Hacker News: jazz9k

New comment by jazz9k in "Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War"

jazz9k — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:29:12 +0000

I suppose if getting bombed by the US, no deal, and more oil exports from the US in history, means 'in control of the war'

New comment by jazz9k in "Grade distribution after switching from take home to in class"

jazz9k — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:15:49 +0000

All tests should be in-person. This is an easy problem to solve.

New comment by jazz9k in "Anyone here with an "in" with eBay?"

jazz9k — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:34:31 +0000

You will probably need to just use another account. But that might not be possible.

I had my Amazon seller account banned for 15 years. I couldn't sign up for another one without it getting banned too. It was all because a scammer decided they wanted to give me negative feedback and keep the item I sold them (in addition to my refund).

No amount of talking or emailing ever got me to a person I could talk to. These companies should be fined/prosecuted for this. As a seller, there should be rules around getting banned and ways to appeal.

New comment by jazz9k in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

jazz9k — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:32:43 +0000

Punk rock has always been right wing. Libraries are about as far from this as they can get.

New comment by jazz9k in "Ask HN: Haven't posts about web front end frameworks completely stopped?"

jazz9k — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:18:15 +0000

The new hot thing, which is AI took it's place. Crowding out crypto.

New comment by jazz9k in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

jazz9k — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:03:48 +0000

How can deepseek 'lean center'? If you've ever asked it about real Chinese history, you know this isn't true.

New comment by jazz9k in "The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind"

jazz9k — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:57:49 +0000

"Talking to someone who reads 20–50 good books a year is nothing like talking to someone who hasn't read a book since school made them."

Most books are outdated, before they are released.

I read well over the amount text in 20-30 books from online content/non-books.

This idea is outdated and not a good indicator of someone who reads.

AI is just a tool. It's pretty obvious it's here to stay and if you don't start embracing it, you will be left behind.

New comment by jazz9k in "The last Romans are still around"

jazz9k — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:50:05 +0000

Yawn. More rewriting of history to try to remove successful cultures.

New comment by jazz9k in "Forget Work. Passive Income Is the New American Dream"

jazz9k — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:59:24 +0000

For Gen Z, the new American Dream is for other people to make money and have the government take it and pay you to do nothing, in the form of UBI.

New comment by jazz9k in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

jazz9k — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:31:48 +0000

Developers gave their code out for free, but want to discriminate against people they don't like from using it in ways they dislike.

The 'spirit of free software' is bullshit. It's software authoritarianism disguised as a noble cause.

New comment by jazz9k in "Older tech workers are tapping out early. Here's what that looks like"

jazz9k — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:19:19 +0000

I tapped out if software engineering years ago. They boot out most people past 45, and at that age, it's very difficult to get hired by anyone if you are laid off.

AI also seems to be eating these jobs first.

New comment by jazz9k in "China says it has a right to target people overseas with new ethnic unity law"

jazz9k — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:16:26 +0000

I suppose that means I have the right to remotely pilfer Chinse banks, businesses, and institutions. After all, extradition laws don't really apply.

New comment by jazz9k in "UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide by targeting children"

jazz9k — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:59:05 +0000

Why never an inquiry of Palistine? When this happens, instead of pointing fingers or more justification for murder, I just don't care.

New comment by jazz9k in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

jazz9k — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:51:59 +0000

We can't take blanket percentages as a reason for racial bias. Were they all equally qualified?

Too many of these studies only focus on percentages and the end result is unqualified candidates getting hired from minority groups at the expense of qualified ones.

New comment by jazz9k in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

jazz9k — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:22:36 +0000

It was never about the children. They are rolling this out, so online comments can be tracked to names and addresses.

It's to suppress free speech and arrest people that post anything against the government's narrative.

Many people have already been arrested in the UK for this. This is the next logical step.

New comment by jazz9k in "Show HN: Oak – Git replacement designed for agents"

jazz9k — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:36:11 +0000

It's kind of like replacing Wordpress. Sure, you can make a better alternative. But replacing an entrenched player that has been there for at least a decade will be almost impossible.

New comment by jazz9k in "A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech"

jazz9k — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:32:44 +0000

Huh? We have more free speech than ever online at this moment. The last regime colluded with the major social media companies to censor people they didn't like and it's also recently come to light that they attempted to get the Joe Rogan/Spotify deal nuked, all based on censoring speech they don't like.

The liberal government of the UK is moving toward complete online censorship with their bill to prevent children from going on social media sites. The reality is that they will now be able to identify and will arrest people for posting opinions they don't like. This has already been happening for the last couple of years and will now be even easier. This is exactly how it works in China.

If Democrats come into power again in the US, this will soon be coming to a computer near you.

This should be the #1 story on HN, but the tech community has been strangely silent on the subject....

I just wish the people claiming to be champions of free speech and rights will just admit that this all goes out the window when it applies to speech and people you don't like. It would make everything much easier.

New comment by jazz9k in "Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West"

jazz9k — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:35:27 +0000

They are 'overlooked' because many papers have falsified results or are outright wrong.

New comment by jazz9k in "The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy"

jazz9k — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:13:50 +0000

Over a decade ago, I was going to a tech group with a supposed security leader (that ended up getting a huge buyout from Cisco a few years ago).

A student wanted to create a project that bypassed the GF of China. He basically told him he was an idiot, it was impossible, and discouraged the student from even trying. This was a hacker (the security leader) at one point in his life, that claimed to support the freedom of speech and expression.

The actual reason he said this to the student is because he supports the government in China. Many other comments I heard after this proved to me that this is true. My guess is that his startup even received funding from the Chinese government.

It's really disappointing that tech leaders can publicly support murderous regimes like the Chinese government for decades with no blow back. They are far worse than Putin/the Russian government and have 100X the money and technology.

If he supported Russia, he would probably get cancelled and never be able to be involved in the tech industry again.

New comment by jazz9k in "Writing with AI demands more thought from students, not less"

jazz9k — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:52:59 +0000

Incorrect. AI takes thought and creativity from previous humans and students can and will use it as a shortcut.

Is this written by AI?