Hacker News: warkdarrior

New comment by warkdarrior in "Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut"

warkdarrior — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:14:57 +0000

X serves lots of low-quality content at scale and it's running off Elon's laptop from what I can tell. So why can't these guys do the same?

New comment by warkdarrior in "Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut"

warkdarrior — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:13:13 +0000

I guess they want to save on storage, so providing the service without really providing it.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut"

warkdarrior — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:08:38 +0000

Frankly this policy does not go far enough. What about coders whose thoughts were impure because they used ChatGPT to brainstorm or whose brains are ruined because they used Nano Banana to illustrate their blog? I'll hold off from storing my code anywhere until a more righteous service comes online.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

warkdarrior — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:43:44 +0000

The party owning this data (Spirit Airlines) is consenting to the sale. Employees and customers of Spirit consented when they started employment and did business with Spirit, respectively.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction"

warkdarrior — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:37:24 +0000

Manny retail industries already share lists of "troublesome" customers (trouble = anything from too many returns to lawsuit-happy to friendly fraud). Not sure this is a new concern..

New comment by warkdarrior in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

warkdarrior — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:25:59 +0000

Social Security in its current form will be gone within two years. Instead you will be required to pay a contribution (just as you are now) but the money will be managed by a private company who will charge fees and provide no guarantees. Current retirees will get to keep the current arrangement, everyone else will be moved to the privately managed Social Security option.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

warkdarrior — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:53:43 +0000

You'll be happy to learn about C2PA https://c2pa.org/

New comment by warkdarrior in "Ethical Cold Outreach"

warkdarrior — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:34:44 +0000

Congratulations, you just confirmed the need for SEO in all its forms.

New comment by warkdarrior in "The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth"

warkdarrior — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:44:06 +0000

Degrowth is for other people, not me.

New comment by warkdarrior in "How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story"

warkdarrior — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:17:10 +0000

Second unpopular take: This was better for all involved, but it constrained the job market to geographical boundaries. People did not apply to jobs in other states/countries/continents because they did not see the job postings for other states/countries/continents.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

warkdarrior — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:54:10 +0000

No, no verification. From the post:

> "Nothing in the bill requires a passport scan or a face scan at setup. It’s self-declared, the same way most apps ask your birthday today, just centralized once at the OS level instead of repeated app by app."

New comment by warkdarrior in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

warkdarrior — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:45:04 +0000

And what is this Congress going to do about it? Nothing.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

warkdarrior — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:44:04 +0000

This is about over-the-air/broadcast stations (e.g., ABC/NBC/CBS affiliates), not cable stations like CNN.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Taste Is All That's Left"

warkdarrior — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:42:50 +0000

Correction:

> The reason is simple. Short sentences are punchy. They hit hard. But they carry emotional weight.

New comment by warkdarrior in "My phone detects going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off""

warkdarrior — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:45:30 +0000

RTFM

New comment by warkdarrior in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

warkdarrior — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:40:59 +0000

It's a big enough problem in Brazil that the government has an official app to report incidents of phone theft:

https://www.gov.br/pt-br/apps/celular-seguro-br

https://www.gov.br/pt-br/servicos/comunicar-roubo-furto-de-a...

New comment by warkdarrior in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

warkdarrior — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:38:12 +0000

> You can't plant trees in a rail yard.

Why not?

New comment by warkdarrior in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

warkdarrior — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:14:07 +0000

Can't you use an open-source wallet app? F-Droid seems to have a bunch of them.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Discovery Loop"

warkdarrior — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:43:47 +0000

The change is that it'll be owned by the top 0.0000001% who control the LLMs that will be your new boss.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Waymo in Dallas"

warkdarrior — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:07:54 +0000

They tried to roll out in New York City, but the city did not approve.

https://www.twu.org/twu-tech-newsletter-waymo-no-mo-in-nyc-f...