Hacker News: tremon

New comment by tremon in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

tremon — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:52:46 +0000

It is nonsensical to ask someone to define the terms they're using?

New comment by tremon in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

tremon — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:13:38 +0000

I see you willfully ignored my second question. Let me guess, the bogeymen you're referring to include the ones eating the cats and dogs, but exclude the ones eating the babies? If you want to be heard, it would benefit you to make an actual coherent argument instead of just some vapid handwaving.

New comment by tremon in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

tremon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:53:25 +0000

You think this domestic spy program will help dismantle "internationalist oligarchs"? Can you explain who those people are, and how this program will further that goal?

New comment by tremon in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

tremon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:25:43 +0000

Bernie Sanders.

New comment by tremon in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

tremon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:56:31 +0000

How many Americans have guns and actually oppose this government? Remember that only 32% actually voted for the "other guy", and I suspect the other 68% carry more guns on average than that 32%. Plus, they've already deputized many of those in defense of the regime (through ICE) and released and/or shielded many others (through pardons).

New comment by tremon in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

tremon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:45:34 +0000

coop :: a pen for holding animals of the aviary persuasion

coupe :: style of dessert with ice cream

coupé :: a car model with only two passenger doors

New comment by tremon in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

tremon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:17:39 +0000

How many computing operations occurred during the creation of Toy Story? Are you telling me they did not control every single one of them?

New comment by tremon in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

tremon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:01 +0000

> their actions [..] were motivated by wanting to cover up cheating after cheating to pass an eval.

Which to me raises another question: why is the agent involved in its own evaluation? Why are they relying on self-reporting instead of observation and analysis?

New comment by tremon in "Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts"

tremon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:46:53 +0000

Not even that is required, you just need one other person that has both numbers linked to the same contact on their phone.

New comment by tremon in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

tremon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:29:07 +0000

This is a category error. "memory" is not a computer, so the existence of ECC proves nothing about computers. Concrete is not deterministic in the real world either, and we're still able to control the shape of structures and make them last for centuries.

New comment by tremon in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

tremon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:24:40 +0000

Engineering is the science of quantifying risks and costs. If you're not able to quantify the important aspects of a design before constructing it, it's not engineering.

New comment by tremon in "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font"

tremon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:17:08 +0000

Where does it say it is a sans-serif font? The very first full sentence on the page starts with "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi‑proportional typeface family", just like the title here says "sans-serif and slab-serif".

New comment by tremon in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

tremon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:08:37 +0000

That link [1] is an absolutely awful page from a usability perspective. There's no other way to navigate the site than with the scroll wheel, and the amount of scrolling required makes my finger hurt before I've even reached the end of the first segment. It also has no anchors and does not remember reading position when refreshing or navigating back.

New comment by tremon in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

tremon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:48:12 +0000

> These systems are internet connected and remotely controllable because [reasons]

I understand why it's beneficial to have these systems connected to a network. You have not explained why that network has to be the Internet, and TFA is one reason why it shouldn't be.

New comment by tremon in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

tremon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:26:41 +0000

> Google Maps, Google Pay

That's not the Android experience, that's the Google experience.

New comment by tremon in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

tremon — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:20:54 +0000

That's because many laws already in place don't take effect until 2027. They purposely delayed their activation until after the midterms.

New comment by tremon in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

tremon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:25:12 +0000

By your numbers, 31.8% of eligible voters actively voted in favor of fascism, and 36.3% of eligible voters chose to let it happen. That's 68.1% of voters that allowed your country to be turned into a shithole.

New comment by tremon in "Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits"

tremon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:15:11 +0000

Not categorically though: an infinite loop does not contain a branch.

New comment by tremon in "Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks"

tremon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:59:59 +0000

That's not a reason for omitting the link to the original source. If anything, it would help illustrate the value of science journalism/reporting.

New comment by tremon in "Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason"

tremon — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:32:37 +0000

Why would having a reputation be a good thing? Aren't these organizations supposed to operate under the radar?