Hacker News: i80and

New comment by i80and in "Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal"

i80and — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:22:26 +0000

Nasty slurs are very unbecoming. This might be the ugliest comment I've seen in a very very long time here.

New comment by i80and in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

i80and — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:24:45 +0000

I think you're operating in enough bad faith that normally I wouldn't respond, but on behalf of my northern friends, I gotta say

> Obviously Canada should at minimum demand to be brought in as multiple states rather than as one oversized one. Or Canada could just offer to lower tariffs instead. It’s up to them.

This is quite something. Trump does not think in any kind of structured axiomatic way at all as of his decaying health in 2026, and the framework you've put this in is so far outside of any coherent diplomatic framework that it's outright an offense.

No, Canada should not be put in a position where they consider the choice of being multiple U.S. states! What is wrong with you!

New comment by i80and in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

i80and — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:48:03 +0000

Come on this is not just about trade disputes, though that side of things is also deeply screwed up.

Maybe some Americans don't take all the "51st State" and annexation talk that's become a full-on party line seriously, but Canadians are perfectly in their rights and sense to take it seriously and literally.

New comment by i80and in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

i80and — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:05:50 +0000

They're unpopular, but we're apparently a fickle and short-memoried people with few real legal safeguards or principles.

Trump was deeply unpopular at the end of his first term too, and Americans still went back for a second bite.

We gotta look inward and, metaphorically speaking, go to rehab.

New comment by i80and in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

i80and — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:57:41 +0000

Disclaimer: I'm American

I don't see how Canada can trust us again without a major cultural and legal shift in the US. The fact is that any president can, apparently, unilaterally shred international friendships, and 30%-40% of Americans will cheer it on.

I would love a return to normalcy, but Americans need to make sure, really sure this can't happen again.

New comment by i80and in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"

i80and — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:07:49 +0000

I mean, entering somebody's tent without being told in advance that's okay genuinely sounds sketchy as hell

New comment by i80and in "The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026"

i80and — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:35:51 +0000

I think they meant it should have been deployed to all SKUs instead of the very silly ecosystem split Intel did for a long time.

New comment by i80and in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

i80and — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:20:40 +0000

I might argue that homework is, for mathematics, where the useful learning happens.

New comment by i80and in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

i80and — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:08:26 +0000

> Also it really is sad to see “Hacker” News be “World News”. More Zig and less White House, please.

I have been on this website for 17 years (ugh that's scary), and people have been posting variations of this remark the entire time. It's a tiresome sort of post the thousandth time.

Politics have always been a consistent part of this website: it's a big part of the world that hackers live in, and barring rule enforcement to the contrary, hackers will always find politics interesting and want to talk about it.

If you want a website with a more narrow focus, there's always lobste.rs.

New comment by i80and in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

i80and — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:18:41 +0000

I don't know the parent's policy position, but it seems like they didn't express one, and you've just assumed they support deanonymization?

New comment by i80and in "Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change"

i80and — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:53:24 +0000

"Access" is the filthy dirty word here. Can't be anything other than a stenographer because you might lose your ACCESS, with which you can do MORE stenography.

It's a sickness.

New comment by i80and in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

i80and — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:06:56 +0000

Defunct? I just switched to it a couple months ago, and it seems actively developed.

(Though I think this announcement is sufficiently unpleasant I'm starting to reconsider)

New comment by i80and in "God, I hate .env files"

i80and — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:37:59 +0000

They are right to say it though

New comment by i80and in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

i80and — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:04:22 +0000

That's good to hear!

New comment by i80and in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

i80and — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:03:04 +0000

Maybe the technical politics have changed, but I feel like I remember there was some push in the late 2000s to rewrite libraries that were using Xlib to instead use XCB.

Regardless, that's sort of my point: having a lower level fiddly layer is a desirable quality, and Xlib being rebased on top of it isn't exactly a counterexample.

New comment by i80and in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

i80and — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:15:26 +0000

Whenever people complain about Wayland being hard to program in, I think about how Xlib was largely replaced by XCB, and OpenGL is increasingly marginalized in comparison to Vulkan.

Not to draw any specific analogy, but sometimes a fussy low-level interface is just important to have.

New comment by i80and in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

i80and — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:16:16 +0000

The absolute lack of consequences Trump faced after his first go-around all but guaranteed the crime spree we're now seeing, and will probably go down in history as the primary blunder of Biden's DOJ.

New comment by i80and in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

i80and — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:42:18 +0000

Not the parent, but products like it are strongly Protestant Evangelical-coded, so that could actually be a selling point for the intended audience

New comment by i80and in "Sizing chaos"

i80and — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:15:38 +0000

ah yes, clothes not fitting, a famously bourgeoisie problem /s

As somebody with an atypical body shape, not being able to find things that fit is an endless source of irritation and discomfort

New comment by i80and in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

i80and — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:44:48 +0000

Unfortunately, the citations are generally quite low quality and have in my experience a high rate of not actually supporting the text they're attached to.