Hacker News: martey

New comment by martey in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

martey — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:55:09 +0000

Unfortunately, no. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395320.

New comment by martey in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

martey — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:48:58 +0000

> "Its fine if the media lies to the people if the people believe the lies."

That is low, but that's neither a direct quote or not an accurate paraphrase of my comment. While I realize that the comment I replied was edited after my response to talk about lying in more recent conflicts (which might be causing your confusion), I don't think you (like OP) are trying to make the argument that the New York Times is bad because of their reporting in the 1930s.

New comment by martey in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

martey — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:42:43 +0000

It's bad etiquette to edit your comment after people have replied to it without showing what your edits were. Please do not do this.

New comment by martey in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

martey — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:36:39 +0000

Your comment is full of historical revisionism. The Second World War has little or nothing to do with the Holodomor. The Times' lack of reporting on it has nothing to do with American foreign policy (both Duranty and Gareth Jones were British) and everything to do with credulous reporters. The idea that America and the Soviet Union would be natural allies was not the majority viewpoint in the 1930s (outside of American communist propaganda) and is clearly disproved by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

New comment by martey in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

martey — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:50:00 +0000

> World Was 2, they uncritically accepted Walter Durranty letting Stalin ghostwrite for him, specifically w.r.t. Stalin's man-made famine in Ukraine, because America was allied with Stalin.

Duranty's New York Times articles were written in 1931, a decade before America entered World War II. They not only predate an American alliance with the Soviet Union, but they also predate the United States having any diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union whatsoever.

> Go back through the major wars in American history and you can find the New York Times championing the cause of war before each of these.

Are there other major American newspapers who have a history of dissenting against war? Wasn't the New York Times' behavior in most of the conflicts you mention in line with American popular opinion?

New comment by martey in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

martey — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:02:13 +0000

I think this new guideline is nothing like the Bathroom Singing Prohibition Act, because that law doesn't seem to really exist: https://www.grunge.com/1710070/is-pennsylvania-strange-batht...

Covid-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions

martey — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:52:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/covid-19-cleared-the-skies-but-also-supercharged-methane-emissions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918625

Points: 7

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I work with AI for a living. This marketing ploy is repugnant

martey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:04:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/05/moltbook-anthropic-ai-consciousness-marketing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902591

Points: 9

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New comment by martey in "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"

martey — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:15:34 +0000

"The fundamental issue is that SendGrid’s business model depends on making it easy for legitimate businesses to send email at scale."

I disagree with this conclusion, if not only because other email service providers don't have this issue.

It wouldn't surprise me if something was broken with SendGrid's internal infrastructure. I used to be a SendGrid customer until my deliverability started being affected by this issue. SendGrid took weeks to reply to my customer service messages about resolving this, even though I was a paying customer and was renting private IP addresses from them to send mail.

I finally gave up and closed my SendGrid account in July 2021. Despite this, they continued to send me monthly invoices until May 2022. Multiple SendGrid representatives promised that they had resolved the issue, but it wasn't until one CSR added me to SendGrid's global suppression list that they finally stopped.

New comment by martey in "FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub"

martey — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:19:42 +0000

> In this case, the fact that it took 2 years. And of course now that FFmpeg is getting more exposure in the media due to their association with AI hype, now they finally get 'fair' legal treatment... I don't call that winning.

It took 2 years because FFmpeg waited 2 years to send a DMCA notice to Github, not because of delays in the legal system. I think you are conflating different unrelated issues here.

We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper

martey — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/the-ars-technica-ai-coding-agent-test-minesweeper-edition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329080

Points: 6

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How the Rhinelander Trial Scandalized the Jazz Age

martey — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:56:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/magazine/rhinelander-trial-interracial-marriage.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303012

Points: 2

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New comment by martey in "Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru"

martey — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:26:41 +0000

A lot of comments here seem to suggest that we should discount or ignore this paper because the OLPC program had other benefits (increasing uptake of lower cost laptops worldwide, giving children computer skills, etc.). This is a reasonable argument assuming that most people have only read the free abstract, but this isn't the conclusion that the authors come in the actual paper. Instead, they suggest that the program might have been more successful with increased teacher training and internet access in schools.

I was able to access the NBER version of the paper, but it looks like working copies are also available in a number of other locations:

  - https://publications.iadb.org/en/laptops-long-run-evidence-one-laptop-child-program-rural-peru
  - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5391874
  - https://www.ofermalamud.com/research

The Man Who Was Supposed to Kill Martin Luther King Jr

martey — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:20:36 +0000

Article URL: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/martin-luther-king-mlk-fbi-files-murder-assassination.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177985

Points: 5

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ICE Says Critical Evidence Was Lost in 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued

martey — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:56:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ice-says-critical-evidence-in-broadview-abuse-case-was-lost-in-system-crash-a-day-after-it-was-sued/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45998362

Points: 17

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Wired and 404 Media make FOIA reporting free

martey — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:57:52 +0000

Article URL: https://freedom.press/issues/wired-and-404-media-make-foia-reporting-free-other-news-outlets-should-too/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765883

Points: 20

# Comments: 1

GitHub Code Quality in public preview

martey — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-10-28-github-code-quality-in-public-preview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45735055

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by martey in "Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Global HIV Surge"

martey — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:57:14 +0000

Both "flashblooding" and the 2010 paper you mention are explicitly mentioned in the article.

New comment by martey in "Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus"

martey — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:55:30 +0000

You're correct, but "hospitals overcounted COVID deaths and the pandemic wasn't that bad" is unfortunately a conspiracy theory: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/how-covid-death-counts-become...

Geoengineering will not save humankind from climate change

martey — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:43:02 +0000

Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09092025/geoengineering-polar-ice-melt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183601

Points: 5

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