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New comment by blululu in "We intercepted the White House app's network traffic"

blululu — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:59:55 +0000

No but Google and Facebook generally do not sell data. They collect data and sell advertising spots based on this data. The data exfiltration to Google/Facebooks comes stock with a lot of mobile tooling. You can object to this arrangement but it is pretty common and often the easiest development path. As the parent points out the author of the post is engaged in the same practice so it is not exactly malicious or unusual.

New comment by blululu in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

blululu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:37:15 +0000

I think the op was maybe on a bit of a tear and misspoke, but the sentiment is correct. These days even saying hello can be used to make a decent voice clone with some reasonable (say 50%) chance that it is you (your phone number is linked to a ton of information). I would personally try to minimize my exposure to this risk even if it is somewhat paranoid.

New comment by blululu in "US Job Market Visualizer"

blululu — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:14:04 +0000

I don’t doubt the intelligence of the OP though I question their wisdom and I doubt they know how to surf. They are more or less correct in their assessment of the current state of things and where things are heading, but this would entail a significant existential risk. Having an natural aversion to our own destruction is probably a sensible approach going forward.

New comment by blululu in "US Job Market Visualizer"

blululu — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:35:57 +0000

A surfboard is no use in a tsunami. You will drown. The author will drown. Do not celebrate the tsunami.

New comment by blululu in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

blululu — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:17:57 +0000

Just to be clear the parent is still 100% correct that wired headphones: * Do not need charging * Are hard to lose. * Offer better audio * Never glitch out with pairing.

BLE Audio offers lower need for charging and better (but not equivalent) audio. So 2/4 are not as bad with BLE Audio (and arguably only 1 since you still need to charge). The other two 2/4 are related to the form factor. Wireless headphones have advantages but they are not the decisive winner.

New comment by blululu in "I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years"

blululu — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:46:30 +0000

Would love this but I feel like it is equally likely to end up being something like: “solve 500 leet code hard problems with agentic tooling while I grill you about a time when you dealt with failure”

New comment by blululu in "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"

blululu — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:46:47 +0000

There is no reasoning. I gave you a statement of fact:

I have personally seen highly talented and successful researchers use the heuristic of journal quality when looking at the state of their field. These people are highly competent by any standard. If you want to play word games with negation you could say they are not not very competent.

New comment by blululu in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

blululu — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:22:18 +0000

I appreciate them doing the right thing in this one particular instance but I can’t say that I feel anything but hatred toward the people who chose to enrich and empower themselves by casting the very existence of humanity at risk.

New comment by blululu in "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"

blululu — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:44:51 +0000

I have seen more than one PI at an R1 universities with multiple Nature publications use this heuristic. I would not call them incompetent.

New comment by blululu in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

blululu — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:19:42 +0000

Less of a problem in a county that is more or less laid out East to West with massive 500 mile wide provinces. British Columbia deciding to adopt Mountain Standard Time is more or less equivalent to Portugal using Berlin time.

New comment by blululu in "US Military says 3 service members have been killed"

blululu — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:02:08 +0000

It is pretty hard to have a calm discussion about the outbreak of war. War is awful. People will suffer, people will die. Being angry is an appropriate response. The article is just a list of the ap wire briefs, so it does not tell us very much.

New comment by blululu in "What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?"

blululu — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:56:25 +0000

ELSIE: Consider the lilies?

BRIAN: Uh, well, the birds, then.

EDDIE: What birds?

BRIAN: Any birds.

EDDIE: Why?

BRIAN: Well, have they got jobs?

ARTHUR: Who?

BRIAN: The birds.

EDDIE: Have the birds got jobs?!

FRANK: What's the matter with him?

ARTHUR: He says the birds are scrounging.

BRIAN: Oh, uhh, no, the point is the birds. They do all right. Don't they?

FRANK: Well, good luck to 'em.

EDDIE: Yeah. They're very pretty.

BRIAN: Okay, and you're much more important than they are, right? So, what are you worrying about? There you are. See?

EDDIE: I'm worrying about what you have got against birds.

BRIAN: I haven't got anything against the birds. Consider the lilies.

ARTHUR: He's having a go at the flowers now.

EDDIE: Oh, give the flowers a chance.

Monty Python’s the Life of Brian

New comment by blululu in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

blululu — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:36:44 +0000

As the sister comment to this makes clear: regulation is needed in this area but that specific bill has a ton of problems. We should rewrite it and remove the more privacy infringing aspects.

New comment by blululu in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

blululu — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:31:28 +0000

The css on iOS safari is totally busted. The first column is fixed and tiny so it makes the row really tall.

The Challenger Map

blululu — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:46:19 +0000

Article URL: https://challengermap.ca/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011651

Points: 1

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New comment by blululu in "Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal"

blululu — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:24:31 +0000

That's an interesting point in general. On this particular topic I would go so far as to say that the citizen journalists are far more than what professional journalists are producing. I would guess that this is more a function of the idiosyncrasies of this particular data source. Most journalists are experts in tracking down hearsay and getting specific people to talk. The house Epstein email releases are just a massive pile of open data where someone with a more data-centric background can walk in and apply their skills.

New comment by blululu in "Guest Post from an Iranian"

blululu — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:14:35 +0000

The killing in Bosnia and Kosovo were stopped by Bill Clinton. The bombings were what brought all sides to the table to broker the Dayton agreement. The siege of Sarajevo ended. The peace has held for nearly 30 years now.

New comment by blululu in "Show HN: Fuzzy Studio – Apply live effects to videos/camera"

blululu — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:13:37 +0000

Worked fine for me on iOS/safari. Phone got a bit hot and the ui was a bit crunched but it definitely worked and was fun to play with.

New comment by blululu in "Subway and Bus Fare Rises to $3 in New York City on Sunday"

blululu — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:24:11 +0000

Assuming that the pizza principle represents a law of the universe (defined to exclude New Jersey), then the subway fare should be closer to $4.00 in the wake of the period of post-Covid inflation. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-pizza-principle-tran...

New comment by blululu in "Making Google Sans Flex"

blululu — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:41:31 +0000

I recall that it is a Div that uses the css invert property, but this can be cpu intensive depending on how it is moved (transform uses gpu I think but position is cpu)