Hacker News: edot

New comment by edot in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

edot — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:23:03 +0000

Exactly. This is such a goofy idea, that you can buy something from China and use it in the EU and suddenly you’re “energy independent”. No, you’re China dependent. I guess the argument would be that solar panels last a long time and thus you’ve bought yourselves 20 years or whatever the life span is, of energy independence from China? But you’ll need new batteries sooner than that.

New comment by edot in "Marketing for Founders"

edot — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:50:58 +0000

It’s also against the rules now too. I wish there were a report button.

New comment by edot in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

edot — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:08:47 +0000

LLM written comments are not allowed on HN. This comment is written by an LLM and the account is fresh.

New comment by edot in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

edot — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:19:32 +0000

Yes, from the title and first few comments I thought it was about getting customer support and having to talk to a chatbot first. For anyone else who didn't read, this article is about how mindlessly copy-pasting LLM output is comparable to "making me talk to your chatbot".

New comment by edot in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

edot — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:54:25 +0000

Lutnick is not a good man. There’s also this, from https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA012492...

“LUTNICK was a neighbor of JEFFREY EPSTEIN (EPSTEIN) in the adjoining property at 11 E 71st Street, New York, New York. LUTNICK bought the property for $10 through a trust. LES WEXNER (WEXNER) and EPSTEIN owned the building. LUTNICK bought it in a very roundabout way from EPSTEIN.”

New comment by edot in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

edot — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:43:32 +0000

Howard Lutnick and his sons are surely happy about this. It’s almost like Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, knew this would happen. His sons, at their firm Cantor Fitzgerald, have been offering a tariff refund product wherein they pay companies who are struggling with paying tariffs 20-30% of a potential refund, and if (as they did today) they get struck down, they pocket the 100% refund.

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-wa...

New comment by edot in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

edot — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:39:03 +0000

What? You mean from American importers and therefore consumers? Foreign countries do not pay tariffs. This lie needs to stop.

New comment by edot in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

edot — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:37:23 +0000

Yep. Same exact trick that happened during COVID. Prices ratchet up but never down.

New comment by edot in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

edot — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:52:11 +0000

Yeah, two p’s in the word pepperoni …

New comment by edot in "From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media"

edot — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:54:10 +0000

Thousands of newsworthy things happened yesterday. Which ones do you put on the front page?

You don’t have to put a spin on the news to bias it. You just report or fail to report the news that goes or doesn’t go with your agenda.

New comment by edot in "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)"

edot — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:35:09 +0000

How much time and energy does it take to hit the like button on a post? How much time and energy does it take to physically protest? The magnitude of dissent is legible in the mode of dissent. How ticked off must a guy be to go protest in negative 20 degree weather?

New comment by edot in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

edot — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:13:41 +0000

"Natanson said her work had led to 1,169 new sources, “all current or former federal employees who decided to trust me with their stories”. She said she learned information “people inside government agencies weren’t supposed to tell me”, saying that the intensity of the work nearly “broke” her."

Wow. So they're going to plug her phone in to whatever cracking tech they have and pull down the names of everyone who has been helping her tell the story of the destruction of our government. The following question is "what will they do with the names of the people they pull?". I can only imagine. Horrible. Hopefully she had good OPSEC but she's a reporter, not a technologist. I bet enough mistakes were made (or enough vulnerabilities exist) that they'll be able to pull down the list.

New comment by edot in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

edot — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:03:16 +0000

I hate the CCP surveillance too. No state should have this close of an eye on its people. It’s anti-freedom.

New comment by edot in "Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video]"

edot — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:34:42 +0000

New comment by edot in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

edot — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:54:08 +0000

Flock or their defenders will lock in on the excuse that “oh these are misconfigured” or “yeah hacking is illegal, only cops should have this data”. The issue is neither of the above. The issue is the collection and collation of this footage in the first place! I don’t want hackers watching me all the time, sure, but I DEFINITELY don’t trust the state or megacorps to watch me all the time. Hackers concern me less, actually. I’m glad that Benn Jordan and others are giving this the airtime it needs, but they’re focusing the messaging on security vulnerabilities and not state surveillance. Thus Flock can go “ok we will do better about security” and the bureaucrats, average suburbanites, and law enforcement agencies will go “ok good they fixed the vulnerabilities I’m happy now”

New comment by edot in "AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating"

edot — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:51:20 +0000

Yes, exactly. “Well, the AI said to go arrest that guy, and I’ve been hearing for years that AI is super smart, so that must be the right thing to do.”

New comment by edot in "alpr.watch"

edot — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:44:54 +0000

The issue is, a lot of people wouldn’t mind the sheriff knowing where their wife and daughter are at all times. What if one of them gets kidnapped? It would be good if law enforcement could track them. That’s the logic some people have …

New comment by edot in "Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched"

edot — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:25:19 +0000

But don’t I have a right to not get stalked?

New comment by edot in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

edot — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:05:52 +0000

If you've ever worked at a random Fortune 500 company and looked around the office at people whose pinned apps are "Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel", those are jobs that can easily be done if you're moderately smart and learn a few things on the job. You have a reasonably well-defined set of goals, projects, and meetings, and you just have to talk to other people and move numbers around in Excel, then put them into Powerpoint and set up meetings in Outlook to discuss. There are millions of these jobs, and you can get extremely senior once you just learn the business of your company (which would never be taught in college). You don't need a college degree for these. A friend of mine is a senior executive at a large insurance company and does just fine at their job with no degree. Given, they got into that job decades ago when degrees weren't required, and worked their way up, but the same could be done now if employers let people be hired based not on degree but on an apprenticeship or similar trial period.

New comment by edot in "Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet"

edot — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:37:49 +0000

Unused rights atrophy.