Hacker News: naIak

New comment by naIak in "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board"

naIak — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:57:31 +0000

"I know I'm wrong, but still I have to double down on this to save face"

New comment by naIak in "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board"

naIak — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:55:29 +0000

I understand you want to highlight this, but you don’t have to begin your sentence with "It's interesting that..." because this is not interesting or novel in the slightest.

New comment by naIak in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"

naIak — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:37:46 +0000

Do not consent when asked or, better yet, do not use websites that implement these techniques.

New comment by naIak in "What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?"

naIak — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:35:23 +0000

You can’t have a good teaching programme when there is a variance of 40 points of IQ among the pupils.

New comment by naIak in "Europe's cookie nightmare is crumbling. EC wants preference at browser level"

naIak — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:33:38 +0000

Loaded language, it can’t be “spying” if the user consents.

New comment by naIak in "What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?"

naIak — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:25:13 +0000

Gauging someone’s abilities is meany mean.

New comment by naIak in "Europe's cookie nightmare is crumbling. EC wants preference at browser level"

naIak — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:22:25 +0000

The choice citizens would make every single time is to see the website without ads. Of course, publishers aren’t happy about that, since they would have to close shop. Maybe the EC should consider both sides of the equation.

New comment by naIak in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

naIak — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:09:00 +0000

>You can make more than that working at McDonald's near me, and nobody would claim that is a living wage.

Hey, good for you. But 30k per year is a very good salary in European countries such as Spain, where the median salary is just a bit over half that.

New comment by naIak in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

naIak — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:00:44 +0000

Damn, where is Mastodon getting €1M from?

Also where do you get from that you can't retire with €1M. It seems very feasible as long as you keep a frugal lifestyle.

New comment by naIak in "Los Angeles limits rent hikes in historic vote"

naIak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:10:56 +0000

Use Google to find what happens when the government introduces price controls.

New comment by naIak in "Grok 4.1"

naIak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:03:31 +0000

It’s amusing that censorship in social media is preventing you from posting what you want to post and yet you are asking for censorship of something else (or at least that’s what I understand by your calling this “dangerous”)

New comment by naIak in "Grok 4.1"

naIak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:24:56 +0000

God forbid people ask a chat bot for things and receive what they ask for. We need to put a stop to this. Only American bigcorp speak allowed.

New comment by naIak in "Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy"

naIak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:52:36 +0000

Even worse is that Samsung phones, at least in my region, come with a "Samsung Global Goals" app installed by default; an app that serves to push a certain political agenda that many find unpalatable. Imagine if your new Xiaomi phone came with an app telling you how good the CCP is.

New comment by naIak in "App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country"

naIak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:17:34 +0000

Because you can bypass the wall with archive.is or other tools. This website is closed tight.

New comment by naIak in "Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set, Bible Could Violate Federal Law"

naIak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:54:09 +0000

That pong set is kitsch as hell. I WANT IT!

New comment by naIak in "GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20"

naIak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:36:56 +0000

What would happen if it changed in a way that repulsed you?

New comment by naIak in "The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies"

naIak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:29:10 +0000

“The government already has too much power, so let it take even more” is not convincing.

New comment by naIak in "The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies"

naIak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:55:01 +0000

The actual danger is that you’re creating a system where the government will have the power to tell you what you can spend your money on.

New comment by naIak in "Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites"

naIak — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:33:33 +0000

Is this the usual "we must stop the big corporations" argument, pretending that those who work at them and those who depend on their products will not complain? Or maybe you are thinking concentration camps and mass graves.

New comment by naIak in "$10k RTX Pro reportedly snaps under its own weight during transit"

naIak — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:29:16 +0000

Mine also came with a bar but my motherboard didn’t have the appropriate holes for it.