<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: snickerbockers</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=snickerbockers</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:19:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=snickerbockers" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Based on how much zendesk spam there is i doubt it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:46:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789110</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>clearly talking about the crazy "raking the forests" Trump rhetoric<p>Are you sure about that?  I've been hearing for at least a decade that the solution to CA's forest fire problem is something along the lines of reducing the amount of potential fuel that is allowed to build up by either allowing smaller fires to run their course without intervention or alternatively aggressively executing controlled burns on a regular schedule.<p>Not sure how viable that is as a solution but I do know the idea didn't originate with Trump because it predates his entire political career.</p>
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<p>Let that sink in.</p>
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<p>The democrats deserve a fair share of the blame for that just for their having created and maintained the two-party duopoly along with the Republicans.  At the very least its not the voters fault if the only viable alternative to the Republicans is constantly rigging (or in this case straight-up <i>bypassing</i>) their own primaries to put corrupt party insiders at the forefront.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:36:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693568</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ive always wondered how the motion of the earth would factor into instantaneous teleportation between to points on the same planet.  Do you need to account for that to prevent yourself from being beamed underground or into space?  Or does the fact that the source and destination are within the same inertial frame of reference make this one of those physics problems where the most complicated part turns out to be entirely irrelevant to the end-state?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:21:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643546</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't teleportation inextricably linked to time travel (to the extent that either one is actually possible)?   My point being that the staff might not remember him <i>yet</i>.<p>He claims in the article to have teleported twice which means that he could have teleported to a future waffle house (maybe even one that has not yet been constructed) before teleporting to the present.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:16:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643476</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've never found chatbots particularly interesting for anything I'd ever actually talk to another human about[1] but one of the things I have found myself doing often is trying to solve math problems on my own and asking grok to confirm/deny that my solutions are correct; when I am not correct it tells me so in uncharacteristically terse language which kind of reminds me of when I was an undergrad and at least half of my professors were all cranky and incorrectly assumed that the reason why so many students failed to understand the material was that we were all getting drunk and playing Call of Duty 19 hours a day or whatever.<p>Although what I have described above often feels grating and insulting I actually consider this to be a positive attribute of the LLM in this case since it's behaving like a real professor.<p>[1] okay, so I have actually <i>tried</i> giving myself AI psychosis in the form of a waifu chatbot but I've never seen anything that can actually act like it's my girlfriend; it either asks me a bunch of weird inconsequential personal questions about my opinion on whatever I just said (in a manner that's oddly similar to ELIZA) or it wildly veers off the reservation into "generating the script for an over-the-top self-parodying porno" territory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:12:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558560</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was hoping that when i actually win i'd get a video of him doing that goofy dance he does.</p>
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<p>America has intelligence-sharing agreements with allied nations wherein our satellites are taking photos on the allies' behalf of things that we might not otherwise be interested in.  I'm sure China and Russia have similar arrangements with their allies.</p>
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<p>We shouldn't even be giving them defensive weapons because that only enables them to wage war without consequence.  In this specific case its a moot point since we joined this war in the most direct way possible but in general every time we shoot down one country's missiles but not the other we are participating in the war, especially when the side we protect is the aggressor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:03:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430016</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>If github trained models on the contents of your private repos, that would be a violation.<p>Really don't see why that should change anything. Surely you'd want your gift to the Microsoft corporation to appreciate in value!  Why would we ever withold this boon from somebody on the basis that they gifted their source exclusively to microslop!?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:54:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372503</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "Glaze by Raycast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is this called raycast when it doesn't appear to have anything to do with graphics or euclidean geometry?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:18:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256667</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256667</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's actually rather telling that HN's greatest fear is accountability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:01:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215073</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the most important problem here is that this is an ambulance not a monster truck.  It never ceases to amaze me how people on this site will always insist that the onus should be on society to deal the fallout from silicon valley's poorly-tested and poorly-designed bullshit.  In a truly just world we'd be able to charge Google's leadership as an accessory to homicide for this.</p>
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<p>Theres already an emergency override protocol, you see the lights or hear the siren and then get out of the ambulance's way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:16:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211842</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because its not a trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:11:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211785</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>If the ambulance was in a hurry<p>i believe they were.<p>>they could have rammed the Waymo<p>Not an expert but i think the goal is to get the ambulance and its occupants to a specific location and then make an egress to a nearby medical facility?  Also I'm not confident ambulances are designed to execute the pit maneuver.<p>>I am sure Google wouldn't have sued for damages.<p>Oh well if that's the case i guess it's all alright.<p>>First responders can put the vehicle into a manual mode to move it if needed.<p>I really feel like you're missing the point of why you're supposed to pull over and yield right-of-way for emergency vehicles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:54:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211626</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "We Will Not Be Divided"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Hey Claude I need you to use this predator drone to go blow up everybody who looks like a terrorist in the name of Democracy."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:05:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206350</link><dc:creator>snickerbockers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snickerbockers in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One nuance I've noticed: the statement from Anthropic specifically stated the use of their products for these purposes was <i>not included</i> in the contract with DoD but it stops short of saying it was prohibited by the contract.<p>Maybe it's just a weak choice of words in anthropic's statement, but the way I read it I get the impression that anthropic is assuming they retain discretion over how their products are used for any purposes not outlined in the contract, while the DoD sees it more along the lines of a traditional sale in which the seller relinquishes all rights to the product by default, and has to enumerate any rights over the product they will retain in the contract.</p>
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<p>There are two separate aspects to this case.<p>* autonomous weapons systems<p>* private defense contractor leverages control over products it has already sold to set military doctrine.<p>The second one is at least as important as the first one, because handing over our defense capabilities to a private entity which is accountable to nobody but it's shareholders and executive management isn't any better than handing them over to an LLM afflicted with something resembling BPD.  The first problem absolutely needs to be solved but the solution cannot be to normalize the second problem.</p>
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