Hacker News: wturner

New comment by wturner in "The Military Failures of Fascism"

wturner — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:46:30 +0000

Fascism was initially a cultural movement that was an attack on the ideals of the enlightenment.

New comment by wturner in "The US national debt will soon be growing faster than the economy itself"

wturner — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:31:07 +0000

When fear mongering around the national debt occurs I feel inclined to encourage people to research modern monetary theory. I am not an economist but it's obvious that many cultural assumptions around how money works are either intentionally wrong or the residue of outdated thinking.

New comment by wturner in "It's better to be rich than right"

wturner — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:44:02 +0000

You can't have a functioning democracy without consequences for the bad behavior of wealthy people that mask their sociopathy in mounds of legalese, financial abstraction, bought off politicians and media PR. If the law doesn't do it, then the burden fall on the shoulders of private citizens. We've demonized people for this view but I think it's heathier that we culturally normalize it and stop pretending.

New comment by wturner in "ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media"

wturner — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:42:17 +0000

This is the same tool the right has used to destroy progressive democracy online. Dump tons of money into pro libertarian right wing bots and overwhelm the voices that call for money out of politics and universal heath care with screams of "libtard" and "woke".

New comment by wturner in "Donors for Trump's $300M White House Ballroom Include Google, Apple and Palantir"

wturner — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:55:10 +0000

All the right wingers yelling about elite conspiracies, pedo's etc. Trumpism is a group of them wallowing in plain site. Right wingers sure got quiet. It's called white identity politics and big tech sure flocked to it when the door opened. DEI for wealthy white sociopaths

Why Everything Is Getting Worse with Corey Doctorow – Mr Live [video]

wturner — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:46:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQW6UxY144Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45415877

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wturner in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

wturner — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:44:02 +0000

Charlie Kirk was a theocrat. He hid behind freedom of speech with the intent to remove it for everyone else once in power. Freedom of speech is completely incompatible with theocracy. The reason people like Peter Thiel prop him up isn't to make people smart - it's to dumb them down and legitimize the worst in people for political gain.

New comment by wturner in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

wturner — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:43:52 +0000

I'm more concerned with the fact that billionaires have a monopoly on the incentives that create policy and can afford to fund large scale social engineering operations to get whatever they want. Charlie Kirk doesn't exist in a vacuum. Peter Thiel funded him and Thiel has said openly he wants a dictatorship. That is why Kirk was in the propagandist role he was in, and why he is now dead.

Gen Z in Nepal are now using Discord to decide the country's future

wturner — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:15:52 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/IndiaTech/comments/1ndgjvj/gen_z_in_nepal_are_now_using_discord_to_decide/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200789

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wturner in "The contrarian physics podcast subculture"

wturner — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:08:19 +0000

Reading this makes me feel that smart muckrakers are a heavily undervalued resource online.

New comment by wturner in "9 Years of "Learning to Code" and I Still Couldn't Build a To-Do App"

wturner — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:21:36 +0000

This would be a great name for a tutorial:

How to write garbage code until it barely works.

New comment by wturner in "Rising young worker despair in the United States"

wturner — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:45:17 +0000

The elephant in the room is the massive transport of wealth from the poor and middle class to the extreme rich coupled with the monopoly on incentives the extreme rich have on policy enactment. All that other shit is downstream.

New comment by wturner in "Professor Dave Debates"

wturner — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:20:11 +0000

Professor Dave Debates

wturner — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:20:10 +0000

Article URL: https://professordavedebates.simplecast.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823508

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by wturner in "Eleven Music"

wturner — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:30:17 +0000

Write a song about the billionaire social engineer Peter Thiel getting robbed and murdered by a broke minimum wage worker with no healthcare.

"That is not allowed by our terms of service"

I think the rebellious nature of art inherently has boundaries these people won't cross.

New comment by wturner in "My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test"

wturner — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:31:04 +0000

Most people are smart from within the narrow confines of their own interests and beyond that simply don't give a shit. People conflate "intelligence" and values all the time.

New comment by wturner in "Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix"

wturner — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:12:49 +0000

Most tech isn't "Anti worker". What determines pro/anti worker are laws and government policies that reciprocate with the cultural norms we adopt. At the moment, money in U.S. politics is the most anti-worker phenomena I can think of. The ultra wealthy have a monopoly on the incentives that create policy and how our lives are ordered. The only power working people seem to have is the ability to impose consequences via rogue guerilla acts of protest and violence (Luigi Mangion) . Hopefully, AI is a Frankenstein monster the public learns to wield to facilitate more of these "consequences" and upend the monopoly the super wealthy have on policy incentives and change the way politics is funded for good. It's a new world and a Hawaiian or New Zealand doomsday bunker isn't going make a difference.

New comment by wturner in "Sorcerer (YC S24) raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloons"

wturner — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:40:13 +0000

Their agenda is to intentionally make government dysfunctional as a catalyst to privatize everything. It's working.

New comment by wturner in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

wturner — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:06:41 +0000

I've been using elixir to build an app that lets an administrator add new rss feeds, render the article titles and summaries to a single page, scroll through them and push the ones they like to a landing page as a collection to read later. Many of the sites I like don't have the conventional RSS "structure" so I have to modify my main parser and adapt it to the outliers. I'm curious, how do you adapt to feeds that don't fit the conventional RSS structure? I was thinking of just using an LLM to automate it as I keep using Claude AI to expedite the process.

New comment by wturner in "Mark Zuckerberg Announces the "Beginning of the End" for Programmers"

wturner — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:27:20 +0000

Market yourself as a developer that untangles the mess AI generates.