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New comment by boc in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

boc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:33:25 +0000

What's the point of living in an advanced society if you just sit around watching it decay around you? Our ancestors fought for our indifference today, and with attitudes like yours we'll watch our children fight for it again tomorrow.

New comment by boc in "AI coding is gambling"

boc — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:05:42 +0000

Aka Claude Code.

New comment by boc in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

boc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:47:53 +0000

Maybe, but destroying USAID was an unforgivable sin. Short of nukes, rapidly turning off direct medical and food aid that people in critical need have relied on for years is objectively one of the fastest way to kill millions of people.

New comment by boc in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

boc — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:32:20 +0000

Wamyos in SF are nearly indistinguishable from ubers/lyfts at this point. Maybe a bit slower if you don't have the highway mode enabled on your account, but they are everywhere and arrive within 5min most of the time I order one. I've ridden them so often I've lost count.

You'd have to pay me to ride in a Tesla robotaxi. That tech isn't anywhere near the same as Waymo.

New comment by boc in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

boc — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:07:39 +0000

Traffic lights can be tuned to create "green waves" that allows for efficient flow of traffic along arteries through a city. You can adjust the timing throughout the day to help alleviate congestion. In rural areas, heavy machinery/commercial vehicles may need to make a very wide turn through the intersection. Traffic circles are fine for a lot of applications but they aren't strictly better than lights in all circumstances.

New comment by boc in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

boc — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:36:22 +0000

Nominating this as the "most HN" comment of the year.

New comment by boc in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

boc — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:15:01 +0000

As your net worth increases, the concern about what you have to lose from a personal safety perspective skyrockets. You start becoming far more paranoid and seeing crime everywhere. Tech CEOs and billionaires will build the dystopian panopticon society 100 times out of 100 because they don't care about other people, they just want to feel safe. If that means mass surveillance for the rest of the world, so be it.

If you don't believe me, just look at the CCP. It already happened there.

New comment by boc in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

boc — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:58:24 +0000

Farm 2 Feet is my favorite for socks!

New comment by boc in "GPT-5.2"

boc — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:05:05 +0000

Maybe the rumors about failed training runs weren't wrong...

New comment by boc in "Europe converged rapidly on the United States before stagnating"

boc — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:02:12 +0000

The US actually has a series of social safety nets. There are massive government programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security which provide real, measurable safety nets to the most vulnerable in society. There are also hundreds of thousands of charities, churches, and non-profit organizations that donate time, money, and resources to assist families going through hard times. There is also the US Military, which serves as a government-backed career path for millions of high-school graduates.

I think you're thinking that the US got ahead through exploiting labor. You missed the biggest piece of it though - the US welcomes (or at least until recently used to welcome) massive amounts of highly-educated immigrants from all over the world, and crucially has built a culture and society where those people can feel "American" fairly quickly in a way that they would never if they moved to Switzerland or France.

Being able to brain-drain the entire world and then smartly arm those people with unlimited capital to build their companies and dreams is the "unfair" American advantage. It isn't unethical, it's just not something European society supports. That, and the 30-year mortgage.

New comment by boc in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

boc — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 06:01:12 +0000

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®"

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...

New comment by boc in "ChatGPT Pulse"

boc — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:48:21 +0000

Well, not literally nothing. You have all that lovely carbon you burned to generate meaningless hashes polluting your biosphere for the next century. That part stays around long after crypto collapses.

New comment by boc in "ChatGPT Pulse"

boc — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:05:30 +0000

Blockchain is essentially useless.

You need legal systems to enforce trust in societies, not code. Otherwise you'll end up with endless $10 wrench attacks until we all agree to let someone else hold our personal wealth for us in a secure, easy-to-access place. We might call it a bank.

The end state of crypto is always just a nightmarish dystopia. Wealth isn't created by hoarding digital currency, it's created by productivity. People just think they found a shortcut, but it's not the first (or last) time humans will learn this lesson.

New comment by boc in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"

boc — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:15:48 +0000

Boycotts are different from unsubscribing. You can boycott Chic-fil-a and then one day return, but cutting off monthly revenue streams all at once is a much different dynamic. It takes a lot to get those customers back, especially for a service that already reaches most Americans.

New comment by boc in "After successfully entering Earth's atmosphere, a European spacecraft is lost"

boc — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 05:04:04 +0000

""For the first time ever in our country's history, we are making leading-edge 4nm chips on American soil, American workers — on par in yield and quality with Taiwan," Raimondo told Reuters."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ts...

https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm

New comment by boc in "Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars"

boc — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:45:16 +0000

Check out the tech behind avalanche beacons for some inspiration. They are meant to locate bodies buried deep in snow debris fields within a meter precision. You have to also have a beacon to search for another beacon.

New comment by boc in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

boc — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 06:21:18 +0000

We know that the administration ordered the name change for the Gulf of Mexico, and immediately following that order the data layers via USGS broke. Probably because someone (or some organization of geniuses) tried to change it directly without consulting anyone.

Trying to sea-lion your way through this convo after the person replying to you gave a detailed breakdown of the situation is gross. Don't be a sycophant.

New comment by boc in "TikTok is back in the App Store"

boc — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:14:36 +0000

> I don’t think Trump ignoring the law is the answer or the right way to go about this, but I’ll take it for now if it keeps TikTok around.

I don't really know what to say anymore. Like literally just staring at this comment and realizing how utterly cooked we are as a country.

New comment by boc in "TikTok is back in the App Store"

boc — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:05:55 +0000

I hope all the people working in tech today realize that once you let the executive ignore laws that you dislike, it's a very clear path to them ignoring laws that protect you and your companies. You WILL be a target eventually and nobody is going to protect you.

This is a slow-motion disaster but too many people are complacent because they think it's not going to affect them. No matter your political leanings we cannot allow a constitutional crisis to go unchecked. Things that we take for granted dissolve rapidly if institutions start grabbing power without consequences.

It's insane that Congress isn't stepping-up here.

New comment by boc in "Mac(OS)talgia"

boc — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:13:12 +0000

Snow Leopard was truly the best. An actual OS release based around performance improvements under-the-hood instead of flashy, half-baked features.