aestetix in "Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner"

aestetix — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:33:38 +0000

How about applying political pressure to countries like China and India that do not care about emissions control and pollution? :)

GoDaddy launches DomainMaxxing to optimize your domains

aestetix — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:14:30 +0000

Article URL: https://domainincite.com/31604-godaddy-launches-domainmaxxing-to-optimize-your-domains

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599809

Points: 2

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The Hope Hacker Conference Is Returning to Manhattan

aestetix — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:28:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hope.net/the-hope-conference-is-returning-to-manhattan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490049

Points: 3

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New comment by aestetix in "Leviathan (1651)"

aestetix — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:39:20 +0000

I'd argue this is too expansive of a view. It's a debate specifically coming out of the English Civil War, and specifically focusing on the tension between Parliament and the Monarchy. If you read Clarendon it becomes extremely obvious. Hobbes (like Clarendon) took the royalist view defending the king, and Locke set for an argument for parliament.

Some of it doesn't translate super well into modern times. For example, Locke barely touches upon judiciary. The modern notion of separation of powers came (I believe) from Montesquieu.

I will say that Hobbes gives a far more comprehensive argument than Locke does. And some of Locke's details, including his anthropology of the origin of commonwealths, is demonstrably false.

Either way, glad to see Leviathan here!

New comment by aestetix in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

aestetix — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:04:09 +0000

There were a few news outlets (I think maybe the Washington Post?) that got copies of recordings of these insane lectures when Peter Thiel did them in San Francisco. I think it would be in the public interest for them to release the lectures in full.

Maybe people should put some pressure on these outlets to do so.

New comment by aestetix in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

aestetix — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:59:42 +0000

Oh wow! I hadn't seen that. That's really great! All of them should be listed there, and should have been public all along.

New comment by aestetix in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

aestetix — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:57:55 +0000

There are two stories here. One is the alleged wrongdoing. The second is the fact that the Washington Post has a name of a former DOGE employee. I'm far more interested in the second story than the first.

New comment by aestetix in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

aestetix — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:50:40 +0000

> The Post is not naming the former DOGE member or company because it has not independently confirmed the accusations in the complaint.

Why not? Shouldn't the public be allowed to learn who all the DOGE employees were? Federal employees are public record, are they not?

New comment by aestetix in "Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all"

aestetix — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:25:47 +0000

Yes, it feels like another round of the same old tired "force everyone to use legal names online to save the children" that has been pushed continuously since the Internet driver's license of the 90s.

It will not save any children. It will destroy privacy, destroy free speech, and give lots of money to whatever corporation wins the bid for supplying the tech.

And of course, when that corporation gets hacked and all the personally identifiable information is put on the dark web, nobody will be held accountable.

Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all

aestetix — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:17:41 +0000

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/zuckerberg-instagram-age-verification-trial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115899

Points: 72

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New comment by aestetix in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

aestetix — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:45:41 +0000

Peter Thiel knows about the anti-christ...

New comment by aestetix in "European nations gear up to ban social media for children"

aestetix — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:49:19 +0000

Here is another idea for how to solve this:

Why not produce a second kind of phone that is for kids. Maybe have it linked to their parents accounts on a hardware level. The kidphone is physically restricted somehow to only installing certain apps, so that parents can ensure they are safe.

This approach would put the power back into hands of parents, keep the kids safe, and also prevent all this intrusive age verification stuff from happening.

Also it is a lot easier to police. You could physically look at the phone the child is using to make sure it is a kidphone. If not, then they are committing a crime, similar to a child smoking a cigarette.

Hope Hacker conference is now a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

aestetix — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:50:48 +0000

Article URL: https://hope.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897826

Points: 1

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New comment by aestetix in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

aestetix — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:38:30 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

New comment by aestetix in "Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium"

aestetix — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:49:16 +0000

Don't forget the extremely loaded context surrounding Alcibiades.

ICEBlock Was Purged from the App Store. Now Its Creator Is Suing Trump

aestetix — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:24:08 +0000

Article URL: https://slate.com/technology/2025/12/iceblock-app-lawsuit-pam-bondi-trump-joshua-aaron-ice.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202569

Points: 6

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