Hacker News: nilespotter

New comment by nilespotter in "EFF is leaving X"

nilespotter — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:43:49 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SnAJOluk1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC64XJl2mXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZhTVHeQK10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRF80IWYX8

New comment by nilespotter in "We Will Not Be Divided"

nilespotter — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:42:16 +0000

These models are weapons whether the frontier provider founders and their trite and lofty mission statements like it or not.

Private individuals and private companies do not get to create a defensive weapon with unprecedented power in a new category in the US and not share it with the US military.

You guys are batshit insane.

New comment by nilespotter in "We mourn our craft"

nilespotter — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:21:35 +0000

Per the "About Me" picture, this particular technologist does not have any hair to tear out.

New comment by nilespotter in "Show HN: GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests"

nilespotter — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:30:24 +0000

Why not just look at the code and see if it's good or not?

New comment by nilespotter in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

nilespotter — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:40:12 +0000

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New comment by nilespotter in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

nilespotter — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:52:53 +0000

It is.

New comment by nilespotter in "Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves"

nilespotter — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:54:09 +0000

> Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist

Why the fuck was "LAist" getting federal funding? Glad they're not anymore.

New comment by nilespotter in "Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law"

nilespotter — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:52:24 +0000

> crow about parental autonomy and how they should be in complete control of their children's education and lives.

Ah yes, those monsters

New comment by nilespotter in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"

nilespotter — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:03:39 +0000

> It’s an odd form of white supremacy that views whites as above having material interests of their own.

This is also an interesting way to explain the self-immolating Whites, which nowadays is most of us. Any sort of White group identity or collective interest is absolute heresy which must be opposed, while all things in the collective interest of non-Whites must be celebrated, encouraged, and helped along at our own expense. There's a certain paternalistic arrogance to it, an ethnocentric assumption that other races can't get on without us. And it's much more common and pervasive than the caricature of the like shaved head neo-Nazi we are all expected to imagine exists in large numbers, somewhere.

New comment by nilespotter in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"

nilespotter — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:32:34 +0000

Or they could just do it whenever they want to for whatever reason they want to. They are not responsible for the mental health of their users. Their users are responsible for that themselves.

New comment by nilespotter in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

nilespotter — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:55:05 +0000

Same. I support everything that's going on at DOGE. There's a certain type around here that needs to get used to the fact that their political views do not enjoy industry wide hegemony.

New comment by nilespotter in "California bans legacy admissions at private universities"

nilespotter — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:21:47 +0000

California does not have any Ivy League universities.

New comment by nilespotter in "Zuckerberg says the White House pressured Facebook over some Covid-19 content"

nilespotter — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:54:34 +0000

It is.

New comment by nilespotter in "A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful"

nilespotter — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:43:36 +0000

https://kagi.com/smallweb

New comment by nilespotter in "True Name – Mastercard (2022)"

nilespotter — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:24:24 +0000

Good point, I guess they could also be Men In Black aliens too and I wouldn’t know that either.

New comment by nilespotter in "Live proxy and VPN detection"

nilespotter — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 07:55:28 +0000

Didn’t detect my VPN. Hopefully this technology sees wide adoption!

New comment by nilespotter in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

nilespotter — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:54:29 +0000

I use Librewolf and Orion on MacOS, Orion on iOS/iPadOS (which is Safari I suppose, but the shell is awesome)

New comment by nilespotter in "Generation Junk"

nilespotter — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:52:29 +0000

I _love_ Walter Kirn.

> Weak-link computer chips in items that don’t require them also came in for abuse.

Indeed.

I cannot recommend his podcast with Matt Taibbi [1] or the print-only newspaper he edits-at-large [2] highly enough. The man is an American treasure.

[1] https://www.racket.news/s/america-this-week

[2] https://www.countyhighway.com/

New comment by nilespotter in "The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close"

nilespotter — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:13:20 +0000

2600 is still in print

New comment by nilespotter in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

nilespotter — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 16:56:46 +0000

Beeper would have interested me, maybe in 6 months if it had seemed like Apple was willing to live with it. I don't want to use iMessage though, I just want to use it more than SMS or RCS. I have gotten a few of my close contacts on Signal. The whole landscape is completely chaotic. All I really want is to be able to send and receive e2ee messages with everyone else who has an extremely capable computer in their pocket.