Hacker News: bl4kers

New comment by bl4kers in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

bl4kers — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:07:42 +0000

Yep, just in different flavors based on ideology. For example, forced labor requires logging & tracking of pregnancies. Anti-trans folks want gender identity on the books to gatekeep who can teach in schools or enter bathrooms. Same for preventing same-sex marriage. Folks railing against voting rights want more and more checks to prove who you are and where you live

New comment by bl4kers in "Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods"

bl4kers — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:16:55 +0000

When I was in LA they were consistently cheaper than Lyft

New comment by bl4kers in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

bl4kers — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:46:42 +0000

You sure that data is stored locally and not on a vendor's cloud offering?

New comment by bl4kers in "Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO"

bl4kers — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:10:45 +0000

I'm certain that's already been reviewed. There's diaries being read at the trial.

New comment by bl4kers in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

bl4kers — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:06:51 +0000

Pretty much all theaters have cameras, no?

New comment by bl4kers in "The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse"

bl4kers — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:13:43 +0000

Is this a serious suggestion? Gave me a chuckle at least

New comment by bl4kers in "Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business"

bl4kers — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:53:22 +0000

Frontier wouldn't refund or give me credit for my one-way flight even after I gave them paperwork showing I had recently tested positive for COVID-19. They didn't dispute the results either, just said that 48 hours wasn't enough notice. Sorry I didn't get sick earlier? Suffice to say I would never fly Frontier again

New comment by bl4kers in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"

bl4kers — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:01:38 +0000

The founder of Ring cameras is convinced enough cameras will eliminate all crime in neighborhoods

New comment by bl4kers in "We need a federation of forges"

bl4kers — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:32:43 +0000

Twitter is full of bots, flamers, and scammers. I wouldn't trust their numbers.

New comment by bl4kers in "How to distribute skills to your engineers"

bl4kers — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:14:16 +0000

> Skill files are just markdown files and they tell AI agents how your company works.

Until the LLM imagines something different, receives pushback, or becomes confused. Also, telling it to specialize doesn't substantially change its behavior or increase its ability to perform in that domain. You need different models/training data for that.

This all seems a bit silly. Make a checklist, a form, or write some deterministic CI helpers if you want to practically enforce standard procedures

New comment by bl4kers in "Amazon rolls out AI hiring software to automate job interviews"

bl4kers — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:57:07 +0000

It's a lawsuit waiting to happen anyway. It will use inflammatory language or ask invasive questions. Only a matter of time.

New comment by bl4kers in "Reddit no longer allowing mobile users to browse on web"

bl4kers — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:46:36 +0000

I have Lemmy set to show best of the last 24 hours and there's always a page or two of posts. That's plenty enough for me

New comment by bl4kers in "California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot, Backers Say"

bl4kers — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:56:54 +0000

There's so much FUD as is I think pushing for a permanent version wouldn't be a good starting point. It's not about confidence, it's pragmatic

New comment by bl4kers in "Framework's new Linux laptop is selling faster than its Windows one"

bl4kers — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:51:50 +0000

Except the ratio was never before seen, which makes it noteworthy

New comment by bl4kers in "The FBI Director Is MIA"

bl4kers — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:35:14 +0000

That archival site isn't trusted anymore, no?

New comment by bl4kers in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

bl4kers — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:04:38 +0000

It's very common for large companies to "close" or downplay vulnerabilities. That doesn't exempt researchers from responsible disclosure timelines. There have been plenty of instances where a company reverses course after some back & forth and the looming threat of going public.

New comment by bl4kers in "Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026"

bl4kers — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:45:40 +0000

Such as?

New comment by bl4kers in "Women were never meant to give birth on their backs"

bl4kers — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:26:19 +0000

In the U.S. at least the incentives are perverse. Probably what would actually move the needle is a test trial with results showing it's more cost and resource effective

New comment by bl4kers in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

bl4kers — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:07:32 +0000

The predominate reasoning for a long time now has been lotteries are addicting and bad but a small demand is guaranteed. Therefore, in the name of maximizing social benefit, only the government should run them and the profit is used to funds something less partisan (e.g. education, parks, conservation, gambling addiction services)

For these private betting firms, it's open season trying to find whales like mobile gaming, and there's no end to their greed and exploitation.

New comment by bl4kers in "Proton Workspace: An encrypted suite for team collaboration"

bl4kers — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:32:07 +0000

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