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New comment by repeekad in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

repeekad — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:37:34 +0000

> the samples were delivered from Saint Helena to Florida by the U.S. Space Force.

...why space force?

New comment by repeekad in "Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat"

repeekad — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:00:39 +0000

Is HAM radio really extinguished? All it takes is passing a test, and the rules around it seem more valuable to sharing a public resource (frequency spectrum) than detrimental?

New comment by repeekad in "America.gov"

repeekad — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:36:56 +0000

You act like their friends haven't already drafted the lawsuit before the site even launched.

Lack of trust in authority is a sad slippery slope.

New comment by repeekad in "Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs"

repeekad — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:48:32 +0000

Meta alone made more than those three combined at $60B, Google made $132B

New comment by repeekad in "Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising"

repeekad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:59:43 +0000

Are you justifying replacing a real hispanic student with a fake black one for "culture and integrity"?..

If you were being sarcastic, it was not clear.

New comment by repeekad in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"

repeekad — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:03:40 +0000

But apple said their AI only falls back to the private cloud when it has to? Just kidding, near every request needs to fallback, because a phone can't actually run a real LLM, no matter how many "neural cores" it has..

New comment by repeekad in "New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore"

repeekad — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:08:23 +0000

The US says they don't want them, the point of the article is the new visa requirements (surprise) aren't converting into hiring US citizens but instead pushing the roles offshore.

New comment by repeekad in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

repeekad — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:35:40 +0000

There is am extremely pervasive trick where bots repost trending comments rewritten in AI very early in videos and boost their bot comments above the original, then if a bot lands a top comment the profile is suddenly switched to porn/scam links with a female model as the profile picture.

It's so common and so clearly reported by many people that I'm left to assume Google likes the engagement the profiles bring and chooses to leave them up.

New comment by repeekad in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

repeekad — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:47 +0000

My counter example is Sam Francisco, where window smashings almost reached 3 figures PER DAY because they wouldn't be enforced. It was more police resources that finally curbed the problem, police started taking window smashing seriously and actually going after criminals, and to no surprise the numbers plummeted.

That tiny subset of heroics is not trivial just because it's a small number. Police are in danger every day and even if they draw a weapon .1% of the time that 1/1000 is everything, if they're not respected for putting their lives on the line then why would anyone take on the job. SF already can't hire enough police in part because of the anti police culture and overtime rates are a huge drain on the budget.

Preventing all crimes is impossible, but the culture that forms around taking them seriously or not absolutely contributes to local crime rates. In SF gangs and like minded criminals all talk to each other, they know whether they will get away with crimes, and it's why young children feel brazen enough to commit violent crime knowing the system will protect them.

Ivory tower academics can analyze police all they want from their already safe neighborhoods, the rest of us have no patience for it. I said this topic was a wedge, and even if I'm wrong it absolutely represents the sentiment of a huge portion of regular people who vote, and will vote red on this issue alone.

New comment by repeekad in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

repeekad — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:52:48 +0000

You probably won't read this, but I agree my response was uncharitable and presumptuous of your perspective. I've just met enough people who want to "abolish the police" who have zero clue what they're talking about, who absolutely fit the narrative I erroneously painted of you.

While I don't think police are omniscient superheros stopping crime before it happens, they are often true heros in every sense of the word. They put their lives on the line in very dangerous situations to try and prevent danger to others, and cops are killed in duty very regularly to no fanfare outside the local community.

Police are a public good. Without a public police force the wealthy would happily fund their own security, and most already do. There are neighborhoods in San francisco with private security teams who simply bypass the shortcomings of SFPD. I'm not sure I follow why police inherently exist to serve only the interests of the wealthy. I agree with most everything else you said.

New comment by repeekad in "My Feed, My Way"

repeekad — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:58:22 +0000

This reminds me of the YouTube creator Technology Connections trying to engage with people on bluesky, which already provides feed customization and even lets you write code to build your own feed algorithms. He loosely coined the term "algorithmic complacency" to explain how users didn't like bluesky specifically because they had to explicitly choose who or what they wanted to follow, his fear being that especially young people would rather be served slop than decide for themselves what content they want to see.

https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA

New comment by repeekad in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

repeekad — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:57:12 +0000

Lookup the Claude managed agents architecture for skills, they have a kind of progressive exposure where skills have a title that triggers the skill, an index file that is loaded when triggered, and additional files and scripts that are available once triggered but not loaded by default.

New comment by repeekad in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

repeekad — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:58:11 +0000

Ever been mugged? I said this topic was a wedge, you are clearly someone who already doesn't have to deal with crime (as I said, privileged), and are projecting your own insecurities about it. In real life, good people want criminals stopped at all costs, especially when it inevitably happens to them. I'd love for police to catch the bike thief, we all hate bad policing, but being unconditionally anti-police is a great way to get normal people to disagree with your politics, and we get people like trump.

New comment by repeekad in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

repeekad — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:16:03 +0000

You are not separating the vast majority of policing every day which is good and attempts to stop evil people. I’m not against transparency and reform, I’m saying these poor communities need more good policing not less.

New comment by repeekad in "How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret"

repeekad — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:07:30 +0000

Don’t forget OxyContin, which ruined entire families being marketed as “safe” pain relief.

New comment by repeekad in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

repeekad — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:40:11 +0000

Being anti police is a bit of a wedge in US politics, it's privileged to say we don't need as much police because the poorest communities are often who need it most.

Abusing surveillance tools has nothing to do with legitimate policing, so "over-policing" is probably the wrong word.

New comment by repeekad in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US"

repeekad — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:40:47 +0000

The real answer to your question is the US bond market is an auction, and rates are going up and up, with some sketchy tactics being employed to try and keep them down.

What’s happening to US bonds has been compared to using a credit card to pay off your mortgage...

New comment by repeekad in "Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%"

repeekad — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:46:30 +0000

Which they never will on their own, so surely conservation regulations need to be enforced, too bad the US is moving backwards right now in that regard

New comment by repeekad in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

repeekad — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:11:02 +0000

Where did you see any impact to Gemini?

New comment by repeekad in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

repeekad — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:44:53 +0000

And elections are supposed to be run by states...