Silicon Valley bro explains sex work economics to a stripper ( news.ycombinator.com )
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/2e098148-53d1-47c8-ab23-5706362c4b23.jpeg...
The Bypass Firewalls Repository is Gone -> Go get your archived copy. ( news.ycombinator.com )
Boo hiss. Hopefully it gets moved, but just in case, grab one of the forks.
When a black hole and a neutron star merge ( news.ycombinator.com )
Or directly, news item link: https://www.mpg.de/21778967/0404-grav-mysterious-object-in-the-gap-152520-x
"The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." - hackernews discussion ( news.ycombinator.com )
HN reacts to a New Yorker piece on the "obscene energy demands of AI" with exactly the same arguments coiners use when confronted with the energy cost of blockchain - the product is valuable in of itself, demands for more energy will spur investment in energy generation, and what about the energy costs of painting oil on canvas,...
HN has no opinions on memetics ( news.ycombinator.com )
Sometimes what is not said is as sneerworthy as what is said....
Show HN: Some blind hackers are bridging IRC to LMMs running locally ( news.ycombinator.com )
a self driving car burns in San Francisco. the orange site can’t decide which racist trope to blame ( news.ycombinator.com )
(here’s a Verge article about the Waymo car getting burned during a Chinese New Year celebration)...
It's not a death threat, you're just unfamiliar with 90s hip-hop ( news.ycombinator.com )
Possibly the worst defense yet of Garry Tan's tweeting of death threats towards San Francisco's elected legislature. In yet more evidence for my "HN is a Nazi bar" thesis, this take is from an otherwise-respected cryptographer and security researcher. Choice quote:...
HN up in arms that you can't just give losers and moochers homes, it's cruel and unusual ( news.ycombinator.com )
It's just like communism in that it entirely ignores the needs and capacity of an individual and makes them slaves to the idealism of the state....
When I originally wrote the LGPL.. ( news.ycombinator.com )
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Overly libertarian crypto-bro vs AML regulations: EU edition ( news.ycombinator.com )
Choice quote:...
HN thinks it's wrong to imprison those that murder children if they're Captains of Industry, they have too much value to produce for society to let that happen ( news.ycombinator.com )
https://archive.ph/7Wcgw
Hacker News on Homeschooling quickly veers into transphobia ( news.ycombinator.com )
Don't mind me I'm just here to silently scream into the void...
Dan Olson back at it with another banger. HN responds about as you'd expect. ( news.ycombinator.com )
Direct link to the video...