Hacker News: staplers

New comment by staplers in "EFF is leaving X"

staplers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:31:37 +0000

We all perform everyday. Those performances eventually become our identity and influence our actions.

New comment by staplers in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

staplers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:29:13 +0000

  want to give other nice people the benefit of the doubt

Maybe the most naive, sheltered thing I've read on this site. If we were talking about an individual OSS maintainer, sure, that's possible. But large corporations have been doing the opposite for as long as they've existed and there's evidence presented to that fact nearly everyday.

New comment by staplers in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

staplers — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:22:57 +0000

Things that have never happened with USD. Glad we have a truly clean pure money that is incorruptible unlike bitcoin.

New comment by staplers in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

staplers — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:02:16 +0000

Likely because they are fully aware of the power dynamics in a job and understand of when they are being taken advantage for performative theater.

New comment by staplers in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

staplers — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:40:14 +0000

Am all for it if law enforcement were held to the same standards. Plenty of cases where LE murder is simply not enforced. Thus LE becomes a haven for those seeking impunity and ability to nefariously track anyone.

New comment by staplers in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

staplers — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:44:31 +0000

The assembly line has been mass producing ready-made products for over 100 years and yet product quality, material stability, aesthetic trends, and function design still dominate the purchasing decisions of the general public.

Being tapped into fickle human preference and changing utility landscape will be necessary for a long time still. It may get faster and easier to build, but tastemakers and craftsmen still have heavy sway over markets than can mass-produce vanilla products.

New comment by staplers in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

staplers — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:20:34 +0000

  computation — like speech and property — is a fundamental human right

Computation however requires a vast supply chain where certain middlemen have a near monopoly on distribution of said "fundamental right". The incentives for lobbyists seems clear.

I don't necessarily disagree with the idea, but until profit is shared with taxpayers, this is a one-way transaction of taxpayers bankrolling AI companies.

New comment by staplers in "Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom"

staplers — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:35:14 +0000

Sadly, "using the bathroom" will cause a more immediate visceral reaction for most people than "maliciously manipulating your entire life via ad networks and media".

New comment by staplers in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

staplers — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:14:08 +0000

  If we could all spread the knowledge of what is actually going on to the wider public, it would make my meetings easier, and prevent very smart folks from outside the field from saying dumb-sounding stuff.

This is an example of why LLMs won't displace engineers as severely as many think. There are very old solved processes and hyper-efficient ways of building things in the real world that still require a level of understanding many simply don't care or want to achieve.

New comment by staplers in "California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS"

staplers — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:40:33 +0000

As Disney took open source IP (fairy tales, etc) and pulled the ladder up behind them, so too are tech companies.

New comment by staplers in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

staplers — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:36:40 +0000

  I think moving to micro-PCs is the answer

Would be shocked if hardware is affordable enough for such a thing in a decade

New comment by staplers in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

staplers — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:22:08 +0000

  Also for the ND pipeline, I think it does relatively little to change the economics of fossil fuels.

This is ignoring the issue of tribal sovereignty and water rights which is where most of the issue lies imo. No one is trying to ruin the economy, they simply want untainted natural resources on their own property.

If this pipeline was going through disneyland, i don't think you'd hear popular arguments about disney trying to ruin the oil economy.

New comment by staplers in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

staplers — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:30:42 +0000

Bitcoin is not a company

New comment by staplers in "He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network"

staplers — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:04:51 +0000

The answer is always "because law enforcement is usually doing something illegal"

New comment by staplers in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

staplers — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:41:41 +0000

  the change that is coming.

Everything you argue reinforces that net output was still basically zero last year. I don't see them talking about 2026 data..

New comment by staplers in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

staplers — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:33:52 +0000

People abstract upon new leaps in invention way too early though. Believing these leaps are becoming the standard. Look at cars, airplanes, phones, etc.

After we landed on the moon people were hyped for casual space living within 50 years.

The reality is it often takes much much longer as invention isn't isolated to itself. It requires integration into the real world and all the complexities it meets.

Even moreso, we may have ai models that can do anything perfectly but it will require so much compute that only the richest of the rich are able to use it and it effectively won't exist for most people.

New comment by staplers in "Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet"

staplers — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:31:27 +0000

Meta, openai, google have a bridge to sell you

New comment by staplers in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

staplers — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:41:56 +0000

"Fixed in post" meaning fixed in version XX.00.2 now. Fire QA and use community feedback seems standard now.

New comment by staplers in "Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing"

staplers — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:07:16 +0000

I meant "anonymous" to mean general public rather than truly anonymous. Could still have id requirements.

"Academic" in your example requires a vague umbrella which often is unenforceable in decentralized systems.

New comment by staplers in "So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink"

staplers — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:02:17 +0000

The 8-8-8 rule (8 hrs work, 8 hrs play, 8 hrs sleep) that unions lobbied for during labor reforms helped establish a common sustainable work week. Something similar for land management could go a long way.

33% for farming, 33% for human development, 33% for forest/dense wild. Just an example, but you get the idea.