Hacker News: caaqil

New comment by caaqil in "How to earn a billion dollars"

caaqil — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:27:15 +0000

So... what's the critique here exactly? "Oh hey everybody, Paul is out touch!" - Okay, now what? Rich people are rich, that's truism. Some comments made good counter arguments but this lazy polished ad-hominem attacks are more offensive than the piece itself.

New comment by caaqil in "“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT"

caaqil — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:03:37 +0000

Not the point of the story at all. Read before commenting.

New comment by caaqil in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

caaqil — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:28:00 +0000

In the modern world: any tech proposition that starts with protection of children as a goal can be dismissed out of hand, since it's emotional manipulation masquerading as tech policy. When I hear "protect kids", all I see is a sleazy politician bowing to their respective Security State apparatus.

New comment by caaqil in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

caaqil — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:51:47 +0000

It's currently #1 on the front page too. HN drowning in AI slop, what a sight to behold.

New comment by caaqil in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

caaqil — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:35:35 +0000

You don't generally reach that level of wealth and success without at least having strong sociopathic (maybe even psychopathic) tendencies.

New comment by caaqil in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

caaqil — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:29:30 +0000

I will be that guy: how is this different from HN? Or the many niche subreddits that already do this? I am seriously asking.

To me, it seems like a poor version of subreddits with HN shell to wash it down.

New comment by caaqil in "Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)"

caaqil — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:38:06 +0000

My first reaction to the title was: "duh, selection/survivorship bias" but their counter is pretty solid:

> Firstly and perhaps most importantly, selection bias is possible because individuals who are at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease may be less likely to enter or remain in memory intensive driving occupations such as taxi and ambulance driving. This could mean that the lower Alzheimer’s disease mortality observed in these occupations is not due to the protective effect of the job itself but rather because those prone to the disease may have self-selected out of such roles. However, Alzheimer’s disease symptoms typically develop after patients’ working years, with only 5-10% of cases occurring in people younger than 65 years (early onset).1114 While subtle symptoms could develop earlier, they would still most likely be after a person had worked long enough to deem the occupation to be a so-called usual occupation, suggesting against substantial attrition from navigational jobs due to development of Alzheimer’s disease. Moreover, even if lifelong taxi driving selects for individuals with strong spatial processing, our findings would still suggest an interesting link between spatial processing skills and risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

New comment by caaqil in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

caaqil — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:19:48 +0000

If you read the news with enough cynicism, you'll realize that rules like formality, password strength or cybersecurity hygiene are for the average Joes, not the morons/perverts who run the world.

New comment by caaqil in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

caaqil — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:02:29 +0000

> "tangential annoyances"

It's relevant to the central argument of the article, so I don't consider it a tangent (assuming that one even cares about the so-called policy).

New comment by caaqil in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

caaqil — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:42:54 +0000

The author should consider smelling his own perfume, given the state and design of the site where he delivers his musings and gives us the moral lecture on not making the lives of one's customers miserable (without a hint of irony).

The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)

caaqil — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:14:55 +0000

Article URL: https://chomsky.info/19670223/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466721

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

GA Supreme Court Flags 'citations to cases that don't exist' in Murder Appeal

caaqil — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:17:26 +0000

Article URL: https://lawandcrime.com/crime/citations-to-cases-that-dont-exist-appeal-of-murder-conviction-thrown-into-turmoil-as-georgia-supreme-court-flags-numerous-nonexistent-quotes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461444

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by caaqil in "Having Kids (2019)"

caaqil — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:00:04 +0000

Instead of the ceremonial complaint and preemptive whining, why don't you consider making the argument coherently and see how people respond?

Ironically, the pointless arguments you so despise (and refuse to invite) offer more than whatever utility this comment has.

We Say You Want a Revolution (2025)

caaqil — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:52:44 +0000

Article URL: https://citizenlab.ca/research/2025-10-ai-enabled-io-aimed-at-overthrowing-iranian-regime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394220

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Escalation Trap

caaqil — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:57:34 +0000

Article URL: https://escalationtrap.substack.com/p/four-strategic-patterns-now-visible

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392380

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by caaqil in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

caaqil — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:58:35 +0000

So we now have just pure marketing slop on the HN front page? How is this interesting or "curious" again? The AI slop season is affecting HN in clever ways.

Elon Musk's Ketamine Use Can't Be Probed in OpenAI Fraud Trial

caaqil — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:44:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-13/elon-musk-s-ketamine-use-can-t-be-probed-in-openai-fraud-trial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372030

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by caaqil in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

caaqil — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:44:25 +0000

The tech is interesting and useful, no need for the scary moral framing.

The original application of the entire field of data science or ML is/was actually based on this paradigm of finding "unconscious preferences" (your words) and hidden patterns. How one chooses to deploy the tech should be judged on its own.

On the current trajectory of tool/data abuse where Palantir et al. are leading the way, this is very low on the sinister scale.

Unlimited Claude Code or just token reuse confusion?

caaqil — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:06:42 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/denisyarats/status/2032355725620756486

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366293

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by caaqil in "Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites"

caaqil — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:57:18 +0000

Yeah, maybe let's change the title to remove that 84% rate. It's meaningless because it's just 254 websites, given the scale of what Google Safe Browsing deals with.

How is this serious? This is a marketing slop. If the title isn't enough indicator, the ending should be:

> If you're interested in trying Muninn, it's available as a Chrome extension. We're in an early phase and would genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone willing to give it a shot. And if you run across phishing in the wild, consider submitting it to Yggdrasil so the data can help protect others.