Hacker News: reddozen

New comment by reddozen in "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"

reddozen — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:50:36 +0000

Ok. Apparently you missed the question from OP.

What are you comparing to?

New comment by reddozen in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

reddozen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:25:46 +0000

Free speech absolutists just don't defend their position because it devolves into absurdity immediately. It's just a dogwhistle of the far right or people that haven't put any thought into their beliefs.

New comment by reddozen in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

reddozen — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:43:56 +0000

> Do code harnesses that build themselves count as recursive self improvement, or does it need to be the AI itself to qualify for the term?

Shhh just let the marketing slop wash over you.

New comment by reddozen in "U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box"

reddozen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:59:44 +0000

> I don't vote because I am uneducated enough in local politics to do so I would only be corrupting the vote and dilluting votes that are that of people who did their research.

I'm going to tell you a secret it doesn't tell you on the ballot: You don't have to fill in all the bubbles like you're being graded in middle school. You can chose to only vote for things you are opinionated on.

Just kidding, every ballot already explains this. Next time just admit you're lazy to cast a ballot and lead with that. Its the same outcome, no reason for anyone to read the next 10 paragraphs.

New comment by reddozen in "U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box"

reddozen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:54:59 +0000

Maybe, in general. But in the realm of American democracy, the literal discussion at hand, their actions mean their voice matters absolutely none.

New comment by reddozen in "U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box"

reddozen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:21:40 +0000

Disinformation moved from page rank to the "feed" in 2018 when Douyin bought (read: acquired copyright they originally stole) Musically and rebranded to TikTok. Why does no one remember any of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news_websites_in_the_Unit...

New comment by reddozen in "U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box"

reddozen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:12:18 +0000

> I have never voted and never will.

Thank you for putting the reason at the top to disregard the rest of your post-hoc justification. Your prescriptions literally don't matter because you will never engage with the political system.

New comment by reddozen in "U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box"

reddozen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:08:02 +0000

Even when journalism was free, no one read anything. Paywalls didn't make people less lazy to read articles. People are totally content mindlessly thumbing infinite scrolling apps.

If you want to fix the average Americans low information media digest we need to start by banning the "algorithm".

New comment by reddozen in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

reddozen — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:06:05 +0000

I still have gitlab pegged in my mind as the company that rm -rf'd their production database TWICE separately and lost pull requests.

New comment by reddozen in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

reddozen — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:33:28 +0000

HN isn't a place for serious thought nor internal critique. No one (all bots at this point?) will critically engage past the most surface level reddit tier argument.

New comment by reddozen in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

reddozen — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:52:42 +0000

Can you blame them for believing thinking tokens are completely hidden now? Anthropic has changed the way to see it 3 times in 3 months with no warnings or visible upgrade path. First it was shown by default, then you had to press control+o, then control+t, then it got locked behind a settings.json, then you had to manually enable with --verbose, now it's some random ENV var.

Whoever is their product manager should be embarrassed at the UX they provide.

New comment by reddozen in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

reddozen — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:35:13 +0000

This reminds me that people only care about what you tell them to care about. Grocery store prices was the first thing out of any "undecided muh both sides" voters mouth in 2024.

But on Jan 20, 2025 it was magically fixed instantly despite grocery store prices increasing because voters decided to elect in blanket import taxes. No one cares about these issues. They just care about the aesthetic.

New comment by reddozen in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

reddozen — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:46:32 +0000

Because the law deals with intent. The intent for a 12 year old skiddie with a ddos box is to harm someone else's internet. the intent of big scrapers is to collect data. if you want to make the latter illegal then vote for that instead of loading it with the normative baggage of the former.

It's the same problem as why Occupy Wallstreet fell apart: bunch of losers who don't understand the system screech about the system. because they don't understand it, they can't offer any meaningful dialogue about how to fix it beyond screeching.

New comment by reddozen in "Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE"

reddozen — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:57:53 +0000

You do recognize the contradiction saying Rome Statute has nothing to do with war crimes, then saying Rome Statute is how you prosecute war crimes right?

New comment by reddozen in "Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE"

reddozen — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:54:31 +0000

Ok? The ICC prosecutes war crimes in complementarity. The ICJ does not. Not sure what UN Security Council has to do with anything? I can't tell if this is AI. Add to your slop context you're probably thinking of IHL.

New comment by reddozen in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

reddozen — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:25:34 +0000

GCP's support is abysmal. Our assigned customer support agent has changed 3 times in as many months. it's really a dice roll if our quota increase requests are even acknowledged or we can get clarification on undocumented system limitations.

New comment by reddozen in "Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE"

reddozen — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:45:42 +0000

...what? What does the UN have to do with war crimes lol. And why would the US care about war crimes we literally aren't signatory to the Rome statute. how could your comment get so many things wrong in so little text.

New comment by reddozen in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

reddozen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:40:45 +0000

True yeah. but uh anyway what about HILLARYS EMAILS we need to hear about those for the next 4 decades (no convictions despite "Lock Her Up" slogans for 5 years)

New comment by reddozen in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

reddozen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:38:10 +0000

you mean best selling children's book author Kash Patel who is desperately trying to scrub the internet of his music video[0] revising the Jan 6 insurrection

[0] https://youtu.be/TPF_e2E5F74

New comment by reddozen in "DoorDash Tasks"

reddozen — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:44:38 +0000

If the politicians are bought out by evil DoorDash's lobbying, why don't the voters just vote the politicians out? Do you have any evidence of a politician voting against their constituents' interests for personal gain?