Hacker News: snapcaster

New comment by snapcaster in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

snapcaster — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:31:48 +0000

None of this changes the facts of the comment you're responding to. Every business must extract surplus value from their employee's work to be profitable. Nobody said every business has to be miserable, or not mask this extraction in fluffy terms. Doesn't mean it isn't happening though

New comment by snapcaster in "8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution"

snapcaster — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:29:31 +0000

I go back and forth on this. I'm generally opposed, but I also think that if we have a death penalty it shouldn't be so bloodless. It should be a beheading that the governor of the state has to do themselves. We shouldn't be able to pretend we aren't doing something incredibly violent

New comment by snapcaster in "I built a programming language that LLMs can't use"

snapcaster — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:47:31 +0000

Yeah slap some bioweapon creation references in there and we're really cooking

New comment by snapcaster in "I built a programming language that LLMs can't use"

snapcaster — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:37:20 +0000

An approach for this might be to just attempt to trigger guardrails at all opportunities.

Make writing "regular" code involve racial slurs, societal taboos, talk about committing crimes and making bioweapons etc. I think this approach is more likely to work but man would it be hard to explain to people

New comment by snapcaster in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

snapcaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:25:27 +0000

This doesn't work anymore give it up man

New comment by snapcaster in "Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request"

snapcaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:18:23 +0000

So many words devoted to tone policing. so few words devoted to the actual issue being discussed

New comment by snapcaster in "Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request"

snapcaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:16:46 +0000

Really? go do it at work then

New comment by snapcaster in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

snapcaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:08:09 +0000

I think rationalist blogs are often useful for self improvement. It's like a lot of religious thought, if you take it too seriously you'll go insane but in small doses it makes you better

New comment by snapcaster in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

snapcaster — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:30:55 +0000

Do you think privacy has value?

New comment by snapcaster in "Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request"

snapcaster — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:28:54 +0000

I guess we're ruled by disabled people and our colleagues babies?

New comment by snapcaster in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

snapcaster — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:43:54 +0000

>but to summarize, this is going to do millions of dollars of economic and political damage, and contributes to social upheaval

millions of dollars of economic damage sure, it doesn't contribute to social upheaval. It's a one time pain in the ass, this seems pretty hysterical tbh

New comment by snapcaster in "Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet"

snapcaster — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:44:36 +0000

Weren't japanese cars basically better than american ones from the jump?

New comment by snapcaster in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

snapcaster — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:38:36 +0000

When nothing is stopping you from using an alternative i just don't see it

New comment by snapcaster in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

snapcaster — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:56:38 +0000

How do you defend a company with 30% marketshare being a monopoly but the other company with 70% market share isn't? I can see the duopoly argument, but no idea how apple could be a monopoly by itself

New comment by snapcaster in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

snapcaster — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:20:12 +0000

Not surprised they would hack systems, surprised they would spend their efforts on shit like this that doesn't have any real impact

New comment by snapcaster in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

snapcaster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:46:37 +0000

So they mess with 5% of one chain's freezers? idk maybe i'm being naive seems so silly

New comment by snapcaster in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

snapcaster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:43:49 +0000

Really though? this feels cartoonishly evil, like the kind of thing a children's cartoon villain would do. It doesn't have any meaningful impact

New comment by snapcaster in "AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety"

snapcaster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:32:51 +0000

true. it's always self interested obviously

New comment by snapcaster in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

snapcaster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:23:18 +0000

immediately thought of this article as well. really interesting. I could imagine someone using options/futures or other obscure financial instruments to make some money off this. hard to think of other motivations

New comment by snapcaster in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

snapcaster — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:47:28 +0000

I assume they're comparing them in terms of employment value not effort required