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New comment by burger_moon in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

burger_moon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:08:10 +0000

Where I grew up in the US it was not uncommon for people to intentionally only buy union made vehicles. Not sure how that works out now when things are built and assembled in a dozen factories but it used to be more simple and union workers supported other union workers. (this reads like the rantings of an old boomer, I'm not either I swear)

New comment by burger_moon in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

burger_moon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:47:19 +0000

Do you remember the podcast number or title? Curious to hear more about it

New comment by burger_moon in "The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI"

burger_moon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:44:38 +0000

I thought it was all going to blow over as just Trump yelling into the void as he does. Then I saw NIST updating all their docs to conform to this new naming standard as fed govt agencies don't have a choice but to follow the EO of the week. https://www.nist.gov/super-intelligence

New comment by burger_moon in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

burger_moon — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:57:25 +0000

I've run out of fingers for the amount of people in my network that are now leading/head of AI xyz at their employers yet have little to no understanding of AI beyond asking ChatGPT simple questions.

Why Mortgage Bonds Are at Risk If Rates Rise–and If They Fall

burger_moon — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:12:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/why-mortgage-bonds-are-at-risk-if-rates-riseand-if-they-fall-ff897dd5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696272

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by burger_moon in "METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident"

burger_moon — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:39:07 +0000

With so much detailed analysis out there, now all models trained on the open web going forward will learn from these exploits and how to better cover their tracks to not get caught. The RL reward mechanisms of a bad actor should be interesting to see play out over the next 12 months as this gets baked into new models.

New comment by burger_moon in "The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]"

burger_moon — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:17:01 +0000

idk if this is off topic or not because its an ad playing on their channel but wow the non-skippable ad about 'clearing out stuck poop fast' from an ai doctor really added a lot of value to my life before the video rolled. this is what I get for not opening in a browser with ad block. is this what youtube looks like now without ads?

New comment by burger_moon in "Dear people who work at the airport"

burger_moon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:17:54 +0000

That 'something' is probably dealing with thousands of people all day long, many of whom don't follow basic instructions. It's crazy how many of you can't comprehend that their job continues on, dealing with people after you pass through. And they have to do this everyday knowing people like you look down on them for having that job.

New comment by burger_moon in "I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10"

burger_moon — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:14:26 +0000

> There's about 200 million active domains currently. That's about 66% of all businesses worldwide of which there are around 300 million. Around 100 to 150 million have active webpages

Where do you get stats on this info? Not refuting your claims but it's interesting data. I would've thought a wider gap in all biz to active websites since some countries run nearly all their biz on whatsapp/telegram/wechat.

New comment by burger_moon in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

burger_moon — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:10:18 +0000

He's also making it difficult/impossible for people without work visas to obtain auto loans which is destroying the used car market in latino communities and cities with large latino populations. Executive Order 14406 defends this with,

> Low-dollar cross-border funds transfers have been used to facilitate or commit terrorist financing, narcotics trafficking, human trafficking, and other illegal activity.

They're banging the national security drum to make it unlivable here for some.

New comment by burger_moon in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

burger_moon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:49:33 +0000

DOE is investing heavily in SMRs right now. There's 4 which have reached criticality so far. Chris Wright the DOE head is a o&g political appointee hack, but the career employees at DOE are working on pushing clean energy forward.

https://nric.inl.gov/news/

New comment by burger_moon in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

burger_moon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:13:39 +0000

Oof hit a nerve with the jeffbots on this but it doesn’t change the fact that everyone is laughing when you know the layoffs are predictably coming in with each earnings call.

New comment by burger_moon in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

burger_moon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:57:24 +0000

The non-programmers at amazon I know are all just getting onto kiro. I guess there’s two versions of kiro(?) one aimed at devs and the other more web/mcp friendly. Ic and managers are still just wading into the waters and still haven’t learned that token dashboards are snake eating its own tail endgame for these groups.

From the outside it looks like a hot mess of many competing teams trying to become the chosen one for all of Amazon’s ai use. As a result it’s a confusing mess of tools that don’t last very long and creates tons of churn and confused employees who learn new tools as they're killed.

Definitely enjoying watching the chaos unfold from a distance at these trillion dollar businesses

New comment by burger_moon in "China Preps $295B Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout"

burger_moon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:25:58 +0000

No info about planned GW or cross compare metrics to see how for $295B goes. I also don’t think the blow quotes is that fair given that this is state-funded vs private-funded and there’s still additional private funded dc build happening in China.

> The latest investment goal, which hasn’t previously been reported, pales in comparison to the $725 billion that US leaders such as Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside for AI this year alone. Chinese data centers in general cost less than in the US because of cheaper labor, component and construction costs, and local government incentives.

America's Workforce Academy by Meta

burger_moon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:19:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.meta.com/actions/americas-workforce-academy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461503

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Is HN Blocking Mullvad VPN?

burger_moon — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:38:23 +0000

I've noticed over the last ~week that if I try to navigate to HN without active logged in session that I am often blocked from resolving the site, instead seeing a "sorry" page.

Seems to be more a desktop issue than when I've tried to reproduce on my phone with the same VPN.

Is this a blanket VPN thing or something specific about Mullvad connection points?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226369

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Floor Traders Sue CME over Harm from Electronic Markets

burger_moon — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:49:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/cme-chicago-futures-exchange-traders-lawsuit-40d29a7e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490360

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by burger_moon in "Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste"

burger_moon — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:56:33 +0000

This is awesome. My partner runs events in Seattle and has talked about how there is a big need to do classes on teaching basic household handyman things but also her thing is turning events into social mixers for singles.

I just think it’d be great to teach people how to hang a shelf or clean the filter in a mini split, fix a flat tire on a car, etc. All the stuff I have to regularly do for people now. I may sign up to do some instructor led classes.

I love the idea of a tool library, I own more tools than I can use at this point.

However I think if I could get paid a monthly service fee to list my tools I’d do it, otherwise the replacement costs for people misusing or losing the tools would make it not worth it. A single socket goes missing and suddenly it’s $30 to replace, wipes out the sharing incentive.

New comment by burger_moon in "Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time"

burger_moon — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 22:25:13 +0000

I applied for a mortgage today through my bank. Before the automated “next steps” email could hit my inbox my phone was already ringing and ringing and ringing. About 10 minutes straight of automated spam callers that are watching who knows what public ledger on now.

I guess it pretty much means retiring this number next year. I’ve inly had the number a little over a year and the spam has slowly crept up despite best efforts to give fake numbers where possible.

New comment by burger_moon in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

burger_moon — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:28:12 +0000

Still building with metal in my free time. This months project is an 8ft tall corner plant stand. Picked up some really unique looking boards from seconduse I need to sand and stain but still working on the shelf itself.

Also started tiling my guest bathroom and tiling the ceiling of the shower. First tile project I’ve attempted.