Hacker News: razakel

New comment by razakel in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

razakel — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:59:11 +0000

I'm not sure why there isn't a "why are you flagging this post?" dropdown. It'd reduce false positives and let the mods know what to prioritise.

New comment by razakel in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

razakel — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:59:28 +0000

Where are all these Americans who will work for Chinese wages?

New comment by razakel in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"

razakel — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:02:20 +0000

Cheating was obviously going to happen when education became a business.

New comment by razakel in "The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video]"

razakel — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:03:43 +0000

"Good enough for most people and cheap" is what Realtek do.

New comment by razakel in "Show HN: Elevators"

razakel — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:47:50 +0000

I think people do, but it's subconsciously.

New comment by razakel in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

razakel — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:16:25 +0000

Only if you're on O2 or 3 and haven't disabled the adult content filter.

New comment by razakel in "Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now"

razakel — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:55:24 +0000

What law do you think he's broken?

New comment by razakel in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

razakel — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:17:58 +0000

The foreign tampering wasn't at the ballot box.

New comment by razakel in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

razakel — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:04:42 +0000

>That people can show up with a suspicious pile of metal and convert into cash seems to be what creates the opportunity for the thief.

The UK does that - a scrap dealer can only pay by bank transfer or cheque. That way there's a paper trail.

New comment by razakel in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

razakel — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:06:04 +0000

There was a guy who planned to bomb us-east-1. Someone reported it and the feds gave him a fake device.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56719618

New comment by razakel in "Microsoft doubles down on controversial quantum computing claims"

razakel — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:12:00 +0000

>You may be able to rent your quantum computing time if that gets cheap enough to be practical, but I doubt many people will ever own one.

You already can rent time on one - IBM and others offer it - but they are not cheap.

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.