News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

intermerda

Re:DOGE Track on Thursday February 19, 2026 @12:50PM (#47076697)
If the list of crimes and improprieties of this administration were ranked by their severity, this one will surely get a 5-digit rank.
I tried this through OpenRouter. GLM5, Gemini 3 Pro Preview, and Claude Opus 4.6 all correctly identified the problem and said Drive. Qwen 3 Max Thinking gave the Walk verdict citing environment.
Okay grandpa let's get you to bed.

Gamergate directly brought the shitty 4chan kind of toxicity and harassment to the national stage. No we didn't have this kind of "trolling" by a major political party and the POTUS himself. To pretend otherwise is either being intentionally dense or merely ignorant.

Re:FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:11AM (#46971490)
> The study was on people age 50+,

So?

> In the US for adults 65+ (a key high-risk group in the trial), the ACIP preferentially recommends higher-antigen or adjuvanted options like Sanofi, Seqirus adjuvanted, recombinant high-antigen Flublok, etc as the "best-available standard of care",

Did this recommendation come before or after RFK Jr. fired all members of the ACIP and replaced them with his hand-picked choices? I suspect you already know the answer.

> * The "standard flu shot" Moderna used is likely not one of the above, or they would have said so

They didn't have to. The FDA told them they could continue to use standard flu shot if they wanted to as long as some statements were included in consent forms.

> The idea here is to see if the new shot is meaningfully better than the best existing/approved option for the target demographic, not to see if it's better than a standard shot you give a healthy 20-year-old.

No that's not the idea at all.

> All-in-all feels like a nothingburger.

No, it's not a nothingburger. It's a systematic assault on science and medicine.

What an incredibly shitty comment which is wrong on so many levels. You are the type of person who believes that Oskar Schindler should have been shot to death for breaking the "law" rather than being celebrated.
Re:Zig Libc on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:37PM (#46874175)
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:26PM (#46873987)
Yes, I did not want to copy paste the entire site. You did not post the full definition either and clipped a part of it as well.

> You clipped the first part while the definition was a lot longer including the above TSA can do anything they want escape hatch. Have a good day sir.

Your interpretation that TSA can "do anything they want to" just because the administrator can approve additional methods is grossly incorrect.

Have a good one.

Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal on Monday February 02, 2026 @11:51PM (#46866665)
You seem to be under the impression that the word "screening" means TSA can do whatever it wants. When in fact, if you click on the link under the word "Screening" in the own link you posted, there is a definition provided.

> (4) Screening defined .— In this subsection the term “screening” means a physical examination or non-intrusive methods of assessing whether cargo poses a threat to transportation security.

You should consider reading what you posted.

David if you're going to advertise your blog on Hacker News, you might consider not putting the post behind a paywall, especially for an issue as important as this.
> What concentration camp?

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/27/us-witnessed-many-i...

https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/trump-administratio...

> They're sending people home.

https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/third-country-deportations-a...

> Do I have a right to just show up and stay indefinitely in any country on earth just because I don't like my home country?

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-ja...

> Obama supported deporting people all day long, especially criminals, but now believing the existence of borders supposedly makes one "MAGA."

Ignorance, wilful lying, no respect for due process, support for illegal state-sponsored terrorism, lack of empathy are some of the things that makes one MAGA. Not belief in the existence of borders.

> Some innocent people get caught up in the messy parts.

What's the number of innocents you're willing to sacrifice to get the outcome you desire? Would you be okay if you or your loved ones are caught up in the messy parts?

Are you willing to spend 37 days in jail to solve violations of public order like this person did? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/tennessee-ch.... Would you be willing to go further and undergo torture and bodily harm?

Blind is the 4chan of tech, so in some way you're right. I guess some kind of people might find that "fine". Not me.

Perhaps you're one of those pro-Gestapo people? It's a popular thing nowadays.

The Blind community is one of the most toxic communities out there. It made me sick even before the tech industry had its mask off moment 1+ year ago. Since then they’ve only amped up the racism and hate. I wouldn’t expect to find any serious discussion there.
Re:Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:13AM (#46523485)
Around 2016-17 I read on a well-known white supremacist site about how people like Trump and Tucker Carlson are going to be so much more effective at achieving their goals than someone like David Duke who state those goals explicitly. Not in their wildest imagination would they have expected this level of success.

Congratulations to you and those folks.

Re:Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:07AM (#46523443)
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B. Johnson.

Eliminating H-1B isn't going to make Americans' lives any better than imposing tariffs on foreign countries or deporting immigrants. But the propaganda must continue for the sake of fascism.

I didn't realize it was important to be bored until I read/watched this: https://hbr.org/2025/08/you-need-to-be-bored-heres-why. There are some pointers in there that you might find helpful.

One thing that's helped me is solo hikes which I've done many times before. I still do them for workouts and use them as an opportunity to get bored.

https://newrepublic.com/post/203519/elon-musk-ai-chatbot-gro...

> Musk’s AI Bot Says He’s the Best at Drinking Pee and Giving Blow Jobs

> Grok has gotten a little too enthusiastic about praising Elon Musk.

Re:Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf] on Friday November 14, 2025 @08:09PM (#45934141)
Do you have a historical example when a decrease in GDP in a country was accompanied with generally accepted increase in quality of life?
Re:Hemp Ban Hidden Inside Government Shutdown Bill on Thursday November 13, 2025 @11:59AM (#45917262)
The comment by one supporter during the first term's shutdown shows everything

> “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”: a Trump voter says the quiet part out loud

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...

Example:

> Parents of Texas child who died of measles remain opposed to vaccine

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/parents-of-texas-ch...

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...

> 4. No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.

> 5. Besides, disagreement is a sign of diversity. Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.

And yet, the parent of one such child who died of measles because of being unvaccinated went on video for Children’s Health Defense (RFK's anti-vaccine group) to claim how vaccines are bad and measles are good.

The claim that these the religious fundamentalist groups have nothing to do with anti-vaccine propaganda inflicted by MAHA types is disingenuous or simply poorly informed.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/anti-vaccine-infl...

Re:Leaving Meta and PyTorch on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:05AM (#45844178)
Do you have experience in both JAX and PyTorch? Why do you prefer JAX?
Re:Implementing the Raft distributed consensus protocol in Go on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:43PM (#45825648)
If you are okay with writing Java, the dslabs framework is great as well. The penultimate project around fault tolerance can be done in Raft.
You don't understand endowments, do you?

It's not a checking account in which you can dip into any time you want when you need to deal with an anti-science, fascist administration.

Re:ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:58AM (#45743499)
You know of many people who browse the web using CLI?
Re:What If Tariffs? on Sunday October 26, 2025 @04:47AM (#45710125)
The number 39 refers to the 39% tariff rate on Switzerland.

Kind of insane that the American President just made up a lie that tariffs are paid by foreign countries and rest of the administration just went along with it. It flies in the face of any common sense.

Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:22PM (#45690051)
What did the Jan 6 rioters contribute to?
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:19PM (#45690035)
That's it? Using autopen is abuse of power?

Older »