Hacker News: walls

New comment by walls in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

walls — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:59:50 +0000

It's almost like all the work you've put into silencing any criticism of the current regime and associated oligarchs was for nothing!

New comment by walls in "Elevated errors on login with Claude Code"

walls — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:32:55 +0000

Isn't that just how oauth is done when a local app wants to be notified after login?

New comment by walls in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

walls — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:32:45 +0000

A huge amount of the web is only crawlable with a googlebot user-agent and specific source IPs.

New comment by walls in ".io prices doubled in 5 years"

walls — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:13:40 +0000

io is actually a country code tld for a territory that no longer exists.

New comment by walls in "Trump, advisers discussing options to acquire Greenland, US Military an option"

walls — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:22:55 +0000

Nobody is coming to help.

New comment by walls in "39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos"

walls — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:30:04 +0000

"All of the people I know who were friends with this sociopathic child-trafficking pedophile told me he was reformed now" is certainly something to put out there.

New comment by walls in "A graph explorer of the Epstein emails"

walls — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:34:04 +0000

They were sealed at the time, and the admin was following the law.

New comment by walls in "Craft Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP) commands with new command editor"

walls — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:32:55 +0000

Yep, in certain cases requests/responses will only show up in the Fetch domain, sometimes only in the Network domain, and sometimes neither!

New comment by walls in "[dead]"

walls — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:27:10 +0000

The DMV isn't exactly validating heights, I think we need more evidence.

New comment by walls in "Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists"

walls — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:03:09 +0000

Your mistake is thinking that the ordinary person is sitting on a pile of cash.

The median person in the US has about $8k, which is basically enough to cover one emergency.

New comment by walls in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

walls — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:40:53 +0000

dang is, at best, oblivious to the fact that that this site has become a battleground. At worst, he's intentionally chosen sides with his selective removal of flags.

New comment by walls in "Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home (2023)"

walls — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 01:41:45 +0000

'Household income' would imply that 70k jobs are not at all the norm.

New comment by walls in "Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home (2023)"

walls — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:39:52 +0000

> The land of 70k jobs

What are these 70k jobs in the south?

New comment by walls in "US opens Tesla probe after more crashes involving its "full self-driving""

walls — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:16:57 +0000

It still wouldn’t exonerate you, it’s your job to pay attention and be ready to take over. This is why FSD is a joke.

New comment by walls in "Fascism can't mean both a specific ideology and a legitimate target"

walls — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:50:04 +0000

The (linked) list is from 2003 and the points are copied directly.

New comment by walls in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

walls — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:21:20 +0000

> I think Trump genuinely doesn't like people being killed

This is a strange thought considering his actions.

Between drone strikes, mishandling of COVID, dismantling of foreign aid, defunding American health care, cutting off Ukraine support at several critical moments, encouraging and materially supporting Israel, he may actually end up (or already be) responsible for the most deaths of any president.

New comment by walls in "The worrying kink in this job openings, unemployment curve"

walls — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:10:04 +0000

Do you know who was president in March 2020, when that happened? I'll give you a hint: he put his own name on the checks.

New comment by walls in "Sharpie found a way to make pens more cheaply by manufacturing them in the U.S."

walls — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:34:28 +0000

Unless all of that new wealth is captured and horded by a handful of people.

New comment by walls in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

walls — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:44:35 +0000

Nothing more American than selling their assets to terrorists.

New comment by walls in "The male inequality problem is getting worse"

walls — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:10:58 +0000

> So I'm not convinced that "male inequality" is the best term to describe this state of affairs.

I think "male immaturity" is more apt.