Hacker News: stonogo

New comment by stonogo in "EFF is leaving X"

stonogo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:25:55 +0000

You might investigate the origin of the term 'boycott.' It turns out that ostracizing someone's business for political reasons has a long and cherished history. Colt and S&W were targets because their owners cooperated with Clinton's gun control efforts. And to your point, there are plenty of examples of that: https://www.unz.com/print/SocialJustice-1939may22-00001/

New comment by stonogo in "Proton meet isn't what they told you it was"

stonogo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:20:05 +0000

So are networks

New comment by stonogo in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

stonogo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:02:11 +0000

Citizens United affected far more than campaign contributions. Non-campaign political spending (aka "outside spending") has increased nearly eightfold and shows no signs of slowing down.

New comment by stonogo in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

stonogo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:12:15 +0000

There isn't really an arm64 processor available that runs as fast as a Power10 processor, and there isn't really a Power10 processor that runs as efficiently as an arm64 processor, so 'competitive' is probably the wrong word.

New comment by stonogo in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

stonogo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:08:13 +0000

IBM has plenty of hardware techs. They're called system services representatives (SSRs) and if you got a Unisys contractor, that just means you're not spending enough money for IBM to send an SSR.

New comment by stonogo in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

stonogo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:22:52 +0000

Which shareholders are being satisified by the stock dropping seven percent in a month?

New comment by stonogo in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

stonogo — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:45:33 +0000

The article says this is an LED panel and LG is working toward an OLED version.

New comment by stonogo in "ARC-AGI-3"

stonogo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:43:00 +0000

They are severe problems if your income is tied to LLM hype generation.

New comment by stonogo in "Apple Just Lost Me"

stonogo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:00:59 +0000

If a passport isn't working then their age verification is broken, full stop.

New comment by stonogo in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

stonogo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:55:06 +0000

> cornering the privacy market

this seems self-contradictory

New comment by stonogo in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

stonogo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:05:53 +0000

This is a non-US scientist at a non-US university.

New comment by stonogo in "Revise age verification terms for MidnightBSD"

stonogo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:05:15 +0000

Meta is putting a lot of money into lobbying for these laws, presumably because it's easier to change laws than it is to fix their business model, and they're probably tired of getting sued for COPPA violations.

New comment by stonogo in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

stonogo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:14:01 +0000

Yeah, the point I was trying to make was that marriage and family isn't necessarily some kind of evolutionary imperative, and it doesn't really help the argument to pretend it is. There are plenty of benefits to it without having to invent fake scientific connections.

New comment by stonogo in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

stonogo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:18:26 +0000

pretty sure I've 'been' biologically evolved to impregnate as many women as possible and then die at 35 like everyone else

so yeah, your take is controversial, but not why you think

New comment by stonogo in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

stonogo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:25:58 +0000

It's not an "implementation detail." Either obeying contract law subjects you to being designated a supply-chain risk, or it does not, and that decision has ramifications outside this "implementation."

New comment by stonogo in "LFortran compiles fpm"

stonogo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:22:57 +0000

It's very common among scientific programmers to call programs "codes," native speaker or not. It's just a quirk of different computing communities evolving differently.

New comment by stonogo in "Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts"

stonogo — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:11:34 +0000

They are, of course, but there are two different consequences involved in this assessment. One is "stop nuclear weapons" (the converse would be "do not stop nuclear weapons") and the other is "friendly fire incidents" (the converse would be "no friendly fire incidents"). Neither are directly related to the other, since the former is specific to this engagement and the latter happens in any combat.

New comment by stonogo in "U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs"

stonogo — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:01:24 +0000

These are not PhD students; they're already credentialed (either postdocs or full-time staff). We pay them to do research that aligns with our strategic goals so that we get the science.

New comment by stonogo in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

stonogo — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:00:26 +0000

I'll note you didn't answer my question. I assume this is because the answer to "what's left" is "excuses," which is what you appear to be describing now.

New comment by stonogo in "Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)"

stonogo — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:10:06 +0000

In that case, the hero was the person who avoided relying on a single AZ when they deployed to cloud.