Hacker News: jrflowers

New comment by jrflowers in "Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake"

jrflowers — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:33:36 +0000

Super Smash Bros is canon

New comment by jrflowers in "An Apology"

jrflowers — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:21:32 +0000

> use our patent on it to prevent anyone else from making one in the future

lmao “In lieu of direct sales we will be recouping the cost of our hammer-as-a-stalking-accessory patent through litigation”

New comment by jrflowers in "One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is"

jrflowers — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:48:38 +0000

“It all makes sense if you think of politicians like your mom and dad” lol

New comment by jrflowers in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

jrflowers — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:47:55 +0000

> I expect more businesses will transition to this strategy to counter NYC's new rule

Pretty sure the other businesses that can afford to openly despise their customers to a comical degree already do stuff like that

New comment by jrflowers in "People are rejoicing about the removal of Russian bots from social media"

jrflowers — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:59:38 +0000

On the one hand, piracy is good, but on the other hand, so is slowing down anybody googling AI upscaled copies of Stargate

New comment by jrflowers in "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"

jrflowers — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:53:48 +0000

You think people didn’t have indoor cats or little dogs before 2016?

Like people didn’t have indoor cats or little dogs, the Olympics in Rio happened, and then indoor cats and little dogs became a thing?

New comment by jrflowers in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

jrflowers — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:36:21 +0000

Oh no

New comment by jrflowers in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

jrflowers — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:11:08 +0000

Why would I keep asking about Soviets after you clarified that you meant Russian propaganda in your first response?

I’m no communist infiltration expert or anything but do you have something to support your assertion other than suggesting people read “How to Parent Like A Bolshevik”?

New comment by jrflowers in "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"

jrflowers — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:33:02 +0000

I’m not sure that rhetorical device functions the way that you think it does

New comment by jrflowers in "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"

jrflowers — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:54:55 +0000

> At least we don't eat these ones.

What?

New comment by jrflowers in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

jrflowers — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:39:47 +0000

So it is communist infiltration of the variety where there were no communists and there was no infiltration, just somebody read a book or whatever and then wrote about it?

New comment by jrflowers in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

jrflowers — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:13:29 +0000

Why would Russia be pushing communism in 2017?

New comment by jrflowers in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

jrflowers — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:39:44 +0000

You think Soviets were writing in the New York Times three decades after the collapse of the USSR?

New comment by jrflowers in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"

jrflowers — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:28:03 +0000

I have bad news for you about the indentured servitude that immediately replaced slavery in the colonies

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

New comment by jrflowers in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"

jrflowers — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:28:44 +0000

Ctrl+f “slaves” 0 matches

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by jrflowers in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

jrflowers — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:32:45 +0000

Are you saying that your example is so bad that it is the reader’s job to come up with one for you? Everything after

> maybe the example I chose wasn't very good

is just you saying that police should have evidence when they arrest somebody

New comment by jrflowers in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

jrflowers — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:28:04 +0000

> Do you dispute that people…

> Do you dispute that things…

I don’t see how any of these questions are relevant to the point I’m making.

New comment by jrflowers in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

jrflowers — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:25:40 +0000

How does the cop at the traffic stop know that your username is akoboldfrying? Did you tell them? If so, why, at a traffic stop, did you do that?

Are you posting threats on hacker news while you are driving? And the cop was close enough to see your username and what you wrote? Is that why you were pulled over?

New comment by jrflowers in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

jrflowers — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:18:04 +0000

> If a policeman notices the sentence above on my phone screen during a routine traffic stop, the response you want him to take is... nothing?

Anybody showing a cop their hacker news comments at a traffic stop should be arrested, for harassing the police

New comment by jrflowers in "Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections"

jrflowers — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:17:40 +0000

Eudamoniac is pretty clear that this is entirely about their feelings. When the state murders somebody it feels good and when it doesn’t murder people it feels bad.

> society needs to feel that the state executes justice

> People largely feel a greater trust in the state and a greater sense of justice and peace of mind when heinous criminals are killed

> people feel that justice is not being done

(and again)

> people feel that justice is not being done

They’re not going to give anybody a rational argument here because

> I guess you could call it vibes sure

It’s like asking somebody to justify why they’re really into ABDL stuff. The important part is that they just are, and won’t be talked out of it.