Hacker News: 1gn15

New comment by 1gn15 in "Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI"

1gn15 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:29:12 +0000

Gee whiz, what an interesting way of thinking. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

New comment by 1gn15 in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

1gn15 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:52:44 +0000

Very likely no license can restrict it, since learning is not covered under copyright. Even if you could restrict it, you couldn't add a "no LLMs" clause without violating the free software principles or the OSI definition, since you cannot discriminate in your license.

New comment by 1gn15 in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

1gn15 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:41:46 +0000

In that case, the neo-Luddites are worse than the original Luddites, then? Since many are definitely not "totally fine with the machines", and definitely do not confine their attacks only on the manufacturers that go against worker rights, but they include the average person in their attacks. And the original Luddites already got a lot of hate for attempting to hold back progress.

New comment by 1gn15 in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

1gn15 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:35:18 +0000

Are you sure? A survey by the YouTuber Games And AI found that the vast majority of indie game developers are either using, or considering using AI. Like around 90%.

New comment by 1gn15 in "AI's Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source"

1gn15 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:04:00 +0000

This article commits several common and disappointing fallacies:

1. Open weight models exist, guys.

2. It assumes that copyright is stripped when doing essentially Img2Img on code. That's not true. (Also, copyright != attribution.)

3. It assumes that AI is "just rearranging code". That's not true. Speaking about provenance in learning is as nonsensical as asking one to credit the creators of the English alphabet. There's a reason why literally every single copyright-based lawsuit against machine learning has failed so far, around the world.

4. It assumes that the reduction in posts on StackOverflow is due to people no longer wanting to contribute. That's likely not true. Its just that most questions were "homework questions" that didn't really warrant a volunteer's time.

Firefox UI revamp sparks complaints, searches for alternatives (2014)

1gn15 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:01:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1514198/firefox-ui-revamp-sparks-complaints-searches-for-alternatives.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322693

Points: 2

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New comment by 1gn15 in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

1gn15 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:52:56 +0000

Just so everyone else knows, the complaining is by definition reactionary.

> In politics, a reactionary is a person who favors a return to a previous state of society which they believe possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society.

But I guess HackerNews is infamous for being conservative, so it's not too surprising.

New comment by 1gn15 in "Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped"

1gn15 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:49:03 +0000

At least the blog author is self-aware about making accessibility worse? I just found it funny how reactionary and backfire-y this was.

(In politics, a reactionary is a person who favors a return to a previous state of society which they believe possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society.)

New comment by 1gn15 in "Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding"

1gn15 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:02:42 +0000

I feel like this is useful for a high level understanding of the codebase. However, it isn't very useful for real world insights or precise questions.

New comment by 1gn15 in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

1gn15 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:55:58 +0000

Does this filter out traditional SEO blogfarms?

New comment by 1gn15 in "The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models"

1gn15 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:45:53 +0000

Not true. You can train on copyrighted material and post the resulting model on HuggingFace, and you won't get into trouble. Pinky promise.

New comment by 1gn15 in "The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models"

1gn15 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:55:57 +0000

> And a human artist doesn't need to steal million pictures to learn to draw.

They... do? Not just pictures, but also real life data, which is a lot more data than an average modern ML system has. An average artist has probably seen- stolen millions of pictures from their social media feeds over their lifetime.

Also, claiming to be anti-capitalist while defending one of the most offensive types of private property there is. The whole point of anti-capitalism is being anti private property. And copyright is private property because it gives you power over others. You must be against copyright and be against the concept of "stealing pictures" if you are to be an anti-capitalist.

New comment by 1gn15 in "The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models"

1gn15 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:50:40 +0000

Yes. There have been multiple court cases affirming fair use.

New comment by 1gn15 in "The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models"

1gn15 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:48:57 +0000

out of pure spite for hypocritical "hackers"

New comment by 1gn15 in "Python is not a great language for data science"

1gn15 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:31:27 +0000

> It’s not. Julia is better, much better. But Julia came too late.

Sounds a lot like "worse is better". Python is the worse option, incomplete and inelegant, but is much more practical due to being there first and receiving the bulk of the attention.

New comment by 1gn15 in "Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay"

1gn15 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:13:37 +0000

Are you volunteering to transcribe it?

New comment by 1gn15 in "I defected from America to live with nomads in Central Asia"

1gn15 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:06:31 +0000

https://xcancel.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1937473433262260342

New comment by 1gn15 in "Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun"

1gn15 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:14:14 +0000

Who cares?

New comment by 1gn15 in "The fate of "small" open source"

1gn15 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 02:10:25 +0000

Staying true to free software principles. It's unethical to publish nonfree code or binaries.

New comment by 1gn15 in "Lawmakers want to ban VPNs"

1gn15 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 08:30:18 +0000

Feels like they'd make that illegal, and enforce it by checking the CCTV footage for the person who planted that mini computer, then arresting that person.