Hacker News: undersuit

New comment by undersuit in "Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care"

undersuit — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:38:14 +0000

How do they have no community ties? Did you drive the children 20 miles away from home?

New comment by undersuit in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

undersuit — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:02:40 +0000

They got DMCAed today, August 28th.

New comment by undersuit in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

undersuit — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:47:07 +0000

So why are their water cooling systems filled with leak detectors? /s

New comment by undersuit in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

undersuit — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:09:04 +0000

Term limits isn't going to get a better candidate, voting for the better candidate would.

New comment by undersuit in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

undersuit — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:19:25 +0000

>We need checks on these people that force them out.

So you're going to vote for checks on these people but you're not going to vote them out?

New comment by undersuit in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

undersuit — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:39:32 +0000

I think the 3 ideas I mentioned above are helpful nudges to reduce incumbency. There are other ways, like Australia's mandatory voting, or the DSA's Abolish the Senate proposal that we're less ready for.

New comment by undersuit in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

undersuit — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:58:51 +0000

We need election reform but I'm against term or age limits.

Encourage younger voters and politicians. Remove the current age limits as we're obviously not using them. Make state positions something a young person can live on, right now they have to keep their job and hope the boss is ok with them campaigning for months to just do a short legislative session.

Change campaign laws, Citizens United has shoved so much money into the system, we campaign for months, reducing the effectiveness of elected incumbents and winnowing out the candidates who can't fund raise the entire time.

Uncap the House, they passed legislation in the 1920's to limit their number to 435. Meanwhile they are now granted staff based on the population of their state. We now have more legislative staff than we would have Representatives if we kept to the original 30,000:1 that George Washington did the first presidential veto to keep.

New comment by undersuit in "I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day"

undersuit — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:08:39 +0000

You would search the internet. Now you ask the thing that destructively searched the internet.

New comment by undersuit in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

undersuit — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:49:33 +0000

Driving slower in the rain?

New comment by undersuit in "AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?"

undersuit — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:45:53 +0000

Sure we can restrict it, just like the only country that has used nukes offensively restricts nukes.

New comment by undersuit in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

undersuit — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:33:57 +0000

The AMOC delivers warm air year round, it cools the UK from the hotter southern air during the summer.

New comment by undersuit in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

undersuit — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:28:47 +0000

Scorched is being used correctly. Fire does not have to be involved, heat does.

New comment by undersuit in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

undersuit — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:04:36 +0000

OK so the "at least one" is a Binface campaign promise, used as a joke here. I'm going to leave it up to you to figure out if the Netherlands builds more than 1 additional housing unit every year.

New comment by undersuit in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

undersuit — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:31:31 +0000

They built at least one house. That's more housing.

New comment by undersuit in "A humble cabbage became one of the Forbidden City’s treasures (2025)"

undersuit — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:56:28 +0000

The high resolution picture on Wikipedia is amazing: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Jadeite_...

New comment by undersuit in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

undersuit — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:47:46 +0000

They did build more they just didn't build that.

New comment by undersuit in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

undersuit — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:40:20 +0000

I saw a Sankey diagram from exit polls that showed that lots of Conservatives voted for Farage, but some Reform voted for Binface. Can't find it again though because Twitter sucks.

New comment by undersuit in "Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct"

undersuit — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:21:39 +0000

This local PBS wasn't playing it's own footage 24/7. The data in question could be just their local segments, an hour or two of local coverage and maybe their fundraisers.

New comment by undersuit in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

undersuit — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:18:19 +0000

He knows he can't push his base too hard on certain things. He probably knows this about vaccines, he lauds Operation Warp Speed but as a win of his not a vaccine that could have saved millions more with his cooperation. He chooses his power over what's best for all of us. He's the leader of the antivax train by choice.

New comment by undersuit in "The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America"

undersuit — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:08:18 +0000

No, we're not going to do anything about climate change.