Hacker News: mlrtime

New comment by mlrtime in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

mlrtime — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:31:21 +0000

The article is sensationalist, I actually read the policy, did you?

New comment by mlrtime in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

mlrtime — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:30:49 +0000

You just did, all white men do not hold all the power. That is racism.

New comment by mlrtime in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

mlrtime — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:30:26 +0000

You just validated exactly what I said was going to happen. You think every old white person holds all the money, you sir are a racist. Do you admit it?

New comment by mlrtime in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

mlrtime — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:29:04 +0000

Doxing itself is the harm, if not 100% validated. The article is purely subjective.

New comment by mlrtime in "EFF is leaving X"

mlrtime — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:37:35 +0000

The same thing happens, you descend into a echo chamber of people who already agree with you.

New comment by mlrtime in "EFF is leaving X"

mlrtime — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:20:44 +0000

"...and we win by putting our time, skills, and members’ support where they will have the most impact. Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube"

So pretty much all major sites except X. They are saying LinkedIn is more important to reach people than X, really?

New comment by mlrtime in "EFF is leaving X"

mlrtime — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:18:47 +0000

This is BS to be honest, they don't like Musk, which is ok, I have no problem with that. And they are reconstructing a reason to leave.

Musk fired 90+% of Twitter, not just the human rights team.

New comment by mlrtime in "EFF is leaving X"

mlrtime — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:16:53 +0000

So how do you know you've never changed someone's mind? Also, the opposite is just retreating to echo chambers where everyone agrees?

I personally don't care if EFF leaves X. However the message in the article does not line up, it's a bad decision and not justified by the reasons cited.

New comment by mlrtime in "EFF is leaving X"

mlrtime — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:58:27 +0000

Agreed, it started with # of impressions declining... Maybe Kenyatta should have thought that less people care about what is posted? Or, there are other things to interest us vs 2018?

I've donated to EFF in the past, but this message will have me thinking to spend those resources somewhere else.

New comment by mlrtime in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

mlrtime — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:02:21 +0000

Thank you for providing some logic in an otherwise disruptive and manipulating post. Not to mention the incredible utility that cars give.

Not to say we shouldn't be bringing these numbers down, however that doesn't seem like's OPs goal which sounds like propaganda.

New comment by mlrtime in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

mlrtime — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:51:50 +0000

It's a horrible point, it assumes that the person being doxxed is the claim of the doxer.

There is no wait they can be 100% sure, so they will ruin someone's life over what?

New comment by mlrtime in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

mlrtime — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:38:12 +0000

What makes you think that is happening, the announcement looks more like a reorg.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/reorganization

Moving headquarters out of DC seems like a good idea on the surface.

New comment by mlrtime in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

mlrtime — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:02:55 +0000

How much would you wager? It's easy to to say what you're saying because it's popular.

If you watch action and not social media bs, the probability is close to 0%.

New comment by mlrtime in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

mlrtime — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:53:21 +0000

Below answered well, but if you were that 1 guy, wouldn't you want 100+ spec ops looking for you?

New comment by mlrtime in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

mlrtime — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:42:13 +0000

I trust the people who are close to this more than what you hear on the news. My guess is 90%+ of the readers here know nothing of Iranians except what they read or hear on the news.

How many of you have been to Iran, have family members there, etc? I'm guessing very few.

New comment by mlrtime in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

mlrtime — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:31:41 +0000

I had the exact same issue, I had a UI scrollbar bug that claude couldn't fix, it tried 4-5 different ideas that it was sure was causing the issue, none of them worked.

Tried the same with codex, it did a little better but still 4x times around.

This is with playwright automation, screen shots, full access, etc..

New comment by mlrtime in "Protect your shed"

mlrtime — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:25:16 +0000

One thing I've learned: We all give the same execuse, "Not enough time". The two biggest I hear is working out and meditation.

You have all the time in the world, what you don't have is priorities.

New comment by mlrtime in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

mlrtime — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:06:14 +0000

Interesting (I read this all) and wonder if it is a local issue vs a larger issue? Meaning are you seeing the influence of your local social economy class and how they parent?

I'm guessing this is a urban city area of upper middle class? I could be completely off.

New comment by mlrtime in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

mlrtime — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:49:49 +0000

How are you porting over your memories, skills, commands (codex doesn't have commands).

New comment by mlrtime in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

mlrtime — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:47:52 +0000

Agreed, the only feedback is switching... however things move fast. Unfortunately that means for me is subscribing or using API for many providers and then just switching models when one gets worse.

If you have a paid plan, you may need to pay for more than one, and "hopefully" the drop in usage (not income) is a good enough signal that there is a issue.