Hacker News: emptysongglass

New comment by emptysongglass in "Internet traffic in Iran increasing"

emptysongglass — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:21:07 +0000

Protesting against the US government in the streets will not get you shot in daylight. Protesting against the Iran government in the streets will get you shot in daylight or, worse, publicly hung.

Being gay will get you executed in Iran. Being gay in the US will not.

There is no comparison. You are not being serious.

New comment by emptysongglass in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

emptysongglass — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:46:08 +0000

I just realized I completely missed the grammar on this one: I meant dads of millenials.

New comment by emptysongglass in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

emptysongglass — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:29:29 +0000

I agree this is a terrible loss. On the other hand, new dads are actually learning how to feel their feelings, communicate those feelings in a healthy way, and tell their children they love them.

Millennial dads were (mostly) a distant mess who for whatever reason saw the expression of feelings as "weak".

New comment by emptysongglass in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

emptysongglass — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:44:20 +0000

Because the EU as a whole is quite happy to censor and generally wield the same tricks as "non-Western" countries in their desires to combat misinformation (however our EU bureaucrats define it), child abuse materials (see Chat Control that thing is not going to go away), and hatred (oh boy).

We've never guaranteed the right to free speech and because we haven't it's a slippery slope all the way back down to the furnaces of autocracy we sprang from.

The Spanish president has come out on record saying we don't deserve anonymity on the internet.

New comment by emptysongglass in "Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage"

emptysongglass — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:20:20 +0000

Ah, interesting, thanks! I think you might consider elevating some of that kind of copy.

The sociotechnical stuff with System Initiative was made by your CEO? The guy who is really into music? And I don't even know how long that product was a thing before the pivot. Not long!

New comment by emptysongglass in "Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage"

emptysongglass — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:00:05 +0000

Man what the hell happened to System Initiative. It was a super weird pivot from sociotechnical proclamations to a tool I honestly have no idea what it does for me? Is it n8n for agents? Is it needed when I have a bunch of skills that approximate whatever swamp is trying to do? Who knows!

New comment by emptysongglass in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

emptysongglass — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:43:39 +0000

Why would anyone move to a closed-source tool like yours? It's 2026.

New comment by emptysongglass in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

emptysongglass — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:33:30 +0000

I mean, yes it is, but we all know what happens to these projects when their primary devs move on or get acquihired. Keybase, anyone?

New comment by emptysongglass in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

emptysongglass — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:34:49 +0000

Wow Cirrus was like the one cool CI thing with first-class Podman support. RIP. Guess I'm looking elsewhere (and not at Dagger which refuses to support rootless Podman).

New comment by emptysongglass in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

emptysongglass — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:44:31 +0000

You can just have your bot use Telegram topics for this.

New comment by emptysongglass in "Enforcing new limits and retiring Opus 4.6 Fast from Copilot Pro+"

emptysongglass — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:37:10 +0000

Between this, Anthropic and OpenAI all reducing usage caps on their plans is it safe to say that the easy tokens have run out and we're switching into the make-profit part of this cycle?

Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of European Union inactio

emptysongglass — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:56:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-globe/google-europe/reaffirming-commitment-to-child-safety/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641500

Points: 4

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New comment by emptysongglass in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

emptysongglass — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:31:09 +0000

So you're comparing a generic tool you can tailor to your own needs to drugs?

This is exactly why I have zero interest in engaging with people over this topic.

New comment by emptysongglass in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

emptysongglass — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:29:51 +0000

Why don't you try it yourself instead of making uninformed claims

New comment by emptysongglass in "World Happiness Report 2026"

emptysongglass — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:43:09 +0000

This is one of those things that just is not true, no matter what sort of evidence is presented, because actual humans can go walk outside their door and see it isn't.

Denmark has ranked as one of the happiest countries for years running, but, Dane here, we hoover up antidepressants like it was our breakfast. There are also deep cultural factors at play that make Danes more likely to mask that everything is fine when it isn't. We have an extremely high incidence of cheating on our partners, which, surprise, comes from a talent for deception, both toward self and others, and we are extremely emotionally avoidant, which results in our nationally very high rate of alcohol consumption and alcoholism.

These happiness indexes are a complete sham and don't observe the full spectrum that goes into how cultures present themselves versus lived reality.

New comment by emptysongglass in "zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32"

emptysongglass — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:23:46 +0000

> If I gave you a great tasting cake made of boiled plastic would you still eat it?

How is that analogy in any way relevant?

The OpenClaw I control is extremely useful to me. I've never been more excited about technology than right now. If it's not for you, I really don't care. Go do something you enjoy. Turning it into Chicken Little doomerism is completely uncalled for.

New comment by emptysongglass in "Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark"

emptysongglass — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:46:52 +0000

I tried to set up Briar recently so my partner and I could text on the plane. We tried everything including manual exchange of the special links and QR code pairing and nothing worked. This was even while we still bad ground internet access.

New comment by emptysongglass in "ChatGPT Health"

emptysongglass — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:38:11 +0000

I mean, unless you have a life-threatening emergency, it's the way the entire Danish healthcare system runs.

New comment by emptysongglass in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

emptysongglass — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:53:53 +0000

It's a bad study that can be disproven by anyone with any experience in strength training. The sample size is tiny. This is not good science by any measure.

New comment by emptysongglass in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

emptysongglass — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:34:08 +0000

It's a yearly fee that amounts to a couple hundred dollars. That's about an hour of an engineer's salary. Zulip's customers make this less than a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a rounding error.