Hacker News: avidruntime

New comment by avidruntime in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

avidruntime — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:20:37 +0000

Voluntarily choosing to not spend money in X related orgs ≠ using services that use X related orgs. As a consumer, our options to vote with our dollar is limited, but that doesn't make it pointless. Real life is not binary and the sentiment that one cannot criticize a system which they partake in is a thought terminating cliche. One only needs to ask "for who does this reflexive thought terminating cliche benefit the most" to find the lede.

New comment by avidruntime in "Will Elon Musk ever be forced to explain what he did inside DOGE?"

avidruntime — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:40:30 +0000

a platform wide ad hominem? where is your hacker curiosity?

New comment by avidruntime in "Will Elon Musk ever be forced to explain what he did inside DOGE?"

avidruntime — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:25:06 +0000

Why engage at all if you're going to engage like this?

New comment by avidruntime in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

avidruntime — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:58:19 +0000

co-opted? The last paragraph of the article suggests this was quite literally the artist's goal:

> “One of the reasons Joe is so insistent that every single building is here is because he would never want someone to come and see it and not be able to find where they live and see their story,” Sherman tells Artnet.

Its not like they broke into his shop and shared his model with the world before he could, it is currently an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

New comment by avidruntime in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

avidruntime — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:25:37 +0000

As others said: practice. Practice outside pixel art too. Pixel art can be compared to haikus: a set of restrictions which makes every artistic decision more influential than an oil painting on canvas or a 200 page novel. Learning on hard mode is not always the right path.

New comment by avidruntime in "A Recipe for Steganogravy"

avidruntime — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:25:22 +0000

Really enjoyed the design/theme of this site!

Gabbard plans to shift coveted, CIA-backed high-tech fund In-Q-Tel to her office

avidruntime — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:29:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/23/in-q-tel-odni-cia-control-00840302

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496543

Points: 10

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New comment by avidruntime in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

avidruntime — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:20:42 +0000

MICE is the acronym for categorizing the common motivations for espionage:

M - Money/Greed

I - Ideology/Divided Loyalty

C - Coercion/Compromise

E - Ego

Sometimes, I think we look at people who are this wealthy and think they should be immune to these kinds of shenanigans, but I'd wager that the -ICE becomes even easier to exploit in people once they no longer need money, if they were already susceptible to it to begin with.

New comment by avidruntime in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

avidruntime — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:59:14 +0000

This is an unfair characterization and is against the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by avidruntime in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

avidruntime — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:26:43 +0000

I don't think voting with your wallet constitutes virtue signaling, especially at a time when end user boycotting is one of the universally known methods of protest.

New comment by avidruntime in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

avidruntime — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:32:52 +0000

Short form content is a medium that isn't going away. Short form content is not inherently harmful, although short form content replacing or displacing other important mediums arguably is. When I think about the issues stemming from short form content, I don't think about the inherent medium, I think about the providers and their capabilities to use the sum of all consumed content by a user in the name of a ulterior motive at scale. While I haven't investigated it too deeply, Loops seems to be an effort in patching that. Is your objection in the marketing language or in the inherent technology?