Hacker News: flumes_whims_

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:25:08 +0000

The Hayes code wasn't policed by the government.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "What can we gain by losing infinity?"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:01:04 +0000

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:09:22 +0000

He didn't give it root access, it found root access.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "DeepSeek v4"

flumes_whims_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:22:41 +0000

Like supporting Al Qaeda to overthrow Assad.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "DeepSeek v4"

flumes_whims_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:21:58 +0000

> You had to reach back 50 years to find US support for dictators.

More recently, Sadam and Noriega until America turned on them.

Or currently, the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, Egypt, and many others.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

flumes_whims_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:13:41 +0000

Hope he placed a bet on getting arrested.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Books are not too expensive"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:01:08 +0000

Not too expensive compared to what?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Books are not too expensive"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:59:00 +0000

Unless I am misreading the GP, that is $35 per resident on purchasing books. The amount for everything would be $233 per resident.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:33:29 +0000

IIRC, the judge specifically said the amount was not about harm but specifically about shutting down InfoWars. So, give them such a heavy fine that would be impossible to pay.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:32:06 +0000

What is the last thing Trump said about Alex Jones?

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:36:33 +0000

Those notifications are transfered peer to peer (from your Phone to your computer) using Apple Wireless Direct Link. The contents are encrypted using AES-GCM.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "North American English Dialects"

flumes_whims_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:57:37 +0000

Wikitongues is doing this with languages.

https://www.youtube.com/@Wikitongues/videos

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "I've sold out"

flumes_whims_ — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:38:16 +0000

That's how Sidney Gottlieb seemed in his retirement.

New comment by flumes_whims_ in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

flumes_whims_ — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:36:21 +0000

If it only mentioned made with copilot that would be one thing, but it didn't just mention Copilot. It advertised a different third party app.