Hacker News: shitter

New comment by shitter in "Yes, It's Fascism"

shitter — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:00:25 +0000

This comment betrays a misunderstanding of history and of what fascism is and doesn't even engage with the article's points. A totalitarian fascist state does not come into being all at once; it emerges in steps that tend towards that outcome, steps which the article discusses in detail. Furthermore, that nascent fascism can be defeated through electoral means does not preclude it from being fascism.

New comment by shitter in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

shitter — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:50 +0000

> An I.C.U. nurse shot by federal agents was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said. A New York Times video analysis shows he was holding a phone, not a gun.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ic...

New comment by shitter in "White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying"

shitter — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:23:25 +0000

Call me a relic of a bygone era of seriousness and decency, but I don't think the White House should be in the business of mocking individuals online, either. But I know we're well past that point.

New comment by shitter in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

shitter — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:02:10 +0000

Why not? If it's high-performance, it's fine.

New comment by shitter in "ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis"

shitter — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:38:35 +0000

It shows no such thing. The officer got out of the way and was fine afterwards in both videos. This is a man who was angry and possibly traumatized by a prior incident involving a car. He should not have been allowed to carry a weapon

New comment by shitter in "Let's call a murder a murder"

shitter — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:56:54 +0000

JD Vance, man. What a mendacious piece of shit.

New comment by shitter in "ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis"

shitter — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:56:26 +0000

Actually, the case law seems pretty clear in the other direction. Deadly force is not justified once an officer has evaded a vehicle that might hit them.

"Cases where police moved out of the way of moving vehicle and exercised deadly force": https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1q6o4d0/comment/ny95v2...

New comment by shitter in "LLMs Are Not Fun"

shitter — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:50:10 +0000

I share the author's perspective that LLMs are not fun for programming. I don't use them to generate code, save for small snippets to demonstrate some concept or do something rote that I wouldn't enjoy writing myself.

However - and maybe I'm just an easily entertained simpleton - I find them really fun for exploring those random, not trivially Google-able questions that pop into my head on a daily basis, technical and otherwise. Most of my chats with ChatGPT begin with questions of this form. I keep my critical thinking cap on during the dialogue and always verify the output if it's to be used for anything serious, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the process.

New comment by shitter in "My stages of learning to be a socially normal person"

shitter — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 01:10:12 +0000

I'm a naturally socially awkward person, due partly to personality and partly to social anxiety disorder. I don't think I have the social intelligence/agility to pull off half of these maneuvers. Just reading about the author playing different characters with tables and imagining myself in that position made me want to throw up, I'd fuck it up so badly.

New comment by shitter in "When is it better to think without words?"

shitter — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:55:58 +0000

You sound a little like me. I wasn't aware people thought like that until my partner told me her thoughts took the form of a constant stream of well-formed English. My default mode of thinking isn't natural language (though I can force myself to think this way, it's laborious, as the article mentions), nor images (I struggle with visualization), but more like abstract sequences of both logical connections and intuitive feelings.

New comment by shitter in "Social anxiety isn't about being liked"

shitter — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:25:18 +0000

This is part of it, but everyone to some degree has discomfort with being disliked and will do things to avoid it. At least in my experience, social anxiety is much more about the cognitive distortions that convince you others dislike you, when they may in fact be neutral or even have a positive view of you.

Just as one example, when I'm interacting with someone who I haven't reached a certain level of comfortability with, I'm highly aware of and sensitive to their reactions to me in terms of what they're saying, their tone, their micro facial expressions, etc., and I perceive any small negative reaction as a sign that they don't like me. This usually isn't true! But it ironically has the effect of inducing self-sabotaging avoidant behaviors in me, such as over-censoring of what I say and just general awkwardness around them, which makes it much more likely they will end up disliking me.

New comment by shitter in "National park to remove photo of enslaved man's scars"

shitter — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:38:07 +0000

https://archive.is/CecEx

National park to remove photo of enslaved man's scars

shitter — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:37:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266086

Points: 19

# Comments: 7

New comment by shitter in "U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia"

shitter — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 02:36:53 +0000

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/26/us-cit...

Only took 9 days for you to lose this bet.

New comment by shitter in "U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia"

shitter — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:26:52 +0000

You probably shouldn't accuse others of being ungrounded in reality if you don't keep up with reality.

Regardless of what it is called, it is unconstitutional and illegal; however, that does not seem to matter to this administration. Trump is currently defying a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling that he facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the US. His administration has even admitted Garcia was deported in error but still isn't doing anything about it. Now we have ICE holding provable US citizens. Maybe with that context you can understand why some might be concerned that citizens will be "accidentally" disappeared.

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

shitter — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:58:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722680

Points: 57

# Comments: 26

Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings for Trump administration

shitter — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:03:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/16/boasberg-trump-contempt-deportations-alien-enemies-planes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708522

Points: 30

# Comments: 3

New comment by shitter in "'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security"

shitter — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:52:29 +0000

I imagine the conversation between the CEO and his reports included something about "it's no biggie, the passwords were hashed using bcrypt, that's like irreversible encryption" without contextualizing that and mentioning that plaintext auth tokens were also exposed.

New comment by shitter in "[dead]"

shitter — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:32:04 +0000

https://www.mysql.com/industry/government/

New comment by shitter in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

shitter — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:29:13 +0000

It's not a lie. "I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life" does two things: characterizes endorsements of racism and eugenics policies as "stupid social media activity", and asserts that exposure of such activity should not lead to someone losing their job. The part about not rewarding journalists who "destroy" people does not exist in a vacuum away from his downplaying of Elez's abhorrent racial views. If journalists had revealed Elez, for example, was a secret left-wing antifa supporter on Bluesky, I think we can reasonably doubt Vance's reaction would have been the same.

Edit: Now that you've brought Vance's tweet into focus, it's also interesting that he does not think Elez is currently a "bad dude" when he's expressly stated a desire to normalize hatred against an entire ethnicity