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New comment by 101008 in "Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online"

101008 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:38:53 +0000

I agree. It may sound elitist but back then you need to understand a few concepts to use a computer. From simple things like a filesystem (folders, file, different file types, things my 19 years old nephew don't know), to how to install software, how to download software (!) and then things even a bit more technical: an operative system, how it works, booting, drivers, etc.

Now everything is just easier (which is better for most people!) but I miss the old days.

New comment by 101008 in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

101008 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:55:06 +0000

I had this idea before of sending ballons to "the space" with a collectible object and then retrieve them, saying "I have this specific object that was in space too". Is it possible or am I dreaming too much?

New comment by 101008 in "How Claude's text watermarking works"

101008 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:59:10 +0000

I may be wrong but in my opinion this is not technically possible. They can say a text is not AI written with more confidence, but it should be absolutely impossible to say a text is 100% AI written. There is nothing that stops a human to write something AI also wrote. It could be less probable, it could be not common, but there is no way to be 100% sure a human did not write something.

Unless they can provide logs and attach an output to a user/session, they are just saying "This is something that could have been a Claude output", but that's all. Even in their confidence it could be wrong.

It reminds me of signature authenticators. They are just saying "Yeah this is something this author/celeb could have signed", or "This is something the celeb def did not sign", but they can't be never 100% sure.

Anthropic just wrote a statement just to confirm all concerns about watermarking

101008 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:54:02 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/antibot/captcha

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310166

Points: 7

# Comments: 7

New comment by 101008 in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

101008 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:19:14 +0000

Hijacking this comment because of this line that reminded me of something:

"There is a crazy amount of image processing going on behind the scenes in each smartphone"

I bought the Pixel 10 because it said it had great zooming capabilities. After 5X (that means 10X), it's completely stupid. Basically it takes a very blurred photo and then tries to reconstruct it with AI. The final results are completely awful and really distant from reality.

Any advice in how to improve that?

New comment by 101008 in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

101008 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:23:21 +0000

Completely ignorant here, and I don't want to ask an AI (I don't trust them on these issues). Could you give me an example how you can make money with this information?

Again, question as someone who doens't live in the US so I am not used how you can profit from this. I guess it may be because a war may impact the market and you can invest (or the opposite) with this, but in my mind bombing Iran wouldn't move the market by much (the consequences would, but by then everyone is on the same page).

Thank you!

New comment by 101008 in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

101008 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:50:04 +0000

It may be counterintuitive at first, but why wouldn't be possible? It's one of the perks of "offline" hardware without subscriptions or DRM. You build a piece of hardware (cartridge) that attaches to another one (console) and it works. As long as the console works, there shouldn't be a problem.

New comment by 101008 in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

101008 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:37:11 +0000

It started as a good idea but I couldn't continue reading since it was clearly LLM written. A lot of "It was not X, it was Y".

"Prometheus-9 knew that the token sequence it was generating was not a simple response: it was a security test. "

"It was not just an engine: it was the lingua franca of planetary AI."

(and so many other tell-tale signs of AI writing)

New comment by 101008 in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

101008 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:36:02 +0000

I think this is incredible, and I am so happy for him, he deserves all the praise he gets (and maybe more).

I will sin and make this about me, briefly, but just to say that when I was a kid/teenager with a really slow computer, a) I enjoyed coding much more, b) I think I was a way better programmer. Constraints make you better, you have to be smarter. I miss those times.

New comment by 101008 in "98% Isn't Much"

101008 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:09:26 +0000

Some people are locked in old devices and can't upgrade. Basically you are doing class discrimination...

New comment by 101008 in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

101008 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:34:11 +0000

> The issue with this is that we don't know how it works. Generally speaking, we know how the level of abstraction that we were born with works.

What? Definitely not. I went to university and my first two years were subjects where I had to understand really deep levels of abstractions. I had to build logic gates, I had to work with hardware, wires, etc. I didnt see the point back then (I never used any of that professionally). The same about algorithms, databases, and a lot of things. But now I find it valuable and thankful that my professors (and whoever designed the career) considered important topics that I had to lear.

New comment by 101008 in "'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots"

101008 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:58:20 +0000

I am not from the US so I would never encounter one, but what happens if you kick them / hurt them / destroy them? Do they have a recording camera that would show you did it?

New comment by 101008 in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

101008 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:04:36 +0000

In the same vein, the most beautiful part of Patti Smith performing "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" at Nobel Prize Award Ceremony is when she mistakes the lyrics. Whenever I need to cry, I watch that video.

New comment by 101008 in "Disagreement Among Frontier LLMs on Real-World Fact-Checks"

101008 — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:03:41 +0000

Unfortunately most people are not aware of this and treat LLM models as this superpowered brain who knows everything and can do everything.

New comment by 101008 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

101008 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:45:56 +0000

The future is very dark where you get a bad charge (it can happen, systems are complex, so I don't want to judge base on that), but you can't fill a ticket or complain to anyone about this.

I got a $2 charge for a Facebook Ad (I know, $2 is nothing and I shouldn't use Meta), and it was completely wrong. It's impossible to talk to someone in Facebook about this. The AI chat is completely clueless and can't do anything. Their help page say you can ask for a refund (I can't, because the payment doesn't appear on the billing page or payment activity), but they tell you they will close your account if you do it, like... wtf?

I am scared for the future where AI handles all of this. It should be ilegal. Companies should have a X support people every Y customers or something like that. I see it everyday and it's getting worse and worse...

Some days I think the only solution is what Bombita did in the movie Relatos Salvajes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP3IwmM3XLQ

New comment by 101008 in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

101008 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:54:07 +0000

oh man, I haven't heard of photobucket in years! A great place for those nostalgics of the old web, especially if you used forums. Photobucket was THE srvice to upload images to post on forums, including the "famous" signatures, gifs, etc.

New comment by 101008 in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

101008 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:48:48 +0000

To be fair, it's different. The order is important. If he would have written "It is not LLM slop what I want, is real people, real creators, and real content no my feed", it would have sound like AI. But not in the way he wrote it.

Ask HN: How to get motivation of side projects if you don't need the money?

101008 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:25:28 +0000

I have a really good salary as a remote engineer (and I live in a part of the world where one salary could last me 6 months). However, I am getting bored of my work (due to many reasons; AI could be one of them).

I want to try different side projects (not all of them being tech-related); for example, opening an online niche bookshop would be ideal. But when I consider the effort I would have to put in and the money I would earn (a small percentage of my salary), I know it's not worth it. It will add stress, consume time, and it won't a good experience anymore. I am also aware that creating a side project that will give me a significant portion of my salary is almost impossible at this point.

I know some people say that we should do some things just for the pleasure of it and not for the money, and I agree, but that's only when money is not involved. How can you do it with side projects / side businesses?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858045

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by 101008 in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

101008 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:13:31 +0000

revenue is not profit

New comment by 101008 in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

101008 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:57:35 +0000

Agree 100% with this and I also think the default mindset of "being heard and appreciated / make some money out of this" is very recent and only from the last (or two) decade(s).

In the past learning a skill and do something was mostly for pleasure, and something that would stay in your inner circle of friends. Maybe one of your friends would tell his other group of friends but that would be it.

Now internet gave us the opportunity to reach the whole world and that changed the expectations.