Hacker News: hakrgrl

New comment by hakrgrl in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

hakrgrl — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:55:45 +0000

Why does the US have to offer jobs to the whole world? People flood US borders like it's a magnet sucking them in and cry when they can't stay. If it's so exploitive why don't people stay in their own country or go somewhere else?

New comment by hakrgrl in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

hakrgrl — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:32:40 +0000

The amount of coordination it takes to release these files, coupled with the incompetence of government.

The prosaic explanation is the more likely one, meaning the events are unrelated.

New comment by hakrgrl in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

hakrgrl — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:16:05 +0000

Galileo's heliocentric model

Hand washing prevents illness

COVID came from a lab, not a wet market

Hunter Biden laptop was real

And then a counter example of something broadly accepted but untrue. The humoral theory and blood letting, practiced for thousands of years. This is what killed George Washington.

New comment by hakrgrl in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

hakrgrl — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:25:41 +0000

People are asking why they would switch from zig to rust. I wonder the opposite: why would anyone would use zig over rust?

New comment by hakrgrl in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

hakrgrl — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:09:43 +0000

Isn't it? Look up the California high speed rail. There is massive corruption, incompetence, and red tape.

New comment by hakrgrl in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

hakrgrl — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:45:28 +0000

This argument always comes up. "Why not public transit? It's so efficient, look at country X". Well, country X has people who respect public property and are orderly, so they can have nice things.

The US is filled with people who don't. And who do drugs. And who rob. So people retreat to places like a Joby aircraft or self driving Waymo, which don't have those issues.

New comment by hakrgrl in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

hakrgrl — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:38:42 +0000

Trump is a disruptor. I am interested to see how this plays out and whether he replaces anyone. One thing I've learned since COVID is, unfortunately, to be more skeptical of medical authorities. We were lied to in so many ways and all the while forced to "trust the science" and so called experts. But they were caught either wrong or lying way too many times. So I am not going to assume outright all the people he fired are perfectly honest or unbiased scientists, and I hope Trump has a plan going forward. TDS is a thing, and anything he does is met with resistance. He could cure cancer and people would still be mad at him somehow.

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

hakrgrl — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:53:29 +0000

> Maduro was president of a sovereign country.

Since 2013, Venezuela has been suffering a socioeconomic crisis under Maduro. He stole the last two elections and remained in power even though he had not legitimately won.

Numerous international bodies and human rights organizations have found that Nicolás Maduro and his government committed extensive human rights violations. These violations have been ongoing since at least 2014 as part of a systematic plan to repress dissent. State security forces and allied armed groups (colectivos) have been implicated in thousands of unlawful or politically motivated killings and arbitrary arrests of protesters, opposition leaders, and perceived critics.

Immediately after the latest presidential election, at least 24 people died as a result of the government’s repression of protests against the appointment of Nicolás Maduro. Most of these killings could amount to extrajudicial executions. Two of the victims were children.

New comment by hakrgrl in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

hakrgrl — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:10:40 +0000

Because it's not intellectually interesting and because it falls in the off-topic category based on the guidelines of this site.

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic

People don't come to Hacker News to talk about wars. They come to get away from wars.

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

New comment by hakrgrl in "EFF is leaving X"

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.

New comment by hakrgrl in "EFF is leaving X"

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

New comment by hakrgrl in "EFF is leaving X"

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.

New comment by hakrgrl in "EFF is leaving X"

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.

New comment by hakrgrl in "EFF is leaving X"

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.