Hacker News: bradleyankrom

New comment by bradleyankrom in "US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war"

bradleyankrom — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:47:05 +0000

1-for-3

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

bradleyankrom — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:21:34 +0000

My most memorable anecdote from working in Azure is that they had two products named Purview and the internal MS people I talked to never figured out which one I was trying to use.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

bradleyankrom — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:03:51 +0000

Lots of that going around these days (and for many of the previous days, at least in the US)

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

bradleyankrom — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:26:52 +0000

Hegseth?

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution"

bradleyankrom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:46:08 +0000

Bankrupting a casino is a literal thing he did and also a pretty decent metaphor for what he's doing now.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?"

bradleyankrom — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:01:43 +0000

Every few months I ask some AIs to write a Kilgore Trout short story for me.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Companies reap $22B from Trump's immigration crackdown"

bradleyankrom — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:48:20 +0000

https://archive.ph/64IKk

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested in connection with Minnesota protest"

bradleyankrom — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:30:32 +0000

He wasn't breaking in with a mob, he was a journalist covering the event.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "[dead]"

bradleyankrom — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:40:51 +0000

Resubmitting after it was killed, then revived, then killed again, gathering 19 upvotes along the way[0]. I wasn't the original submitter.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816951

Man impersonating FBI agent tried to get Luigi Mangione out of jail

bradleyankrom — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:32:39 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/luigi-mangione-jail-release-arrest-brooklyn-dc5ec1c87b636bfe99352ef3299acdf2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816919

Points: 15

# Comments: 2

New comment by bradleyankrom in "[dead]"

bradleyankrom — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:47:03 +0000

That post says the author has no agenda, but 15 seconds on that Twitter page suggests otherwise.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

bradleyankrom — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:42:50 +0000

Both can be true, but only one is.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

bradleyankrom — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:17:48 +0000

That's a lot of money for an individual, but if the (dark) money originates from a donor or PAC, it's just another campaign expense.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users"

bradleyankrom — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:14:32 +0000

Same, on average. I'll go a few weeks without any, then one or two per day for a while.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

bradleyankrom — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:18:13 +0000

LinkedIn does the same thing re emails, notifications, etc that they send. I think I turned off notifications that connections had achieved new high scores in games they play on LinkedIn. Absurd.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

bradleyankrom — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 02:05:17 +0000

Privacy tax, sigh

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

bradleyankrom — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:40:51 +0000

It sounds like a terrible friend that you can't trust but also can't expel from your life.

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need"

bradleyankrom — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:01:49 +0000

A persistent notification badge on Settings because it believes I just haven't gotten to setting up Siri after all these years

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

bradleyankrom — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:16:02 +0000

I get a similar message constantly for an old Instagram account - "sorry you're having trouble logging in, click here to log in and change your password!"

New comment by bradleyankrom in "Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh"

bradleyankrom — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:56:03 +0000

I think you would just return it, not sue them.