Hacker News: harvey9

New comment by harvey9 in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

harvey9 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:43:47 +0000

Newspaper articles generally do say things like "a car struck pedestrians". I agree with your point though.

New comment by harvey9 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

harvey9 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:55:50 +0000

Here's an article from outside the tech sector, which I am linking to as a corroboration since this is quite surprising for those of us unfamiliar with German law.

https://www.thelocal.de/20260504/how-a-google-maps-update-ex...

New comment by harvey9 in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

harvey9 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:56:20 +0000

Road fund licence aka car tax is probably the most common thing that lots of people pay for regularly.

New comment by harvey9 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

harvey9 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:50:11 +0000

The outcome is the purpose.

New comment by harvey9 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

harvey9 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:47:29 +0000

Sites like TPB don't try to verify your age.

New comment by harvey9 in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

harvey9 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:05:18 +0000

There are several different definitions of that word, some of which would reasonably apply to hn. I am glad it doesn't have infinite scroll but it also (front page) changes fairly slowly so I do not develop an urge to check it every few minutes.

New comment by harvey9 in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

harvey9 — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:05:32 +0000

I think you have a very narrow conception of even assembly line work.

New comment by harvey9 in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

harvey9 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:43:04 +0000

The idea that skilled people who work with their hands don't identify with their work is laughable.

New comment by harvey9 in "The dead economy theory"

harvey9 — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:16:13 +0000

The post you replied to specified young people so 70M is the wrong denominator. The UK currently has far more than 1 million working age adults unemployed and the denominator for that is still less than 70M because Britain has plenty of retirement age adults too.

New comment by harvey9 in "The dead economy theory"

harvey9 — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:08:31 +0000

In the towns yes. A wealthy city man could expect to live fewer years than a labourer in the countryside.

New comment by harvey9 in "The dead economy theory"

harvey9 — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:06:05 +0000

Do you mean to imply a political/social revolution? In any other scenario I can think of when my boss gets a new machine, he captures the value from my increased productivity or the machine eliminates my job entirely.

New comment by harvey9 in "The dead economy theory"

harvey9 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:59:01 +0000

If you focus on writing ricketty software or overblown emails then no it isn't real. But if you think of e-gates instead of border officers then it is.

New comment by harvey9 in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

harvey9 — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:26:50 +0000

Slop is a word in its own right which got the goy prefix later in life.

New comment by harvey9 in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

harvey9 — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:40:03 +0000

The fact Royal Mail is privatised seems irrelevant since whoever you shipped with in Finland decides how it will get to the UK.

I order things like band merch from Europe and have never had a problem receiving in the UK.

New comment by harvey9 in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

harvey9 — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:30:45 +0000

HR will send you an ai-written reply

New comment by harvey9 in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

harvey9 — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:06:48 +0000

I do remember my lung biopsy where they went in down my neck. Maybe they give less drugs for that than for your upper endoscopy. My memories have a slightly horror movie vibe but I would not be put off having the procedure again.

New comment by harvey9 in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

harvey9 — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:04:28 +0000

It is somewhat an exaggeration. The civil service and quangocracy can make redundancies if they really try.

New comment by harvey9 in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

harvey9 — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:26:58 +0000

The people who really want to stop VPNs are commercial streamers, especially for live sports. Regardless of state, or governing party, it always comes back to money.

New comment by harvey9 in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

harvey9 — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:52:45 +0000

In the digital age corporations can and do confiscate things we thought we owned. Amazon removing paid-for kindle books, devices getting bricked, paying a recurring fee to use some features in your car.

New comment by harvey9 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

harvey9 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:05:15 +0000

I did not describe a pawnshop function. eBay already has an authenticity service which also is not a pawnshop function.