Hacker News: jameslk

New comment by jameslk in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

jameslk — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:19:35 +0000

The comments in the HN post you linked do a very good job of explaining why HN is working as expected when political posts get flagged

Quoting tptacek from your link: “Politics often literally prevents us from discussing technical stories, by forcing us to wade through banal political detritus to get to the comments that have anything to do with the technical issues.”

HN guidelines make it clear: “Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.”

It may be that there are politics in everything, but that doesn’t mean we need to discuss those politics here. Especially because those politics usually drown out the curiosity. Curiosity is what makes HN interesting for so many

New comment by jameslk in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

jameslk — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:25:18 +0000

So wait… are you supporting Meta’s censorship here or not? Another weird comment

It just seems like these comments want to stir the pot

New comment by jameslk in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

jameslk — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:05:38 +0000

Kind of a weird comment to make. Are you admitting they were right, or are you supporting the right for platforms to censor?

Or are you trying to elicit emotions?

New comment by jameslk in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

jameslk — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:44:41 +0000

Instead of enacting laws to regulate all of AI, perhaps the government can just pass laws scoped directly to OpenAI and Anthropic. After all, they’re the ones asking for regulations and they’re the problem actors right now. These “rogue agents” would stop pretty quickly

8.8M records hacked from Danish national registry with password 123456

jameslk — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:08:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-claims-123456-password-let-them-breach-the-danish-national-registry-accessing-8-8-million-records-it-and-data-services-company-with-weak-passwords-linked-source-of-the-hack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50096115

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

To Save on Rent, Some Dutch College Students Are Living in Nursing Homes

jameslk — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:41:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/dutch-nursing-home-college-students/408976/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079263

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

Tools make LLMs less likely to refuse requests

jameslk — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:49:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03938

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076687

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Rise of Gig Economy Warfare

jameslk — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:17:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/world/gig-economy-warfare-fairford-brazil.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976104

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jameslk in "Dots: Always-on agents"

jameslk — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:16:47 +0000

It's Dropbox vs rsync. The agent providers are making it stupidly easy to use something like OpenClaw/Hermes with zero set up and a very low learning curve. Also, in their technotopia, you don't use your computer to host the agent, you use theirs. When you need to drive, they give you screen sharing access, but its still on their servers. The benefit to the user is they don't have to make an upfront expensive payment for computer hardware anymore, and the agent provider gets to own all of your compute and data in their cloud

New comment by jameslk in "Dots: Always-on agents"

jameslk — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:49:48 +0000

Muse, Dots, and other always-on agents may be the end of the PC era. Once you’re asking agents to do things on their own virtual machines, it’s game over. Everything moves to the cloud

Anyone wondering "why would I use this when I can use (OpenClaw|Hermes|my own computer)" -- these new services are not really meant for you. They're meant for the non-tech savvy and for the next generation of AI-natives who won't know anything other than how to use these type of services

For your casual user, these services will be hard to beat, since they’ll handle all the expensive and hard parts of using computers. No computer purchase necessary, no troubleshooting with tech support, etc. They’re also scalable where you could have not just one agent with one computer at any time, but many

In return, the agent providers would own your compute and data. I can even see them offering this low cost or for free so they can train off of users. Lock in would be insane

For privacy reasons, I really hope we find equally useful, private alternatives on our own hardware

Fertility rate dropped over 50% within 10 years in Argentina

jameslk — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:04:23 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/JesusFerna7026/status/2102768454935748701

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819195

Points: 45

# Comments: 44

New comment by jameslk in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

jameslk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:15:28 +0000

A rando on the internet that put together a table of presidents and numbers has no bearing on facts, it falsifies nothing

Presidents cannot pass fiscal policy. They can only sign or veto new fiscal policies or act on existing policies passed by congress that give them fiscal latitude

I’ve explained this many times in this thread. We’ve reached the heat death of useful discussion so this will be my final comment in this thread

New comment by jameslk in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

jameslk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:53:26 +0000

Higher inflation rates started before any of those, but those things didn’t help

New comment by jameslk in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

jameslk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:30:56 +0000

Congress is the one that largely makes the fiscal policy choices. For example, during Clinton’s second term when the deficit was almost eliminated (some claim there was a surplus, but there wasn’t because of social security liabilities), you had a republican controlled congress who were pushing for cuts and fiscal tightening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America

New comment by jameslk in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

jameslk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:29:27 +0000

> The (vast?) majority of the debt happened as the result of the Republican party both increasing spending and cutting taxes every time it lands someone in the White House and before midterms flip the House back to Democrats.

Both parties have run an increasing deficit, with the only outlier being a small amount of time in the late 90s. The deficit is largely caused by social security outlays, medicare/medicaid outlays, and military spending, none of which are going to meaningfully change under either party

New comment by jameslk in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

jameslk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:14:08 +0000

Joe Biden didn’t cause a spike in inflation, congress did. And the policies that caused it wasn’t under Joe Biden’s term

Also, inflation wasn’t temporary

New comment by jameslk in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

jameslk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:06:19 +0000

High inflation and large debt preceded the tariffs. That said, the tariffs didn’t help either. That’s why I said largely

Ultimately the president is enabled or constrained by laws enacted by congress

New comment by jameslk in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

jameslk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:38:33 +0000

Neither party has realistic plans to reduce the debt. It’s been that way for decades. Kicking the can down the road gets more votes

New comment by jameslk in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

jameslk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:27:54 +0000

The high inflation since Covid and $40 trillion in debt didn’t happen under one party

New comment by jameslk in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

jameslk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:10:53 +0000

Both parties are responsible for the inflation and debt. Fiscal policy is largely driven by congress, not the president