Hacker News: neksn

New comment by neksn in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

neksn — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:22:05 +0000

What’s interesting to me is that for you to build a $10B datacenter (or any other business) you are shaken down for over $3.3B.

New comment by neksn in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"

neksn — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:15:57 +0000

Closed source binaries rot.

New comment by neksn in "Court bans Kars4Kids ads in California for violating false advertising law"

neksn — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:53:27 +0000

> Kids in need aren’t even really the target of the organization’s financial efforts. Instead, those go to 17- and 18-year-olds seeking gap-year trips to Israel and their families.

This is priceless.

New comment by neksn in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"

neksn — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:30:26 +0000

They only show what the website gives them through opengraph tags. If the site doesn’t want to give up that information they can remove the opengraph tags. Even still, fair use should allow Facebook to summarise the contents of the link if they wanted to (but they don’t do that).

New comment by neksn in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

neksn — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:00:35 +0000

And this is only the beginning.

I wonder what a good white-collar career path will be post-AI? What is your opinion on this?

New comment by neksn in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"

neksn — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:56:45 +0000

The demographics of this site have changed so much that people here are applauding… that it is now illegal to embed opengraph information on Facebook? This is deranged. And it only happens because the government is in bed with legacy media. The government being in bed with the media is awful for the common person.

Embedding opengraph data is a clear case of fair use, and it’s sad to see all of this coming from a community that has long been against copyright.