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New comment by shawmakesmagic in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

shawmakesmagic — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:06:57 +0000

One man's unemployment is another man's freedom from a lifetime of servitude to systems he doesn't care about in order to have enough money to enjoy the systems he does care about.

New comment by shawmakesmagic in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

shawmakesmagic — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:05:31 +0000

My man

New comment by shawmakesmagic in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

shawmakesmagic — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:04:52 +0000

FYI I get about 5 of these a week. It is pervasive. If someone wants to scrape my email that's one thing, but the number of recruiters who are like "I saw your repo and I think you'd be a great fit for our new position in AI agents..." so they are both scraping my e-mail and all the metadata to personalize their pitch to me (poorly).