Hacker News: someguydave

New comment by someguydave in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"

someguydave — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:00:07 +0000

Yeah but the upside is that the elderly got to keep most of the federal tax revenue

New comment by someguydave in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

someguydave — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:06:38 +0000

HN has become much dumber as X became less censured.

New comment by someguydave in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

someguydave — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:37:54 +0000

Fine you can make do in the Congo with everyone else who disrespects borders

New comment by someguydave in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

someguydave — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:29:45 +0000

DOS still works

New comment by someguydave in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

someguydave — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:58:08 +0000

nope, I learned how to compute on the DOS command line

New comment by someguydave in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

someguydave — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:47:18 +0000

"But like people who are good with computers, the models want a terminal, not some candy ass iPad UI."

Giving functionally illiterate people computers with GUIs should be regarded as a mistake.

New comment by someguydave in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

someguydave — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:38:55 +0000

It’s not wild. Anyone with brains would think it is irresponsible to keep your secret token for publishing public release binaries accessible in your automation.

New comment by someguydave in "My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack"

someguydave — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:35:02 +0000

apparently PyPI supports "digital attestation" (signed binaries?) Was this package signed? https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/

New comment by someguydave in "Banned in California"

someguydave — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:27:20 +0000

ok but I'm willing to have occasionally poisoned water in exchange for an industrial society

New comment by someguydave in "US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases"

someguydave — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:58:34 +0000

please believe that I'm trying to be constructive and helpful with this response: the way that you phrased your question means that you ignorant about the legal basis for federal policing and federal criminal prosecution in America. Please consider studying this topic before commenting on it.

New comment by someguydave in "US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases"

someguydave — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:35:11 +0000

if you mean "ICE agents (as sworn federal agents) are not authorized by statue to arrest people for federal crimes, like entering the US illegally" you are simply wrong.

ICE agents, specifically those in Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are federal law enforcement officers with statutory authority to arrest individuals for immigration violations, including criminal offenses such as illegal entry into the United States under 8 U.S.C. § 1325 and § 1327.

It is true that many immigration violations are administrative in nature but it doesn't follow that ICE are not police, nor are they not sworn to enforce all federal laws.

New comment by someguydave in "US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases"

someguydave — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:23:32 +0000

Congress has authorized ICE and Border Patrol to act as police forces on domestic soil

New comment by someguydave in "It's not finance, it's your pensions"

someguydave — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:48:01 +0000

The author is using fancy words to say that communism is good

New comment by someguydave in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

someguydave — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:23:58 +0000

The real threat to democracy was the intense lawfare that Trump was subjected to

New comment by someguydave in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

someguydave — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:22:20 +0000

No the irony is that Trump lied about the oil - heavy sour Venezuelan oil is mostly useless to the US because we are awash in our own. He did it to experiment with “regime change light”

New comment by someguydave in "TSA's New $45 Fee at U.S. Airports Unfairly Punishes Families in the Fine Print"

someguydave — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:06:39 +0000

having reliable government IDs means that people will be inconvenienced

New comment by someguydave in "TSA's New $45 Fee at U.S. Airports Unfairly Punishes Families in the Fine Print"

someguydave — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:37:33 +0000

To get a real ID you need to prove your citizenship, which is usually some combination of your birth certificate and/or passport or other IDs. Not really a big deal

New comment by someguydave in "Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage"

someguydave — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:34:34 +0000

Terrible news, I prefer to buy US made chips if I can and Micron was a decent vendor

New comment by someguydave in "TSA's New $45 Fee at U.S. Airports Unfairly Punishes Families in the Fine Print"

someguydave — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:30:18 +0000

States will give you a real ID if you can prove you are a US citizen. This article is covertly trying to argue for easier travel for illegal aliens

New comment by someguydave in "Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool"

someguydave — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:34:49 +0000

in that case, such a company would be wise to include the fact that the "z1060" is a new CPU instead of failing to even mention what it is in their "new GCC port" press release page