Hacker News: afpx

New comment by afpx in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

afpx — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:12:27 +0000

It’s not only compelling to a lot of Americans, it’s foundational.

New comment by afpx in "The 'manosphere' has already infiltrated the workplace. We're only just noticing"

afpx — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:05:55 +0000

It’s pretty easy to value everyone equally. Just sort by distance

New comment by afpx in "The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You"

afpx — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:16:03 +0000

Good point. Presbyterians specifically

New comment by afpx in "The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You"

afpx — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:45:05 +0000

Also high schools. demographics of Thomas Jefferson High School (one of the best in the country) vs. Fairfax county.

I spent decades foolishly believing people didn’t cheat because I grew up around a bunch of Christians. Now, cheating is pervasive. Game theory in action

New comment by afpx in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

afpx — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:34:42 +0000

Exactly, didn’t you see who is behind this?

New comment by afpx in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

afpx — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:24:40 +0000

They're trying to block your ability to boycott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws

Cutting Steel Gears with Electric discharge machining

afpx — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:20:49 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/05/05/cutting-steel-gears-with-homemade-edm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035916

Points: 2

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New comment by afpx in "The 'manosphere' has already infiltrated the workplace. We're only just noticing"

afpx — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:20:42 +0000

I had a longer response, but deleted it, because ultimately it comes down to: I view all people to have inherantly equal value. The article implies something else.

New comment by afpx in "The 'manosphere' has already infiltrated the workplace. We're only just noticing"

afpx — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:08:46 +0000

Seriously, try reading the original article but do a reversal test on it. For example, imagine that a similar article was written in the 1960s by a business man concerned about the rise of feminism.

Are we really going to just keep repeating these cycles over and over? Do Humans learn nothing?

New comment by afpx in "The 'manosphere' has already infiltrated the workplace. We're only just noticing"

afpx — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:39:06 +0000

Not sure if that's an effective way to get change: categorize and denigrate a large number of people by using offensive stereotypes in an attempt to get others to hate them.

New comment by afpx in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

afpx — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:03:22 +0000

Thanks, could someone give some clarity? The link to the details is 404. But, I found an old version on archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240516075853/https://www.sss.g...

Seems to suggest that F-1 student, H-1B temporary worker, visitor do not have to register. Is that correct?

New comment by afpx in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

afpx — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:37:40 +0000

Do visa holders have to register for military drafts?

New comment by afpx in "Grok 4.3"

afpx — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:09:08 +0000

Yes, for sure I deserve downvotes for the above. Those types of comments should be downvoted. However, I needed to post it to point out that I got the -10 well before the comment above. I never experienced that before and thought it interesting enough to share. Karma doesn't mean anything to me personally. But burst behavior like that is unusual.

New comment by afpx in "Grok 4.3"

afpx — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:30:50 +0000

Actually it's funny you mention Bill Hicks. I didn't even know who he was. Or Alex Jones. That claim was one of the more absurd ones I discovered. But, given everything else I learned over the past year, who f'n knows at this point.

New comment by afpx in "Grok 4.3"

afpx — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:35:21 +0000

I love how you guys downvote all the old comments to make them hidden from search. My no-name account rarely gets downvoted. But, within 20 minutes of posting this, I drop 10 points. Rando accounts

New comment by afpx in "Grok 4.3"

afpx — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:09:33 +0000

Except that it pointed at original sources, like reference manuals, archival documents, published newspaper articles, magazine articles, etc. - a lot still available on archive.org. Good try with your 16 day old account. And, why would anyone trust NPR at this point? Get real, bud. Most people with any curiousity know all about the ADL, JStreet, AIPAC, Greater Israel, Mossad / CIA, Chabad networks, Epstein, drones, weapons programs, cryptocurrencies, etc. etc. etc. - but, don't worry they're all safe with papa Ellison.

Anyone remember why Oracle was named Oracle?

New comment by afpx in "Grok 4.3"

afpx — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:39:59 +0000

When I signed up, I accidently paid for a full year. So from time to time, I'll throw it something just to see what it produces compared to the other LLMs. And, even after all this time, it still feels like a really "dumb" model compared to the other frontier ones. But, worse, many of my system prompts make it go wacky and puke jibberish. However it was pretty cool for those couple months awhile back when it was uncensored. You could ask it about a wild conspiracy, and it would actually build the case and link you to legitimite source material. They dropped the hammer down on that real quick.

New comment by afpx in "If I could make my own GitHub"

afpx — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:30:10 +0000

This article says git was designed for distributed version control. Then says git doesn't work for most distributed projects because there isn't high trust. But, I'm puzzled why people would still want to build software with low trust.

New comment by afpx in "Most Swiss back initiative to cap population at 10M, poll shows"

afpx — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:15:39 +0000

We’re probably more aligned than not. Within a 40 mile radius, there are a few small towns < 100k, but the rest is low density rural. Unfortunately at the edge there is high density, and skews the average.

New comment by afpx in "Most Swiss back initiative to cap population at 10M, poll shows"

afpx — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:44:16 +0000

A lot of people have reached a point where asylum and family reunification aren't high priorities anymore. Over the past 30 years, developed nations have helped 1.5 Billion people get out of extreme poverty. That's huge! But, now many would like to give those people the tools to build their own infrastructure, education systems, health care systems, economies, etc.