Hacker News: b0sk

New comment by b0sk in "Iran unleashes Shahed drones aimed at targets across Middle East"

b0sk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:50:27 +0000

Also, industrial espionage

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/massachusetts-iran-drone...

New comment by b0sk in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

b0sk — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:24:41 +0000

Witkoffs profited off the UAE Spy Sheikh chips deal! Why can't Lutnicks make millions?! Come on guys. Unfair.

https://archive.is/W6Gqy

New comment by b0sk in "US Tech Force"

b0sk — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:32:37 +0000

This is not a political appointment, but if you have mentioned something even mildly negative about a certain person in the past, not only we'll walk you out, we'll probably arrest you!

New comment by b0sk in "Monads are too powerful: The expressiveness spectrum"

b0sk — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:36:15 +0000

This is great imo -- https://www.adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,...

New comment by b0sk in "State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments"

b0sk — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:38:49 +0000

So hypothetically, a future Dem administration can deport right-leaning visa holders?

New comment by b0sk in "Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy"

b0sk — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:05:36 +0000

There's actually a word for it - jawboning

New comment by b0sk in "After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View"

b0sk — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:42:47 +0000

Don't be naive. There was no jawboning from the previous administration to networks to cancel someone -- especially someone who always made fun of the President.

However, this is a a classic example of violation of 1A. (I agree that the thing that was probably in the grey area was they asked Twitter to remove certain COVID-19 medical disinformation tweets -- But, come on, many people were consuming horse dewormers for COVID and dying. )

The right's cancel culture is a violation of constitution because it's the government that's doing the cancelling.

New comment by b0sk in "Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure"

b0sk — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:12:55 +0000

He's the guy that blamed an ex-OpenAI employee after one of many Grok's fails https://fortune.com/2025/02/24/xai-chief-engineer-blames-for...

New comment by b0sk in "Supreme Court formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling"

b0sk — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:18:36 +0000

Wilhoit's Law: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

New comment by b0sk in "Helix Editor 25.07"

b0sk — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:28:42 +0000

FYI (for OP): check this fork out https://github.com/usagi-flow/evil-helix

New comment by b0sk in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

b0sk — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:04:43 +0000

It is fascinating. He lies so much, keeps repeating those lies and somehow people start believing those lies.

New comment by b0sk in "U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia"

b0sk — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:29:55 +0000

If you are ungrounded from the news, don't make smartass comments like "Nobody is going to deport citizens. You seem to have become ungrounded in your reality."

New comment by b0sk in "Feds indict ex-Michigan FB coach Matt Weiss: Hacked computers to spy on women"

b0sk — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:02:01 +0000

I think doing illegal things gave him that extra kick. real innocent people and all.

New comment by b0sk in "Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years"

b0sk — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:35:27 +0000

Michael Jordan famously said "Republicans buy sneakers too". This guy doesn't care about any of this and he's still the right guy to steer Tesla in the correct direction? Mind boggling.

New comment by b0sk in "Tesla Is Alienating the People It Needs Most: Study"

b0sk — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:38:14 +0000

Rivian R2 is going to change the game. It's a direct competitor to the best selling Tesla (Y). I have an R1S (as well as a Y) but R1S is such an amazing SUV to drive. Especially in the bad weather.

New comment by b0sk in "Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury payment system"

b0sk — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 02:01:03 +0000

Remember that they are all controlled by one party, so everyone is willing to look the other way (and cynically, probably cheerleading it)

New comment by b0sk in "United States Digital Service Renamed to DOGE"

b0sk — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:58:34 +0000

(Not mine) This is like buying Twitter and renaming it to X

New comment by b0sk in "Show HN: A daily digest for reMarkable"

b0sk — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 04:29:31 +0000

kindle support would be great!

New comment by b0sk in "California Fire Facts"

b0sk — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:43:49 +0000

They did the same thing during the hurricane in North Carolina. "FEMA is giving funds to illegals!!!".

The lack of any sort of fact checking and relying on community notes to do fact checking is just inherently flawed and works in favor of the disinformation artists. It's going to get worse.

New comment by b0sk in "Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts"

b0sk — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:46:09 +0000

Of course, it'll give them inside track. This is crony capitalism.

When Musk was busy spouting off conspiracies about Biden admin, SpaceX still won a lot of grants. That sort of independence is going to be dead.