Hacker News: poplarsol

New comment by poplarsol in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

poplarsol — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:20:21 +0000

Azure webapp deploys are also trash right now. Microsoft needs to stop slathering h1b copilot slop and get basic things like Windows patches working.

New comment by poplarsol in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"

poplarsol — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:39:40 +0000

"You have to make a change either way" is not the standard. Of course legislation can be passed or a settlement signed that mandates whatever, but there is well established civil procedure around document retention in the context of discovery for ongoing litigation that does not extend to demands to start generating business records that are not currently created.

New comment by poplarsol in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"

poplarsol — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:06:01 +0000

There is a legal distinction between document retention, which is what OpenAI was ordered to do, versus re architecting to generate documents for logless providers.

New comment by poplarsol in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"

poplarsol — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:56:57 +0000

strongwall.ai is logless and supports anonymous payments including physical cash.

New comment by poplarsol in "Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products"

poplarsol — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:56:41 +0000

They're "tobacco products" in the same sense that Diet Coke is a "cocaine product".

New comment by poplarsol in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

poplarsol — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:58:40 +0000

Or, their customers integrate with them directly.

New comment by poplarsol in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

poplarsol — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:36:24 +0000

That's not exactly true. Lorentz contraction is a clear antecedent to special relativity.

New comment by poplarsol in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

poplarsol — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:51:49 +0000

Patrick is too polite to mention it, but frauds work much better if the fraudsters are also fully integrated into the political machine of the people nominally investigating the fraud.

New comment by poplarsol in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

poplarsol — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:07:38 +0000

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause

New comment by poplarsol in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

poplarsol — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:41:17 +0000

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.72

New comment by poplarsol in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

poplarsol — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:10:03 +0000

Coordinating roadblocks, "dearrests", warning the subjects of law enforcement operations, and intentionally causing the maximum amount of noise in neighborhoods neighborhood are not things you will be able to get a federal judge to characterize as "constitutionally protected speech".

New comment by poplarsol in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

poplarsol — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:46:12 +0000

That's all well and good, but he is literally at this moment attempting to export industrial capacity to China at a direct tradeoff to it's availability to the US, even when he could sell it at the same price.

New comment by poplarsol in "Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015)"

poplarsol — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:56:44 +0000

The reason you "refloat" ships and continue the exercise is that determining the winner is only one part of the exercise. Training is the other component, and if you have multiple carriers out of commission immediately you lose that opportunity at vast expense.

New comment by poplarsol in "DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship"

poplarsol — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:37:44 +0000

REAL ID's are issued to non citizens with lawful status at time of issuance. Their presence in the country can subsequently become unlawful.

New comment by poplarsol in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

poplarsol — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:59:49 +0000

Will be interesting to see what their quota is. Gemini 3.0 Pro only gives you 250 / day until you spam them with enough BS requests to increase your total spend > $250.

New comment by poplarsol in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

poplarsol — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:13:52 +0000

Every concern about "teens" is explicitly mirrored by a concern about low-capacity adults, which is why Australia et al are so concerned about "disinformation" and the need to control speech of all kinds. This effort should be seen in that light.

New comment by poplarsol in "Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds"

poplarsol — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:15:06 +0000

The German government will be the first ones to tell you that the German language and ancestry is totally unrelated to the idea of who gets to be German.

New comment by poplarsol in "Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens"

poplarsol — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:03:43 +0000

You absolutely can leave the country. You just aren't entitled to permanent residency as a result.

New comment by poplarsol in "UK intends to scrap jury trials for majority of court cases"

poplarsol — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:10:57 +0000

The UK is best understood as a "managed democracy" where there are nominally elections, but the government decides who will constitute its voting population, what they are allowed to say, and now whether they will be allowed to acquit people the government decides it would prefer to punish.

New comment by poplarsol in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

poplarsol — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:10:11 +0000

Must suck to be subjected to extraterritorial jurisdiction from a body you have never acknowledged the authority of.