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hallole commented on A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote 404media.co/hack-reveals-... · Posted by u/grahamlee

neilv · 7 hours ago

He sounds like an intelligent but misguided teenager. Maybe he's not a bad kid, and just needs better role models than the companies he mentions.

If we never do things that later make us cringe and want to correct, we're not reflective and self-critical enough.

hallole · 6 hours ago

I think he's old enough to be tried as an adult here. He architected the product, it was no silly accident. I think his choice of role models may be a reflection of his character...

hallole commented on FBI Wanted List: Fraudulent Remote IT Workers from DPRK fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/frau... · Posted by u/smurda

hallole · 2 days ago

Remote jobs? In tech? In this job market? Credit where credit is due...

And, maybe I'm reading too far into it, but this line:

>With these roles, these individuals allegedly abused their access at the companies to steal virtual currency.

makes it sound like they were stealing Robux or something. Could money be laundered through re-selling video game currencies?

hallole commented on Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards victorpoughon.github.io/b... · Posted by u/fouronnes3

hallole · 4 days ago

Phenomenal! This is a solid prototype, clean execution. I've had exactly this idea, too: I've already given the spreadsheet the relationships between these values, why can't it just work backwards when values change? That premise hides a ton of complexity, though, I'm sure. Lots of scary matrices.

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hallole commented on 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023) ghibli.jp/info/013772/... · Posted by u/vinhnx

foo42 · 5 days ago

I am in a position I suspect many would be envious of. I've never seen any of these films. My first experience waits ahead!

Where should I begin? I have kids in the 10-15 year old bracket if people think they'd make a good family experience.

hallole · 4 days ago

What an fantastic problem to have! A few Ghibli films are a tad too odd or serious in tone for a movie night, but I can heartily recommend Ponyo, M.N. Totoro, and Spirited Away, the first being probably the most light-hearted and simple fun.

hallole commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau

N_Lens · 8 days ago

Quite a decisive move by the Australian government. I don't know if it's a move in the right direction or not but the research clearly shows that around the time social media became mainstream, teens' and preteens' mental health took a nosedive (Especially girls).

hallole · 8 days ago

Hugely decisive! Feels more like a policy for idyllic hypotheticals. "Suppose we could ban social media..." well, hey, they actually did it.

I'm very interested to see how their socializing evolves in response to such a shock. Do the social behaviors of pre-internet times re-emerge? "Third spaces" reappear overnight? We shall see!

hallole commented on Former Twitter Attorney Files for 'Twitter' Trademark gerbenlaw.com/blog/former... · Posted by u/edent

rogerrogerr · 8 days ago

Or all the people who still call it Twitter as an ineffectual act of protest.

hallole · 8 days ago

I hope people aren't reading it as silly protesting when I say "Twitter" or "tweet," I just think it sounds way better.

hallole commented on Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) · Posted by u/pera

hallole · 17 days ago

Surely they're blowing substantial cash on this, right? I'm not sure what sort of cost/benefit analysis is convincing every last tech company to fit the bill for a gimmicky AI add on.

hallole commented on I kissed comment culture goodbye sustainableviews.substack... · Posted by u/spyckie2

Cthulhu_ · 3 months ago

And the repetitive memes. I mean that's memes, but still, half of a Reddit comment section is predictable.

hallole · 3 months ago

I really wonder why that's the case, because I only ever see it on Reddit. You're very right, and it annoys me to no end how repetitive, corny, and omnipresent the joking is. This is always the case whenever someone posts with a good question; good answers are inevitably buried at the bottom.

hallole commented on All New Java Language Features Since Java 21 inside.java/2025/08/31/ro... · Posted by u/lichtenberger

spacebanana7 · 3 months ago

Impressively simple - though there being three ways of doing something is a complexity in itself.

Perhaps I’m being too critical.

hallole · 3 months ago

I think that's fair. As with good UI, I appreciate when I can navigate via intuition. The solution in Python is intuitive, readable, and memorable. When working in Java, I frequently felt compelled to read and review pages of docs in search of a straightforward solution. I'm a sucker for Python's syntactic sugar.

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