Hacker News: josefritzishere

New comment by josefritzishere in "US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia"

josefritzishere — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:02:50 +0000

I think some of the worry comes from a lack of confidence in the US government handling an incident competently.

New comment by josefritzishere in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

josefritzishere — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:24:59 +0000

As an American... this administrations wanton criminality is embarrassing.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit"

josefritzishere — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:24:24 +0000

There's a reasonable argument to be made that many police departments fall into this category.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Winning the visa lottery"

josefritzishere — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:36:20 +0000

Re: Alternative Facts. Feelings are not the same as actual facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

New comment by josefritzishere in "Second Circuit allows government to search electronic devices at the border"

josefritzishere — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:59:11 +0000

This is a blatant and direct violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

josefritzishere — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:53:59 +0000

For a superpower, the U.S. doesn't seem to be doing well. It's hard to tell if it's pure mismanagement or more of a systemic decline.

New comment by josefritzishere in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

josefritzishere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:41:31 +0000

I think I'm seeing a pattern of illegal behavior here.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

josefritzishere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:18:41 +0000

The best line was buried at the bottom. Did Automattic really attempt to claim it owns the word “automatic?

New comment by josefritzishere in "What will our economic future look like?"

josefritzishere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:46:15 +0000

So far LLMs seem to be a dead end technology. The work product is so poor that it can't effectively replace workers as advertised. If it was priced to margin it'd be more expensive than humans as well. It's objectively a failure.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Do people prefer stories written by AI?"

josefritzishere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:17:52 +0000

TDR: no.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

josefritzishere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:57:04 +0000

Mass surveillance is a crime against humanity. They want us all to live in an open air prison. Garrett Langley should be regarded as a domestic terrorist and be in a real prison.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time"

josefritzishere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:55:21 +0000

The future is bleak.

New comment by josefritzishere in "One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner"

josefritzishere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:51:35 +0000

Terrifying. I never want want a car with this risk.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Young Americans have never witnessed a functioning foreign policy"

josefritzishere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:25:35 +0000

We stopped having a coherent foreign policy in 2017. It's only been 9 years. But I suppose tweens don't know any better; but I'd argue that they typically don't anyway.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Do you think it happened? Research stolen from their Codex private chats"

josefritzishere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:13:59 +0000

100% their data was stolen. You can't enter any private data into AI and expect it to remain private.

New comment by josefritzishere in "DOJ Blocked ICE Agent Shooting Charge over Federal Prosecutor's Objections"

josefritzishere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:11:10 +0000

impunity rarely improves the behavior of armed federal agents.

New comment by josefritzishere in "US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them"

josefritzishere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:32:40 +0000

This is definitely marketing.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

josefritzishere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:01:48 +0000

This should be illegal. Propaganda shouldn't be so pedestrian.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Why AI-generated slopaganda works"

josefritzishere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:58:39 +0000

the word "propaganda" implies there is a strategy at play. He does not have a strategy. He has advanced dementia and cognitive decline.

New comment by josefritzishere in "My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test"

josefritzishere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:51:00 +0000

I am genuinely worried about skill-rot. My peers code and design skills are degrading so quickly. AI is making each feature harder to debug than the last. That's a skill problem, and if our skills weren't rotting we'd be able to fix it adeptly. But the process seems to ruin our cognitive tools.