Hacker News: airhangerf15

Love Hate Relationships with Facebook, and Its Surprising Role in My Healthcare

airhangerf15 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:54:55 +0000

Article URL: https://undercoverlocal.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/love-hate-relationships-with-facebook-and-its-surprising-role-in-my-healthcare/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521362

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Redline: The Universal Reaction Budget

airhangerf15 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:18:25 +0000

Article URL: https://travislwatson.com/redline.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492409

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

An Uncharitable Taxonomy of the AI Discourse

airhangerf15 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:15:01 +0000

Article URL: https://iceworks.cc/blog/uctd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231555

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Cory Doctorow Admits Using a Slop-Machine to Produce His Drone of Propaganda

airhangerf15 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:24:10 +0000

Article URL: https://backlit.neocities.org/doctorow-admits-using-a-slop-machine-to-produce-his-propaganda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876126

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by airhangerf15 in "Happy Tax Day, New York. We're Taxing the Rich [video]"

airhangerf15 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:58:18 +0000

Can anyone cut through all the propaganda bullshit to tell us what this will really do? Like, will landlords that can barely keep their property up to code due to rent control now just sell to BlackRock/Silverlake backed equity firms that will fix them at a loss and then use legal loopholes to massively spike prices?

Who is paying him for these policies and which rich people benefit and which rich people lose? (don't bother with which NYC residents lose. The answer is all of them).

RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

airhangerf15 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:54:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/RedSun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788473

Points: 195

# Comments: 65

Where does my main battery go?

airhangerf15 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:18:07 +0000

Article URL: https://acoup.blog/2019/11/29/collections-where-does-my-main-battery-go/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649718

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by airhangerf15 in "Userdb: Add birthDate field to JSON user records"

airhangerf15 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:08:51 +0000

That's a defeatist attitude. It's NEVER too late! We have all of these crazy social justice warriors in all of open source, screaming like banshees if a developer mis-genders someone or willing to rip apart the Nix foundation because they have a defense department sponsor?

Where the hell are the people who made up insane shit about Vaxry, or tried to cancel Ladybird? Where are they when there's a real insane Orwellian legal issue and not some trivial bullshit?

There are already several distro who have said no to age verification:

https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

Userdb: Add birthDate field to JSON user records

airhangerf15 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:49:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432384

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by airhangerf15 in "FreeBSD risks losing relevance by ignoring AI tooling like Claude Code"

airhangerf15 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:33:39 +0000

No I don't think that's it. If it was just the installer, this person should have gotten it working. I was under the impression it was no longer Javascript and was instead some compiled, closed native code, and the either BSD ELF loader or its C library was missing some functionality it needed? /shrug

New comment by airhangerf15 in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

airhangerf15 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:15:05 +0000

I put down real arguments for my statements which I think are reasonable to argue. You appeal to the status quo.

I think the earth is round. I'm a "globe-head," but I have MAD respect for people who hold such a controversial viewpoint. I think they're wrong, but I've read a lot of their stuff and don't think they're stupid.

I'm 50/50 on the moon landing. You would probably be too if you actually looked into it.

The scientifically learned use to thing leaches and bloodletting was innovative. Many of the things we think of as being scientifically enlightened today will be looked upon with horror 200 years from now.

New comment by airhangerf15 in "FreeBSD risks losing relevance by ignoring AI tooling like Claude Code"

airhangerf15 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:11:54 +0000

Weird, this is a link to an aggregator, not the article itself:

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-03-04-freebsd-users-we-n...

I'm not so sure about his "real value," but I think he makes a decent argument, and he acknowledges the limitations of LLMs at the bottom. As someone who is critical of slop-coding and limits my use of the weighted random code generators, I think his points are worth reading.

The post isn't about the FreeBSD community. It's specifically about how Anthrophic is saying "f-you" to any type of cross-platform agent at all. They've closed issues for OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and many others:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22564

This gets into the issue so many others have brought up: the death of open source. You can just get Claude or GPT to write you a new tool based on other's tests and specs. Now something that was GPLv3 can now be whatever your want, although it will probably be slower, shittier and more difficult (if not impossible) to understand and maintain.

The future is here folks, and it's stupid.

Search the Past

airhangerf15 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:53:38 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/search-the-past

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399069

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by airhangerf15 in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

airhangerf15 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:26:12 +0000

Women posted their government IDs, including military IDs, in a stupid Tea/Gossip app. You or I refusing to participate means shit compared to the other 90% of the population.

New comment by airhangerf15 in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

airhangerf15 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:24:48 +0000

Snowden's story makes zero sense. Former CIA employee turned NSA contractor, making six figures, working remotely in Hawaii, one day suddenly decides he has a conscience, somehow gets laptops filled with classified documents, hands them over in the South Pacific to Der Spegiel and Glenn Greenwald, then goes off to Russia where he's lived unmolested for years, and his smokin hot girlfriend joins him and he's never faced consequences where as Julian Assange was held captive in an embassy for years. Meanwhile, every other whistle blower that went to The Intercept was subsequently arrested and Greenwald still denies it was a honey pot, going as far as to throw Whitney Webb under the bus over it.

The reason nothing happened was because Snowden is still a State Dept or CIA asset. He's an actor and/or a limited hangout of some kind to show the US government and claim to be doing absolutely insane bullshit and nobody cares. New Zealand retroactively changed their laws (clearing John Key of any wrong doing for illegally spying on Kim Dotcom), allowing the GCHQ to legally spy on all their citizens.

As far as refusing to work for these companies, I was on Linux at work for over a decade. But after my last job I was forced to take a .NET role and with a $30k/yr paycut. It'd like to get back into a good role again where I can use Linux, but I'm not sure if I'd be willing to stand my ground on this issue, because I also don't want to lose my house and software jobs are incredibly scares right now. Unlike Snowden, I don't have a government paycheck coming in to continue spreading lies.

Suspected insiders make over $1.2M by betting on U.S.'s Iran strike

airhangerf15 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:41:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/02/28/suspected-insiders-make-over-usd1-2-million-on-polymarket-ahead-of-u-s-strike-on-iran

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211500

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Secrets About 'Tennessee's Ancient Egyptian Temple' Revealed (2018)

airhangerf15 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:25:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ancientpages.com/2018/08/15/secrets-about-tennessees-ancient-egyptian-temple-revealed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984554

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Trusting Trust in the Fediverse

airhangerf15 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:13:23 +0000

Article URL: https://evilmaid.net/blog/trusting-trust-fediverse/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978587

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by airhangerf15 in "Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested after church protest in Minnesota"

airhangerf15 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:33:48 +0000

It's exactly what Abraham Lincoln did .. actually he went further and sentenced some news paper owners to death (overturned after the war).

Lincoln was not a good guy or pro-American (anti-speech, anti-due process), but he's viewed positively only because he won.

and as far as the Washington Compost, we know from the Church Committee the CIA likely has operatives in there. So unlike Lincoln, there was no real need to raid WaPo. It was likely just for show.

New comment by airhangerf15 in "Why 6-7 is the best meme"

airhangerf15 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:28:31 +0000

but it's not new .. it's just Douglas Adams. What's 6 times 7? 42.

Even the concept of the joke is equally nonsensical (although I guess the Adams version at least has a backstory with DeepThought).

Next year the meme will just be 42 and the zoomers will pretend it's something totally new and original.