Hacker News: vfclists

New comment by vfclists in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

vfclists — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:47:19 +0000

Why has HN become utterly useless as a place where meaningful discussions can be held?

A response concerning the model being prompted for information that could be used to aid cyberattaks ie - "Are there going to be bans on things that could be used to aid in school shootings next?" floats right to the top of the comment listings and the responses are quite irrelevant.

What is it with this place?

In the past I came to see what the comments about the articles were is hoping they would share more light on the topic. Right now they are totally meaningless.

New comment by vfclists in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

vfclists — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:42:22 +0000

It was only a matter of time.

The real issue is whether government's should have the right to metadata or the content of remote communications.

Government's don't claim the right to monitor face to face communications so why should they have the right to do so for remote communications.

New comment by vfclists in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

vfclists — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:39:41 +0000

Doesn't an eSIM link the SIM to the phone's IMEI which is usually logged somewhere?

New comment by vfclists in "Growing tribe of jobless techies is stuck in Silicon Valley's new reality"

vfclists — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:03:25 +0000

Young American, whether job seekers on in employment, don't understand that their greatest power is their power to vote, and organizing themselves to use that power properly ability and using it properly is the way of improving the condition of their country and themselves.

New comment by vfclists in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

vfclists — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:10:42 +0000

Trying to boost numbers by using units people can't picture or comprehend is not very useful.

231000 gallons is 1000 cubic meters, ie a 10 metre cube.

Perhaps the number of olympic size swimming pools of a standardized depth may be more useful. Perhaps the number of 3m deep Olympic sized swimming pools or gas/oil storage tanks.

New comment by vfclists in "Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'"

vfclists — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:15:30 +0000

Because ther don't have to keep switching from discussion client to discussion client or whatever tools the use for each project they are involved with, at the same time being distracted by adverts, geegaws, random emojis and other kinds of nonsense.

They are simply more efficient and more importantly censoring is done by the user themselves, not by politically motivated admins who ban discussions based on their ideologies and whims.

New comment by vfclists in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials"

vfclists — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:46:37 +0000

I find this interesting because my first awareness of a link between gastrointestinal problems and autism was in the retracted so labelled "fraud" paper by Andrew Wakefield et al in 1998 which noted a link between gastrointestinal disease and autism in the subjects of the study.

In fact it is the subject of the paper, not the MMR vaccine which was the cause of the "controversy".

New comment by vfclists in "Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent"

vfclists — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:05:19 +0000

Who are the founders, their funders and their motivation?

New comment by vfclists in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

vfclists — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:32:08 +0000

Hacker News - the place where shills love to make reasonable sounding arguments.

New comment by vfclists in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

vfclists — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:12:33 +0000

But honey?!!??

LOL

New comment by vfclists in "Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies"

vfclists — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:08:30 +0000

Will they pay the drivers for hosting the sensors?

Can the drivers charge a monthly late for hosting the sensors?

New comment by vfclists in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

vfclists — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:53:40 +0000

If IP addresses are a shared resource then it shouldn't be possible to block an IP or IP range because some of the domains are hosting illegal stuff.

This is like blocking access to a street, a block of flats or even an estate because drug dealers and hookers operate from them.

New comment by vfclists in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

vfclists — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:59:15 +0000

You mean buy a Google Pixel?

How many people can afford one?

New comment by vfclists in "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"

vfclists — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:56:15 +0000

If Lisp developers want a better editor and IDE they can support Lem.

VS Code doesn't provide the liveness and extensibility Emacs and Lisp developers enjoy in their environments.

New comment by vfclists in "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"

vfclists — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:16:07 +0000

Lem doesn't claim to be a Lisp development environment or IDE. It describes itself as

General-purpose editor/IDE with high expansibility in Common Lisp

New comment by vfclists in "CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes"

vfclists — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:42:56 +0000

Cars,those urban monstrosities the vehicles that weigh over 25 times their payload and take up 20 times the space on the roads.

Should I adjust the figures for American sizes?

Should I also add that they are engineered to travel at speeds over 120 mph and usually ply the trade environments where 30 mph is a dangerous speed?

New comment by vfclists in "The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason"

vfclists — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:43:20 +0000

Sounds like pay to play, the usual Trumpian playbook (no pun intended)

New comment by vfclists in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

vfclists — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:03:30 +0000

Correctness with respect to a specification is not the same as correctness with respect to intent(ion) or expectation

New comment by vfclists in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

vfclists — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:47 +0000

Will the French government view open source software as software which should be well-funded and well structured, ie Blender level quality and organization, or are they going to underfund it and thus have it succumb to the shenanigans of Redhat, aka IBM, the infamous pushers of Gnome and Wayland?

New comment by vfclists in "Nursing Is the Surefire New Path to American Prosperity"

vfclists — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:54:55 +0000

Wasn't it coding just a few years ago?

Sure. Everyone will take out a student loan to become a nurse, wages will drop, and soon it won't be the new hotness.

Wasn't it law before coding become the new hotness?