<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: viraptor</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=viraptor</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:23:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=viraptor" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by viraptor in "A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know it doesn't prohibit printing and selling them... yet. It doesn't really matter, because this proposal for ban in schools doesn't exist in vacuum. This specific change in itself is not that important. But on the background of what's happening in general, what's not happening in terms of kids sexual safety, and which group is mostly involved in the whole issue - that's important.<p>And you somehow changed the "concentration camps" to "prison camps for people in the country illegally". I meant exactly what I wrote.</p>
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<p>I was addressing:<p>> Interracial marriage isn't going away either<p>But more generally, all those little book bans in various forms, explicit anti-diversity and xenophobic rules, undermining the right to vote for the specific groups of citizens, etc. add up and point in a specific direction. There are quite a few popular people who would be up for a theocracy, and a lot of openly fascist people down with the brutally repressive part. Consider how the sexual content in the Bible doesn't normally get included in those laws - like it's not the sexual content that's actually the target here...<p>Nothing happens out of nowhere. We're at "concentration camps are accepted by many people" level at the moment. The direction of government is obvious, the speed and possible success are still up for debate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:56:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177840</link><dc:creator>viraptor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by viraptor in "A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> such book bans tends to be a roundabout way to associate "sexually oriented" topics with the trans community<p>Yup. When books get banned for containing actual sexual content, that gets reverted <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bible-banned-texas-schools-over-sexually-explicit-material-2004170" rel="nofollow">https://www.newsweek.com/bible-banned-texas-schools-over-sex...</a></p>
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<p>Have your seen the 60s/70s photos from Iran? <a href="https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/iran-before-revolution-photos/" rel="nofollow">https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/iran-before-revolution-phot...</a><p>It just depends how much the government wants to go fundamental and how much people allow it.</p>
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<p>No restrictions. You can create your own beautiful monsters that way.<p>> Would probably be hard to guess since the process may not have opened any file once it started.<p>You need to not only inspect the current state, but also race the process before the assignments change.</p>
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<p>> Also the choice of quotes changing behavior is a thing in:<p>In those languages they change what's contained in the string. Not how many strings you get. Or what the strings from that string look like. ($@ being an extreme example)</p>
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<p>> After the massive X/Twitter layoffs (60-70% headcount culled) with X/Twitter still standing, this assumption was clearly proven false.<p>Twitter at the same time removed features to have fewer things to support. And didn't implement anything new (or really fix much) for ages. It's not the same service that was standing afterwards. And the "still standing" ignores the part where they started serving empty timelines, repeated messages from broken paging, broke 2fa for days, messed up whole continent access, etc. etc. They survived (and still had fewer problems than I expected), but it wasn't smooth at all - hardly a success too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:45:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174700</link><dc:creator>viraptor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by viraptor in "Larry Page has moved to Florida"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The tax could cause him to sell equity he doesn't want to. It's not like he has $270B in a checking account.<p>How annual income should return more than that if he can do anything at all.</p>
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<p>There are two pretend types:<p>- they move their official residence and happen to stay most of the time at the "totally just rented" place in the same state anyway<p>- or keep telling everyone how they're going to move, but don't actually do.<p>Because let's be honest - if there wasn't a big reason to live where they do, and it wasn't a pain to work from another state, they wouldn't be there to begin with. They're paying the higher taxes because they benefit(ed) in some way.<p>They also benefit from being famous and threatening to leave.</p>
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<p>Cursor already has agents accessible from web/mobile <a href="https://cursor.com/blog/agent-web" rel="nofollow">https://cursor.com/blog/agent-web</a></p>
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<p>> Claude Code seems to strictly be for the former, while typically the engineers who can maintain software long-term are the latter.<p>Given the number of CC users I know who spend significant time on creating/iterating designs and specs before moving to the coding phase, I can tell you, your assumption is wrong. Check how different people actually use it before projecting your views.</p>
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<p>Sure. There's always going to be someone opposing something. But I'm not aware of cases where a disagreement in an environment good for everyone was large enough that it caused the leadership/government collapse. Similarly on a small scale, the number of grumpy people at companies I worked at scaled more or less with how good things were for everyone.<p>In other words, if things are good enough, there will be more people disagreeing with the totalitarian part than with the overall conditions.</p>
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<p>If things work so well that everyone's quality or life is improved, why would there be dissent large enough to worry about.<p>It's the same category as: Why would a company with happy well paid workers be worried about unions and try to stop them forming.</p>
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<p>It doesn't feel like a realistic bottleneck. Those programs are typically small relative to what we write these days. There are also in-between languages like DIBOL if someone doesn't want to go all the way.<p>And for any serious system, this will need so many manually reviewed tests, that the code translation part shouldn't even be the biggest chunk of work.<p>(Also, from my experiments in translating old software with weird language/hardware, Claude is not even <i>that</i> good at it)</p>
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<p>I'm not sure there's going to be a term, because there's no difference from normal, good quality engineering. You iterate on design, validate results, prioritise execution. It's just that you hand over the writing code part. It's as boring as it gets.</p>
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<p>Let me be more clear then. Not only will there be many priests sharing private information about their local congregation, there will also be priests who continue to directly abuse people in their communities. Sharing private information is extremely mild in comparison.</p>
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<p>You're repo is private / 404. I was trying to find info about asset compilation for the server.<p>And is this is any way better than <a href="https://github.com/inolen/quakejs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/inolen/quakejs</a> ?</p>
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<p>I'm glad that priests are well known for always obeying rules and never abusing their position. /s</p>
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<p>Also gboard is the best keyboard for that. Nothing else implements a prediction model over a number of words as far as I can tell. Or if they do, they fail really badly at it.</p>
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<p>I've never felt so stressed by someone writing text before.</p>
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