Hacker News: mdhb

New comment by mdhb in "Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data"

mdhb — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:32:41 +0000

Because the headline underplays it quite a bit the actual story here is that the Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results.

Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

mdhb — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:30:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696654

Points: 115

# Comments: 25

New comment by mdhb in "What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate"

mdhb — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:19:38 +0000

please do go ahead and correct me and name your top 3 free speech absolutists so we can all see how I was “being too emotional” and couldn’t see the obvious truth right in front of me about how free speech really is a deeply held belief of the nation.

New comment by mdhb in "What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate"

mdhb — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:00:35 +0000

Ah yes, the famously fair and independent Republican Party. Terrific sourcing.

New comment by mdhb in "What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate"

mdhb — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:11:41 +0000

This is just such a ridiculous joke in 2026 that nobody outside the US and many inside it could continue to take the idea that the US has any actual interest in free speech as a principled argument. We have all just watched for the last decade the people who cried the loudest about it immediately do a 180 the moment they got the political power to practice it. I can’t think of a single prominent “free speech absolutist” who didn’t fail this test miserably and immediately. So no, I don’t actually believe that the US values it above all else, I think that’s some bullshit that people say because they are only interested in the idea that they personally can say and do whatever they feel like and it doesn’t extend beyond that in practice.

New comment by mdhb in "US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates"

mdhb — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:36:01 +0000

His entire account is dedicated to saying outlandish shit like this. There’s no position he won’t defend. Just downvote and move on.

New comment by mdhb in "ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights"

mdhb — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:15:27 +0000

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New comment by mdhb in "ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights"

mdhb — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:21:47 +0000

It’s already extremely clear that you don’t actually give a shit about the rules because you certainly don’t seem to make any effort to follow them yourselves. As someone else pointed out you’re just lying and misrepresenting things to stop others from talking, I really couldn’t have much less respect for someone like that.

New comment by mdhb in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

mdhb — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:43:55 +0000

Right… why do you think they spent so much time intentionally rigging the courts with illegitimate judges? They’ve been planning a non-democratic takeover of the country FOR A LONG FUCKING TIME. They are just more open about it now.

New comment by mdhb in "Escaping the trap of US tech dependence"

mdhb — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:16:48 +0000

The EU has a plan to replace all of that in the pipeline already. That isn’t new, they are already like 5 years into it and I think looking to launch it next year. That one I actually don’t think is going to be a problem at all as a lot of it is already built and basically ready to go.

New comment by mdhb in "Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland"

mdhb — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:55:33 +0000

He absolutely is not going to accept it. He wants to die a free man and that plan runs into serious problems very quickly if he loses.

New comment by mdhb in "Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains"

mdhb — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:49:12 +0000

Absolutely nobody needs a fucking subscription model funded by VCs to shame them on a daily basis while you steal their personal data and use it to train a fucking AI.

New comment by mdhb in "Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump"

mdhb — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:50:35 +0000

The title accurately describes what happened without any sense of editorial sensationalism. The title doesn’t match word for word with what the original had but that’s not even close to the same thing you’re complaining about.

How a billionaire encouraged Trump to acquire Greenland

mdhb — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:44:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631640

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdhb in "Scott Adams has died"

mdhb — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:56:14 +0000

The moderation on this site is really such garbage. Filled with all kinds of weird and subtle manipulation, almost never openly acknowledged and they are more than happy to gaslight you when you confront them about it.

Prosecutors seek death penalty for ex-South Korean president Yoon

mdhb — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:41:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6vyqq5r0do

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605651

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdhb in "X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It"

mdhb — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:34:38 +0000

The gap between the rules as they are officially written down and the rules as they exist in practice is so wide that it’s basically unrecognisable when you start putting them side by side.

The mods will just gaslight you as well about the entire thing. I know for some unknown reason it’s considered bad form to have anything other than a high opinion of the job they do but I think they do a bad job. I’m not saying it’s not a hard job or anything, I just think they are actively bad at it.

New comment by mdhb in "X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It"

mdhb — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:52:21 +0000

The mods absolutely endorse it though so in that sense it very much is them. They tend to be extremely dishonest and evasive when confronted directly about it but I mean anyone who has an account here can see with their own lying eyes that this happens multiple times a day, every day and it’s simply not plausible that it’s anything else other than something they support.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

mdhb — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:31:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560359

Points: 79

# Comments: 8

New comment by mdhb in "Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE"

mdhb — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:42:39 +0000

It’s far too late by that point