<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: vorpalhex</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vorpalhex</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:28:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vorpalhex" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"If I see you on social media, I'm grounding you for two weeks with no phone."<p>You can't fix a behavior issue with tech, just like you can't fix your computer by being good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:49:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446156</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a parent of two, one of whom is a baby. I rock a Sony zv-e10ii.<p>Image quality is real. That glasses camera is teeny tiny. At the most basic layer, it's going to look like a bad camera from decades ago by the time your kids are old enough to want to see those photos.<p>Meta sells that device to generate data and profit from "services". Zuck said so directly in an earnings call: <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-explained-ai-glasses-become-001241327.html" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-explained-ai-glass...</a><p>You are the frog being boiled. Your glasses are the pot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:38:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419789</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Buy a proper camera. Your memories will be a lot higher quality and you'll go from creepy guy uploading toddler footage for Zuck to watch to someone who loves their kid enough to run a real camera.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:22:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413783</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413783</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just drop the gl. Seems to get the point across.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:20:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413734</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microsoft chose to run a shoddy bounty program. The researcher tried to do the right thing.<p>Microsoft could have prevented this. They were warned. It's their own fault.<p>The exploit exists whether or not the researcher reports it. They didn't make the exploit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 23:39:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330774</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So which is it?<p>Do people need structure to occupy their time or will they provide it themselves?<p>Does school not count as "generous allowances to experiment"? Why not?<p>Under your definition, what does? Can you actually point to something that satisfies your definition?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:29:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023896</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Language is consumed by people, not machines.<p>You don't have to speak like a lawyer.<p>There is no intersex person waiting to jump out and yell accusatory things at you because you didn't include sufficient asterisks or you said statements that are 99.9999% true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:09:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937342</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Venezuela has bulk freed their political prisoners and is on track to hold elections.<p>And I think you will find Ukraine lacks the necessary satellite constellations to enable very long distance corrected boat strikes. Yet strangely Ukraine has suddenly been successfukly performing trajectory corrected boat strikes.. at very long distances.. Seemingly launched from not Ukraine.<p>Or maybe Russian oil terminals just keep magically catching fire... along with their ships.. You know, the ones the US didn't interdict.<p>Could be. Could be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:19:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693305</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Out of $188B of authorized aid for Ukraine, $109B has been disbursed incl 2025/2026 deliveries, with an additional $72B continuing to be disbursed per original timeline.<p><a href="https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine" rel="nofollow">https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine</a><p>You have to get at least the most basic facts correct. If you get even those wrong, you need to throw out your entire worldview and the sources that generated that worldview and start over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:13:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693197</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then taking down the Maduro regime and the Iranians who are both Russian allies, arming Ukraine, and enabling out-of-theater sinking of Russian ships?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:51:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691055</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That tweet is from yesterday.<p>Iran tweets about taking down an American jet basically daily. By their count we are down 40 f-35s, 4 aircraft carriers and thousands of MQ-9s.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:29:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628716</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Steam doesn't prevent me from running other games on my pc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603515</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Having Kids (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your experience is the opposite of mine.<p>I can't wait to play with my 3 year old and 1 year old. I get so mad at work when I have an odd late meeting because it is keeping me from them.<p>My three year old helps me build furniture (he gets screws started, counts out parts, helps apply glue). I love showing him synths and instruments and seeing his face light up.<p>My one year old is a cuddle monster who likes listening to jazz with me. She also really enjoys when the cat climbs up on our lap and she gets to pet it.<p>I don't know your situation, but most miserable parents I know see their kid as something to manage, like some kind of annoying work underling.<p>I see my kids as little detectives.<p>My goal isn't to solve their case or even help them approach it in the right way. It's to give them an occasional hint (or step stool), keep them from danger, and help them discover the correct way to behave.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:48:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456314</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>4Chan has blocked the entire UK IP range. They do not host any infrastructure there.<p>They are bound by UK law exactly as much as they are bound by Venutian or Mars law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:46:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443991</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>4chan's lawyer, who has been engaging with this well since the beginning, has clearly advised his clients, who have no intent of ever going to the UK, to not go there. In addition, Ofcom does not have the ability to collect them through the EU itself. They must go to the UK.<p>It already sounds like Ofcom is likely to lose lawsuits about this, as they do not have jurisdiction in the U.S., where 4chan is hosted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:43:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443946</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I live next to a sprawling apartment complex after rezoning allowed it to go in.<p>Now we have a large homeless encampment partially on the apartment complex lot - that the complex can't deal with because their lawyers told them off.<p>Now we have a significant uptick in petty but quality of life impacting crime.<p>The roads around the apartment complex are now swamped because the entrances were placed stupidly.<p>And the people who live in that apartment complex are also upset about all of this.<p>None of this is about "my investment". It is about not letting commercial outfits hurt my quality of life to subsidize their profit margin. It's not the fault of the tenants, nor me.<p>Now we get to sue the stupid property management company until they fix their issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:13:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441799</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "AirPods Max 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is your main use case?<p>Conference calls? Get soundcores.<p>Actual music? Buy proper open backs and a DAC.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:05:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403303</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Follow the money.<p>There's no money to be made arresting criminals. Sure you get a few police contracts, and you need to show enough results to keep them.. but your moat is mostly how hard it is to even submit bids.<p>There's a lot more money to be made knowing that Accountant Mary's Lexis is looking kind of banged up and she could be sold on a new one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:32:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096885</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You want to fly a multi-hundred dollar device loaded with radios that constantly broadcasts out a unique ID and possibly your FAA ID and use it for crime?<p>Or even better yet, get arrested halfway to trying to dip your drone into paint on a sidewalk?<p>Just throw a rock at the stupid thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:31:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096876</link><dc:creator>vorpalhex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vorpalhex in "Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you name the groups? (Assuming they are sufficiently public, corporate/political entities)</p>
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