Hacker News: razakel

New comment by razakel in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

razakel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:43:48 +0000

> As a big fan of the KLF I once learned that it’s great to burn great things up.

For anyone who doesn't know, the KLF took a million pounds in cash, and set it on fire. For no obvious reason.

New comment by razakel in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

razakel — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:27:11 +0000

>The FBI is aware of a software misconfiguration

That's not a misconfiguration, that's incompetence.

How do these people get hired?

New comment by razakel in "Why We've Filed a Referendum"

razakel — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:39:26 +0000

The auto factories propose to actually create jobs, though.

New comment by razakel in "Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads"

razakel — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:41:20 +0000

The right of reply is widely considered part of journalistic ethics.

If you accuse someone of something in print, you should at least give them the opportunity to refute it.

New comment by razakel in "Why We've Filed a Referendum"

razakel — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:59:30 +0000

For some strange reason people aren't all that keen on building something that'll increase their utility bills, pollute everything, and threatens to take their job.

New comment by razakel in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

razakel — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:58:23 +0000

eBay and PayPal almost always side with the buyer.

New comment by razakel in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

razakel — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:18:54 +0000

Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sinbad the Sailor were well-known long before Disney.

There's even a major Chinese company named after one!

New comment by razakel in "Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute"

razakel — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:00:51 +0000

There's even a version with Brians May and Blessed.

New comment by razakel in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

razakel — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:10:53 +0000

When they first rolled out Universal Credit, they decided to do it using Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

It didn't work very well, so GDS rebuilt it in-house.

New comment by razakel in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

razakel — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:46:10 +0000

"Legal tender" only means it must be accepted to settle a debt.

New comment by razakel in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

razakel — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:50:50 +0000

Cash handling isn't free, and for smaller businesses might actually end up being more expensive than accepting electronic payments.

New comment by razakel in "Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads"

razakel — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:58:16 +0000

Here is the piece in question: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-09/chinese-off...

It's very clearly labelled as an official response from the Chinese government. So it's what the people they're accusing have to say, and that's why they published it.

Whether or not to believe them is left to the reader.

New comment by razakel in "Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads"

razakel — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:38:24 +0000

It's a letter to the editor from the Chinese consul in response to an editorial.

New comment by razakel in "Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered"

razakel — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:14:14 +0000

Roald Dahl would agree with you. Fiction is the perfect place to explore complex emotions around the unsavoury parts of life, in a safe manner where the reader is in control.

New comment by razakel in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

razakel — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:18:26 +0000

Stuart Semple changed his name to Anish Kapoor, because only Anish Kapoor has the rights to use Vantablack for artistic purposes.

I think there might also be export restrictions, but I'm not sure.

New comment by razakel in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

razakel — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:02:37 +0000

Or there is a warrant, but it's secret.

New comment by razakel in "Vercel’s pricing page"

razakel — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:26:15 +0000

It's not Railway's fault that he didn't read the docs and thought it'd be a good idea to play Russian roulette.

New comment by razakel in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

razakel — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:17:11 +0000

Even an office PBX has listen, whisper and barge. Why wouldn't a telco-grade switch have it?

New comment by razakel in "Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team"

razakel — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:42:33 +0000

It'll be because of ads. You can only advertise prescription drugs to medical professionals.

New comment by razakel in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

razakel — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:22:43 +0000

Over a decade ago, on the website of a cable news network named after vermin, you could watch an uncensored video of terrorists setting someone on fire.