Hacker News: m4ck_

New comment by m4ck_ in "Tesla Roadster"

m4ck_ — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:24:54 +0000

I mean it looks cool but considering they haven't produced any of the other Roadster models in any meaningful quantity, and have repeatedly come up short on much more reasonable product offerings... Idk I have just the slightest doubt about a flying electric car hitting the market any time soon. Hasn't it been nearly a decade since the promise of a software update that would turn your Tesla into a self-driving taxi that can earn money while you're not using it?

New comment by m4ck_ in "Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?"

m4ck_ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:55:04 +0000

Believing your system is beyond critique or question, or that anyone who dares must be the enemy, seems pretty commie to me tbh. Like not in the marx textbook theory sense, more in the actual soviet/chinese communist system sense.

I think it’s very obvious that the powers that be are keen to keep people divided and focused on anything but them. Ex: trans issues, trans people have been around for ever, but didn’t start dominating media and politics until about 10 years ago (not long after the global Wall Street protests.) Just mentioning this will send both sides of the issue into a rage (either I’m a genocidal maniac or I support litter boxes in schools, depending on your interpretation.)

New comment by m4ck_ in "Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers"

m4ck_ — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:20:38 +0000

UUID is the obvious answer. "d4580737-1168-4399-b747-8a5e7af5fc97, climb and maintain 14000" just rolls off the tongue.

New comment by m4ck_ in "NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor"

m4ck_ — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:52:43 +0000

Id want to see who’s funding it before betting. If it’s all private capital, that sounds fair. If its backed by direct government investment or better yet, rate payer increases, my money is they fart around for a decade or so and then the project goes belly up due to poor planning and ballooning costs. and the execs walk away much richer.

New comment by m4ck_ in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

m4ck_ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:10:30 +0000

Do we really need evidence to draw a line between the US's biggest trading partners boycotting the US alcohol industry and a drop in sales in the US alcohol industry? I feel like the only way you don't make that connection is if you're either severely uninformed or so lost down the MAGA rabbit hole you've forgotten the taste of food, the sound of water, the touch of grass...

New comment by m4ck_ in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

m4ck_ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:14:42 +0000

I'd worry about farming in Utah or Arizona deserts long before sonoma and central valley.. They're draining rivers and aquifers to grow grass in the desert to sell to even drier deserts in China and the middle east.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

m4ck_ — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:05:17 +0000

Thats a pretty clever work around… sharing a playlist and using the comments on a podcast as group chat, not sure I’d have come up with that. the kids are alright I guess, good for them.

New comment by m4ck_ in "FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents"

m4ck_ — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:33:52 +0000

If an AI agent does some crime on my behalf, regardless of whether I explicitly instructed it to or not, I should probably be held accountable right? Same as if I did crime, knowingly or otherwise?

Like if any of us got caught doing what OpenAI apparently has done, we'd be in federal prison pending trial and hoping for a plea deal with some light at the end of the tunnel.

New comment by m4ck_ in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

m4ck_ — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:14:34 +0000

You'd think with tech being a force multiplier and all it'd be real easy for agencies to shed the supposed few and far between 'bad apples'. They should be able to do more with less bodies, with flock and other tech helping them, right? It seems to me the entire system failed this woman and waiving it away as a single lazy cop gives the system a pass.

There is no real mechanism for holding them accountable and the consequences of these tools include death (it only takes one perceived wrong move for officers thinking they've bagged a felon to ventilate you. Hell not even that, see that officer who mag dumped his own car after he mistook an acorn for a gunshot.) This lady is quite lucky that it was only 13 days, if she had a career that's probably hosed but it might not be totally life ruining if she has a strong support system.

New comment by m4ck_ in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

m4ck_ — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:44:38 +0000

Alberta separatism efforts by the US/Russia are probably about to be cranked up to 11.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Data collected by cars and sold to third parties"

m4ck_ — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:05:31 +0000

Haven't they been caught snooping on customers before with their in car surveillance?

New comment by m4ck_ in "AirPods 5"

m4ck_ — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:40:45 +0000

oh IDK how I didn't notice that.

New comment by m4ck_ in "AirPods 5"

m4ck_ — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:39:26 +0000

Not first party. the ones I get are "foam masters" brand on amazon.

New comment by m4ck_ in "AirPods 5"

m4ck_ — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:57:44 +0000

Not trying to convince your anything, just putting it out there for those that are plagued by this, but I had similar issues and memory foam tips solved this for me with airpods. For me they'll stay in if i'm basically motionless, but as soon as I move they're on the run.. With the foam tips I'm able to do basically anything and not worry about losing an expensive earbud.

I'm afraid to try expensive over the ear headphones again after a pair of XM3's started making the most hideous screeching noise right after the warranty expired.

New comment by m4ck_ in "US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them"

m4ck_ — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:15:34 +0000

Also, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.

New comment by m4ck_ in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

m4ck_ — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:13:21 +0000

I get the vibe they're using ALPRs to identify drivers, and then going from there to find crime? Seems like criminal investigations should start with an actual crime. At the minimum, I would think that there would need to be some suspicion of criminal involvement to obtain a warrant to get financial records. Apparently this administration considers driving down the interstate suspicious enough to toss the constitution out the window.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

m4ck_ — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:45:24 +0000

It doesn't event attempt to address any of those issues or anything real. American politics is all about keeping the working class distracted and pointing fingers at each other while the ownership class rapes (literally) and pillages.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year"

m4ck_ — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:40:10 +0000

I feel like if we can throw parents in jail for allowing their children to walk unsupervised, we can probably toss them in prison for giving them unrestricted access to the internet.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year"

m4ck_ — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:17:30 +0000

I'd say it's not so much "as secure as we know how" and a lot more "as secure as we're willing to pay for". I'm sure this company has competent sysadmins and devs who'd be happy to lock things down. Usually management doesn't want the expense or the hassle.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Google Maps Showing 'Lake America' in U.S."

m4ck_ — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:08:54 +0000

I hate it, but my guess is if they don't play ball here, they risk losing government contracts or worse, being blacklisted as a "supply chain threat" as they tried to do with Anthropic. Gov't/military canceling GCP and Gemini contracts probably wouldn't do well for their stock.