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Anthropic vs. U.S. Department of War, etc. [pdf]

mef — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:26:55 +0000

Article URL: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.1.0_1.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311221

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by mef in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

mef — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:12:50 +0000

yes! just don't forget to `RUN echo '{"hasCompletedOnboarding": true}' > /home/user/.claude.json` otherwise your claude will ask how to authenticate on startup, ignoring the OAUTH token

New comment by mef in "Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows"

mef — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:51:18 +0000

IMO it's because there's both benefit and waste/corruption in these kinds of social benefit structures. some people choose to only see one or the other:

"these benefit everyone including those who don't use them directly! how could you be against it?"

"this money that I'm having to pay is either overpaid to corrupt vendors, or just straight wasted, why would we ever want to increase how much we're paying into this system?"

in reality you can't have one without the other. it's up to each person to decide whether they can take the bad with the good

New comment by mef in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

mef — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:01:02 +0000

aisuru?

New comment by mef in "Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores"

mef — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:43:52 +0000

just don’t ask Santa if there’s a seahorse emoji

Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism

mef — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:08:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45385122

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by mef in "MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system"

mef — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:57:08 +0000

They had this during spring training and it was fantastic. The challenge limit meant it was used rarely, but when it was used it added a fun dramatic element. Players getting to stick it to umpires when they got it wrong, and umpires getting to smirk at players when they got it right.

And at the end of it all, some missed calls get to be corrected.

New comment by mef in "Agents built from alloys"

mef — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 04:30:53 +0000

this is a different idea

New comment by mef in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

mef — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:58:58 +0000

nice I'm gonna use this!

Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)

mef — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:07:58 +0000

Article URL: https://chomsky.info/20230503-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089156

Points: 286

# Comments: 359

Tailscale Enterprise Plan 9 Support

mef — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:49:16 +0000

Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-enterprise-plan-9-support

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546755

Points: 10

# Comments: 3

New comment by mef in "“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson"

mef — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:48:27 +0000

yup. traitors tend to keep dumb-presenting faithful around because they give the impression of both not being a traitor as well as being unsavvy and easy to manipulate

Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU

mef — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:34:18 +0000

Article URL: http://www.righto.com/2025/01/pentium-floating-point-ROM.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42604350

Points: 151

# Comments: 23

New comment by mef in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

mef — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:58:54 +0000

whether cash or credit, it's all going right back to AWS

New comment by mef in "All political ads running on Google in the US"

mef — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:31:40 +0000

interesting that the company that has the most viewed ads for 2024[1] ("FORCE VECTOR COMMUNICATIONS") has a total of 3 matches when you search for them[2]

[1] https://adstransparency.google.com/political?region=US&topic...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22force+vector+communicatio...

Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics

mef — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:06:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.matthewball.co/all/fansprofitandloss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484634

Points: 447

# Comments: 807

New comment by mef in "2M users but no money in the bank"

mef — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:01:00 +0000

out of money, final payroll, no alternative but to go into zombie mode, yet for the last few months the co-founder has been working on his next product which will launch in 2025.

maybe everything that could have been tried was tried but this comes off like some of the effort spent working on the next company could have been spent keeping this one alive

New comment by mef in "Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing"

mef — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 23:39:10 +0000

speaking of Georgi Georgiev, I can’t recommend enough his AB testing tools at https://www.analytics-toolkit.com

being able to tell when an experiment has entered the Zone of Futility has been super valuable.

New comment by mef in "Show HN: I built a full-text search for your browsing history"

mef — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 01:55:14 +0000

i too had this issue, and it persisted even after i uninstalled the extension. i had to restart the browser entirely

New comment by mef in "The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism"

mef — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:11:26 +0000

for what it's worth, Chomsky is specifically an advocate of Anarcho-Syndicalism:

Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism