Hacker News: hypothesis

New comment by hypothesis in "Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits"

hypothesis — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:05:10 +0000

> So you stop and resent the companies for ripping you off/manipulating you

It will probably work for both sides, as the only people left are either ok with that or clueless, perfectly self selected.

New comment by hypothesis in "I feel open source has turned into two worlds"

hypothesis — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:33:54 +0000

Just looking at a few previous issues:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/905#note_243...

New comment by hypothesis in "Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests"

hypothesis — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:43:44 +0000

> modifications or misuse by an operator could nevertheless turn the ADS into a more damaging weapon which could potentially violate international conventions on warfare

Safe? When manned by actors known to shoot journalists in the head with “less lethal” weapons?

New comment by hypothesis in "Social Security Admin to require in-person ID checks for new&existing recipients"

hypothesis — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:54:37 +0000

> they just need to find a local young person that is willing to help them handle the requirements online

Is that an officially published guidance? Because it sounds awfully close to “social security/ballot harvesting” and will surely backfire on those old people.

New comment by hypothesis in "Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months"

hypothesis — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:40:59 +0000

Another sus thing about this Password app is what “App Privacy Report” shows.

Sometimes it would increment counters for visited sites without you using the app, which likely means that sites are able to track you if you have an entry in Passwords.

Alternatively, some sites do not show up in logs even though icon shows up for a site/password entry.

New comment by hypothesis in "No one knows what the hell an AI agent is"

hypothesis — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:20:05 +0000

Facebook is now Meta and no one cares about the supposed titular product anymore.

New comment by hypothesis in "Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS"

hypothesis — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:13:32 +0000

That’s a “$1.56 billion” question…

New comment by hypothesis in "Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580"

hypothesis — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:49:27 +0000

That would be news to people on mac with Rosetta Stone / Crossover.

New comment by hypothesis in "Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580"

hypothesis — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:28:41 +0000

> I can't imagine a world where we only have one x86 manufacturer.

Does it even matter? Some people won’t notice even if there are zero x86 manufacturers.

In fact I would say lots of people have not bought x86 CPU in while, between Mac, RPi and risc-v boards…

New comment by hypothesis in "Nervous international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans"

hypothesis — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:15:51 +0000

> tomorrow the President could proclaim that we are being invaded by, say, the Yakuza, and send any non-citizen Japanese person to a prison in El Salvador

Why would he do that? Manzanar is much closer and successfully tested even against citizens.

I’ve heard that interned Japanese-American did not like to bring the whole thing up afterwards, but it was clearly a mistake trying to memory hole that abomination.

New comment by hypothesis in "Germany concerned over F-35 'kill switch' amid US policy shifts"

hypothesis — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 01:07:09 +0000

> It was not a "kill switch".

Software is famously a munition, so maybe call it lack of ammunition…

New comment by hypothesis in "uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome"

hypothesis — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 04:21:02 +0000

This is high and mighty, but didn’t they fire security team a year or so ago (couldn’t afford pay for higher ups)? I like how everyone just memory-holed that part and moved on… why would you recommend that to anyone?

New comment by hypothesis in "Trump's 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption"

hypothesis — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 02:56:12 +0000

Was it a blind trust instead? Which mismanaged the farm so much that Carter had to sell it…

New comment by hypothesis in "Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?"

hypothesis — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:00:18 +0000

> concerns about US companies (especially in the last months) have led many to migrate to Signal

And then, footer at the bottom of signal.org says “Signal, a 501c3 nonprofit” which is clearly an American thing. Am I missing something here? Both look American from here.

New comment by hypothesis in "Data show Tesla sales declined sharply in Europe"

hypothesis — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:35:52 +0000

> Bye bye US prime beef.

It might be a blessing in disguise, given the shit they fed them cows:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

New comment by hypothesis in "[dead]"

hypothesis — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:42:02 +0000

Initial attempt was unsuccessful…

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-dep...

New comment by hypothesis in "Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office"

hypothesis — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:28:36 +0000

> remote work can be pretty bad for the younger end of a company

Not to worry, AI is going to rapidly solve this issue, according to tech CEOs that it.

New comment by hypothesis in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

hypothesis — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:17:26 +0000

Congratulations on hitting 5k posts on a Fyre-level topic!

New comment by hypothesis in "Hundreds in US climate agency fired in latest cuts"

hypothesis — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:14:45 +0000

That only works for things that have immediate impact, less so for things that take time to blow up. But then all people involved have moved on and you’re left plugging AI, I guess.

New comment by hypothesis in "GSA Eliminates 18F"

hypothesis — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:10:57 +0000

> I've seen Propublica cherry pick quotes

Wait until you see Twitter Files or whatever Elon is going to drop from DOGE.