Hacker News: bparsons

New comment by bparsons in "SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef"

bparsons — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 02:50:42 +0000

We are running out of metaphors.

New comment by bparsons in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

bparsons — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:11:00 +0000

Gonna take a wild guess that this has to do with the purchase of privately (and lawfully) collected bulk data for the purposes of mass surveillance. Who needs PRISM or xKeyscore when people willingly purchase TVs and install weather apps that spy on them 24/7? The open legal question has been whether the government is free to do whatever it wants with the data it purchases.

New comment by bparsons in "Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22"

bparsons — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:25:48 +0000

France has much lower per capita debt and deficit compared to the United States. I find it very funny to hear American media talk about the dire situation of French public finances.

New comment by bparsons in "[dead]"

bparsons — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:51:02 +0000

One more carrier ought to turn things around.

New comment by bparsons in "Mistral Large 4"

bparsons — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:27:00 +0000

Just tried Space Bunny and it gave me the same word...

New comment by bparsons in "Mistral Large 4"

bparsons — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:06:01 +0000

A conspiracy to make the US look bad by being better at producing all the goods and services the world needs at a reasonable price. Have they no shame?

New comment by bparsons in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

bparsons — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:20:42 +0000

The democrats have shown little desire or ability to reverse GOP foreign policy once they get into power. They normalize those policies and keep the seat warm for the next mad man.

New comment by bparsons in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

bparsons — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:19:07 +0000

Whatever it is, it wont be under the thumb of the US. That is all anyone cares about now. Canadians want off the sinking ship.

New comment by bparsons in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

bparsons — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:40:58 +0000

A CLI first, GUI second video editor that can emulate the style of any filmmaker or film you direct at it.

It was surprisingly easy to build.

It's also just a half decent basic video/audio editing suite that works on the desktop.

New comment by bparsons in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

bparsons — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:52:42 +0000

Without any real privacy laws, Americans should not have the expectation of privacy in private spaces either. Your search history, real time location, biometric data, consumer habits etc. are all for sale to anyone who wants it.

New comment by bparsons in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

bparsons — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:16:17 +0000

No one seems to ever point out the actual, likely negative outcome of this technology.

It eventually works well enough that these companies are able to capture and divert the wages of hundreds of millions of workers. We end up with a dozen or so trillionaires and massive structural underemployment and unemployment.

That's it. If you can't make rent, you wouldn't really care if CloudFlare got hacked by an AI swarm every Monday.

New comment by bparsons in "US Blocks SSL Security Certificates for Iran's Fars News Agency"

bparsons — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:45:23 +0000

That ought to turn things around.

New comment by bparsons in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

bparsons — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:57:37 +0000

IP protections for me, not for thee.

New comment by bparsons in "Who Is America's Homer?"

bparsons — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:37:59 +0000

Matt Groening.

New comment by bparsons in "Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves"

bparsons — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:52:07 +0000

The example they give is a frame rate boost on GTA V - a game released 16 years ago.

New comment by bparsons in "Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years"

bparsons — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:21:34 +0000

The Canada hater has logged on.

New comment by bparsons in "Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]"

bparsons — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:10:52 +0000

Does this whole thing seem fishy to anyone else?

New comment by bparsons in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

bparsons — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:32:58 +0000

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

New comment by bparsons in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

bparsons — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:42:06 +0000

Where did Anthropic get all their training data? Funny that these companies care about the sanctity of IP all of a sudden.

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Findings on X.ai/Grok CSAM Deepfake Violations

bparsons — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:24:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2026/pipeda-2026-004/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495207

Points: 6

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