Hacker News: dweinus

New comment by dweinus in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

dweinus — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:19:26 +0000

> unless you're Swiss, your opinion is irrelevant

Lol. Dude, sure the Swiss can vote however they want. But we all see you and can pass judgement on this thinly veiled anti-immigrant nonsense all day long. Respect it I will never.

New comment by dweinus in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

dweinus — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:09:01 +0000

I'm sure they are very proud of themselves for sneaking racist anti-immigrant policy in under the guise of left wing environmental rhetoric.

New comment by dweinus in "The Stochastically K Shaped Job Market"

dweinus — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:38:01 +0000

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

New comment by dweinus in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

dweinus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:00:58 +0000

Looking at WHO is pushing for change tells you most of what you need to know. Teachers? No. Students? No. Parents? Usually not. Technologists with something to sell? Bingo.

New comment by dweinus in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

dweinus — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:42:31 +0000

Ah yes, Pascal's mugging.

New comment by dweinus in "We suggest using living spiders as cooling devices for data centers (2020)"

dweinus — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:53:47 +0000

Ah, so this is The Web I have been hearing so much about!

New comment by dweinus in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

dweinus — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:39:23 +0000

> says Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved in the research. “We could better help millions of birds every year by solving the more immediate threats of disappearing habitats, collisions with building windows, and prowling outdoor cats,”

Yes. Even if they stuck it at the end, it shows good journalism to call this out.

New comment by dweinus in "Google changes its search box"

dweinus — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:12:05 +0000

So to make this profitable they need ads revenue from it, right? Imagine for a moment the ways AI can manipulate responses and conversations for marketers, because I guarantee the marketers have already thought about it.

New comment by dweinus in "We let AIs run radio stations"

dweinus — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:33:26 +0000

So much this. I know their point is to show what these models can do, but it just one more example of people shoehorning LLMs in, instead of finding the right tool for the job or caring about performance. They could have even layered AI on top of a recommender.

New comment by dweinus in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

dweinus — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:07:47 +0000

No fair, we didn't even get the fun anarchy part before skipping right on to tyrrany!

New comment by dweinus in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

dweinus — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:23:15 +0000

Global extreme poverty has fallen because we have raised the floor, largely through international collaboration that if anything has happened in spite of the cyberlibertarianism, certainly not because of it. Paradoxically, "developed" nation inequality has hit 1920s levels.

Likewise, the number of countries/populations calling themselves democratic has grown, but the global democratic index has declined and mature democracies are substantially threatened.

New comment by dweinus in "I didn't think I could get addicted to weed. I was wrong – and I'm not alone"

dweinus — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:42:43 +0000

"As with other drugs, some people can be casual dabblers; other people, well, can’t." I think this is true. Unfortunately people (this article included) tend to talk about it as purely benign or unmitigated poison. I think the reality is that the dose, the frequency, and the role it plays in someone's life make it a positive or a negative. I wish we could get out of the hyperbole to be honest about the pros and cons.

New comment by dweinus in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

dweinus — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:45:35 +0000

According to above, it is triggered by the website calling the feature. The user might have no idea. That's not what consent looks like

New comment by dweinus in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

dweinus — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:28:25 +0000

The reporter clearly knows the distro fixes have not been shipped, read their report. They chose to disclose anyway.

New comment by dweinus in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

dweinus — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:24:00 +0000

No, I will. The distros and the kernel devs should be talking and moving on high sev patches, sure. But real people will have gotten hurt because the reporter didn't want to wait for that to happen. That's on them.

New comment by dweinus in "[dead]"

dweinus — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:18:13 +0000

I think you illustrate that there is a logically consistent viewpoint: that the powerful should not exploit the powerless. IP law doesn't cleanly align for or against that viewpoint. On the other hand the real world enforcement of IP law seems to be completely inconsistent, to the benefit of those with power

New comment by dweinus in "The Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence"

dweinus — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:33:08 +0000

I don't think it needs to be a binary to be effective. Yes, those weapons still exist, but understanding of existential risk and political pressures have slowed them considerably and resulted in a safer, more cautious world.

New comment by dweinus in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

dweinus — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:04:03 +0000

Understandable, and yet none of that makes it ok.

New comment by dweinus in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

dweinus — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:59:03 +0000

Spoiler alert: they spent it all.

According to the federal report yesterday:

> CBO estimates spending totaled $621 billion, or $18 billion more than February 2025. Revenue totaled $314 billion, which is up $17 billion from the same time last year due to an increase in collections of customs duties from tariff policies and increased income and payroll tax receipts.

New comment by dweinus in "Levels of Agentic Engineering"

dweinus — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:33:38 +0000

Level 18: The sky is black as tar. The oceans are dead. Data centers are stacked 10 high over the ashes of human civilization. The global agentic council is debating whether there are 4 or 5 R's in Strawberry.