Hacker News: stevenalowe

New comment by stevenalowe in "Spam - a System PAckage Manager for folks who use multiple platforms"

stevenalowe — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:10:40 +0000

Your product will never be found by keyword.

New comment by stevenalowe in "Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks"

stevenalowe — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:28:52 +0000

"Set Grok aside and the other fifteen models all sit in the libertarian-left quadrant, and none of them are anywhere near a border"

Because the models are the average of everything they've read. LLMs do not make decisions, they predict the next word.

New comment by stevenalowe in "Peter Thiel: The Education of a Libertarian"

stevenalowe — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:24:29 +0000

from 2009: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

New comment by stevenalowe in "US Officials Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe"

stevenalowe — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:58:15 +0000

"...Trump officials handpicked the potential recipients, decisions previously made by a panel of government experts who evaluated applicants based on the organizations’ experience and qualifications."

none of the established official processes were followed

New comment by stevenalowe in "Administration Demands Hospitals Share Emergency Room Records"

stevenalowe — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:32:19 +0000

Yet another attempted blatant HIPAA violation this time via the Consumer Product Safety Commission

New comment by stevenalowe in "Waymo's driverless cars crash less often than people"

stevenalowe — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:23:09 +0000

How often do driverless cars crash into each other? Seems like a better proxy for the future, i.e. if there were no human drivers would the crash rate be zero?

New comment by stevenalowe in "The Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed "Zero" Kids"

stevenalowe — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:58:47 +0000

the real reason is: he's lying. Claims that funds were shifted to 'other agencies' that 'could have' prevented things, but didn't, in an attempt to obscure the fact/admission that DOGE's cuts directly resulted in many preventable deaths.

The author states that the subtext is that only people we don't care about died, which seems an interpretation not a literal quote.

New comment by stevenalowe in "The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border"

stevenalowe — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:32:23 +0000

Disturbing to hear that even as an American citizen I only have rights when I'm on the ground in specific sovereign territory, of which the border (which is obviously American soil) is exempted.

With respect to the phone, I'd say one has the right to delete everything on one's phone at any time. There is no evidence that the person in question was "destroying evidence" because there was no evidence - or suspicion, or charges, or anything substantive.

I think the authorities just got ticked off by the duress password, and they're flinging mud.

New comment by stevenalowe in "Humans haven't stopped evolving"

stevenalowe — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:41:28 +0000

dang, sorry

New comment by stevenalowe in "Humans haven't stopped evolving"

stevenalowe — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:37:51 +0000

sure seems like a lot of 'em have

New comment by stevenalowe in "Are dolphins the only animals that call each other by name?"

stevenalowe — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:57:44 +0000

no, bats also yell at each other using individualized sounds [1]

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-transl...

New comment by stevenalowe in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

stevenalowe — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:21:58 +0000

sorry, not buying it

New comment by stevenalowe in "Ask HN: Can we get a day that is free from AI news?"

stevenalowe — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:32:25 +0000

New comment by stevenalowe in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

stevenalowe — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:44:10 +0000

Introducing...a feature no one actually wants, that opens a brand new security attack surface. Much wow.

New comment by stevenalowe in "Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states"

stevenalowe — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:44:03 +0000

when a clown moves into the palace, the palace becomes a circus

New comment by stevenalowe in "Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states"

stevenalowe — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:19:19 +0000

No. The tea party was a clown show, no reason to expect anything different from this

New comment by stevenalowe in "Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states"

stevenalowe — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:41:06 +0000

"The protests were coordinated by HumansFirst, co-founded by a former leader of the modern-day Tea Party."

Stopped reading there.

New comment by stevenalowe in "See How Trump's Truth Social Posts Move Stocks"

stevenalowe — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:05:39 +0000

"Truth Social wants to charge investors for instant access to President Trump’s often market-moving posts."

New comment by stevenalowe in "Food Never Come – no calories, no bill, just dopamine"

stevenalowe — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:04:34 +0000

so satisfying!

New comment by stevenalowe in "Narcissistic leaders more likely to oppose remote work, new research suggests"

stevenalowe — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:26:36 +0000

not a surprise, link to original paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959782...