Hacker News: rorylawless

New comment by rorylawless in "StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site"

rorylawless — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:46:53 +0000

It looks like a clone of present-day Reddit to me.

New comment by rorylawless in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

rorylawless — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:22 +0000

A couple of podcasts in my rotation had Sarah Wynn-Williams on as a guest [1] [2], with the caveat that she was unable to talk about the book or comment on the Meta. Absurd.

I need to give this a read soon.

[1] https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/live-special%3A-who-rules-...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mz5f

New comment by rorylawless in "Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?"

rorylawless — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:00:13 +0000

Is "30 under 30" one of those schemes that require people to put themselves forward and maybe pay a fee? I've seen a bunch of "awards" (particularly for companies) that follow the same model.

New comment by rorylawless in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

rorylawless — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:19:02 +0000

Quote from the article subheading:

"The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation."

It seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation to ban any device from courts.

Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple

rorylawless — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:28:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/business/898687/halide-lawsuit-co-founder-apple

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472189

Points: 7

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New comment by rorylawless in "Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented""

rorylawless — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:51:17 +0000

What do you mean by “scientific”? These concepts aren’t discoverable in nature. However, they’re transparently defined in the code book and the “opinions” are available for analysis in the expert coder-level dataset.

New comment by rorylawless in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

rorylawless — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:12:24 +0000

The fine tuning endpoint is deprecated according to the API docs. Is this the replacement?

https://docs.mistral.ai/api/endpoint/deprecated/fine-tuning

New comment by rorylawless in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

rorylawless — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:14:05 +0000

The simpler explanation is that we live in a world that is more connected than ever so politicians, campaigners and the rest can get policy ideas almost instantly. There is no grand conspiracy, just a smaller world.

New comment by rorylawless in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

rorylawless — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:21:45 +0000

For high-level football/calcio/soccer at least, Reddit is and has been better for a long time. Often goal and other key highlights are uploaded before the broadcasters.

New comment by rorylawless in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

rorylawless — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:24:05 +0000

People will always need shoes.

New comment by rorylawless in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

rorylawless — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:54:47 +0000

Could this escalate to the point that Anthropic exits the US and sets up shop elsewhere? Or would the company cease to exist before it got to that point?

New comment by rorylawless in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

rorylawless — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:09:42 +0000

The bitcoin entry is off. jdoliner‘s criticism ended up being more true than false; it isn’t wildly trusted as a medium of exchange and it being an “asset class” doesn’t disprove that.

New comment by rorylawless in "Password managers less secure than promised"

rorylawless — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:51:55 +0000

1Password wrote a response to the paper: https://1password.com/blog/eth-zurich-zero-knowledge-malicio...

New comment by rorylawless in "The Godless Students of London University"

rorylawless — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:50:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I attended UCL a decade ago so it is fascinating to read about its founding, 200 years ago.

New comment by rorylawless in "The Godless Students of London University"

rorylawless — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:37:13 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260215115717/https://www.histo...

New comment by rorylawless in "Gentoo on Codeberg"

rorylawless — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:35:09 +0000

There is an entire ecosystem of products that have locked themselves (and their users) into Github for one reason or another. I hope a critical mass builds that forces them to open up to a wider range of alternatives.

New comment by rorylawless in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

rorylawless — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:57:42 +0000

This aligns with the explanation given in response to the urgent question. What looks like a simple breach of contract issue is being weaponized in bad faith by politicians who spend far too much time time on the shadier parts of the internet.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-02-10/debates/037...

New comment by rorylawless in "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"

rorylawless — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:04:10 +0000

So, they create powerpoints?

New comment by rorylawless in "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"

rorylawless — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:34:30 +0000

So, they’re basically a traditional consultancy firm focused on data analytics, particularly record linkage?

Scaling Social Science Research

rorylawless — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:29:53 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/scaling-social-science-research/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009284

Points: 3

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