Hacker News: hactually

New comment by hactually in "Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025"

hactually — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:29:43 +0000

How do you do it? I'm a billionaire - I'll pay myself $10,000 a year and I then loan against my stock so it's not income assessable.

What's the plan?

Forced revaluation and selling of assets once per year?

Who values privately held assets?

New comment by hactually in "Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025"

hactually — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:45:44 +0000

This is why you should read up on the Laffer curve.

The logical limit of your argument is communism and everyone with the ability to read a history book knows that results in corruption and death.

New comment by hactually in "Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025"

hactually — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:17:29 +0000

This is purely the politics of envy and incredibly short sighted.

I'd suggest a quick review of the Laffer Curve and how capital flight has resulted in places reducing their tax take due to greed/communism/whatever.

If you want to pay more into inefficient bodies, you are free to do it but don't impoverish your nation with nonsense politics when less than 10% pay 75% of all tax.

New comment by hactually in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

hactually — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:38:36 +0000

I think having only half a brain is how you end up believing that migrant crime is because of far right influence.

This is very close to magic dirt theory -- I bring a horse into a pond, does it start acting like a duck?

New comment by hactually in "Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search"

hactually — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:41:49 +0000

try feeding it content already in the corpus - niche religious texts are a good one where they've tried to special case out the mainstream things like the King James but missed other ones. They claim it's 100% AI.

Garbage app In my experience.

New comment by hactually in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

hactually — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:37:01 +0000

Is it not good that the US and Israel govt are generally doing what their people want though?

What's the point of a democracy if it acts against it's people like the UK does?

New comment by hactually in "KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal"

hactually — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:32:34 +0000

Is it going to just be an Omarchy + KDE iteration? The article was very light on content but DHH is definitely driving more results and new contributions which is great for free software.

New comment by hactually in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model"

hactually — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:54:40 +0000

we recently got this running in 192gb of vRAM and using it with the Klaudia harness has been incredible for driving out work that we'd need to use Opus and Fable for previously

New comment by hactually in "Resistance Training Prescription for Muscle Function, Hypertrophy in Health"

hactually — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:20:49 +0000

Funny enough - I spent time last year, and paid for a professional trainer who worked with celebs/elite athletes - to build an app to do what I wanted.

For a long time I had been doing greyskull LP but kept progressing and getting injured and then having to reset.

I've been following my own app now and am loving life and sharing it with friends.

Find what works for you but by all means, lift!

New comment by hactually in "The Netherlands, Spain push for EU-wide minimum age on social media"

hactually — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:38:58 +0000

From a lens of control/social cohesion it makes sense tbf. The time kids are most malleable, you want to ensure they're thinking the "correct" way and only consume content from approved sources.

I don't envy the kids of today and how much they can't do compared to my generation

New comment by hactually in "How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform"

hactually — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:22:51 +0000

really enjoyed this - great to see modern C++ as well, we were all on Assembly and C when I had to do this on a Freescale/iMX chipset for a wireless router!

So good though taking a reference design, re-laying it out with new modules and then bringing it to life with a scope and a datasheet.

I can only imagine how much will have changed with LLMs being able to be read and have a harness to do the hard work for you!

New comment by hactually in "AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it"

hactually — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:12:34 +0000

how do you mean? surely you're paid for delivering product not coding? if it is the latter, I too would love to be paid for recreational coding

The Integer

hactually — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:23:45 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/17twenty/1f230ab8256f42d4cd3ba931b9bd440b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355368

Points: 19

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New comment by hactually in "Why does everyone hate data centers?"

hactually — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:50:13 +0000

it's a very good psyop by non western aligned government actors.

Convincing people that it slurps up infinite water and contains the world's stolen information like some bad National Treasure script is genius.

New comment by hactually in "Flutter 3.47"

hactually — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:00:23 +0000

The android ecosystem is pretty useful...

New comment by hactually in "AI software that generates 'rage bait' developed by Germany's far-right AfD"

hactually — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:44:59 +0000

The populist left are happy to use video too. All UK and Australian politicians are on Twitter and Tiktok and numerous podcasts that then get soundbite sliced.

New comment by hactually in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

hactually — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:30:26 +0000

kinda. but not really. they just showed a lack of effectiveness and has emboldened other countries to further restrict things like VPNs and roll out ID based net access

New comment by hactually in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

hactually — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:45:28 +0000

The UK government have at least made it clear that they intend to ban right wing media and parties that aren't aligned.

A leaked strategy document from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, outlined their "Kill Musk's Twitter" to diminish the platform through advertiser pressure and regulatory action

New comment by hactually in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

hactually — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:41:48 +0000

Got any numbers/sources for that specific claim?

New comment by hactually in "The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents"

hactually — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:42:27 +0000

So just DNS block them in the UK. They don't need YouTube