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hightrix··on Dario worried people were joining Anthropic for the money, not the mission
99.99999999999999% of all people take a job for the money. Sure, they may choose job A over job B because of some mission or overall objective, but if job B proposed a 50% higher salary, most people would take it.

Sorry not sorry. I work for money.

hightrix··on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
As an IBS enjoyer, no, not all diarrhea is explosive.
hightrix··on What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now
It may be lazy, but that doesn't make it any more accurate.

Take a writing by someone using the tone of Kevin from The Office, “Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick.” Would you read an argument written in this tone regardless of the content, topic, or position?

You write for your audience.

hightrix··on It's getting harder to focus every day
I suggest doing this everywhere, not just your phone. On your laptop, disable Teams notifications, remove email notifications, etc... Leave on Meeting notification if you need the reminder to join.

Notifications are absolutely abused by everything. Phone calls from known numbers, texts from known numbers on my device and then meeting start reminders on my laptop are the only notifications enabled.

hightrix··on ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
No. But framing them as such is setting the stage for them to be involved in the upcoming midterm elections. That's the whole point of this fishing expedition.
hightrix··on ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
My guess is the fraud they are looking for vs the fraud they find will not at all be related. If they find the fraud at all, it will be entirely the current administration at fault.
hightrix··on As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011)
This may have been the origin of the quote you are remembering, from Gabe Newell in the context of Steam.

"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem..."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11676496-we-think-there-is-...

hightrix··on Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen
I'm not the right person to give feedback here. I'm not in your target market. For me, social features are a negative and I don't want to use an app that makes them center stage or even promotes them. Live activity, haptic feedback, animations, etc... are not things I want.

The app I built is simple. It has a list of major exercises and then a map of supporting accessory exercises. It will create a plan that is as long as I'd like for as many weeks as I'd like with a specific number of workouts per week alternating between upper and lower body.

Everything else is fluff I don't want. I want an app that is only a workout planner and tracker app. All the rest of it is a distraction and not useful for how I use apps and workout.

For me, the point of building this app is that I do not want to pay a subscription or any fee, and I want exercises / workouts / routines to be simple. The rest of it is noise, for me.

hightrix··on Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen
Workout trackers are especially at risk. Every single one I’ve tried is terrible. They are either really poorly thought out, bad UX, or charge 40/mo and still suck.

I built a simple workout tracker/planner in an afternoon using an AI tool that is exactly what I want and free.

hightrix··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
> where should these very smart people work then in your opinion?

Anywhere else. Ads are a net negative to society and provide no value. ANY activity outside of pushing ads is a better contribution to society as a whole.

hightrix··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
If I found a random comment on this topic on reddit, didn't read the comment, and then just copy pasted it here, would you feel respected?

This is the same thing. Stop.

hightrix··on Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy
No elected politician to the American government should be "Israel-first". Anyone stating such should be tried for treason.
hightrix··on LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
I do know.

I do not want to live in a society that is under 24/7 surveillance. Of course, if the cops can watch everything you do all the time, there will be less crime. But that is not a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

hightrix··on How little exercise can you get away with?
A few friends and I did this during Covid. We'd do 10 pushups at the top of the hour all day long. Each effort was pretty easy, but overall we'd end up doing 100ish pushups a day. After a while we'd increase the number per set a bit.

It was a fun way to bond and share in exercise therapy.

hightrix··on DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
Yes, and so does trump's America.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/...

hightrix··on DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
This admin is pro-money. Anything and everything can be bought. Pardons, contracts, legal outcomes, you name it. Bribe trump and he'll do whatever you ask.
hightrix··on Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
I agree with you, but the reality is...

>people won’t pay for timely and accurate news.

This won't be changed by forcing payments through API contracts or other microtransactions.

I don't pay for news today. I won't pay for news tomorrow. And so ads are the only way they will make money from me, even though I block them.

hightrix··on Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
Just opened https://old.reddit.com/ in private Firefox on Windows and did not get a login wall. Able to click into comments and view links.

What platform are you using?

hightrix··on Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
I would argue a nightmare for most.

Turning everything into a microtransaction / subscription is destroying what was good about the internet.

hightrix··on Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
100%. I couldn't hate this more.

If this catches on and is widespread, the internet as we know it will be completely dead.

No, I don't want to pay for links I click on, ever. Sorry.

hightrix··on A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals
This practice was perfected by gallowboob years ago.

He would spam a link/pic/post and monitor, if the post didn’t gain traction, he would delete and post again as to not trigger protections against the same link being posted.

He was a cancer on Reddit and I’m sure he still exists under different monikers. But now there are 100s of gallowboobs.

hightrix··on Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
> violently attacking someone

Jonathan Ross is the only person in that interaction that violently attacked someone resulting in death.

hightrix··on Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
> Renee Good tried to run over a cop

First, your disrespectful lower casing of her name shows exactly who you are and what you are trying to do.

Second, no, she did not. We all have seen the videos from every angle. Jonathan Ross, the murderer, was not in danger.

I agree, the lack of accountability of ICE agents abusing their power and murdering US citizens is ridiculous.

hightrix··on Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
It is widely reported and posted around the internet that Jonathan Ross murdered Rene Good while acting in official duties as an ICE agent.

There is no conspiracy here.

hightrix··on Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
Reddit doesn’t even have my email. No way in hell will they get any real identification.
hightrix··on Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
Ads are inevitable.

Enshittification is inevitable.

Interesting how those two sentences are directly aligned. I hate ad culture.

hightrix··on Fox to buy Roku
Yes. I’ve been wanting to for a while. This is the final push to swap my streaming boxes.
hightrix··on Fox to buy Roku
More like, time for Apple TV boxes to replace Roku boxes. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while but had no good reason.

Now there is a good reason.

hightrix··on H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office
>Are people worried they're going to start selectively enforcing copyright law?

Yes. Not only that, but to grant copyright protection only to those that are allied with/loyal to/bribe the current administration.

This would have massive, far reaching effects.

hightrix··on Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
I'm only one person but that was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I no longer use any google software/services other than gmail and even that is just a spam folder at this point.

That change came after Google's changes around MV3 were released. I actively campaign against using Google anything at my job as well.

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