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New comment by presentation in "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"

presentation — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:50:41 +0000

Hating Palantir without having any idea of what they are is the trendy thing to do. Their leaders are toxic which doesn’t help the case, but the core issue really is just that in this political climate, people all over the western world don’t trust their governments, and it’s also trendy to distrust anyone making money, as well as tech companies - especially those involved in data and AI related businesses - so the fact that Palantir makes these distrusted actors more competent while making money doing it, is seen as siding with the devil.

So it’s a trust problem, if the government were seen as effective and worthy then I want them to be effective, which includes using the data they collect effectively. In this climate trendy people would prefer that their corrupt government is also fully incompetent to limit the effect of the corruption.

New comment by presentation in "Some things just take time"

presentation — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:18:16 +0000

I for one am not shedding tears about being able to waste less time with SOC 2 drudgery that doesn’t even make organizations secure.

New comment by presentation in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

presentation — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:12:40 +0000

I broadly agree with this, it really is all about trust. Just, as a company scales it’s hard to make sure that everybody in the team remains trustworthy – it isn’t just about personality and culture, it’s also about people actually having the skill, motivation, and track record of doing good work efficiently. Maybe AI‘s greatest value will be to allow teams to stay small, which reduces the difficulty of maintaining trust.

New comment by presentation in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

presentation — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:49:29 +0000

Lol so instead of paying maintainers who already built the thing you want, we instead charge you to use AI to make countless copies of maintainers’ work and direct the profits back to the maintainers? That sounds like true satire.

New comment by presentation in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

presentation — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:45:04 +0000

Actually it does harm people. High speed traffic is noisy and unpleasant, flows unpredictably, and tears up roads faster.

New comment by presentation in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

presentation — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:54:34 +0000

Japan has them built into My Number Cards too https://www.digital.go.jp/en/policies/mynumber/private-busin...

New comment by presentation in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

presentation — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:22:14 +0000

One time when I was living in Shanghai, I accidentally took the train to the wrong airport and had to take a cab to the other one. The cabbie was driving on the highway right at the speed limit, and I was worried I wouldn’t make my flight. I asked him if he could rush a bit, but he replied that he would not speed because 100% he would get a ticket.

It only doesn’t work if the system is half assed. But I agree that in low speed pedestrian areas, the built form is a better solution, but knowing you will get caught is also effective (if you accept the privacy tradeoffs).

New comment by presentation in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

presentation — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:42:24 +0000

Yeah, I am American but my wife is Japanese and she found it irritating and inexplicable that my friends and I would interrupt each other while talking. This number probably varies significantly by culture.

New comment by presentation in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

presentation — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:34:48 +0000

Like it or not, if people who aren't big brained HN genius hackers like yourself do reckless things with powerful technology, like a stupid teenager killing someone's baby by running them over with an e-bike at max speed on a sidewalk around a sharp corner, then broader society will hate that technology, and then that woke freedom you crave will get wiped out by those small brained normies. The point is that it is better to set some rules ahead of garnering that hatred, so that the whole practice doesn't get wiped out by the 95% of the public who are those aforementioned idiots (at least as you see them).

But as a morally righteous big brained HN edgelord, feel free to live your anarchist life on a seastead in the middle of the ocean running drones into icebergs and enjoying the whiz of throttling your exquisitely powerful ebike on the deck of your boat if you please.

New comment by presentation in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

presentation — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:31:42 +0000

So your stance is that anything military-related is immoral?

New comment by presentation in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

presentation — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:51:40 +0000

Well if it requires tampering with the software to do the insecure thing, then it’s presumably your company has a contract in place saying that if they get hacked it’s on them. That doesn’t strike me as just being retarded security theater.

New comment by presentation in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

presentation — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:21:46 +0000

Problem with safari though is that it’s tied to OS updates that many people just defer for insanely long periods of time. So unlike the other browsers, it’s not evergreen, so if you need to support any iOS users or Mac users who don’t use chrome etc, you’re out of luck

New comment by presentation in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

presentation — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:38:35 +0000

Half of the people on this site think that subscriptions are evil too, though.

New comment by presentation in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

presentation — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:35:16 +0000

I like how at the end the author tries to get you to give him a tip with the buy me a coffee link

New comment by presentation in "Child prodigies rarely become elite performers"

presentation — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:27:27 +0000

Basketball is probably not a great example since just being enormous gives you a huge chance of making it to the NBA, which I guess is just another form of being a prodigy.

New comment by presentation in "Child prodigies rarely become elite performers"

presentation — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:25:31 +0000

I recall being told by an English teacher in high school once that because it was so easy for me to write something passable, I wasn't trying hard enough to write something excellent. Wish he pushed me harder on that.

New comment by presentation in "Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany"

presentation — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:21:36 +0000

Yeah, I don't really want to subsidize people to work on open-source shitcoins for example. The devil is in the details here.

New comment by presentation in "How to turn 'sfo-jfk' into a suitable photo"

presentation — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:31:29 +0000

My experience is that many Wikipedia place photos are quite ugly.

New comment by presentation in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

presentation — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:56:49 +0000

They’re still filled with motorbikes and mopeds, they’re just electric.

New comment by presentation in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

presentation — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:56:22 +0000

OK, the Former French Concession.