Hacker News: lingrush4

New comment by lingrush4 in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

lingrush4 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:53:00 +0000

After reading the examples, I trust Zuckerberg more than the author of this article. And that's a really low bar. The evidence for Zuckerberg lying here is flimsy at best. It's almost like the author doesn't know what lying even is.

New comment by lingrush4 in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

lingrush4 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:01:23 +0000

Socialism never took off in America because Americans know that disincentivizing work shrinks the economy and makes everyone poorer.

New comment by lingrush4 in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

lingrush4 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:55:19 +0000

Your PM most definitely would not tell you to skip a feature that is needed for your emails to be delivered to Gmail accounts. What a preposterous thing to lie about.

New comment by lingrush4 in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

lingrush4 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:00:18 +0000

Closing a small patch of airspace while military activity is occurring is not authoritarianism. Get a grip you lunatic

New comment by lingrush4 in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

lingrush4 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:57:45 +0000

Trump needs to be impeached immediately for this. How dare he close airspace and then just lift that closure once the danger has passed.

New comment by lingrush4 in "Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number"

lingrush4 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:24:47 +0000

Google ought to rethink its policy of disclosing government subpoenas to users. Every time this happens, the media uses it to attack Google. They'd be better off leaving users in the dark about these legally required data disclosures. Even if most users don't go crying to the media when it happens, it's still not worth it.

New comment by lingrush4 in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

lingrush4 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:10:16 +0000

That would solve exactly zero of the complaints surfaced in this lawsuit. Companies still have an incentive to maximize app usage regardless of whether the advertising is personalized.

New comment by lingrush4 in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

lingrush4 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:48:32 +0000

In fairness, AI-generated CSAM is nowhere near as evil as real CSAM. The reason why possession of CSAM was such a serious crime is because its creation used to necessitate the abuse of a child.

It's pretty obvious the French are deliberately conflating the two to justify attacking a political dissident.

New comment by lingrush4 in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

lingrush4 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:40:42 +0000

Grok does try to prevent it. They even publicly publish their safety prompt. It clearly shows they have disallowed the system from assisting with queries that create child sexual abuse material.

The fact that users have found ways to hack around this is not evidence of X committing a crime.

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/blob/main/grok_4_saf...

New comment by lingrush4 in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

lingrush4 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:16:57 +0000

Are you illiterate? The comment I was replied to said X should be banned for trying to manipulate public opinion. It said nothing about CSAM.

New comment by lingrush4 in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

lingrush4 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:15:10 +0000

Every AI system is capable of generating CSAM and deep fakes if requested by a savvy user. The only thing this proves is that you can't upset the French government or they'll go on a fishing expedition through your office praying to find evidence of a crime.

New comment by lingrush4 in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

lingrush4 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:10:10 +0000

Reddit and BlueSky would be the first to go if that were actually the criteria for banning a platform.

New comment by lingrush4 in "Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair"

lingrush4 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:58:22 +0000

Maybe ten comments below you there is someone stating "environmental regulations are a win."

No qualifiers whatsoever. All environmental regulations are good as far as this person is concerned.

New comment by lingrush4 in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

lingrush4 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:28:19 +0000

Not sure why the title was editorialized, but this is literally just one person's opinion. The title makes it sound like the legal community universally agrees, which is not true.

New comment by lingrush4 in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

lingrush4 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:23:06 +0000

$45 pays for the cost of a much more tedious identity verification process.

New comment by lingrush4 in "The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat"

lingrush4 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:37:23 +0000

The author never really argued for anything. He's just whining

New comment by lingrush4 in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

lingrush4 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:25:42 +0000

No idea why the poster wants to deprive this author of engagement on his post, but here's the original link: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876

New comment by lingrush4 in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

lingrush4 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:20:13 +0000

Freedom of speech has literally never prevented a private company from controlling the content on its platform.

New comment by lingrush4 in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

lingrush4 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:15:26 +0000

Nothing. These apps are mental poison. They're designed to be addictive. Healthy adults don't use TikTok or any equivalent.

New comment by lingrush4 in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

lingrush4 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:13 +0000

And you think they won't be used against me if I don't help build them?

Seems unlikely.

If the implication is that the tools won't exist if I don't build them, that's beyond a pipe dream. We'll never get a globe of 8 billion people to agree unanimously on anything. Let alone agreeing not to build something that gives them power over their adversaries.