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New comment by danorama in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

danorama — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:17:25 +0000

I think it was edited to add that?

Something Is Very Wrong in San Francisco

danorama — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:23:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.simplermachines.com/something-is-very-wrong-in-san-francisco/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564184

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by danorama in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

danorama — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:43:33 +0000

Don’t “necessarily agree” with the Turner Diaries? Why the mystery? Should we guess?

New comment by danorama in "Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant"

danorama — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:42:06 +0000

No, it was because they weren't supposed to be. They were fulfilling an actual need and creating value in a way that wasn't intended to be addictive. And I was a co-founder of some of those orgs and products, so it wasn't about my employer.

I know it's hard to believe that not every organization is sociopathic, because many are (the larger, the more likely to be). But not every one is.

New comment by danorama in "Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant"

danorama — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:35:30 +0000

I don't think that's actually true. Heck, from my own experience, I can definitively say it's not actually true. I've worked in several organizations where I helped create and sell products whose job was to provide value, then let people get on with their day. I wouldn't have worked at those places otherwise.

Not saying that intended addictiveness is not common, but let's not normalize corporate sociopathy.

New comment by danorama in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

danorama — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:24:55 +0000

There’s a fallacy that gets used a whole lot to justify things like this (not just with LLMs), and I see it in many of the comments here: If it’s OK (or at least negligible on a small scale), then it must be OK on a large scale.

It usually goes something like: If I can make money by learning something from a web page, why does a computer making money by learning everything from everyone upset people so? It’s the same thing!

It’s like if I go to Golden Gate Park and pick one flower, I shouldn’t do that, but no one cares. But if I build a machine to automatically cut every flower in the park because I want to sell them, that’s different.

“You say I can pick one flower, but you get upset when I take a bunch. That’s inconsistent. Check and mate.”

But quantitative changes in an activity produce qualitative changes. Everyone knows this, but sometimes they seem to find it inconvenient to admit it. Not that effects of the qualitative change are always bad, but they are often different, and worth considering rather than dismissing.

New comment by danorama in "SF vibes are frenetic over the divide in outcomes and career uncertainty"

danorama — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:48:15 +0000

Full title: “SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth”

SF vibes are frenetic over the divide in outcomes and career uncertainty

danorama — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:47:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techmeme.com/260516/p9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165659

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk–experts have startling hypothesis on how

danorama — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:41:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/routine-vaccines-may-cut-dementia-risk-experts-have-startling-hypothesis-on-how/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150057

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Apple has won a prestigious award for iOS 26's Liquid Glass design

danorama — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:44:29 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/14/apple-has-won-a-prestigious-award-for-ios-26s-liquid-glass-design/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137852

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by danorama in "'I have an A because I use Chat'"

danorama — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:04:53 +0000

Full title: ‘I have an A because I use Chat': What UC, SFSU students say about using AI - and if it's cheating

'I have an A because I use Chat'

danorama — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:04:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/i-have-an-a-because-i-use-chat-what-uc-students-say-about-using-ai-and-whether-it-s-cheating/ar-AA22r9fQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109402

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Secure Electronic Transaction

danorama — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:40:44 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Electronic_Transaction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031885

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by danorama in "Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors"

danorama — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:22:01 +0000

Yea Biden was all about repeatedly using the DoJ for personal vendettas. Totally the same thing.

New comment by danorama in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

danorama — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:28:13 +0000

"Bernie Sanders was supposed to be the same, and when he dropped out a lot of us switched to Trump because they represented the same thing."

That is definitely an opinion.

How Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future

danorama — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:22:06 +0000

Article URL: https://markatwood.substack.com/p/how-amazon-dies-a-possible-maybe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564523

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by danorama in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

danorama — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:01:47 +0000

Poe's Law just smacked me upside the head on this one. Hard.

New comment by danorama in "Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year"

danorama — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:54:03 +0000

Maker of lying software caught lying. Then lying about the lying. At least he’s consistent.

New comment by danorama in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

danorama — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:08:48 +0000

"Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic."

For a company of Anthropic's size, this may very well be a death sentence, even if their work has nothing to do with the military supply chain. They could have just canceled the contract, but they wanted to go full Darth Vader on them to prove a point in case anyone else thought about "negotiating" "voluntarily" with the federal government.

New comment by danorama in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

danorama — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:59:38 +0000

I have to admit, “accept this unilateral change to the contract or we will use the full power of the US government to destroy your company” is certainly a tough negotiation stance. You got that part right.