Hacker News: morkalork

New comment by morkalork in "ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker"

morkalork — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:40:41 +0000

Residents of California have the right to opt out, no?

New comment by morkalork in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

morkalork — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:34:13 +0000

It's a good measure of scale. The USA is paying Iran an amount that is 1/3rd of its military budget in reparations because they "won".

New comment by morkalork in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"

morkalork — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:37:48 +0000

This attitude of denial and stuck in the past beliefs is exactly why the USA isn't competitive. Y'all, and your politicians leading the country, just keep telling yourselves these things and then wonder why you're getting lapped by a bunch of cut-throat capitalists.

New comment by morkalork in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

morkalork — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:52:38 +0000

How do these prices compare to buying a PC in the early 90s?

New comment by morkalork in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

morkalork — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:39:54 +0000

In a weird sense, the EU exemplifies what the USA would be like without a strong federal government: Dysfunctional as states compete with, undercut and stifle each other.

New comment by morkalork in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

morkalork — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:43:02 +0000

It's OK tho, Sam personally apologized for that oopsie.

New comment by morkalork in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

morkalork — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:32:15 +0000

But when is now if it becomes available. Oops!

New comment by morkalork in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

morkalork — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:14 +0000

I've got a Subaru where all the dash instrument lights are in red and it is _amazing_. Still had to turn the infotainment screen brightness to minimum to enjoy it though.

New comment by morkalork in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

morkalork — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:28:04 +0000

Yes, they've wound up having their whole lives very effectively taken hostage. Also criminals lose the right to vote don't they? Seems like the perfect incentive to criminalize any political movements that are contrary to the ruling class.

New comment by morkalork in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

morkalork — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:15:51 +0000

Americans don't even protest on weekdays, they wait for a weekend to do it. So it is easy to say that they aren't serious but on the other hand, they're a lot closer to the knife's edge of stability and missing a day of work can get them fired (especially in at-will employment states), Europe is not like this as much.

New comment by morkalork in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

morkalork — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:12:16 +0000

How do you feel about the EPA, industrial accidents, oil spills etc? Does scale give every company a free pass for damages?

New comment by morkalork in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

morkalork — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:29:43 +0000

Actually it's perfect. How long did it take rulers to go from fighting the printing press to using it for propaganda and their own ambitions? The internet has just speed run that same course.

New comment by morkalork in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

morkalork — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:45:22 +0000

Perhaps the laws should be modernized

New comment by morkalork in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

morkalork — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:03:22 +0000

The CIA has extensive experience in undermining, neutering, diverting and decapitation all sorts of movements.

New comment by morkalork in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

morkalork — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:59:59 +0000

Not to over use the junior engineer analogy but this is exactly one of those "just because you can do something on a system, doesn't mean you have permission to" moments

New comment by morkalork in "The dead economy theory"

morkalork — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:14:59 +0000

In industrial revolution analogy we are more like the horses and oxen. How did being replaced by machines go for them?

New comment by morkalork in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

morkalork — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:58:45 +0000

Anyone could have run the list of candidate names from the bets through google trends right?

New comment by morkalork in "The worst job interview I ever had"

morkalork — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:57:35 +0000

Then strangers shouldn't fucking ask questions that could have answers that make them uncomfortable. Just a thought.

New comment by morkalork in "FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack"

morkalork — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:56:05 +0000

>happens to be

This is not normal, other (decent) countries are not like this

New comment by morkalork in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

morkalork — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:37:46 +0000

The scary this is what that looks like in practice