Hacker News: hexator

New comment by hexator in "Surplus Agriculture Equipment"

hexator — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:16:02 +0000

Who among us doesn't have persistent dreams of abandoning society, running for the hills, and becoming off-grid farmers?

New comment by hexator in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

hexator — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:55:59 +0000

Having "pro-PKK views" (or for other groups designated as terrorists for that matter) is not against the law in the US as that is a first amendment right (as long as that speech is not support).

New comment by hexator in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

hexator — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:46:35 +0000

A variant of this but taking place on an O'Neill Cylinder would be amazing. I've always been captivated by the idea of the horizon curving up in front of you.

New comment by hexator in "Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice"

hexator — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:38:59 +0000

There needs to be some sort of penalty for filing frivolous DMCA notices.

New comment by hexator in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

hexator — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:34:06 +0000

Is there any indication or proof that they are providing services to PKK? Equating supporting protest organizers in the west with supporting an armed terrorist group is laughable and dangerous.

New comment by hexator in "The turbulent AI era is here"

hexator — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:50:32 +0000

People enjoy living in cities, at least some of us do. Personally the thought of everyone living on their own personal homestead manned by robots sounds really boring and lonely?

New comment by hexator in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

hexator — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:38:26 +0000

Yeah, basically this. People have been calling themselves Antifascist, but only the right-wing calls it "Antifa". Literally anyone carrying a sign at a protest that says "Reject Fascism" is an antifascist. Those are the people the US government is calling terrorists.

New comment by hexator in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

hexator — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:19:44 +0000

It's not a loosely organized group, it's a label applied (by the right) to many different groups with little to no coordination operating in entirely different places

New comment by hexator in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

hexator — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:17:05 +0000

If the US government can designate their ideological opponents as terrorists without due process or any real justification, then nobody is safe.

New comment by hexator in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

hexator — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:00:36 +0000

What the US government is doing here is a perversion of justice. Anyone running web services critical of those in control of the US government should be extremely concerned.

New comment by hexator in "Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions"

hexator — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:33:02 +0000

In Boston we have a 311 app and I've taken to reporting every single bike lane obstruction I can find when walking about. I don't bike myself anymore after an accident last year in a bike when I was hit by a taxi. Things are definitely trending in the wrong direction in Boston.

New comment by hexator in "Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements"

hexator — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:02:43 +0000

This just sounds cartoonishly evil

New comment by hexator in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

hexator — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:00:06 +0000

I'm worried that any ban on Chinese AI models might be an excuse to get mass surveillance.

New comment by hexator in "Airport Simulator"

hexator — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:39:09 +0000

I love this emerging "3D pixel art" trend. Stylized graphics always age better than realistic. And it definitely has more charm

New comment by hexator in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

hexator — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:25:48 +0000

The Catskills have those environmental protection laws because they are the water source for NYC. It would be very stupid to relax those to build data centers.

New comment by hexator in "The people who actually want AI to replace humanity"

hexator — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:09:26 +0000

These people should be treated as insane, because they are.

New comment by hexator in "The dead economy theory"

hexator — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:34:04 +0000

> not only is the premise wrong

The blog post offers several studies as evidence, where's yours?

New comment by hexator in "FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement"

hexator — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:23:14 +0000

> 2020

New comment by hexator in "FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement"

hexator — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:07:57 +0000

Yes but let's not pretend this isn't a new interpretation.

New comment by hexator in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

hexator — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:18:02 +0000

Moving to the Cloud proved to be a pretty nice moneymaker far faster and more concretely than AI has been for these companies. It's a fair comparison regarding corporate pushes but not anything more than that.