Hacker News: waffleiron

New comment by waffleiron in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

waffleiron — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:42:03 +0000

Yes, and HN isn't a place to submit things that require work from the reader. Or at least that seems to be the consensus by reporting it.

Quite disappointing tbh.

New comment by waffleiron in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

waffleiron — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:19:53 +0000

ISW confirmed unauthorised edits were made, and fired a staffer over it. Not sure why you feel the need to comment this. Classic lowbrow dismissal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726248

New comment by waffleiron in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

waffleiron — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:33:22 +0000

Are items made, located in, and sold from China covered by ITAR?

New comment by waffleiron in "Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?"

waffleiron — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:47:13 +0000

It seems from the article the LLM also doesn’t understand then commands it uses, as they do things that are not what is described.

New comment by waffleiron in "New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike"

waffleiron — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:17:33 +0000

China and geopolitical enemies of the US doing horrible things regularly gets hundreds of votes. It’s quite clear that this argument is mainly used to defend the US and it’s allies.

Just a single example of Russia, hundreds of votes and more than a thousand comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30458277

Edit; just search for Russia, China or Iran on https://hn.algolia.com/ and you’ll find plenty of non tech stories.

New comment by waffleiron in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

waffleiron — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:36:40 +0000

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New comment by waffleiron in "A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation"

waffleiron — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:25:11 +0000

Literally could just have someone working at the embassy roleplay on their lunch break in a cafe to generate this evidence.

New comment by waffleiron in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

waffleiron — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:58:03 +0000

Thats the same type of thinking conspiracy theorists have, the type you can never disprove.

New comment by waffleiron in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

waffleiron — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:29:37 +0000

I still think Lavabit did something a lot of tech companies these days would never do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

New comment by waffleiron in "Without America to rely on, EU gearing up to be a global power in its own right"

waffleiron — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:08:14 +0000

Notably Mark Rutte in the role of Secretary General of NATO, no longer as Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

New comment by waffleiron in "How OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

waffleiron — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:04:45 +0000

Reminder of the HN guidelines for commenting, as the majority of comments just talks about the design of the page at the moment:

In Comments

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

New comment by waffleiron in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

waffleiron — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:00:40 +0000

Why is it not that interesting? Especially when you see big tech align themselves with whomever is in power at the time?

To me as a non American, it’s an absolute cope to argue that its okay when its not due to law when the effect is the same.

It’s like someone in China arguing the censorship isn’t interesting because you and download the non-guardrailed weights.

Both absolutely post-hoc justifications why one type of censorship is better than the other.

New comment by waffleiron in "The Overly Analytical Guide to Escorting (2021)"

waffleiron — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:17:14 +0000

I know we are currently very early in the comment section, but I cant help compare and notice the shift in tone and response.

New comment by waffleiron in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

waffleiron — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:51:20 +0000

Read the post, they never blocked the activist. They just changed what they replied to a DNS query of an already blocked site to make it harder to detect.

New comment by waffleiron in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

waffleiron — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:40:34 +0000

Which will makes any non-US company reconsider using Cloudflare real quick.

New comment by waffleiron in "European Commission issues call for evidence on open source"

waffleiron — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:51:43 +0000

Does the US have free beer?!

New comment by waffleiron in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

waffleiron — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:04:32 +0000

In a perfect world, but rent is often less significantly predictable than mortgage payments. Of course the cost of repairs and maintenance isn’t absorbed, it is paid in full by the renter in the cost of rent.

New comment by waffleiron in "Mapping Protests in Iran"

waffleiron — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:44:29 +0000

Because this is funded and published for the following reason:

> FDD conducts in-depth research, produces accurate and timely analyses, identifies illicit activities, and provides policy options – all with the aim of strengthening U.S. national security and reducing or eliminating threats posed by adversaries of the United States and other free nations.

New comment by waffleiron in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

waffleiron — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:03:11 +0000

North Korea, Israel, and Pakistan prove you wrong.

New comment by waffleiron in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

waffleiron — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:17:15 +0000

He does seem to be invading other countries without popular support? One can find a reason (especially post-hoc) to allow, or disallow, any intervention. The US in cases like this just picks whatever is convenient. Dictator matters here, but in Saudi Arabia it doesn't.