Hacker News: whoiskevin

New comment by whoiskevin in "Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here"

whoiskevin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:03:00 +0000

No your choice was between a competent leader and a con man. When people type what you type it seems obvious you are attempting to avoid responsibility for choosing the con man. I blame everyone that has this "there was no good choice" bull. That is exactly what it is an excuse for blowing up everything and claiming no responsibility.

New comment by whoiskevin in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

whoiskevin — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:23:37 +0000

Declaring a highly successful language as having the basics wrong means that you are not correct about the basics that were needed.

New comment by whoiskevin in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

whoiskevin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:10:51 +0000

Look at what the Trump administration has done with the DOJ pursuing unwarranted indictments against anyone Trump doesn't like. All getting thrown out so far. And you lead with questioning why one of his constant targets would pardon his family? The bigger question is why this isn't more outrage at the GOP attempts to find something on Biden or Clinton. They have been wasting tax dollars while Coomer "investigates" for something that he has never been able to prove. I'd have pardoned everyone around me given that constant sustained and terrible attack. All the while the Trump grift machine continues without so much as a blink.

New comment by whoiskevin in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

whoiskevin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:39:16 +0000

Completely agree here. Stop anthropomorphizing these tools. Just remove the extra language. Don't say please or thank you. Just ask for the desired outcome.

New comment by whoiskevin in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

whoiskevin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:23:57 +0000

"Both sides" is the biggest cop out of the last decade.

New comment by whoiskevin in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

whoiskevin — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:40:10 +0000

Why should we advertise something that you have to go consume? Do you need advertising to tell you about bread, vegetables, meat?

New comment by whoiskevin in "USDA is closing buildings, relocating staff, and downsizing-a lot"

whoiskevin — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:49:32 +0000

Never had any problem buying from local farms. Not sure where that is illegal.

New comment by whoiskevin in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"

whoiskevin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:49:45 +0000

Not a "proceed" command but they can influence the accelerator. I had a dodge ram van that would constantly decelerate on cruise control due to reading road signs. The signs in some states like California for trucks towing trailers are 55 mph but the speed limit would be 65 or 70 mph. The cruise control would detect the sign and suddenly decelerate to 55.

New comment by whoiskevin in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

whoiskevin — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:08:10 +0000

A better keyboard is a hill I will die on.

New comment by whoiskevin in "Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising"

whoiskevin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:09:07 +0000

This assumes that these startups had good developers.

New comment by whoiskevin in "Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims"

whoiskevin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:38:16 +0000

I'd like to see something that takes 50% of their revenue for 5 to 10 years.

New comment by whoiskevin in "US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years"

whoiskevin — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:35:15 +0000

You don't think it is the one thing being wielded as a personal enrichment device by a giant man child that cheats at golf is the cause? Well okay good luck with that.

New comment by whoiskevin in "A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled"

whoiskevin — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:20:28 +0000

less than 50% of Americans even voted for this crap so maybe avoid the generalism.

New comment by whoiskevin in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

whoiskevin — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:06:02 +0000

Yes let's make sure no one can vote conveniently ever again. :-p

New comment by whoiskevin in "US House panel probes FCC decision to deny Starlink nearly $900M"

whoiskevin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:43:55 +0000

Would have been effective based on what evidence? "Starlink had difficulty meeting the basic uplink and downlink speed standards for the program" and added Starlink’s proposal would have required subscribers to purchase a $600 dish to start service.

I'd say that is a pretty good reason for a decision. Questioning it is fine but as usual anything Musk makes some people believe he is smart and magically has the best solution to any problem instead of just mostly a con artist.

New comment by whoiskevin in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or does the job market for IT seem bad today?"

whoiskevin — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:31:39 +0000

Yes because non of us techies ever had other jobs before we got better jobs. This is such insulting post. Should I refer to you as a "non-techie".

New comment by whoiskevin in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

whoiskevin — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:37:41 +0000

reference? Proof? How is it slurping data if I have it turned off and don't even use it?

New comment by whoiskevin in "Mexico City may be just months away from running out of water"

whoiskevin — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:13:25 +0000

"California etc." should be California, Arizona, Nevada the story spans much of the west not just California

Marketer sparks panic with false claims uses smart devices to eavesdrop

whoiskevin — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:31:05 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/no-a-marketing-firm-isnt-tapping-your-device-to-hear-private-conversations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38664053

Points: 2

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New comment by whoiskevin in "Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US"

whoiskevin — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:45:33 +0000

How to gas fleets operate during a power outage? After all gas pumps don't work.

These questions may be legit but they always feel like a veiled attempt to discredit a viable alternative to the noise and pollution that is the status quo.