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New comment by xvxvx in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

xvxvx — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:44:57 +0000

They removed ‘A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon’. OK Sony, this is war.

New comment by xvxvx in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

xvxvx — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:10:09 +0000

See, where you went wrong was… you started taking something called ‘Kratom’… from a local gas station.

New comment by xvxvx in "Sony's Social Media Still Toxic Two Weeks After PS5 Discs Debacle"

xvxvx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:08:33 +0000

Personally, I haven’t bought a physical game in maybe a decade. Digital is so much easier. No swapping out discs. The fear of games vanishing isn’t unfounded but overstated.

Used game stores have long ripped off gamers and cut into Sony’s profits. Get rid of the resale aspect and you’ll likely see sales increase.

That being said: I wanted to play Left 4 Dead on my Series X the other day and it’s not available for purchase on the Xbox store. You need a physical version. Which I luckily have.

If Sony, Microsoft etc want to promote digital sales over physical, they need to sort out the licensing. I don’t know of any issues like these with Steam sales. You buy it, you own it. Period.

New comment by xvxvx in "Why We're Dismantling the International Criminal Court"

xvxvx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:19:32 +0000

Is it because they issued warrants for genocidal Israelis?

Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs

xvxvx — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:04:52 +0000

LinkedIn has an obvious problem with ghost job postings.

A good example: received an email of matched jobs. Opened it and followed one specific link only to see they were no longer accepting applications:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4439726696/

The job was reposted 7 hours prior and only received 36 applications total.

I always assumed that ‘not accepting more applications’ meant a specific threshold was met. But 36 apps in 7 hours? No.

Thoughts on what’s going on here?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884204

Points: 15

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New comment by xvxvx in "Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after 'brief and sudden illness'"

xvxvx — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:31:11 +0000

From the BBC article:

‘He (Graham) told CNN in 2015 that Trump was "a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot", and during the 2016 campaign he posted on social media: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgj25j6nmeo

Well, he was right about something.

A ‘brief and sudden illness’ right after he visited Ukraine yet again to push sanctions on Russia? I think the Kremlin did the American people a solid.

New comment by xvxvx in "Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize winning inventor of Blue LED, working on fusion"

xvxvx — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:51:46 +0000

Back in the 90's, a friend of mine purchased a new stereo receiver that had a blue LED power indicator light instead of the standard red. The envy of everyone who saw it. Thanks, Shuji!

New comment by xvxvx in "The biggest bombshells from Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI"

xvxvx — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:48:56 +0000

Pretty ballsy, and dumb, to mess with Apple like this. AI companies are really riding the 'too big to fail' ship close to the edge.

'The lawsuit claims that Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, a former Apple vice president who spent 24 years at the company, asked Apple job candidates to bring physical components for "show and tell" sessions during interviews. OpenAI employees would also ask candidates for prototypes and information about vendors, the complaint alleges.'

Apple, like all FAANG and adjacent/copycat companies, have such insane hiring processes, all to make sure they get the best people. Yet were constantly seeing headlines like these: highly paid engineers and top execs doing the unthinkable. Tang Tan's total compensation at Apple was likely well into the millions and that didn't stop him asking interviewees to steal trade secrets. Amazing.

New comment by xvxvx in "Netflix reportedly among parties in talks to buy Letterboxd"

xvxvx — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:34:52 +0000

RIP Letterboxd. Going the same way as Rotten Tomatoes.

New comment by xvxvx in "Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok, a model he admits is worse"

xvxvx — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:32:33 +0000

I anticipate the forthcoming graph that shows Tesla quality mysteriously dropping post July 10th, 2026.

New comment by xvxvx in "The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us"

xvxvx — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:25:05 +0000

If I recall correctly, the Ford example was their own automation software and not this current slew of AI bullshit.

New comment by xvxvx in "Half of Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas, exclusive poll finds"

xvxvx — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:58:54 +0000

‘But guys… the stock market is at a record high. Don’t you care?’

I can honestly say that I was far better off a decade ago, despite making half the salary I currently do.

New comment by xvxvx in "Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years"

xvxvx — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:05:21 +0000

“The solution that’s being promoted is that we give you testosterone,” he said. “But if you give a man testosterone, you switch off his sperm production. I’ve seen that in the clinic.”

Interesting…

New comment by xvxvx in "Morgan Co. drinking water concerns, Meta defends Georgia data center operations"

xvxvx — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:02:31 +0000

So cool that a stolen website idea used by geeks to stalk college girls in the hopes of sexual encounters is now poisoning the water supplies of rural communities.

New comment by xvxvx in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

xvxvx — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:00:43 +0000

I was recently in the Uk and one of the cars I was in would alert the driver if he was over the speed limit. Fair enough. But the alert itself is distracting. Are we to review every single alert from these cameras? Is that not just another distraction?

New comment by xvxvx in "X has launched its complete rewrite of X Web"

xvxvx — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:24:00 +0000

So, it appears you can no longer sign up for an account without using your phone number or existing Google/Apple accounts. Goodbye anonymity and goodbye to the majority of their user base.

New comment by xvxvx in "America is destroying itself. It's no surprise"

xvxvx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:08:24 +0000

The simple fact is that America isn’t a real country, it never stood a chance. Europeans living on stolen land and building their economy on slavery and indentured servitude? All the propaganda in the world can’t hide that or stop the collapse that’s gaining speed.

New comment by xvxvx in "America is destroying itself. It's no surprise"

xvxvx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:51:44 +0000

The Guardian is 205 years old.

New comment by xvxvx in "The Canary magazine has been debanked by Lloyds Bank in the UK"

xvxvx — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:52:59 +0000

The left spent the better part of a decade gleefully advocating for, often successfully, the debanking of those they disagreed with politically and socially. It was gong to rebound on them one day.

New comment by xvxvx in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

xvxvx — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:53:48 +0000

I just started seeing these pop up a few weeks ago after some very obvious AI edits appeared in my searches. It’s entirely possibly realtors have been doing this for years now, just in less obvious ways. This crosses the line for me as they’re clearly making spaces look far bigger and brighter than they actually are. Straight up fraudulent and deceptive behavior.