Hacker News: 1ncorrect

New comment by 1ncorrect in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

1ncorrect — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:26:09 +0000

I always welcome, and look forward to, being proven wrong.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

1ncorrect — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:51:23 +0000

No one who is impressed by the current applications of LLMs should be in any way involved with making decisions which affect those not similarly cognitively impaired.

It’s no different to religions or economics.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

1ncorrect — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:54:24 +0000

‘AI’ is my newest litmus test for whether who I’m engaging with should be taken seriously or not.

‘AI’ doesn’t exist, and LLMs have vanishingly narrow legitimate justifiable use cases. Any output from one is intrinsically, explosively, imprecise, and can’t be trusted to be build upon without specialist treatment. I’m yet to identify any application of a LLM which can rationally be mistaken for intelligence.

Anyone who persists in referring to LLMs as ‘AI’ is either betraying they don’t understand what they’re talking about, or they’re invested too deeply in an active grift.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "CDC File Transfer"

1ncorrect — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:06:55 +0000

…or cDc[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Show HN: Ternary Computer System"

1ncorrect — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:03:56 +0000

The use case for Ternary logic I’m familiar with for is TCAMs in networking gear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_memory#Ter...

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

1ncorrect — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:08:03 +0000

I use this all the time:

open -a

Handy for distinguishing between editing and consuming media.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide"

1ncorrect — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 11:23:10 +0000

I originally had only my MX hosts listed in my SPF record, and configured to accept them exclusively. Microsoft unilaterally blocked the entire /23 my VPS resides within, and refused to exclude my configured IPs from their block.

The only way I’m currently able to deliver anything to domains hosted by Microsoft is to expand my SPF record to include my ISP’s mail hosts, and route delivery through them.

Microsoft, and the other SMTP cartel thugs, are undermining the protections these protocols were designed to provide.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide"

1ncorrect — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:35:17 +0000

Guilty until proven innocent, an excellent initial position.

I’ve had to relax my SPF record to include the entire mail pool of my ISP to be able to send to anything hosted by Microsoft. I tried to liaise with them directly, and through Linode, but they refused to exclude the IP from their opaque blocklist. Their proposed solution was to change the IP of the VPS, but that’s just agreeing to play whack-a-mole with a bad faith actor.

There should be a path to greater transparency and accountability from the SMTP cartels, but I’m at a loss as to how that can manifest.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works"

1ncorrect — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:34:05 +0000

It’s randomised in a similar way to how iOS creates privacy MAC addresses for each WiFi SSID.

The merchant receives the same ‘random’ card number for transactions from the same device.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Czech republic sets IPv4 end date"

1ncorrect — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:25:39 +0000

It can in the near term, as each endpoint has a unique public identifier instead of being mixed with multiple endpoints behind a NAT gateway, but less so over the long term, as privacy addresses are typically rotated at least daily.

Of course, all of this needs to be included in a broader discussion around myriad vectors of tracking and fingerprinting to arrive at a meaningful conclusion.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Ask HN: Making a better world, how important is that to you?"

1ncorrect — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:39:48 +0000

I watched _The Good Place_ when it originally aired, the strongest residual and most attractive concept was _The Final Door_. This has promoted it on my rewatch queue.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Ask HN: Making a better world, how important is that to you?"

1ncorrect — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:14:15 +0000

This is largely why I’m on disability and have not been a “functional” member of society for the better part of a decade. I have been unable to identify a role available to me which will not materially make things worse. This leaves the only viable options as living in abject poverty, or ceasing to exist, the latter frequently more attractive.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing"

1ncorrect — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:44:23 +0000

A: I already explicitly avoid products that are encrusted in this shit. B: I have not used either of these products since their respective changes, even though they’re otherwise still perfectly functional.

A notable flow on effect is both of these products had helped with the management and improvement of my health, and these changes have had a measurable negative impact since I’ve been unable to use them.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing"

1ncorrect — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 23:51:39 +0000

I want to see meaningful pushback on this indefensible move of forcing customers to establish and maintain a relationship with the manufacturer in order to use the products they sell.

Other examples are: Wahoo, who locked the control of their products behind an account and login requirement for devices which had been working perfectly fine for years prior.

Roche, who killed their blood glucose app at the start of 2023 and forced all their users to move to a third party app, developed by one of their subsidiaries, which requires you to accept a data exfiltration clause, if they wish to continue the automagic on-device logging.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4"

1ncorrect — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:50:12 +0000

And Comcast were the biggest proponents of building IPv6 support into the DOCSIS specs, because they exhausted 10/8 in the management network for their modem fleet.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet"

1ncorrect — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:23:00 +0000

The original Ethernet spec uses CSMA/CD[0] 802.11 uses CSMA/CA[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-sense_multiple_access_... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-sense_multiple_access_...

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs"

1ncorrect — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:16:54 +0000

Hills sparsely populated with corpses are equally fascinating and comical.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Do heat pumps work in cold climates?"

1ncorrect — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:47:00 +0000

This equipment would be installed outside, the difference being to position it near, or coupled to, the compression loop of the heat pump. When the pump is running, it draws from the battery, which will need to dissipate heat through its operation. Why not capture that heat and redirect it where desired.

In summer, you could decouple it and use standard separate heat dissipation mechanisms.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Do heat pumps work in cold climates?"

1ncorrect — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 13:00:29 +0000

I’ve been wondering for a while now if it would be worth coupling a heat pump coils to the heat sinks of a battery, inverter or other building electronics to help offset the diminishing returns at the lower extremes.

The simplest example would be a heat pump with its own built in UPS style battery, but I also see it being built with coupling to a power wall style house battery.

New comment by 1ncorrect in "Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?"

1ncorrect — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:29:54 +0000

I’m sick of every product now requiring I establish, and maintain, a personal relationship with the manufacturer.

Notable examples for myself are Wahoo Fitness[1], Water Rower[2] and Roche’s Accu-Chek[3], which all now require logins and agreements to leak health data to be hosted on external services in order to continue using the products I purchased from them.

In Roche’s case, they gave barely 5 weeks notice that their apps will cease to function at the end of the year, locking all data and functionality on January 1, and punting all responsibility to their subsidiary, mySugr[4].

[1] wahoofitness.com [2] waterrower.com [3] accu-chek.com [4] mysugr.com