Hacker News: iwontberude

New comment by iwontberude in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

iwontberude — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:56:27 +0000

I'll just continue to take the DVDs out of my neighbor's trash and play those instead and disregard licensing entirely.*

* Usenet

New comment by iwontberude in "EFF is leaving X"

iwontberude — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:28:32 +0000

The conflict seems as old as ever. Labor vs union-busting robber baron.

New comment by iwontberude in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

iwontberude — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:27:32 +0000

They have Elon money, let’s stop pretending they are some precious little sweetheart.

New comment by iwontberude in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

iwontberude — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:52:49 +0000

Well given they have hunreds of millions of dollars to protect themselves with, it seems like it would be a good time to start using it.

New comment by iwontberude in "Your File System Is Already A Graph Database"

iwontberude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:44:33 +0000

Oh neat! Whenever I was working on RAG proof of concepts vector databases seemed to generate noisiest outputs that happened to include my information from my chunks but it was unable to draw reasonable contextual associations. I swap RAG out with a web search tool, all of a sudden the quality goes way up. Is RAG ever going to be easier to hold or should lay people like me just stay moving on?

New comment by iwontberude in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

iwontberude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:33:59 +0000

Thank you for finding this nugget, I really only read HN comments and rarely the source material. You all have been my LLM summary for a decade at least.

New comment by iwontberude in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

iwontberude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:32:49 +0000

Congratulations EFF I know for a fact you’ve been working hard to get these removed.

New comment by iwontberude in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

iwontberude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:31:23 +0000

Some locales are downright itching for a reason to road rage so I don’t blame you. One thing I have to say about being a motorcyclist is that our residents in California are so considerate and have never once mistreated me for beeping, lane splitting/filtering, stalling my bike at a green light, etc.

New comment by iwontberude in "A whole civilization might die tonight"

iwontberude — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:39:41 +0000

I take this seriously and it's made me sick. I can't get any work done when my stomach feels like its doing flips.

New comment by iwontberude in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

iwontberude — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:07:21 +0000

Where exactly because in the Midwest we were very vocal about it. We have tons of military families out there and we were poor enough to feel almost like military service was inevitable if we didn’t get scholarships for school. You know the band NOFX had an album, the War on Errorism that was quite successful based on the fuckery of the bush administration. Punk rock and protest music was huge then.

New comment by iwontberude in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

iwontberude — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:41:51 +0000

Nope, that would take congressional approval and congressional leaders are all bought by the people that paid for the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. At this point only DoD and CIA can make it happen, thus why I mention any of this.

New comment by iwontberude in "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE"

iwontberude — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:39:57 +0000

Thanks for the links. Hopefully things get bad enough people actually take control of government again. I personally used to scoff at CalExit but now seeing how easy it is for a government to abuse you from a distance, I would much prefer Sacramento the ultimate seat of power for my community, family and interests.

New comment by iwontberude in "The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright"

iwontberude — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:35:16 +0000

If you haven't visited falling water, definitely go. It's American architecture at its finest.

New comment by iwontberude in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

iwontberude — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:10:58 +0000

For the United States, the government doesn't have the capability to extricate Israel from its political system, but the feds can create blowback for Israel which makes them less capable to influence the US in the future while achieving other strategic aims in the region. US war planners know plenty about blow back and I think this is being done on purpose. I am terrified for innocent Israelis, Iranians and Gulf state residents that have been led into this. Most of the states and peoples in the Middle East who have been destroyed used to be allies with the US. That isn't on accident.

New comment by iwontberude in "Chatbots are now prescribing psychiatric drugs"

iwontberude — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:28:30 +0000

Probably better that they get their medication rather than waiting for an appointment if it’s keeping them from being psychotic or otherwise causing harm or being harmed.

New comment by iwontberude in "ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover"

iwontberude — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:23:19 +0000

Oh my bad. Top comment when I had said this was a claim that it was expiration related. Sorry for piling on to the claim.

New comment by iwontberude in "ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover"

iwontberude — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:30:15 +0000

Yeah that’s because it’s not what happened. It’s a common expiration snipe.

New comment by iwontberude in "Iran's Revolutionary Guards Declares War on Silicon Valley"

iwontberude — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:16:08 +0000

“though it maintains a human remains in the decision loop.”

I know grammatically what this means it’s just so close to the other meaning I would have rewritten it lol.

New comment by iwontberude in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

iwontberude — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:30:02 +0000

I have had the exact same experience (like super uncanny with prices etc). And now feel like I can only use my Claude subscription for the most basic issues. I’m getting range anxiety.

New comment by iwontberude in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

iwontberude — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:42:31 +0000

Yeah I agree