Hacker News: franktankbank

New comment by franktankbank in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

franktankbank — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:49:47 +0000

> The court specifically determined that the Internet Archive was guilty

This doesn't seem to be a contradiction. Sometimes the courts are wrong or even the law is wrong. It is just a label.

New comment by franktankbank in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

franktankbank — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:20:45 +0000

I think the GP assumption is that there is a bad actor intent on serious harm.

I'm not really sure where I side on this.

Ideally Defense would be able to conduct exercises without worrying about harming civilians. But that seems impossible to drive to 0.

I think the top level commenter comes across as a bit one sided. How often is due-diligence done by the pilots? Could the guidance provided be more well defined and reduce these incidences to several orders of magnitude less? Hopefully the military is not purposefully inflating incidences for nefarious purposes or instigating specific instances.

New comment by franktankbank in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

franktankbank — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:26:03 +0000

Dumb argument though when UHG owns the hospitals, pharmacy and the insurance company. They can make the "profit" of any one of them be anything they want really.

New comment by franktankbank in "The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home"

franktankbank — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:02:38 +0000

I have a temp controlled fan (I should verify its working). The thermostat is downstairs so the upstairs where we slept was generally 5 F hotter. Installed that fan near the roof peak (actually replaced an existing vent) and it made a big difference in the summer.

New comment by franktankbank in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

franktankbank — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:37:47 +0000

Also why do we want to kneecap?

New comment by franktankbank in "Ask HN: Why are US tech workers so pro open borders?"

franktankbank — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:28:04 +0000

Liechtenstein ain't going to swamp anything tho right? Very long paragraphs for a dumb conclusion.

New comment by franktankbank in "Ask HN: Why are US tech workers so pro open borders?"

franktankbank — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:23:31 +0000

I'm not really sure how to clarify what I mean by Trojan horse. I think people respond to incentives so I don't really care how people take advantage of that. I do think that there is some shortsightedness on the part of the people that created the incentives. If not shortsightedness perhaps a cultural cynicism on one or the other side of the exchange.

New comment by franktankbank in "Ask HN: Why are US tech workers so pro open borders?"

franktankbank — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:51:06 +0000

I used to have more open attitudes, probably mostly stemming from the idea that America should take in the best and the brightest and that was a big driver of Americas rise to power. I sort of see it more like a Trojan horse as used in the last 30 - 40 years.

New comment by franktankbank in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

franktankbank — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:38:24 +0000

We follow a path governed only by the logic chain of previous mistakes. Our next recognition of one could be pretty brutal.

New comment by franktankbank in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

franktankbank — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:01:10 +0000

Do not answer calls from random numbers. When has that ever been a benefit?

New comment by franktankbank in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

franktankbank — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:53:24 +0000

The person you are replying to is on every Zig thread bashing it.

New comment by franktankbank in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:40:15 +0000

I think its worthwhile to hear how some self promoting person is actually a piece of crap.

New comment by franktankbank in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:09:12 +0000

And I see AI maximalists circling the wagon.

New comment by franktankbank in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:43:20 +0000

LLMs don't know anything.

New comment by franktankbank in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:35:19 +0000

Probably should just import more labor I guess

New comment by franktankbank in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:33:51 +0000

Microsoft is a mafia that sometimes produces code (poorly).

New comment by franktankbank in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

franktankbank — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:06:16 +0000

Freakin useless is hiding OBD codes.

New comment by franktankbank in "Alan Greenspan has died"

franktankbank — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:57:07 +0000

HILARIOUS!

New comment by franktankbank in "U.S. science is in chaos"

franktankbank — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:37:57 +0000

I'm sorry but Rome certainly didn't have airplanes.

New comment by franktankbank in "Linux 7.1"

franktankbank — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:10:42 +0000

Maybe that points to an architecture issue? Is kernel driver support general enough to support all hardware in theory? If so it should be on hardware to provide a compatible api IMO. Note: I really have no experience in any of this there is probably more important things to consider like security/control or something.