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New comment by ahoy in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

ahoy — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:28:33 +0000

AI is largely unpopular outside of the tech & business worlds. Most laypeople see it as falling on a spectrum between unwanted and annoying (google getting worse, AI chatbots proliferating in every app and site) to actively harmful (jobs being replaced by ai).

The fact that comments agreeing with this sentiment get downvoted here isn't a huge surprise, hn is firmly inside the tech/business world.

New comment by ahoy in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

ahoy — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:56:40 +0000

hn is not a single person, there are a variety of people here with a variety of experiences and opinions and biases.

New comment by ahoy in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

ahoy — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:57:30 +0000

Great analogy! Unfortunately we are the sulfur breathers.

New comment by ahoy in "“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill"

ahoy — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:04:22 +0000

The first point is true of most employment, unless you're one of the ~10% of US employees with a union contract. Your paycheck is always subject to the whims of your employer.

I don't have a great solution for the 2nd issue you pose though. Raising the pay of elected officials is often politically unpopular, but you're certainly right that one makes more in the private sector than as a junior congressperson.

New comment by ahoy in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

ahoy — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:58:55 +0000

you guys won, what do you want?

New comment by ahoy in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""

ahoy — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:28:29 +0000

New england's suburbs & small towns are the outlier in the US. I grew up in the south and my experience exactly mirrors that of the CA resident you're responding to.

No amount of cultural change is going to make suburban charlotte a good place for 8 year olds to bike alone.

New comment by ahoy in "The Death of the Middle-Class Musician"

ahoy — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 17:17:00 +0000

Because you have to live in a society with those other people. Because that's going to be YOU in the future. Because it's going to be your kids, your cousins, your neighbors.

New comment by ahoy in "Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta"

ahoy — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:26:57 +0000

Was apartheid South Africa not an ethnostate then? Was the US south during slavery not an ethnostate?

I almost wonder if your comment itself is Israeli propaganda.

New comment by ahoy in "Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds"

ahoy — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:26:07 +0000

There is value in studying things that are "settled" science. You can reinforce or deepen the existing understanding, or uncover nuance that wasn't widely understood before.

Note that this link is not the study! The published paper makes much more specific claims.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/6/1081

New comment by ahoy in "A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones"

ahoy — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:31:15 +0000

I had this experience a couple years ago. I hate dentists man

New comment by ahoy in "DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters"

ahoy — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:41:35 +0000

I don't think Funko Pops and housing are comparable.

New comment by ahoy in "Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing"

ahoy — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:25:19 +0000

The title of this post is taken from the linked page's title element. It's likely that the NYT changed the headline on the page after publication but did not update the title element to match. Happens all the time

New comment by ahoy in "The changing face of post-pandemic New York City"

ahoy — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:01:48 +0000

The NYC police budget has increased every year since the "defund the police" movement. In fact, our cop mayor is slashing the budgets of almost every city office except the NYPD.

"Crime" is not at the core of this change. You'd know those things if you lived here, but you don't. You're just repeating what you read in the WSJ opinion section.

New comment by ahoy in "The changing face of post-pandemic New York City"

ahoy — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:53:31 +0000

I moved here about 10 years ago in my mid 20s. It's certainly more expensive and annoying to find housing here than other places I've lived, but it's more than balanced out by needing to own an automobile. The average cost of car ownership in the US is in the $10k-12k range. I certainly don't spent an extra thousand dollars on rent here vs say, any other place I might reasonably move. So I figure I'm still coming out ahead.

I can't speak to the bedbugs problem, I've been lucky I suppose.

New comment by ahoy in "280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars"

ahoy — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:33:34 +0000

It doesn't matter if everyone in lubbock drives cars, thats obviously not what this thread of discussion is about and you know it. It matters if everyone in Austin/Dallas/Houston is forced to drive cars. Quit being dense on purpose.

New comment by ahoy in "280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars"

ahoy — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:31:21 +0000

It's an incredible crime that basically no american can live within 5 miles of their work. Car companies ad the government that capitulated to them fucked us so bad.

New comment by ahoy in "280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars"

ahoy — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:28:59 +0000

"suburbs" dont have to be the unwalkable disasters that we've made them. Brooklyn Heights was "america's first suburb." People moved there from Manhattan seeking everything you just mentioned.

New comment by ahoy in "Plastics are poisoning us"

ahoy — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:41:32 +0000

I don't want more labels. I don't want to have to be an "informed consumer" when im buying cookware in order to know whats going to give me cancer. Those products shouldn't exist.

New comment by ahoy in "U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high"

ahoy — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:27:51 +0000

In the sense that it's not been implemented, yeah, its not working.

New comment by ahoy in "U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high"

ahoy — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:26:00 +0000

DC already has an enormous police:population ratio. If more policing were the answer, surely DC would be on the forefront of using police to stop traffic violations.

Police cannot effectively solve this issue. This requires engineering. DC's super wide, straight streets tell drivers "its safe to go really fast here, you have a ton of space". That's where the problem starts, and thats where the solution has to start.