Hacker News: just_steve_h

New comment by just_steve_h in "Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware"

just_steve_h — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:51:58 +0000

Well, they’re certainly developing cars that kill and maim pedestrians, disperse clouds of microplastics, and contribute excess CO2 to our atmosphere…

New comment by just_steve_h in "Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app"

just_steve_h — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:56:03 +0000

You know “Ghostship” was the name of an incredible East Bay artists’ community that was destroyed in a fire which killed multiple people. Is this really the name you’re going with? It’s not ancient history, either - less than 10 years.

New comment by just_steve_h in "Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI Revealed"

just_steve_h — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:52:31 +0000

Perhaps you slept through the year leading up to the 2024 election, when Democrats sent riot police into student protests? They arrested thousands, and were plenty violent. Democratic president & governor & mayor (NYC and LA and Boston, for example).

Or perhaps you missed the Occupy movement which was violently disrupted on a national scale with coordinated raids across the country, organized through the “Fusion Centers” (FBI + DHS + State & Local law enforcement)?

Anyhow, my point here is that organized violence against leftist protestors is a fully bipartisan policy, and has been for more than 100 years.

New comment by just_steve_h in "LA Times turns off AI commentator that defended the KKK"

just_steve_h — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:37:27 +0000

NY Times reporter Ryan Mac has the receipts on the AI generated commentary that defended the KKK alongside an opinion article in the LA Times. LAT has removed the comment and disabled the AI feature for now.

LA Times turns off AI commentator that defended the KKK

just_steve_h — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:37:27 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/rmac.bsky.social/post/3ljjqjkgfs22f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43260915

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by just_steve_h in "Recording reveals new details on controversial DOGE employee Edward Coristine"

just_steve_h — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:55:27 +0000

Even weirder… Coristine’s grandfather was a turncoat KGB spy.

https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-doge-staffer-is-g...

New comment by just_steve_h in "National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce"

just_steve_h — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:52:49 +0000

THIS is what your “disruptive” heroes have bought & paid for. Yes, I’m talking specifically about paulg and his buddies in the VC world, who’ve stepped up their funding & lobbying to levels matching folks like Adolph Coors and Richard Mellon Scaifie. They’re on an ideological vendetta to DESTROY functioning government and leave themselves with near-dictatorial private power, unconstrained by governments anywhere.

These are the folks so many commenters here worship & wish to emulate.

This is the mindless destruction you’ve all been cheering for.

May this be an opportunity for you to reconsider your goals and priorities.

New comment by just_steve_h in "BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions"

just_steve_h — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:13:02 +0000

Ten thousand EV batteries packed into a ship’s hull.

What could go wrong?

New comment by just_steve_h in "How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022)"

just_steve_h — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:36:32 +0000

R. A. Fisher developed many of the foundational techniques of modern statistics in an attempt to support his odious beliefs in “racial hierarchy.”

There is much to learn from considering this reality, but most will dismiss it as irrelevant.

New comment by just_steve_h in "The hacking of culture and the creation of socio-technical debt"

just_steve_h — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:44:23 +0000

I find Schneier to be one of the most cogent observers and commentators on the influence of technology and corporate organization on our society. His writing is compelling.

Agree with others that I’m left wanting for solutions to the challenges he so clearly articulates.

New comment by just_steve_h in "The Lunacy of Artemis"

just_steve_h — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:31:54 +0000

I find this essay to be well-crafted and compelling.

New comment by just_steve_h in "A hack of psychotherapy records revealed a nation's secrets"

just_steve_h — Sun, 19 May 2024 04:08:43 +0000

And of course, he fit right in around here…

New comment by just_steve_h in "Biden's new student loan forgiveness erase up to $20k in interest for millions"

just_steve_h — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:07:16 +0000

Mortgage interest is tax deductible, for one thing.

New comment by just_steve_h in "Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map"

just_steve_h — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:32:55 +0000

U.S. military has some Very Secret Stuff happening in certain desert areas.

New comment by just_steve_h in "A Global AppleTalk Network: Pushing AppleTalk Across the Internet"

just_steve_h — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:28:23 +0000

I love this! Reminds me of the campus network at Harvard. Around 1994-95 we had multiple zones, but only spotty understanding of networks by most users. I had a blast one day mocking up what looked like a Mac on-screen error message which said “Sorry, this Document could not be printed,” which I then printed on randomly-chosen printers across the University. Good times!

New comment by just_steve_h in "MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers"

just_steve_h — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:01:47 +0000

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME

New comment by just_steve_h in "Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications"

just_steve_h — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:45:17 +0000

This is a widely under-appreciated fact!

New comment by just_steve_h in "Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications"

just_steve_h — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:39:13 +0000

I’m afraid the NSA regularly funnels information to the FBI and other domestic policing entities, and this has been widely documented [1]. The government even deigned to declassify proceedings from their special secret (!) court that decry the practice where NSA gives illegally-obtained surveillance to the FBI, which then manufactures a reason to go after someone using a technique known as “parallel construction,” concealing the surveillance source(s).

[1] https://theintercept.com/2019/10/10/fbi-nsa-mass-surveillanc...

New comment by just_steve_h in "The networkQuality tool on macOS"

just_steve_h — Sun, 14 May 2023 14:10:55 +0000

I have a shell alias so I can just type pb to do pbpaste|pbcopy - easiest way I’ve found to strip formatting and get plain text.

New comment by just_steve_h in "GPT-4 will hunt for trends in medical records thanks to Microsoft and Epic"

just_steve_h — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:20:30 +0000

Gee, I’m so glad that I “opted in” to have my private medical data used for corporate research!

How did I “opt in”? My healthcare provider migrated to Epic for all medical records. I had the “choice” of… not receiving healthcare, I guess? But even then, all my past records were imported to Epic anyway.

And before you “market choice” folks start squawking: your provider changing their records system is not a “qualifying event,” so you don’t get to shop for another provider until the next enrollment period. Also, ALL of the providers available to me use Epic.