Hacker News: kevincrane

New comment by kevincrane in "EFF is leaving X"

kevincrane — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:51:52 +0000

Just to clarify, until recently you were under the impression that the political advocacy organization you donated to had no political opinions of their own?

New comment by kevincrane in "Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'"

kevincrane — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:28:17 +0000

Unironically yes, save the children by not letting them be on smartphones all day during school.

New comment by kevincrane in "When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed"

kevincrane — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:39:07 +0000

Just pull over if you have things to text that can’t wait

New comment by kevincrane in "Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile/political""

kevincrane — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:14:41 +0000

If tariffs are so good, they should be happy that Amazon is doing free advertising of them on the Trump administration’s behalf. Why do they seem upset that people would know about the tariffs they’re so proud of? Such a mystery

New comment by kevincrane in "Founder of Nikola Motor Company, Trevor Milton, Pardoned by President Trump"

kevincrane — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:06:41 +0000

Glad to see the party of “cut funding to cancer research to stop waste & fraud” is also the same party of “actually convicted acts of fraud should be legal”.

New comment by kevincrane in "Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook"

kevincrane — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:32:10 +0000

Libro.fm rules, been using it for years now. Same price as Amazon, has a vast majority of the books I've been interested in, and you get to pick a local bookstore to support and some portion of your subscription goes to them. Since we're on HN, you can actually download the audio files from Libro.fm as an officially-supported feature also for backups.

https://libro.fm/

New comment by kevincrane in "SpaceX teams up with Thiel's Palantir, Anduril on American Golden Dome"

kevincrane — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 01:18:39 +0000

But, as also seen with DOGE, they’re careless and refuse to do even cursory research on anything beyond the first-order effects of their actions which, to me at least, seems like a terrible set of traits for being in charge of weaponry.

New comment by kevincrane in "Staffer with Elon Musk's DOGE amplified white supremacists online"

kevincrane — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:22:33 +0000

Oh yes, you're correct actually. The one I linked about was mentioned at the end of the article but the article makes clear that Elon Musk actually did hire multiple people with explicitly racist ties because they are not dealbreakers to him.

New comment by kevincrane in "[dead]"

kevincrane — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:12:37 +0000

This staffer just got rehired btw because being publicly super racist 2 months ago is not a dealbreaker to Elon Musk's organization.

https://bsky.app/profile/fritschner.bsky.social/post/3lhmhrw...

New comment by kevincrane in "Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter"

kevincrane — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 05:09:27 +0000

I’ll be honest, I have better things to do with my time then help you narrow down your personal definition of bigot. Sorry.

New comment by kevincrane in "Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter"

kevincrane — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 01:33:16 +0000

lol I don’t want the bigots and people sending death threats to exist, I’ll stand on a soapbox and say that

New comment by kevincrane in "Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter"

kevincrane — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:34:13 +0000

What problem do you think they’re causing that would warrant death threats?

New comment by kevincrane in "Claim: Private GitHub repos included in AI dataset"

kevincrane — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:57:21 +0000

god the language in that opt-out link is patronizing as hell. do AI people just assume everyone is happy to be a cog in their monetization scheme?

New comment by kevincrane in "SpaceX douments show company forbids employees sell stock if they've misbehaved"

kevincrane — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:47:09 +0000

How is that relevant to the article that was posted?

New comment by kevincrane in "Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B"

kevincrane — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:05:12 +0000

Complaining that no one actually read or is engaging with the posted article is absolutely less whiny than airing grievances that are only tangentially related to the posted topic.

New comment by kevincrane in "US rail safety legislation stalled one year after East Palestine Ohio disaster"

kevincrane — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 02:41:35 +0000

I’ve read through this twice and I can’t figure what you’re trying to both-sides here.

New comment by kevincrane in "Protesters hurl soup at the Mona Lisa painting in Paris"

kevincrane — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:42:24 +0000

Kinda feels like the underpants gnomes thing then

1. Get in the news

2. ???

3. Environment is saved!

New comment by kevincrane in "On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney"

kevincrane — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:06:15 +0000

I agree with the other commenters about the scale of this “deriving inspiration from others” is where this feels wrong.

It feels similar to the ye olden debates on police surveillance. Acquiring a warrant to tail a suspect, tapping a single individual’s phone line, etc all feels like very normal run-of-the-mill police work that no one has a problem with. Collating your behavior across every website and device you own from a data broker is fundamentally the same thing as a single phone’s wiretap, but it obviously feels way grosser and more unethical because it scales way past the point of what you’d imagine as being acceptable.

New comment by kevincrane in "Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws"

kevincrane — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:02:40 +0000

Everyone is immune from traffic tickets in California because our cops are too lazy to enforce any traffic laws in the first place.

New comment by kevincrane in "The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card"

kevincrane — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:11:54 +0000

oh lol I got good news for you: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/network-pass