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nailer··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
Claude desktop and mobile, but only because I am wary of installing any software from new vendors right due to widespread security vulnerabilities in all software.
nailer··on Apple Maps puts all buildings back in Gaza
Is .gov.ps Hamas or Hezbollah? And do you consider all Muslims to be conducting a genocide, due to their widespread colonisation of the Middle East?
nailer··on Rebuilding the global town square from scratch
23.9s to 2.7s for first post shown on screen is a dramatic improvement but that still seems slow.
nailer··on Apple Maps puts all buildings back in Gaza
Arabs began self identifying as Palestinian in 1960 under the Egyptian PLO leader Yassar Arafat. They have never been a nation, their ethnic and racial group is arab, and there are many other people that believe in Islam (also religious views are in no way a genus).

Also: what if I kill a single Palestinian? Is that a genocide?

Do you consider Hamas a genocidal group since their founding charter mentions killing Jews worldwide? Why not?

nailer··on Apple Maps puts all buildings back in Gaza
By that bizarre definition, if I kill a pizza delivery driver I am committing genocide against pizza delivery drivers.
nailer··on Apple Maps puts all buildings back in Gaza
> JUST IN: Apple Maps has put all the buildings back in Gaza, because the easiest solution to a genocide is to pretend it isn't happening.

There's no genocide in Gaza. From the WSJ:

> Net of people fleeing the country, the change in Gaza’s population is roughly zero. Not minus 40%. The population even appears to have grown in 2025, before the cease-fire in October.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/naza-has-nada-on...

nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
I think most people haven't heard of these orgs because as you mention they're mostly violent bluster, as opposed to the actual vigilante groups discussed in the article.
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Indeed it is.
nailer··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
> The versions on our official channels are not affected and this only impacts Cursor users.

Is Cursor not an official channel for Claude?

nailer··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
Which doesn’t address the comment you’re replying to.
nailer··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
Exactly! They literally made up the genocide hoax before Israel had even responded to Hamas.
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
> I saw the videos and know what I saw, which is not what you describe.

Are you saying pretti did not interfere with the arrest? Do you think he wasn’t carrying a gun? Did you think Good didn’t hit the cop?

> Regardless of your personal illusions

Yes indeed. Nobody was executed; you made that up.

nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
It is exactly that. People are complaining about the government enforcing the law and supporting left wing vigilante terrorists.
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Pretti interfered with an arrest, Good hurt an officer. Do you think that didn't happen?
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
> you'll understand that these programs involve undercover agents investigating American citizens some of whom are simply involved in networks that warn their communities about ICE

'simply' is doing a lot of work there. I've seen the Signal chats, which explicitly include instructions on interfering with law enforcement including blocking traffic and "de-arresting" people. You don't need to have seen that though: there's videos of people doing exactly this all over the internet.

You are blindly supporting vigilante groups who interfere with arrests, hurt officers and encourage people to endanger themselves in the name of supporting illegal immigration.

nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
> jailing the unqualified thugs who have spent the last 2 years terrorizing and murdering citizens in the street

That is precisely the work of Operation Puppet Master.

nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
It’s called that because they’re trying to identify who influences all those ‘lone actors’ into killing and attacking people.
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
The article is by a famously biased publication that somehow takes the position than investigating terrorist and vigilante groups that have committed a bunch of assassinations and other violent acts is wrong.
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Controlling the border and stopping terrorists is exactly what many people voted for.
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
What groups?
nailer··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
I hope not, that would be data loss.
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
> > Wikipedia not a citable reference, according to Wikipedia.

> What on earth are you blathering about?

That’s a very clear sentence and there is no need to be rude to me. What specific part don’t you understand, you stupid fucking cunt?

nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Wasn't this a hoax? A parent abandoned thir child and ICE took care of the kid.
nailer··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
> It definitely was not and there is boatloads of readily-accessible evidence to prove it.

Cool, cite it.

> Brooks Brothers Riot wiki page

That's a seperate event. What does that have to do with the Capitol riots? On what specific wiki? Do you mean Wikipedia? Wikipedia not a citable reference, according to Wikipedia.

nailer··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
I imagine their response would be: "we need to parse a new file format, that may have been edited by users, reliably. That takes time."
nailer··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
None of this addresses the comment you’re replying to.

Again, for your benefit:

> There is no apartheid: arabs in Israel have more rights than in Gaza, the UAE or Saudi Arabia.

nailer··on GPT-6.1 Terra
"New model, middle version" is already communicated well by Apple.
nailer··on GPT-6.1 Terra
No you're not.
nailer··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
- 24 x 7 trading is open to retail (no more waking up finding out the market moved out of hours and your stop loss didn't execute because the price moved 'though' it)

- Fractionalization (you can buy $12 worth of NVDA easily)

- Fundraising (you can raise public money without needing the large caps of traditional public markets)

- Distribution - smart people that know math publish a whitepaper and get investors into their strategy immediately rather than waiting for a hedge fund or bank to get them to market.

- Composability - eg, I invested in an app that let's people use the HNWI 'buy/borrow/die' technique as a wealth building strategy - talk into any shop, buy somethng, pay using as small loan taken out of your share holdings.

nailer··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
This. If Wikipedia wanted to address something, they could look at issues like these - just from October:

- ADL report finds 91% of banned editor’s Israel-related edits still live on key pages. https://www.timesofisrael.com/biased-wikipedia-edits-on-isra...

- Forensic details of Oct. 7 atrocities (sexual violence, burned victims) removed and never restored on Gaza war page. https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-wikipedias-d...

- Editor JDiala admits 10-15% of active accounts since Oct. 7 were sockpuppets or Discord-coordinated for pro-Palestine bias. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-911291

- Hamas page restructured days after Oct. 7 to move antisemitism and abuses material to low-traffic “Criticism” article. https://www.foxnews.com/media/first-fox-wikipedias-editorial...

- New cohort of 19 editors uses subtle methods (undoing, hedging, slow rewrites) and controls latest versions on ~60% of examined pages. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-911852

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