Hacker News: 833

New comment by 833 in "EFF is leaving X"

833 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:21:20 +0000

That is incredible rewriting of history.

New comment by 833 in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

833 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:14:39 +0000

Not sure why it's always a binary: either give us $1M or we shut down.

Vast majority of products and services can continue on or near zero, with slow or zero velocity.

Really, you can't fire half the team if you have to and keep operating?

1.75M MAU requires very small infrastructure.

New comment by 833 in "X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool"

833 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:44:36 +0000

> The Guardian was able to create short videos of people stripping to bikinis from photographs of fully clothed, real women. It was also possible to post this adult content on to X’s public platform

Well don't.

New comment by 833 in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

833 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:26:02 +0000

This will push CPMs down, and therefore companies will make up for the lower earnings-per-ad by showing more ads.

You can rearrange the deck chairs, sure, but more ads might be more annoying than fewer longer ones.

New comment by 833 in "Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, UK government says"

833 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:40:20 +0000

> Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.

> The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said the change would make choking in pornography a "priority offence" under the Online Safety Act, *putting it on the same level as child sexual abuse material and terrorism content.*

New comment by 833 in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

833 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:44:01 +0000

Ofcom said this four days ago:

> "Services who choose to restrict access rather than protect UK users remain on our watchlist"

How does withdrawing service from UK users not "protect UK users"? How does age verifying UK IPs provide more protection than withdrawing the service entirely?

It is about power and control, and nothing else.

New comment by 833 in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

833 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:42:17 +0000

Blocking UK users from your service does not put you out of scope of OSA, according to Ofcom.

4 days ago:

> "Services who choose to restrict access rather than protect UK users remain on our watchlist "

New comment by 833 in "Source code for the X recommendation algorithm"

833 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:03:32 +0000

Not if you sort by recency or likes.

New comment by 833 in "DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says"

833 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:16:15 +0000

"Borges warned in the complaint that if this information were compromised, “it is possible that the sensitive [personally identifiable information] on every American including health diagnoses, income levels and banking information, family relationships, and personal biographic data could be exposed publicly, and shared widely.”"

Yeah, but this is always true. And it didn't happen.

UK Gov Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

833 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:57:00 +0000

Article URL: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44680376

Points: 51

# Comments: 17

New comment by 833 in "[dead]"

833 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:10:32 +0000

You won't believe what change this cloud company made!

New comment by 833 in "Accounts peddling child abuse content flood X hashtags as Thorn cuts ties"

833 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:03:59 +0000

AI is still not useful for detection.

Facebook makes 1 report to NCMEC for every 134 users, each year. Over 22 million reports. Each report could contain many pieces of CSAM.

The situation is dire.

New comment by 833 in "Accounts peddling child abuse content flood X hashtags as Thorn cuts ties"

833 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:00:43 +0000

CSAM is an impossible problem to solve, especially when it's text-based solicitation.

But it's concerning that they seem to not have integrated proper hashing solutions until now:

> We are proud to provide an important update on our continuous work detecting Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) content, announcing today that we have launched additional CSAM hash matching efforts.

> This system allows X to hash and match media content quickly and securely,

The existing hashing tools are perfectly fit for purpose, but if the CSAM isn't known (and it's not, because it's either new or AI generated) then no amount of hashing will detect it.

Not sure why X developed something new instead of using PhotoDNA, if it all still uses the same hash databases!