Hacker News: emdash

New comment by emdash in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

emdash — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:43:15 +0000

There were some people using the public API to try and get info on what's going on but Reddit is now conveniently taking that away too.

New comment by emdash in "PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial"

emdash — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:20:26 +0000

They kind of did the opposite. Started off open source until they had gotten what they needed from the goodwill of the open source community, then made it closed source to make sure they wouldn't have to return any of that goodwill

New comment by emdash in "Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more"

emdash — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:42:06 +0000

We already have a global abundance. Doesn't seem to be doing the average person much good right now

New comment by emdash in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

emdash — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:06:28 +0000

Flock being only accessible to people who are statistically more likely to beat their wives doesn't make me like it more

New comment by emdash in "AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to train robots"

emdash — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:41:17 +0000

That seems sensible enough to me. I'm not sure why people are acting like it's impossible to succeed if you're not a YC company. I'm pretty sure plenty of non YC companies have done just fine

New comment by emdash in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

emdash — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:27:31 +0000

Now if only they'd actually deliver a vehicle

New comment by emdash in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

emdash — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:59:42 +0000

Don't worry, the car won't last long enough for it to be all that bad in the long run

New comment by emdash in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

emdash — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:01:56 +0000

Obviously it's hard to prove such a thing but I've always wondered if the owners of Reddit actively support having these operations run on their site.

I've seen cases where the admins delete comments that talk about the issue

New comment by emdash in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

emdash — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:14:57 +0000

I think they just didn't do a good enough job at advertising it. Even the salesmen at the dealers didn't seem to really understand the Volt

New comment by emdash in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

emdash — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:13:43 +0000

That's pretty much how the Chevy Volt worked. It was an incredibly good system in that car and GM did their usual thing and killed it

New comment by emdash in "Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI"

emdash — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:22:21 +0000

They really don't

New comment by emdash in "New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb"

emdash — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:42:54 +0000

And for the dumbest, most Amazon reason possible

New comment by emdash in "A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals"

emdash — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:26:53 +0000

Flagging shouldn't be a thing at all. If you like a comment, vote it up. If you dislike a comment then vote it down. Any functionality beyond that is pointless

New comment by emdash in "A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals"

emdash — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:19:59 +0000

We really need a better board for talking about this stuff on.

New comment by emdash in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

emdash — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:26:53 +0000

Sometime you should look and see how many of those comments you made on reddit are instantly shadow removed.

You don't get any up votes because nobody ever saw those comments to begin with.

New comment by emdash in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"

emdash — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:24:49 +0000

Flock cameras do the same thing to me so I guess I'd better call the cops.

New comment by emdash in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

emdash — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:50:11 +0000

I have a theory that there are far fewer genuine users on Reddit at this point than you'd expect.

New comment by emdash in "AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA"

emdash — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:02:36 +0000

They said should be under public control, not is under public control.

New comment by emdash in "I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering"

emdash — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:40:20 +0000

I'm almost certain people tell jokes even outside of Reddit

New comment by emdash in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

emdash — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:25:31 +0000

Opus 5 is so bad it made me cancel my subscription. It flags so many dumb things as security/ safety risks and refuses to answer