<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: breakpointalpha</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=breakpointalpha</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:42:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=breakpointalpha" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Retired USAF Major General McCasland disappearing from his house is probably the most serious.<p>He was the commander of the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This would have given him direct oversight of all of the Air Force's most sensitive technology for decades. His intelligence value to a hostile adversary, even retired, is incalculable.<p>He was an avid hiker and biker in his neighborhood trails, so it's very unlikely that he just got lost.<p>Left behind were his prescription glasses, along with all his personal electronics (phone and watch).<p>It's shocking and alarming that there wasn't a full blown military search and rescue operation mounted within hours of his wife calling him in as missing.<p>How far could a 68 year old man travel on foot within 8 hours?<p>He was reported missing within three hours of his last contact with his wife.<p>New Mexico Search and Rescue wasn't dispatched until Sunday, two days later.<p>Again, why wasn't the DoD tasked to find him at all costs on the same day he went missing, given his knowledge of the Air Force's most sensitive technologies?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:14:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867216</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sure there something in the hundreds of pages of Microsoft o365 about "we may share your data with third-parties" blah blah...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:45:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784236</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, so the lawyer can use AI to answer your questions and then the judge can discover that, since there isn't attorney-bot privilege. :/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:42:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784206</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Self-hosted, local only models are probably going to obviate a lot of this.<p>Google AI Edge Gallery now runs Gemma-4-E2B-it locally on an iPhone after a 2.5Gb download.<p>No network calls needed, claims Google.<p>Self-hosting is always a strong option for privacy seeking people, as it should be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:40:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784183</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if a legal firm could setup a privately hosted LLM then claim attorney-client privilege as a rendered service.<p>Would a judge be able to demand the attorney hand over written notes from his clients?<p>I doubt it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:38:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784145</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this mean I can tell my team to stop requesting CoPilot code reviews on my pull requests?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:58:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661033</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "Cursor 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is it that every legitimate concern or downside pointed out about AI is met with the same tired, low signal, rebuttal of FOMO.<p>It's become the "no u r" argument of the AI age... :/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:23:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630149</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630149</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can I Buy a Butler Yet?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://philc.io/butler-bet/">https://philc.io/butler-bet/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530030">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530030</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>This has to be intentional.<p>Drug dealer getting the kids hooked early is priority #1.<p>Give just enough "parental control" to lure parents in.<p>Make it just annoying enough that the parents eventually give up and the kid is the one pushing the drug the entire time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:13:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493125</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Customers keep buying those trucks though. Why wouldn't you sell a product to a market that continues to purchase?<p>There are smaller, cheaper trucks, suvs, sedans, etc. $100k trucks make a lot of money, so Ford keeps building them.</p>
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<p>Insta-banned in the US for "national security", not because it's a better car than anything the US can produce. /s</p>
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<p>In principle, you are right. Cheaper than coal renewables are winning. Don't forget though, that fighter jets can't operate on batteries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:33:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279968</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many proudly and loudly claim the US is a "republic".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:44:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267723</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for taking the time to write this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:14:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976798</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't imagine that the authors of the Constitution predicted always on, AI enabled facial and license plate recognition on every street corner in America.<p>If this is what they thought was possible, why write the 4th Amendment?<p>Unreasonable search and overbearing government <i>was</i> one of the key issues of the American Revolution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:05:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906041</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. Deploy ICE agents wearing milsim gear to key Dem voting locations.<p>2. Allow the crowd to yell at them.<p>3. Use the crowd agitation as an opportunity to escalate and go "hands on".<p>4. Cause a ruckus.<p>5. Use the ruckus as justification for closing the polling location for the rest of the day.<p>6. Count the Republican votes, discard the Dem votes.<p>7. Declare landslide victory.<p>8. Ignore calls for extended voting or recounts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:37:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890568</link><dc:creator>breakpointalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by breakpointalpha in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought the same thing about myself until I read Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg. Changed my mental model for what habits really are and how to engineer habitual change. I immediately started flossing and haven't quit in the three years since reading. It's <i>very</i> worth reading because there are concrete, research backed frameworks for rewiring habits.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>American life is so much more distributed than European life.<p>Population density and the gigantic geographic distance make these kinds of events feel "remote" even if they are happening in our same state.<p>It's a 17 hour drive from Atlanta, Georgia to Minneapolis for example.<p>On top of that, a lot of Americans are just barely surviving financially, so they are in full bunker mode just making rent.<p>It's a scary time to rebel.</p>
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<p>Let me introduce you to an actor named Rock Hudson <i>coughs in black and white</i>. /s</p>
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