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New comment by hakrgrl in "EFF is leaving X"

hakrgrl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:35:26 +0000

Agreed, Twitter suspended accounts for "misgendering" and sharing Hunter Biden laptop stories. It was a bubble that protected leftists.

X, however, is pro free speech. Everyone is platformed. Everyone can discuss. Everyone can debate. It is a bubble that protects free speech from censorship. The left struggles to understand it and retreats to bluesky.

New comment by hakrgrl in "EFF is leaving X"

hakrgrl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:58:31 +0000

Your line of reasoning has been attempted already, nearly verbatim. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712820

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hakrgrl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:19:35 +0000

Why would a Nazi go to Israel, meet with Netanyahu, visit Auschwitz and light a candle in solidarity, and generally support Jews? It makes no sense.

People just hate Elon and call everyone a Nazi. It is not an accusation that is taken seriously anymore.

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hakrgrl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:16:13 +0000

It is a Rorschach test.

I see an awkward attempt of someone with Asperger's saying "my heart goes out to you", which is what he said while making the gesture.

You apparently saw a Nazi salute.

Given he has no other Nazi tendencies before or since, I did not see a Nazi salute.

In fact he visited Israel after Oct 7, a decidedly non-Nazi thing to do. Netanyahu himself praised Elon and said he is being smeared.

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1882392668497756279

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hakrgrl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:51:08 +0000

Pattern recognition - people who are on bsky are overly concerned with pronouns and extreme leftist ideology and/or extreme hate for trump. There is no actual discourse. Just a bubble where there is no tolerance for debate or difference of opinion.

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hakrgrl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:43:37 +0000

He did not do a Nazi salute. That is propaganda from legacy media. He has never even said anything remotely Nazi-like. He is pro free speech, pro humanity, pro USA.

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hakrgrl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:37:16 +0000

Twitter, before Elon, was the company that literally banned your account for sharing the hunter Biden laptop story. That story was purported to be a "conspiracy theory" but was actually true. And people were locked out of their account for sharing it. That is true fascism.

New comment by hakrgrl in "Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data"

hakrgrl — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:18:07 +0000

Why do you say that?

New comment by hakrgrl in "Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data"

hakrgrl — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:09:01 +0000

I noticed some topics and comments that were usually in violation of HN guidelines are no longer flagged, and discourse decays into reddit-like jabs and echo chambers. Only a small percent, but still, more than the previous 0% I was accustomed to.

Would be interesting to see how many comments violate the guidelines over time. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by hakrgrl in "Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data"

hakrgrl — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:08:53 +0000

That last chart showing the average comment length shows a clear negative downtrend, especially in recent months. I wonder why that is.

New comment by hakrgrl in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

hakrgrl — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:17:40 +0000

We got a nuclear deal Iran violated so badly that we had to take military action.

New comment by hakrgrl in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

hakrgrl — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:43:02 +0000

Getting builds to work was some of the most tedious, least interesting work. It is so satisfying to watch the agent try 4 different things and magically go on its way. No more makefile syntax searches or cmake hell.

New comment by hakrgrl in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

hakrgrl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:29:31 +0000

Ask your favorite LLM

New comment by hakrgrl in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

hakrgrl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:28:39 +0000

I don't even know who that is

New comment by hakrgrl in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

hakrgrl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:24:50 +0000

> is there any plan to do this differently to those expensive failures?

Why are you asking me? You can listen to the secretary of war (a veteran of those wars) and the president describe their strategy themselves. They are extremely transparent.

New comment by hakrgrl in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

hakrgrl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:18:37 +0000

The implication being what? "What about Iran" as if I don't think killing schoolchildren is terrible and shouldn't happen?

You missed the entire point of my comment: to us it's a tragedy. To them it's a strategy. That's why we're bombing them in the first place. They are commiting genocide.

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hakrgrl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:14:01 +0000

Skeptical of what, exactly?

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hakrgrl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

"reality and sanity"? The reality is the US gave them cash to improve their living standards and enrich their country, not their uranium.

With that money they chose to massacre their own people and fund terrorism across the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

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hakrgrl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:57:36 +0000

Was I not clear?

"I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it rather than sending palettes of cash on an jet to radical Muslims."

Point is you can mock Trump with your minesweeper game and jeer from the sidelines, but it's a better policy than sending bad guys money.

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hakrgrl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:55:30 +0000

Or machine gun defence when you're protecting tens of thousands of Iranians from the Islamist regime.

The difference is the US had bad intelligence and acknowledges it's a tragedy. The regime intentionally murders by the thousands and would murder more if it wasn't thwarted by the US and Israel. And somehow you're more upset about the former not the latter.

> Since the beginning of the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, the government of Iran has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own security forces and also imported foreign militias to suppress widespread public dissent across the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres