Hacker News: throwaway9980

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"

throwaway9980 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:20:38 +0000

Yes, I often wonder if Martin Luther King felt at all concerned by the Feds tracking him on his way to church.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

throwaway9980 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:03:02 +0000

Those jobs are as good as loost already. There's no endgame where knowledge workers keep knowledge working they way they have been knowledge working. Adapt or be a loosing looser forever.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

throwaway9980 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:49:12 +0000

Who hurt you?

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year"

throwaway9980 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:55:33 +0000

Ruining innocent people’s lives is what government is best at doing. Don’t think of as convenient. Think of it as realization of purpose.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Obfuscation is not security – AI can deobfuscate any minified JavaScript code"

throwaway9980 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:46:03 +0000

Nicholson entered the mantrap and the double doors closed behind him. He emptied his pockets and disrobed before donning the clean suit that had been provided to him by the orderlies. The camera watching him appeared satisfied that he was properly prepared and, more to the point, that the vendor was properly protected. The doors to the inner chamber opened and he proceeded into the hallway. He passed several doors until he reached the one that was labeled with the name of the vendor. He pressed the button on the doorframe. A satisfying tactile click, a spinning light illuminating around the button, a click, and then the door opened soundlessly. A single desk with a small chair and a computer terminal awaited him. He sat down and the screen turned on automatically. Finally, he was able to set about classifying his expenses from a recent trip to Tokyo. It was inconvenient, but a small price to pay to ensure that the vendor’s unique interfaces, their intellectual property, couldn’t be copied by the replication machines. Their eyes and their ears were everywhere in the outside world. Simply by seeing your software, these machines could copy its essence. The risks of operating software in the wild required that proprietary software be protected. Hidden away from eavesdroppers. Such was the world in 2037.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)"

throwaway9980 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:10:47 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Taxi

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?"

throwaway9980 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:05:41 +0000

Look on the bright side, you've lived to see 2026 where these four things have collapsed into each other. Like a rainbow refracted into pure white light.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "[dead]"

throwaway9980 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:33:52 +0000

Reads like AI, very long, maybe I’ll have my AI summarize your AI.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

throwaway9980 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:16:51 +0000

Everything you are describing sounds like the phenomenon of government in the United States. If we replace a human powered bureaucracy with a technofeudalist dystopia it will feel the same, only faster.

We are upgrading the gears that turn the grist mill. Stupid, incoherent, faster.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "IBM is quietly axing jobs, source says"

throwaway9980 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:10:36 +0000

If someone in my organization buys IBM, I will fire them.

That said, I’m confident that they know better.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "California's wage gap is the biggest in the US"

throwaway9980 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:57:21 +0000

This sounds in line with big law and big finance. Those are exactly the type of people who have flooded into tech over the last decade. It shouldn’t be surprising that compensation structures mirror those industries.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in Modern Language [video]"

throwaway9980 — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:03:36 +0000

Pinned comment on the video:

“I listen to the whole book almost everyday. A true masterpiece.”

Wow.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night"

throwaway9980 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 05:27:55 +0000

Same. Sample of 1 anecdata reporting for duty: can confirm 100%.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components"

throwaway9980 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:30:37 +0000

It usually takes government to tie people up in these sorts of knots. These people have enthusiastically done it to themselves. Resume driven development is a hell of a drug.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival"

throwaway9980 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:51:26 +0000

That seems like a very broad way of classifying assets.

Are people assets? Certainly not on the balance sheet I hope.

What about a contract? Is a contract an asset? I’m actually curious, not trying to be a smart ass.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival"

throwaway9980 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:49:06 +0000

> Also, your belief … is irrelevant.

This is true everywhere and always.

I agree with you, lots and lots of software definitely has the properties of an asset. There’s also plenty of software that’s hastily written, untested, and basically not fit for use beyond a short expiration date. More like a jug of milk with a shelf life than a fine grand piano with resale value.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival"

throwaway9980 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:27:14 +0000

The average roof has a lifespan at least an order of magnitude greater than a k8s cluster. Most roofs being put on today will outlast k8s itself.

Software is a liability, not an asset. Treating the construction and maintenance of this horrible liability knows as “code” is a complete misunderstanding of what software actual is.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Dashcam footage shows driverless cars clogging San Francisco"

throwaway9980 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:15:24 +0000

Are bike manufacturers going to pay for bike lanes? Or is it going to be a regressive transfer?

What about Big Walking Shoe, are they going to pay for these sidewalks or are we going to continue to subsidize their profits?

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways"

throwaway9980 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 04:40:27 +0000

Everybody needs somebody to love. It could be anybody. You just need someone to love.

Seriously, are you ok? Life doesn’t have to be meaningless, but that’s up to you. You get out what you put in.

New comment by throwaway9980 in "Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military"

throwaway9980 — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 05:09:04 +0000

People who remove books from libraries are scared pitiful people.

People who claim that removing some books from a library is akin to banning or will have any affect on the actual dissemination of knowledge are fools at best and liars almost surely.

Education is like everything else. If you believe it is someone or something else’s responsibility, you won’t have much of it.