Hacker News: ligne

New comment by ligne in "Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?"

ligne — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:24:32 +0000

You might be out of luck: I believe they expire unused after a fairly short time.

New comment by ligne in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

ligne — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:56:36 +0000

100% of anything is a bad idea if you're going to have to draw on them any time soon. Bonds are less volatile than equity, but they're still subject to drops in value.

New comment by ligne in "Grok Build is open source"

ligne — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:00:47 +0000

Well quite. But that means that to the extent that most people know anything about grok, it's as "that twitter AI that called itself Hitler and made naked pictures of children".

New comment by ligne in "Grok Build is open source"

ligne — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:57:06 +0000

All it really shows is that the British court system will sell you all the justice that money can buy.

New comment by ligne in "Grok Build is open source"

ligne — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:52:07 +0000

> There's a popular hundred+ million view, often reposted and requoted, tweet about this

Retweet it all you want, but it won't make it any more true.

New comment by ligne in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"

ligne — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:34:27 +0000

It reduces risk for employers by piling it onto employees, who are also probably in a worse position to bear it.

New comment by ligne in "One million passports leaked online"

ligne — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:19:56 +0000

The original post (and correct link) is here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48725917>

New comment by ligne in "One million passports leaked online"

ligne — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:02:27 +0000

So you're so utterly convinced they're lying about this because....

New comment by ligne in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

ligne — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:43:58 +0000

The same way you monitor your staff's work in general? Do they not have goals and deadlines and some way to discuss their progress with their manager?

New comment by ligne in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

ligne — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:45:40 +0000

Not sure it's ever been particularly difficult to be a criminal. If anything, the tricky part has always been establishing who you can and can't trust.

New comment by ligne in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

ligne — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:26:32 +0000

The past few years have seen attempts to get The Diary of Anne Frank pulled from libraries, along with any mention of LGBT or Black people. What makes you think that this will be used to protect kids from racial, sexual and misogynistic abuse, let alone predatory businesses?

New comment by ligne in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

ligne — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:23:15 +0000

I reckon if you applied an airport level of surveillance to go out for a drink, you'd destroy the hospitality industry in under a week.

New comment by ligne in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

ligne — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:30:24 +0000

Reddit and Twitter can buy their way out of those problems (hell, they can buy their way out of trouble for literally generating sexual abuse content). What makes you think they'll be affected more than the operator of a little Mastodon server do the same?

New comment by ligne in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

ligne — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:24:54 +0000

In theory the King can veto any law he wants. In practice he couldn't without causing a monumental constitutional crisis that would probably end his reign. His unofficial ability to influence government policy is the real issue, but one that is definitely not limited to that one guy with the special blood.

New comment by ligne in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

ligne — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:59:02 +0000

Have you considered using a more scientific metric, like the number of bugs being closed or the number of typewriter ribbons being used up?

New comment by ligne in "Libre Barcode Project"

ligne — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:31:44 +0000

Homographs are tricky :-)

New comment by ligne in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

ligne — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:11:04 +0000

It's worth noting that even more staid distributions like Debian provide you with the means to do this. It's arguably bit more complicated, but saves you a lot of time and hassle on the happy path.

New comment by ligne in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

ligne — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:59:37 +0000

I mean Netflix haven't managed to solve password sharing so,

New comment by ligne in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"

ligne — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:17:58 +0000

As we discovered to our cost here in the UK a few years ago, increasing government debt to give tax breaks to the rich doesn't just cause huge economic damage, it also makes it difficult for more responsible governments to borrow for actual investment, however critical.

New comment by ligne in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"

ligne — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:13:16 +0000

"Well you need to exercise more and eat more vegetables" is true, but it's only practicable advice if people have access to exercise facilities and healthy food, and the time to make use of them. Otherwise you may as well be blaming fire victims for not being incombustible.