Hacker News: etchalon

New comment by etchalon in "Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update"

etchalon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:58:07 +0000

Ugh. I swear to everything if I have to start using Codex I'm going to be so mad.

New comment by etchalon in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

etchalon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:46:33 +0000

Advertising doesn't cover the bills anymore/ever.

New comment by etchalon in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

etchalon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:44:45 +0000

Yeah, Apple doesn't care about losing money or pissing off a large user-base. They assume they have enough money and they'll always have the larger user-base.

They care about people pissing in their ocean.

New comment by etchalon in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

etchalon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:10:12 +0000

Honestly, if it wasn't for Musk' ties to Trump, I'm betting they just would have pulled it.

New comment by etchalon in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

etchalon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:09:43 +0000

People demand access to everything.

New comment by etchalon in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

etchalon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:49:13 +0000

And no value was lost.

New comment by etchalon in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

etchalon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:01:20 +0000

They're not wrong.

New comment by etchalon in "EFF is leaving X"

etchalon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:27:04 +0000

No one would say they used "David Duke's Whites Only Car Wash" but "didn't support the owner's politics."

New comment by etchalon in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

etchalon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:33:02 +0000

OK, but ... imagine Andreessen said, "I don't eat food."

No one would think that was a reasonable position.

No one would argue, "Well, food DOES have draw backs. What if you eat too much of it!"

We all inherently understand that you have to eat food, and while being careful not to eat too much.

We would understand that if anyone said, "Look at all these successful people who also didn't eat food!" that they were talking absolute shite.

No one would treat the statement "I don't eat food" as anything other than deeply fucking weird.

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

etchalon — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:59:18 +0000

The rest of the world, "Let's use technology that helps us improve the environment, our economy, and our grid."

America - "I'mma roll coal and scream about birds and windmills."

New comment by etchalon in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

etchalon — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:50:05 +0000

Maybe not, but doing it once a second instead of 60 times a second is a pretty massive savings.

New comment by etchalon in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

etchalon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:33:13 +0000

If the screen is only refreshing once per second, less energy is used to refresh the screen. The pixel uses the same amount of power.

New comment by etchalon in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

etchalon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:18:29 +0000

Amazing.

New comment by etchalon in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

etchalon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:29:42 +0000

... you're arguing they weren't denied due process because they could always sue to demand due process?

New comment by etchalon in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

etchalon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:36:26 +0000

The DOD is labeling a domestic company a supply chain risk - label generally reserved for hostile foreign powers and their cooperators - because that domestic company didn't agree to its contract terms.

Judge Lin's order finds that it do so specifically to harm that company, without due process and without the remedies Congress specifically requested be used when it drafted the law. The DOD was, in essence, using a law illegally.

The version of events you present does not seem to be tethered to reality.

New comment by etchalon in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

etchalon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:22:28 +0000

No, Anthropic is suing for the right to not be labeled a supply chain risk for a failed contract negotiation.

Nothing in their suit, or this ruling, says the DoD has to buy things from them.

New comment by etchalon in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

etchalon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:21:33 +0000

Yes, it turns out our laws make it hard for the government to do a lot of things because making it easy for them to do things leads to some deeply authoritarian bullshit.

New comment by etchalon in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

etchalon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:02:17 +0000

No one is forcing the DoD to contract with a company.

New comment by etchalon in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

etchalon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:56:41 +0000

Nothing is a bigger market than the iPhone, let alone expensive niche machines.

New comment by etchalon in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

etchalon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:23:57 +0000

Consequences are for poor people.