Hacker News: wredcoll

New comment by wredcoll in "Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks"

wredcoll — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:54:48 +0000

You said hundreds and found a handful that were ... already caught? That didn't affect the election??

New comment by wredcoll in "Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks"

wredcoll — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:54:05 +0000

No, this isn't what is being said at all.

New comment by wredcoll in "America.gov"

wredcoll — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:51:51 +0000

It's probably pure coincidence but this is the second time this week I've seen someone bring up this argument. Weird.

New comment by wredcoll in "America.gov"

wredcoll — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:50:48 +0000

Words don't belong to anyone. That's because they're words. What matters is how people use language and how they understand them.

And american means someonr from usa.

New comment by wredcoll in "America.gov"

wredcoll — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:47:54 +0000

You were doing so well.

Yes, governmental corruption happens.

No that is not the majority or even common case.

If you remove the power from the federal government, where does it go?

New comment by wredcoll in "America.gov"

wredcoll — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:40:35 +0000

Why is this downvoted? Google is responsible for every literally malicious ad attempting to harm people that they display.

There is a big difference between "these ads have flashing lights and take up half the screen and are annoying" and "this ad is attempting to defraud you".

New comment by wredcoll in "DHH has gone off the rails [video]"

wredcoll — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:26:24 +0000

I read that post a while ago and reading it again now, it's still incredibly pathetic.

The phrase "offensively stupid" comes to mind.

New comment by wredcoll in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

wredcoll — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:21:37 +0000

No, the fact I was "reaching for" was that they increase the number of occurrences.

More guns in houses, more murder/suicides.

I think guns are as cool as the next guy but I'm willing to maybe consider my personal enjoyment from playing with a gun isn't worth the cost to society.

New comment by wredcoll in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

wredcoll — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:18:13 +0000

Man, this was a really good response to that type of argument. I'm going to save it for later.

New comment by wredcoll in "Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?"

wredcoll — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:15:10 +0000

That moment in time was physically painful.

New comment by wredcoll in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

wredcoll — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:04:28 +0000

The irony of someone who doesn't know the facts but has strong beliefs replying to me, exactly like the article writer, is, well, a strong example of how hard it is to make progress when so many people have a vested interest in not moving.

New comment by wredcoll in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

wredcoll — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:02:31 +0000

It increases the incidences of both of those things happening compared to no gun.

The total number is relatively small, but so are deaths from measles. Should we not decrease them where we can?

New comment by wredcoll in "FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents"

wredcoll — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:03:52 +0000

Ideally, yes, but much like guns, we've found it difficult to stop murders by punishing the people who do them. Turns out it's more efficient to (also) reduce access to certain tools.

New comment by wredcoll in "The Failed "Hostage Theory" of Nikole Hannah-Jones"

wredcoll — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:54:21 +0000

Good point, morality should be entirely absent.

Maybe we can include it as an elective in highschool?

New comment by wredcoll in "The Failed "Hostage Theory" of Nikole Hannah-Jones"

wredcoll — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:52:47 +0000

> Almost everything about Najya’s school experience is a result not of structural inequities in society, but of a system that has every possible incentive to produce precisely the result Hannah-Jones bragged about and her daughter suffered through

Huh. This sounds like an article that's about to take a fair and balanced view of the evidence.

New comment by wredcoll in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

wredcoll — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:46:10 +0000

Multiple things can be bad at the same time and cops have a demonstrated record of failures such that add a system like flock is most likely going to lead to more injustice, not less.

New comment by wredcoll in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

wredcoll — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:43:49 +0000

This should be emphasized more. Regardless of how technology could be used, we (should be) are responsible for how it is likely to be used.

Guns can be used for all sorts of things. A handgun in a house is likely to be used for murder/suicide.

New comment by wredcoll in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

wredcoll — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:41:43 +0000

Except of course the entire reason the police picked her in specific is because of information flock gave them.

Could they have, you know, double checked it? Yes, obviously. But they didn't.

I agree that this story is more about the incredible incompetence of the police involved than flock attempting to record everyone and everything, but flock giving the police an excuse to stop looking and arrest an innocent is by no means irrelevant.

New comment by wredcoll in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

wredcoll — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:25:06 +0000

Huh, I wonder if there's some I've just grown so used to they're a blindspot. I don't use google photos though...

New comment by wredcoll in "He Said AI? Sharpen the Pitchforks"

wredcoll — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:21:52 +0000

Is there anything more tedious than someone complaining about somone else not liking their thing?