Hacker News: booleanbetrayal

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

booleanbetrayal — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:03:34 +0000

I spent several years living in Mississippi. As someone who was fairly introverted upon arriving in the Deep South, I had that hammered out me pretty quickly, during every opportunity for social interaction. It's just part of the culture to engage. I think my time in that area was a bit of a mixed bag, but that one change was for the better, and it has led to wealth of relationships since. Most people yearn for some bit of connection, and it's not that difficult to be the catalyst.

The AI Doomers Who Are Playing with Fire

booleanbetrayal — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:10:19 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/the-ai-doomers-who-are-playing-with-fire-2000747606

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816999

Points: 13

# Comments: 6

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "OpenAI backs bill to exempt AI firms from harm lawsuits"

booleanbetrayal — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:34:51 +0000

This is a huge deal. Why is it not being discussed on here?

An Evening at Polymarket's Broken Pop-Up Bar

booleanbetrayal — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:56:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/an-evening-at-polymarket-totally-broken-popup-bar-situation-room-prediction-market

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522345

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "US Job Market Visualizer"

booleanbetrayal — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:01:56 +0000

Too late!

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-dogs-quadruped-data-ce...

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

booleanbetrayal — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:07:31 +0000

This is what sophisticated corporate welfare and wealth transfer looks like I guess.

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "Sins of the Children"

booleanbetrayal — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:09:45 +0000

i just finished Children of Time and found it to be incredibly rewarding. However, I think I prefer Shroud if I were to pick a favorite of Adrian Tchaikovsky. I think he did a very capable job of crystallizing the concept of an alien intelligence that has evolved in a environmental substrate completely foreign to our own. It was very refreshing. If you haven't read this work of his, I highly recommend it.

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "Lock-Picking Robot"

booleanbetrayal — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:53:53 +0000

If your lock is one of the most common 90% of consumer pin tumbler locks, you can just avoid all this complexity and bump key them instead.

[0] Lock bumping (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_bumping

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music"

booleanbetrayal — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:02:09 +0000

I remember this driver and relied on it for a few years. Was sort of amazing, all things considered.

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board"

booleanbetrayal — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:48:32 +0000

I have loathed Larry Summers since the repeal of Glass-Steagall. He has consistently treated the American public like he treats women in the Epstein emails. So glad he's finally getting his comeuppance.

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "iPhone Pocket"

booleanbetrayal — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:06:04 +0000

Yes, yes ... It's the same as it ever was, only so much more so!

Beyond just critiquing the disparity here, I feel like the psychology that treats capital in such a frivolous way, shifting it about already privileged pockets of society, rather than apply it to any sort of material good is rather abhorrent. That's just my take.

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "iPhone Pocket"

booleanbetrayal — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:40:02 +0000

The next product Apple will unveil will be an iPhone case made of human fingernails from those who have tried to climb this K-shaped economic ladder and failed. It'll be a steal at only $500 a pop.

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "iPhone Pocket"

booleanbetrayal — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:29:34 +0000

I am wondering what you call consumption that feeds $499 designer margins on polyester like that, while so many people can barely afford to scrape by day to day.

Tech Workers Are in Deep, Deep Trouble

booleanbetrayal — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:29:20 +0000

Article URL: https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-labor-layoffs-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859241

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway"

booleanbetrayal — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:08:15 +0000

Never connected my Roomba to the internet and it has worked fine for the past several years. It insists that I should connect to it via the app to resolve the occasional minor issue, but I would always ignore those. It's starting to show its wear and it's probably time for a new vacuum. I'm not sure if I'll be able to bootstrap one without connectivity, nowadays. Any good recommendations out there?

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "iPhone Air"

booleanbetrayal — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:35:14 +0000

This in a nutshell.

I think the long and the short of it (place your bets) is that it could be perceived that Apple has lost its foothold on this ever-important (tm) share of the AI marketplace, whereas Google is happily integrating Gemini into all of its services, in a way that is actually functional / useful, with the most obvious entry point being its own Pixel hardware. They just dodged a regulatory bullet, partly due to AI competitiveness, but maybe they're not going to be on the whipping end of that sea change, after all ...

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "iPhone Air"

booleanbetrayal — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:58:50 +0000

I think people trade on announcements like this, regardless of the full financial picture.

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "iPhone Air"

booleanbetrayal — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:26:12 +0000

AAPL is down 1.3% on the news, while GOOGL is up 2%. Their phone offerings have diverged so dramatically with this last refresh cycle.

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault"

booleanbetrayal — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:56:41 +0000

As someone who is actively migrating from HCP Vault Dedicated to self-hosted OpenBao, thanks for this update. Any CVE issues worth tracking / linking here?

New comment by booleanbetrayal in "The death of partying in the USA"

booleanbetrayal — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:20:04 +0000

Every family is dual income now, so every family needs to find something to do with their kids once school lets out. Growing up in the 80's most families around were single income and kept kids at home over the summers. As a result, kids ruled the neighborhoods, bouncing around between houses all day, where there could be some reasonable expectation of peripheral oversight. Now, everyone is min-maxing camp schedule to ensure there is child oversight during working hours, and the neighborhoods are empty.

We decided to break from the trend and return our kids to more of a free-range kid paradigm, risking the disruption to our working schedules, this year. It sounds good in theory, but you are left with the realities of every other child friend being wrapped in camp schedules, as well. It took a lot of proactive discussions with other parents to convince them to keep their kids at home and accessible. But you're still left with the dual income problem, so you find yourself hiring a sitter to oversee and shuttle.

The result is an improvement over the 100% booked compartmentalized camp situation, but without the same level of independence that I experienced and have come to credit with really advancing my own personal development as a child.