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New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:23:17 +0000

This has nothing to do with politics, or political talk. People's complaints are about dishonesty, abuse, and manipulation on the part of Meta.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:57:02 +0000

> The post says the software is limited to a list of commonly used work applications, like Gmail, GChat, and Metamate, an AI assistant for employees.

> It also says it only applies to computers, not to employees' phones.

What a great motivator for employees to stop using their work computers.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:52:43 +0000

AI yielding such incredible cost savings. /s

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:12:28 +0000

I don't recall using starch on the BDUs, I might have polished the boots once or twice, but that was just over twenty years ago, so who knows.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:00:09 +0000

Austria has this figured out...

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

https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/en/themen/gesetze_und_recht/we...

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:00:46 +0000

Reminds me of when I would stay up late ironing my wife's maternity BDUs.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months"

ludicrousdispla — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:31:29 +0000

They're used to keep a soda or beer can insulated, typically when drinking the beverage outside during hot summer months.

P-e-n-i-s Costume Protester Prevails in Court

ludicrousdispla — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:19:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.courthousenews.com/penis-costume-protester-prevails-in-court/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804689

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "North American English Dialects"

ludicrousdispla — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:23:09 +0000

between Pittsburgh and Altoona

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "North American English Dialects"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:58:00 +0000

'mensch' and 'schmuck' are commonly used words in NYC that are not known to people in the South, unless they have studied German (and yes I had to fight capitalizing them.)

Another example... 'they're all' is shorthand for 'they're all gone' in Pennsylvania.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:12:11 +0000

What if I hire a lawyer to use Claude for me instead? Seems like that is space for a disruptive startup.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

ludicrousdispla — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:59:48 +0000

It's primarily focused on "take from someone else" rather than create something new and useful.

Consider that many of the tech posts here are of the form, "i did X but with Z" as the poster hopes they will be recognized as some master of execution.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Am I German or Autistic?"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:47:53 +0000

I got "the Wittgenstein result", which I guess makes sense as I used to live down the street from his childhood home.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:29:37 +0000

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:15:28 +0000

and in front of a "Миссия выполнена" poster

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:29:20 +0000

you can sous vide beef and pork at a lower temperature than that

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Show HN: I built a small app for FSI German Course"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:31:56 +0000

Looks interesting and useful, thanks for not making it a mobile app!

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:35:09 +0000

...later, as evening approached, she called her sales rep at Dunder-Mifflin to place an order for a case of US Letter Thermal Printer Paper rolls.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:20:48 +0000

From the Pew Research poll you linked above:

> Among those who consider themselves Republicans, 79% say they approve of how Trump is handling the conflict.

71% of Republicans say the decision to use military force in Iran was correct.

88% of Democrats say the U.S. made the wrong decision to use military force in Iran.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:58:17 +0000

It's best to think of it as a giant tree, from which you can pick cherries.