Hacker News: jayess

New comment by jayess in "Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis"

jayess — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:19:57 +0000

Ocean Cleanup always felt scammy to me. Just a feeling. The videos they released of the nets dropping tons of plastic trash onto the deck of a ship just seemed off. All of the plastic looked brand new. And knowing that the "great garbage patch" is really just a bunch of microplastics also screamed fake to me.

New comment by jayess in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

jayess — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:18:50 +0000

I got my urology referral last week and had an appointment this morning...

New comment by jayess in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

jayess — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:15:59 +0000

Who's gonna tell the doctors and nurses that they get a 50% pay cut?

New comment by jayess in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

jayess — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:04:46 +0000

Kimi is basically a Chinese nationalist in every sense. Do I trust it to not insert software backdoors?

New comment by jayess in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

jayess — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:58:38 +0000

So far it's completely refusing to discuss Tiananmen square. And oh boy, try asking it if Xi Jinping looks like winnie the pooh.

New comment by jayess in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

jayess — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:15:42 +0000

I love these stories. The timeline is precious. And the comments from folks saying "gee, you picked the most complicated business entity, joke's on you!"

Just looking at my own state (Michigan) I can form the most "complicated" entity for $60 filing fee. Using a fill-in-the-blank form online. And have it approved the same day for an additional $50. Get an EIN online from the IRS in 10 minutes. Walk to a bank and open an account in about another hour. Annual renewal fee is $20.

In less than a day and for $110, I have a corporation, EIN (federal tax registration number), and bank account. Open for business. An LLC is the same, just a different form filed with the state.

I can then open credit card accounts online in the business name, register for sales tax online (get the license in about a week), and open a stripe account.

Oh, and a businessowners general liability insurance policy is costing me $205 per year. $1 million in liability coverage.

New comment by jayess in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

jayess — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:43:50 +0000

I asked z.ai what z.ai is, and it said "It seems you might be referring to xAI, as "z.ai" isn't a widely known or major AI company or platform at this time."

New comment by jayess in "Meta Is Dying. It's About Time"

jayess — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:55:53 +0000

https://archive.is/TCsXg

New comment by jayess in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

jayess — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:37:39 +0000

XP was peak Windows.

New comment by jayess in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

jayess — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:34:31 +0000

Wow. I went to law school and was on the law review. That was our precise job for the papers selected for publication. To verify every single citation.

New comment by jayess in "It’s been a very hard year"

jayess — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:49:31 +0000

No, the "market" is 6 billion people making thousands of individual decisions daily.

New comment by jayess in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

jayess — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:28:48 +0000

I wonder if he still holds all that in his Roth IRA.

New comment by jayess in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

jayess — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:53:37 +0000

lol, "American Law Firm"

New comment by jayess in "The disguised return of EU Chat Control"

jayess — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:04:09 +0000

Good god what a meaningless "right" where all of the exceptions eat the rule.

New comment by jayess in "Europe converged rapidly on the United States before stagnating"

jayess — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:42:33 +0000

Democracy. Vote yourself money.

Another nuisance Facebook pixel lawsuit threat

jayess — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:12:32 +0000

Just FYI to everyone who manages a website. We received another facebook pixel "wiretapping" lawsuit demand from another bottom-feeding ambulance chasing law firm. This is despite us having a CMP and blocking the pixel for people in CA who don't consent. It just not worth the headache anymore. We're just dropping the facebook pixel altogether. The marking team will have to figure out how to live without it.

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New comment by jayess in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

jayess — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:54:10 +0000

Unfortunately, there are two things keeping me on Windows:

1) Office (libreoffice is a steaming pile) 2) Fortnite

If those can be solved, I'm done with Windows. I've been a windows fanboi since 3.11. But I'm finally ready to move to Debian desktop (even Ubuntu has gotten crappy lately).

New comment by jayess in "Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux"

jayess — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:10:21 +0000

That’s my roadblock. I need Office and still want to be able to play Fortnite.

New comment by jayess in "When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army"

jayess — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:00:04 +0000

That Skytalks still requires masking is absurd. I saw the organizers at DEFCON walking around with no masks. The last skytalks at DEFCON a couple of years ago was pretty bad anyways, really disappointing.

New comment by jayess in "Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says"

jayess — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:53:22 +0000

"Schreiber acknowledged that the driver, George McGee, was negligent when he blew through flashing lights, a stop sign and a T-intersection at 62 miles an hour before slamming into a Chevrolet Tahoe that the couple had parked to get a look at the stars."