Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — ligne

ligne

HN member
Joined
Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC
HN karma
8
Public activity
28 items

About ligne

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49025992

    You might be out of luck: I believe they expire unused after a fairly short time.

  2. comment
    Comment #49025597

    100% of anything is a bad idea if you're going to have to draw on them any time soon. Bonds are less volatile than equity, but they're still subject to drops in value.

  3. comment
    Comment #48938768

    Well quite. But that means that to the extent that most people know anything about grok, it's as "that twitter AI that called itself Hitler and made naked pictures of children".

  4. comment
    Comment #48938705

    All it really shows is that the British court system will sell you all the justice that money can buy.

  5. comment
    Comment #48938639

    > There's a popular hundred+ million view, often reposted and requoted, tweet about this Retweet it all you want, but it won't make it any more true.

  6. comment
    Comment #48731823

    It reduces risk for employers by piling it onto employees, who are also probably in a worse position to bear it.

  7. comment
    Comment #48730636

    The original post (and correct link) is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48725917 >

  8. comment
    Comment #48730537

    So you're so utterly convinced they're lying about this because....

  9. comment
    Comment #48721559

    The same way you monitor your staff's work in general? Do they not have goals and deadlines and some way to discuss their progress with their manager?

  10. comment
    Comment #48720798

    Not sure it's ever been particularly difficult to be a criminal. If anything, the tricky part has always been establishing who you can and can't trust.

  11. comment
    Comment #48720532

    The past few years have seen attempts to get The Diary of Anne Frank pulled from libraries, along with any mention of LGBT or Black people. What makes you think that this will be u…

  12. comment
    Comment #48720473

    I reckon if you applied an airport level of surveillance to go out for a drink, you'd destroy the hospitality industry in under a week.

  13. comment
    Comment #48719749

    Reddit and Twitter can buy their way out of those problems (hell, they can buy their way out of trouble for literally generating sexual abuse content). What makes you think they'll…

  14. comment
    Comment #48719007

    In theory the King can veto any law he wants. In practice he couldn't without causing a monumental constitutional crisis that would probably end his reign. His unofficial ability t…

  15. comment
    Comment #48718107

    Have you considered using a more scientific metric, like the number of bugs being closed or the number of typewriter ribbons being used up?

  16. comment
    Comment #48685402

    Homographs are tricky :-)

  17. comment
    Comment #48685236

    It's worth noting that even more staid distributions like Debian provide you with the means to do this. It's arguably bit more complicated, but saves you a lot of time and hassle o…

  18. comment
    Comment #48685139

    I mean Netflix haven't managed to solve password sharing so,

  19. comment
    Comment #48684786

    As we discovered to our cost here in the UK a few years ago, increasing government debt to give tax breaks to the rich doesn't just cause huge economic damage, it also makes it dif…

  20. comment
    Comment #48684750

    "Well you need to exercise more and eat more vegetables" is true, but it's only practicable advice if people have access to exercise facilities and healthy food, and the time to ma…

  21. comment
    Comment #48643605

    ...which is definitely an improvement over their previous slogan, "when the fun stops, stop"¹. __ ¹ coincidentally what my Dad always used to say about black tar heroin.

  22. comment
    Comment #48642983

    I'm not sure how you choosing to personally save money by DIYing rather than paying a professional counts as adding value for anyone but yourself, but okay.

  23. comment
    Comment #48586033

    "And that's to make a measly 8% on my money." Amazing how many people insist on being landlords despite it apparently being a life of sawdust and sackcloth.

  24. comment
  25. comment
    Comment #48347302

    I hate ads as much as anyone but they are not in any way comparable to rape. Please have some sense of proportion.