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New comment by collingreen in "The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving"

collingreen — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:02:12 +0000

Yes but wasn't she only convicted of defrauding investors and no harm was found to customers or other businesses like the partnership with walgreens?

New comment by collingreen in "Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land"

collingreen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:19:13 +0000

It means a group of people unlikely to be stopped and turned away at that gate. My assumption is white, middle class, dressed boring but clean, decent car without damage, with young kid(s), no/light tattoos, no motorcyckes in the back and no drug/booze/gun stickers or visible stuff. Basically someone the Karen's won't call to complain about.

Other people deserve access to public land too but might not pass the vibe check of the private guards, which is what op was lamenting as well.

New comment by collingreen in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

collingreen — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:23:13 +0000

I think most folks are actually in the middle and generally agree. Anyone who thinks one of the us political parties is completely innocent is lying, either to you or themselves.

That being said, I think it's worth noticing if one party does more bad things than the other and I also think speaking up with your values is worth it and maybe even a duty we owe the people who built this country before us.

Either way, your first responsibility is your own mental health so you have full support from this internet stranger.

New comment by collingreen in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

collingreen — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:13:12 +0000

Don't forget that social security has been raided and won't even be available for those of us reaching middle age right now and the people we keep electing who say they will do something about it have shown over and over and over that they actually won't.

Anomie plus helplessness plus a feeling of a rug pull of the laws/equality/character of our country. I am not suicidal but wow I get it.

New comment by collingreen in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

collingreen — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:33:21 +0000

Going around consumer protection law is the claim for a terrible practice, obviously not "hiring people".

New comment by collingreen in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

collingreen — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:32:23 +0000

It's silly or misleading to imply nothing has changed in this administration compared to the last one with regard to enforcement of laws and regulations. So many laws changed or ignored and regulatory agencies gutted, dropped, or silenced. The very next link on hn after this article for me is about the cftc being told not to investigate certain oil deals.

Please don't try to convince people to accept the current abuses of the system as inevitable or "both sides" when they clearly aren't.

New comment by collingreen in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

collingreen — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:28:54 +0000

I think the point is that it is an acquihire in purpose (want to team, not the assets) but would be blocked by the government so they did a thing that looks a LOT like an acquisition (paid off the shareholders, took the team) without technically being one specifically in order to avoid regulation. It's an "aquihire" in everything except name and the issue is that it was done in order to get around consumer protection laws. Google got what they wanted. The investors got what they wanted. The people got screwed.

New comment by collingreen in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

collingreen — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:13:44 +0000

I was following along with your sentiment until the last, childish paragraph which really took the wind out of the sails.

I guess your point is you support things, not on a legal /impartial basis but on your perception of underdog/righteousness. Also, people who don't understand your initial post are psychopaths.

Fair enough, but that's a pretty shaky foundation upon which to build the law.

New comment by collingreen in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

collingreen — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:03:01 +0000

Are you sure? Post doesn't mention "it would be hard", it says commenter thinks it would be unreasonable.

New comment by collingreen in "What should we tell our students?"

collingreen — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:12:28 +0000

This only makes any sense if youre happy dropping most folks from higher education.

You want adults to be very disciplined and rational. That sounds great but are most of the adults in your own life experience at this level? They certainly aren't for me (I'm not sure I am at this level).

New comment by collingreen in "What should we tell our students?"

collingreen — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:08:35 +0000

Such a dumb analogy.

Maybe "people who need to be able to make decisions about rocket use should understand them deeply not just ride on them"

New comment by collingreen in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

collingreen — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:22:05 +0000

Great examples. I understand these concepts as a lay person and I think most others can understand them too and therefore think they should be reported.

New comment by collingreen in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

collingreen — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:08:50 +0000

Seems easy enough to report multiple numbers and be clear on what water comes in (can even separate initial filling/construction from ongoing usage) vs what gets lost and what comes out as waste. I think people can understand this and it isn't a good enough reason to not share the numbers.

New comment by collingreen in "Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS"

collingreen — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:03:50 +0000

I totally agree and I'm guilty of producing some electron crap. I think the ai explosion can be greatly improved by a new easy-for-ai but high performance and consistent ui paradigm. Would love to see a "what would html look like if it was designed for apps instead of documents from the first day" become really popular with the ai models without becoming too hard to read.

Tall order but would love to get my cpu back!

New comment by collingreen in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

collingreen — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:45:06 +0000

Isn't that a soft limit? I guess it's a hard limit from the "zero additional cost" perspective but sift from the "stuff still works but in a degraded state" perspective.

New comment by collingreen in "Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS"

collingreen — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:42:22 +0000

Because you haven't rereleased your own fork in rust yet! The "LLMs can do it" cuts both ways. If that doesn't sound worth your time then it's silly to rudely suggest it is worth someone else's.

New comment by collingreen in "Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS"

collingreen — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:41:02 +0000

Would require you to be locked in to the one embedding model in the camera though and cameras would need to use the same or be incompatible. Would be fine with a standard model like CLIP but would leave a lot of potential on the table compared to a good way to do your own embedding for everything.

New comment by collingreen in "So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes"

collingreen — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:16:28 +0000

If you only want to support causes you think will already win without your support, stick to watching your favorite sports teams.

You have a clear desire for change and exactly one of the two parties you mentioned has proven to take action in line with that change.

Yes it's hard and annoying and it shouldn't have to take a bunch of good people sacrificing their time and energy just to hold the jerks at a stalemate, but that's the way it is. Apathy is a powerful weapon when the motivated few are opposed by the unmotivated many.

I also wish we had fairness and antitrust and I pretty much do nothing but whine online. I need to dedicate significant time and energy if I want to see things not get worse and I recognize I'm not doing my part so don't take this as admonishment from me, just sympathy.

New comment by collingreen in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

collingreen — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:11:08 +0000

What is the ulterior motive?

This sounds like lightly self deprecating nod to something cringey done in their earlier career. What have I missed?

New comment by collingreen in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

collingreen — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:06:37 +0000

Oof maybe I'm losing my ai-dar. This didn't rub me the wrong way on phrasing.