Hacker News: mayneack

New comment by mayneack in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

mayneack — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:54:45 +0000

This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:02:16 +0000

Neither of those controls their ecosystem. Truth Social runs on Activity Pub.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:30 +0000

Yes. If you're just making arbitrary choices on each instance you're not a free speech zealot you're just making judgement calls like everyone else.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:29:07 +0000

In what world is twitter the least censored site? The big 3 federated sites are much more open if you want it to be and X is a walled garden.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:28:57 +0000

How is twitter more of a free speech platform than the three open federated options (activity pub, at protocol, and nostr)?

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:23:50 +0000

Half this post is about how few people they're reaching on X.

New comment by mayneack in "EFF is leaving X"

mayneack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:20:50 +0000

Bluesky might have be niche in terms of users but it's an open platform like activity pub so it's at least quite aligned with the EFF mission.

New comment by mayneack in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

mayneack — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:14:43 +0000

I promise there are thousands to millions of people just as ruthless. Most of them just end up as petty criminals.

New comment by mayneack in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

mayneack — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:24:08 +0000

That may or may not be true in aggregate, but for extreme outliers it's impossible to separate from survivorship bias. Are Musk and Andreeson really the most skilled entrepreneurs in the world or are they just good enough for luck to propel them to stratospheric success?

New comment by mayneack in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

mayneack — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:43:33 +0000

It's a little light on rigor. There's a lot of "X happened before Y therefore X caused Y" but I think it's a really good articulation of some of the problems it tackles.

New comment by mayneack in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

mayneack — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:17:48 +0000

"this violates our TOS" is a classic Accountability Sink. "Polymarket has a rule against harassment, so we obviously did all we could!"

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

New comment by mayneack in "ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study"

mayneack — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:30:01 +0000

Then Google shouldn't be using something so unreliable for anything important. Arguing that random users should know the difference between cheap and frontier models is also not compelling. It's all the same "AI" to most people.

New comment by mayneack in "Facebook is cooked"

mayneack — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 04:13:28 +0000

I'd be shocked if international travel was the algorithmic tell, but in the book Careless People, the author discusses extensively that they (Facebook's political team) did a lot of manually curating the experience for politicians across the world to help push for Facebook's side in whatever issue was important on a given day.

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

New comment by mayneack in "Tech CEOs attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House"

mayneack — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:04:04 +0000

They absolutely can afford to be a-political. It may not maximize their wealth, but they can afford a little less maximizing.

New comment by mayneack in "Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study"

mayneack — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:46:12 +0000

Renters often pay for utilities.

New comment by mayneack in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

mayneack — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:34:09 +0000

Fun fact: Bose is 51% owned by MIT (non voting shares) https://news.mit.edu/2011/bose-gift

New comment by mayneack in "James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies"

mayneack — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:40:17 +0000

I use it regularly

New comment by mayneack in "Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella"

mayneack — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:04:36 +0000

Norway is a sovereign nation, so what's the argument against them taking action based on the Gaza genocide?

New comment by mayneack in "Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella"

mayneack — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:59:39 +0000

If Microsoft were providing "general purpose compute to Iran" the US would sanction them.

New comment by mayneack in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

mayneack — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:35:03 +0000

Well in this case the executive branch isn't even following congressionally appropriations, so one could argue that this particular shut down is more caused by the president than any other in history.