Hacker News: torlok

New comment by torlok in "Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple"

torlok — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:17:21 +0000

You can do both. This election was just as much about affordability as it was about blatant corruption in the Trump administration.

New comment by torlok in "Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election"

torlok — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 18:50:15 +0000

They just have to uphold the existing laws. Start prosecuting SpaceX at the fedral level for runing gas turbines illegaly.

New comment by torlok in "Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election"

torlok — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 18:38:55 +0000

Keep calling it. You'll get it right one day.

Personally, I think that the idea that market always recovers is so widespread right now that it'll take some serious financial hardships for people to start selling instead of buying the dip.

New comment by torlok in "Anthropic's growth just flattened"

torlok — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:11:06 +0000

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New comment by torlok in "Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack"

torlok — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:00:37 +0000

You're not managing thousands of fridges across a country.

New comment by torlok in "US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech"

torlok — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:20:32 +0000

What's your long position? You can't pick winners or losers in a bubble. All the leading AI companies are valuing themselves as if they each own the entire TAM without any clear moat. It's obviously not going to work out.

New comment by torlok in "Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones"

torlok — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:45:01 +0000

The slop has always been there, and Valve makes it easy to refund it. I don't see what more can they do. At the end of the day the players decide what they want to play and pay for. Ideas have always been cheap in this industry. Threes was cloned immediately and most people only know the clone.

New comment by torlok in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

torlok — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:34:42 +0000

"shot him dead" doesn't even begin to describe it. ICE put 10 bullets into the back of a restrained citizen.

New comment by torlok in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

torlok — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:06:44 +0000

Swing and a miss buddy. The point is that big tech is political by its own choice, and you have to be extremely ignorant to look past that.

New comment by torlok in "Proton Flock Camera Map"

torlok — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:04:15 +0000

Yes, but it's not collecting excessive data and handing it over to a fascist state.

New comment by torlok in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

torlok — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:56:08 +0000

Buddy, ICE is chasing down and killing US citizens. Musk is openly supporting European neo-Nazis. The US tech sector is supporting the genocide of Palestinians, and interfering with foreign elections.

New comment by torlok in "Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened"

torlok — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:15:46 +0000

In Poland you can block your PESEL (SSN equivalent) to prevent this kind of fraud. One click in our government app or website. If PESEL is needed to confirm identify with a corporation you can unlock it temporarily.

New comment by torlok in "I let an AI run my startup for a week"

torlok — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:29:10 +0000

I can't understand why, out of all the options, people go with the Nazi AI that's used to create revenge porn.

Good luck with your prompt "startup". I'm sure it's working as well as you're saying, and people are definitively paying for prompts they have to tweak themselves anyway. I'm sure this is a real business and you're not just living off stocks and pretending to work.

New comment by torlok in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges"

torlok — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:37:48 +0000

They cannot win, but they can invade. We're already in a hybrid war. The threat is real and Europe needs to be prepared and be able to stand on its own, especially now that also the US is not only directly threatening EU countries, but is acting against EU security both globally and internally by supporting separatist neo-Nazi pro-Putin parties.

New comment by torlok in "The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind"

torlok — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:22:10 +0000

This article complains about the discrimination in the SV founder space and the 0.1% of engineering jobs. The article is comically disconnected from reality, but your whataboutism is misplaced.

New comment by torlok in "The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind"

torlok — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:19:32 +0000

This reads like something straight out of 2014 Twitter.

New comment by torlok in "U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore"

torlok — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:20:05 +0000

The EU closed a tax loophole, and I'm happy to support small local businesses over people shipping things from overseas. I'm sure there are edge cases, but overall I don't see an issue here.

New comment by torlok in "You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow"

torlok — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:54:21 +0000

Fandom Wiki leaves 5 lines of readable text on my iPhone after about 3 seconds of loading.

New comment by torlok in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

torlok — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:20:34 +0000

Would love to see Carmack create a product with AI, instead of stealth promoting his shovel company on the worst website on the internet.

New comment by torlok in "Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026"

torlok — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:36:09 +0000

My only issue with WASM is that it forces me to contort my platform abstraction later to terrible web APIs. Other than that it's great. I can compile C++ with plain clang or the WASI SDK, and it runs everywhere at near native speeds with minimal boilerplate.