Hacker News: jrflowers

New comment by jrflowers in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

jrflowers — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:23:30 +0000

> I’m concerned that AI is going to make software much too secure.

Lmao this is like “I’m concerned the raccoons that I see in the storm drains are going to make our sewer system much too efficient”

New comment by jrflowers in "Introducing Toast 1"

jrflowers — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:14:44 +0000

Me, looking at an enterprise product: “Hmm, but do they guarantee FULL lore? I don’t really need to know what the lore is, just the assurance that it is full”

New comment by jrflowers in "Introducing Toast 1"

jrflowers — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:11:11 +0000

All the stupid made up names are taken, startups have to take regular words and make them meaningless now

New comment by jrflowers in "Introducing Toast 1"

jrflowers — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:04:29 +0000

I love to spend a dollar for a 70% correct search result

New comment by jrflowers in "Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI"

jrflowers — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:52:25 +0000

All of the worst websites on the internet are owned by people that are household names

New comment by jrflowers in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

jrflowers — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:22:09 +0000

Logging on to news dot ycombinator dot com for some Borat posting

New comment by jrflowers in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

jrflowers — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:19:24 +0000

I feel like being head of ethics and working for a CEO that keeps talking about inventing a genie would drive a person insane

New comment by jrflowers in "Manus will return to operating as an independent company"

jrflowers — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:58:10 +0000

What was the task that cost $40?

New comment by jrflowers in "The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)"

jrflowers — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:15:43 +0000

> > many non-vegans think (whether or not it is true) that vegans believe themselves superior.

> It's hard to imagine a reason why someone is vegan, that wouldn't logically entail such a self-image.

I know a guy that’s vegan because he shit himself after going to an Outback Steakhouse

New comment by jrflowers in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

jrflowers — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:56:30 +0000

I don’t think this article about Mark Twain, a famous guy one hundred and fifty years ago, lost all of his money betting on the wrong thing is about chat bots. He lost his money before all that

We will never know if Mark Twain would have or would not have lost his money betting on chat bots because he lost it all on a different machine that didn’t work

New comment by jrflowers in "The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)"

jrflowers — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:02:22 +0000

“I have exactly one ‘extremist’ belief that I’m willing to share and here’s why I think it’s correct” doesn’t do much to clarify what constitutes extremist other than stuff the author is too smart to believe

New comment by jrflowers in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

jrflowers — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:33:54 +0000

Reading about a machine from one hundred and fifty years ago and getting progressively more and more upset that the writing doesn’t give sufficient praise to the real topic of every article, my lovely chat bot

New comment by jrflowers in "Meta's new open-weight model targets local agentic AI"

jrflowers — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:30:56 +0000

> At no point does anyone seriously comment "wtf do we even have alcohol|anti-depressants" when they see an add for one or the other.

People absolutely do talk about their opinions about alcohol/antidepressants. Also a lot of places ban or restrict alcohol advertising.

New comment by jrflowers in "The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)"

jrflowers — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:47:10 +0000

I like that the author doesn’t clarify what constitutes an extremist idea aside from suggesting that he doesn’t believe in any. “Extremism is when people, who are dumb, don’t know facts unlike me, who is very smart” is a kick ass theme for an essay

New comment by jrflowers in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

jrflowers — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:53:38 +0000

> These people commute to construction sites elsewhere during the day

While it is a shame that tptacek has to see “commuters“ going both ways it is good to know that the people of Aurora have this beautiful park

https://www.cyrusone.com/data-centers/north-america/aurora-i...

New comment by jrflowers in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

jrflowers — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:10:03 +0000

>are you saying office buildings bring less to the community because so, so, so many more people work in them than in data centers

>Mine is that office buildings are not generally filled with workers from the immediate municipality in which they're situated.

Since neither are data centers, which aren’t filled with workers, you could’ve just said “yeah”

“Office buildings bring less to communities than data centers because of all the people that work in them” lmao

New comment by jrflowers in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

jrflowers — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:26:54 +0000

That’s wild, where do all the people from Aurora work? The data centers? Also what does the specific building or set of buildings you hate in one town have to do with the concept of office buildings

New comment by jrflowers in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

jrflowers — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:13:13 +0000

Wait are you saying office buildings bring less to the community because so, so, so many more people work in them than in data centers

Do you think a community is your house

New comment by jrflowers in "Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning"

jrflowers — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:42:49 +0000

Feeding dimes into a machine that releases prank fart spray into my vents every morning, wondering if there’s a good post here

New comment by jrflowers in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

jrflowers — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:16:40 +0000

I love this post because of how clear it is.

Lack of GPS isn’t a critical safety issue, it simply causes critical safety issues. It’s the pilot’s fault that they crashed but they wouldn’t have crashed if GPS wasn’t jammed. It’s overly macho to say that pilots train for this but I posted an animation showing how incredibly common this is on Twitter. I am not a pilot. I do not work for an aviation organization. I have a website.