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New comment by hobs in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

hobs — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:54:47 +0000

We can hold both accountable actually, its a workaround of our fourth amendment rights and also it should be illegal to do this for the companies involved.

New comment by hobs in ""

hobs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:27:26 +0000

You do not define wokeness except as an opposition to... nations? You are deep in the propaganda hole and you should attempt to claw yourself out a bit before trying to convince others of your irrationality.

New comment by hobs in "The 49MB web page"

hobs — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:07:36 +0000

I didn't say anything about their development abilities, what I am pointing to is their professional responsibility. If a doctor is asked by a client to cut off their arm and they say no, and the client fires them, did the doctor err? (No) This doesn't comment on their ability to do surgery.

New comment by hobs in "The 49MB web page"

hobs — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:08:41 +0000

From the perspective of the devs, they have a responsibility for saying something literally wont fly anywhere, ever, saying the business is responsible for every bad decision is a complete abrogation of your responsibilities.

New comment by hobs in "Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources"

hobs — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:55:43 +0000

I mean, its just SQL injection all over again, if your method of communication can be escaped, it will.

New comment by hobs in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

hobs — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:04:07 +0000

Anyone whose looking at this administration as anything but corrupt thieves that need to be immediately jailed is a patsy, a fool, or a thief themselves.

New comment by hobs in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

hobs — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:00:19 +0000

More useful idiots are born every day, most of them never are educated and do not see their past blunders as anything wrong happening, they are completely blind to the real implication of their actions.

New comment by hobs in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

hobs — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:26:47 +0000

"and we do not hold that notice by mass email establishes inquiry notice in every case."

Basically the case met two of three factors and so they said yeah probably but its not establishing precedent because each case is special.

New comment by hobs in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

hobs — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:58:27 +0000

You need to care about your Recovery Time (how long does it take to get back up again?) and your Recovery Point(how long since your backup was taken?) and it gets Much Worse when you start distributing state around your various cloud systems - oh did that queue already get that message? how do we re-send that? etc

New comment by hobs in "Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself"

hobs — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:17:09 +0000

And the human downstream of this random reorganization of things at will, how do they manage it?

If its AI agents all the way down its commoditization all the way down, if humans have to deal with it there's some sort of cost for change even if its 0 for code.

New comment by hobs in "Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself"

hobs — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:15:57 +0000

AI often simply does not offer the best options, does not think strategically, and if you constrained to its choices you will often make silly mistakes.

This is why all the arguments about context windows and RAG exist, because at the end of the day even if you asked the question of a human with all the context there's such a thing as opinions, stated vs unstated goals, requirements vs non functional requirements, etc which will give you wildly different answers.

Most of the time people don't even know the questions they want to ask.

New comment by hobs in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

hobs — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:47:13 +0000

Anyone who doubts the requirement for e2e messaging should not be considered a skeptic, they are fully buying into whatever narrative LEO would like you to believe.

New comment by hobs in "An Interesting Find: STM32 RDP1 Decryptor"

hobs — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:39:08 +0000

Could you just record the sounds by using the speaker out as a mic in somewhere else?

New comment by hobs in "Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres"

hobs — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:50:56 +0000

Most of the time just re-casting what you want in a horizontally shardable way is the "right" way to do it with any rdbms (if you scale) but at this point you can get boxes on AWS with 32TiB of ram, and most organizations don't have that much total data across their entire suite of stuff (many do, most don't.)

New comment by hobs in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

hobs — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:50:42 +0000

I have no dog in this fight, but simply claiming a count of tests get you anything is like saying your code coverage is 100% - it sounds really good until you think about what 5000 unreviewed tests actually... do.

New comment by hobs in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

hobs — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:17:02 +0000

I like how you use the phrase social responsibilities to mean doing whatever the DoD wants which includes spying on the American people and operating autonomous drones to kill people. It's like saying they have social responsibilities to enable murder for people who have been shown to be unthinking murderers justifying the most pointless murders because they think it makes "their side" winners.

New comment by hobs in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

hobs — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:51:07 +0000

Complaining about the head of the government publicly so important that its included in the first amendment instead of one of those other ones.

New comment by hobs in "I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus"

hobs — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:16:58 +0000

HN is not usually a place for jokes but dan that's good.

New comment by hobs in "Never buy a .online domain"

hobs — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:46:36 +0000

Because? It seems like the blame is very squarely on their shoulders.

New comment by hobs in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

hobs — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:50:44 +0000

No organization I have seen prioritizes a DBA's requirements, concerns, or approach. They certainly don't pay them enough to deal with that bullshit, so I was out.