Humorist2290

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by Humorist2290 4d ago
There are many examples of people being charged with crimes as a result of writing software, [0][1] are two. OpenAI is a bit different because they have enough political influence, and money, to openly subvert justice. 0: https:/&#x2F
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by Humorist2290 4d ago
In a way, this task is perfectly suited for LLMs. To even understand the problem statement, much less the proof or Lean, is an extremely specialized skill. The overwhelming majority of people who are aware of this news simply don't hav
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by Humorist2290 27d ago
Is there any question the person who was baselessly charged with CSAM, then terrorism when they realized it was so obviously untenable, as a pretense to detain him would've been treated differently if he were on a different "side&
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by Humorist2290 2mo ago
That is indeed a fun fact. One of those things I didn't realize, but immediately believe. Most of the gun owners I know have at least one or two antiques which predate modern notions like "safety" by quite a bit. They are fas
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by Humorist2290 2mo ago
Yeah the suggestion is mostly facetious and I realize impracticable. As the other commenter mentioned -- it's a poison pill. If such a rider were added to the KIDS Act it would be dead in the water, without a doubt. Though I think it&#
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by Humorist2290 2mo ago
I can't remember right now where from, but I do remember some 10ish years ago listening to an NPR spot from some philosopher who claimed there was an existential crisis in the field of philosophy. The premise that I do remember was tha
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by Humorist2290 2mo ago
To take a different perspective than ownership as "right to re-sell" or ownership as "the right to use in perpetuity," I think there is also value in considering ownership as responsibility to maintain those rights. When
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by Humorist2290 3mo ago
Interesting analysis. In it they say Worse, the burden [generating energy] increasingly falls on the buyer [data center developers] I don't believe this is worse, but appropriate. The grid is a shared resource, used by enterpris
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by Humorist2290 3mo ago
This is very "war on drugs" coded, but to extend the metaphor a bit: Meta here is the heroin cartel. They're a publicly traded company, have offices all over the country, and have mountains of evidence sitting in moderately w
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by Humorist2290 3mo ago
In many states, children under some age are prohibited from using firearms. There is substantial evidence to show that firearms pose a real and present harm to individual children and large groups. An excellent rider to the KIDS act would b
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by Humorist2290 3mo ago
From the Claremore City Council minutes [0] it does show the person mentioned in the article was a speaker, among a group of some 20 other members of the community. They also include the incredible claim Claremore Data Center will house
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by Humorist2290 3mo ago
I'm increasingly convinced that these kind of leaks are the only effective resistance to this surveillance society we're entering. Meta will keep doing this, and other employers will probably follow, and then of course governments
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by Humorist2290 3mo ago
It must be a wild time in the corporate espionage world these days. The annual operating budget of the CIA is like 20B. That's a rounding error compared to the burn rates of these labs. Maybe it's conspiratorial, but it seems like
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by Humorist2290 3mo ago
So I had a feature phone -- the Nokia 8110 4g. What sold me was that I could use it as a 4g hotspot and connect a smartphone to it, or not and be offline. The idea of "going online" is something I miss, in that it's not norma
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by Humorist2290 3mo ago
It's more comical than sinister, but I have an example in this vein. I was using Claude to work on a pet project which itself has a "generate with AI" feature. The default model the project uses was Gemini (because it was che
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by Humorist2290 4mo ago
I'm taking a "wait and see" approach with Bitwarden. I've been a paying customer for a while, happy with it, and hoping the leadership changes won't be too user hostile. Still, a major reason I chose Bitwarden to be
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by Humorist2290 4mo ago
An exception that proves the rule, but KRAZAM's channel on Youtube has legitimately helpful ad reads. Rare Data Hunters [0] for example ends with a 1 minute Cloudflare ad that's basically a crash course in their services. Having w
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by Humorist2290 5mo ago
Company offers a service that is considered essential to function in society, and the overwhelming majority of people _must_ pay for as if it were a tax: "this seems like something generally useful to the public! They need to be a regu
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by Humorist2290 5mo ago
It's incredible that on the same device we can write pithy little comments, we can also play games, listen to music, read countless books, basically access the whole of the internet, and also empty out bank accounts. I'd wager mos
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by Humorist2290 5mo ago
America's culture of individual liberty moved into the national mythos in the last century, replaced by a culture of consumption and commerce over all. People don't have the freedom to build whatever they want because pockets need
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by Humorist2290 7mo ago
At some point in the not so distant future, it seems entirely likely for the US to bail out OpenAI / Nvidia / etc using national security as justification. Democrats and Republicans really can get along as long as their donors get
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by Humorist2290 8mo ago
> Why must he have some shady ulterior motive rather than just honestly believing the thing they are are stated? I wouldn't say it's shady or even untoward. Simon writes prolifically and he seems quite genuinely interested in t
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by Humorist2290 8mo ago
I can believe this, and it's a good point. I believe Bitwarden does the same. I'm not against Vaultwarden in particular but against colocation of highly sensitive (especially orthogonally sensitive) data in general. It's part
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by Humorist2290 8mo ago
It needs to be said that your opinion on this is well understood by the community, respected, but also far from impartial. You have a clear vested interest in the success of _these_ tools. There's a learning curve to any toolset, and i
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by Humorist2290 8mo ago
Fun. I don't agree that Claude Code is the real unlock, but mostly because I'm comfortable with doing this myself. That said, the spirit of the article is spot on. The accessibility to run _good_ web services has never been better
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by Humorist2290 9mo ago
So the AI Village folks put together a bunch of LLMs and a basically unrestricted computer environment, told it "raise money" and "do random acts of kindness" and let it cook. It's a technological marvel, it's
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by Humorist2290 9mo ago
I'd bet many of the founders would've been amazed at the technology and insist on wide scale adoption. It could've further cemented the power of slaveholders over their slaves. It could've helped to track the movements o
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Ask HN: In December 2025 what agentic tool should I try?
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by Humorist2290 10mo ago
One thing that especially interests me about these prompt-injection based attacks is their reproducibility. With some specific version of some firmware it is possible to give reproducible steps to identify the vulnerability, and by extensio
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by Humorist2290 10mo ago
Disappointingly, that is an exceedingly good story for a high school assignment. The use of an appositive phrase alone would raise alarm bells though. It's nitpicking for flaws, but why not -- what lens on an old DSLR, older than a car

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