Hacker News: hightrix

New comment by hightrix in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

hightrix — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:39:44 +0000

A link for those of us without twitter accounts.

New comment by hightrix in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

hightrix — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:54:54 +0000

Something to do with serving more ads. My guess is they will use this to “better target” or to drain more information from you for their ads.

New comment by hightrix in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

hightrix — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:39:40 +0000

That was 10 years ago. Are there any other instances similar that are more recent?

New comment by hightrix in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

hightrix — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:09:25 +0000

If computers were invented by the Silicon Valley of the 2020s, this would absolutely be the case.

New comment by hightrix in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

hightrix — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:26:38 +0000

As a single data point, this is absolutely true. At my current "Big Corp", Copilot was immediately approved while Claude is entering month 2 or 3 of trying to get approval.

Additionally, we got copilot for every user, including those that never write code or use AI tools.

New comment by hightrix in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

hightrix — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:08:59 +0000

Palantir enables freedom in the same way salt water quenches your thirst.

It doesn’t.

New comment by hightrix in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

hightrix — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:19:20 +0000

They pay well. That’s it. That’s the only argument for working for facebook.

They don’t add anything beneficial to society. They exist to sell ads.

New comment by hightrix in "Ban the sale of precise geolocation"

hightrix — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:12:48 +0000

Would it be? I'd argue the current US administration is entirely propped up by television. Hell, the president seems to "rule" based on what Fox News said last night.

New comment by hightrix in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

hightrix — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:50:43 +0000

Sounds like a business opportunity. A simple tool to create an ID that passes checks with any information on it you'd like.

New comment by hightrix in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

hightrix — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:06:31 +0000

So a couple of people in Japan tried ranch for the first time and it is news worthy?

If this isn’t a paid marketing post, you should apply!

New comment by hightrix in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

hightrix — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:40:58 +0000

trumps supreme negotiation skills have gotten us a worse agreement than before the senseless, baseless, and aggressive attack on Iran.

What a complete moron.

New comment by hightrix in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

hightrix — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:27:04 +0000

Opt out is the same as forcing this on people that don’t want it. You know this.

Microslop proving their name time and time again.

New comment by hightrix in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

hightrix — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:22:36 +0000

Just to add to the feedback.

No one, anywhere, ever wants this or anything like it. Do not inject anything that is outside of the context of the session, ever.

This is how you get your software banned at large companies.

Question for you, did anyone on the team really not push back? Does the team really think anyone wants ads in their copilot output? If the answer to both of these is no, you have a team full of yes men, not actual developers.

New comment by hightrix in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

hightrix — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:53:24 +0000

Screens are drugs. They are uniquely and magically addictive.

Try to take away a kids tablet, a teen's phone, or an adult's phone. They will fight just like an addict.

New comment by hightrix in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

hightrix — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:54:53 +0000

You misread.

Most people do not understand temperature on the Kelvin scale. As such, you should not use it to communicate in a general setting such as this.

New comment by hightrix in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

hightrix — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:33:48 +0000

To be a stickler, communication requires respect for your audience. The vast majority of everyone understands a 1.8 degree C delta. I would argue that very few people anywhere would understand a temperature delta given in kelvin.

New comment by hightrix in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

hightrix — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:50:57 +0000

I would argue the core problems are the massive amounts of salt and the fact that none of the meat alternatives tasted good. They all taste off.

New comment by hightrix in "Ad-tech is fascist tech"

hightrix — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:05:11 +0000

When most people complain about ads, they are complaining about targeted ads.

Job postings, Show HN, and other ads on HN are contextually relevant to a majority of the users and require no tracking to present.

This post appears to be about the former, not the later.

New comment by hightrix in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

hightrix — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:04:56 +0000

Yet another reminder that everyone everywhere should be blocking all ads all the time. I don't say that lightly as absolutes tend to not be the appropriate solution, but an absolute stance of blocking ads is appropriate.

New comment by hightrix in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

hightrix — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:38:15 +0000

> tariff war against enemies

This is an interesting way to frame a tax on Americans, but it aligns with this administrations actions.