Hacker News: nickdurfe

New comment by nickdurfe in "Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees"

nickdurfe — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:17:14 +0000

> Unit 731 was a secret biological and chemical warfare research unit run by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1933 and 1945. An estimated 14,000 people were killed by infecting prisoners with deadly diseases, conducting vivisection, performing organ harvesting, testing hypobaric chambers, amputating limbs, and exposing victims to chemical agents and explosives.

New comment by nickdurfe in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

nickdurfe — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:22:04 +0000

>Assembly line jobs are rough and people pee in bottles, and die.

You phrase this as if it's acceptable that people work in terrible conditions and sacrifice their lives so that the rest of us can buy cheap products with fast shipping, and this is completely normal. "Another Amazon warehouse worker dead? Oh well!"

New comment by nickdurfe in "Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi"

nickdurfe — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:01:46 +0000

It always be an option to close the browser tab and look at something else.

New comment by nickdurfe in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

nickdurfe — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:37:45 +0000

This is pure speculation. You can't possibly predict what courts are going to decide in the future. And the Digital Age Assurance Act doesn't "force a user to give up ID to access the Internet", it requires age information to be collected during creation of a user account on a system.

New comment by nickdurfe in "Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot"

nickdurfe — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:28:25 +0000

Your elementary school social studies teacher failed you; the statement you referenced is written in the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution. The parent OP that I first replied to stated that "Owning money should allow you more representation than not owning money". This is a position not at all worth defending, and completely at odds with the concept of "all men are created equal".

New comment by nickdurfe in "Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot"

nickdurfe — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:33:12 +0000

"and yet now the constitution bans slavery"

Unless you're a prisoner convicted of a crime. Stating that the founders of the United States owned slaves is not "nihilistic nonsense", it's an important distinction to note that they sought political power for themselves, and no one else. The phrase "all men are created equal" should be interpreted as "all white land-owning men are created equal"

New comment by nickdurfe in "Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot"

nickdurfe — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:58:27 +0000

41 of the 56 men who signed the document containing that statement were slave owners.

New comment by nickdurfe in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

nickdurfe — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:16:09 +0000

Except when millions of Ukrainian refugees have been allowed in since 2022. You could say that they said "no" to mass brown people migration.

New comment by nickdurfe in "Music for Programming"

nickdurfe — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:43:31 +0000

Requires an email address and credit card to even try this, so nope.

New comment by nickdurfe in "IPv6 Insecure?"

nickdurfe — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:21:19 +0000

In the past, we'd call this a troll (blog) post.

New comment by nickdurfe in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

nickdurfe — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:03:57 +0000

It's not difficult for me at all; I can understand it quite well.

New comment by nickdurfe in "How Secure is Tor? Not secure at all"

nickdurfe — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:59:22 +0000

> Why has the US created a highway system used extensively for causing death?

New comment by nickdurfe in "The Sixties Come Back to Life in "Everything Is Now""

nickdurfe — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:57:52 +0000

https://archive.is/qkRQX

New comment by nickdurfe in "The Nazi of Oak Park"

nickdurfe — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:47:35 +0000

Perhaps if in the future the US army is found to be a criminal organization, like the Schutzstaffel is considered to be today.

New comment by nickdurfe in "American Radio Relay League paid $1M ransom payment"

nickdurfe — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:19:48 +0000

The article states that their insurance paid the ransom.

New comment by nickdurfe in "Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees"

nickdurfe — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:41:55 +0000

Defcon has never required IDs to attend. They were requiring negative Covid tests in 2021, but that is no longer required.

New comment by nickdurfe in "Sorry Appin, we're not taking down our article about your attempts to silence"

nickdurfe — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:55:55 +0000

??? Those images aren't blurry or hard to read at all. What does it really matter if they embed a legible image or use text?

New comment by nickdurfe in "Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music"

nickdurfe — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:19:12 +0000

No, I believe people would like to know precise details of what you're referring to as "left woke agenda".

New comment by nickdurfe in "I paid for Sublime Text"

nickdurfe — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:15:39 +0000

50k will do you quite well in Warsaw, as well as most other Polish cities. Even more so outside of the large cities.

New comment by nickdurfe in "LastPass: Security Incident Update and Recommended Actions (1st March 2023)"

nickdurfe — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:12:36 +0000

The words “home computer” appear here - https://support.lastpass.com/help/incident-2-additional-deta..., which is linked at the bottom of the Incident 2 Summary from the parent article.