Hacker News: 8474_s

New comment by 8474_s in "Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters"

8474_s — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:58:09 +0000

I recall lots of unicode obfuscators were popular turning letters to similar looking symbols to bypass filters/censors when the forum/websites didn't filter unicode and filters were simple.

New comment by 8474_s in "Ask HN: Why not make universal basic income conditional on the crime rate?"

8474_s — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 09:37:35 +0000

Crime is mostly individual and income-driven, so its both not community-policed and inversely proportional to income level. Laws against crime require police to effectively enforce them, as community cannot "reduce crime" without significant investment and focus on it(police is significantly more effective vs vigilantes/citizen patrols). Whichever this scheme tries to do, is effectively collective punishment for community not allocating resources for policing itself.

New comment by 8474_s in "Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity"

8474_s — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 09:16:45 +0000

What is the real-world fidelity of this "decoding both perceptual and mental content"? Can it record dream as video?

New comment by 8474_s in "Say Hi to Kit"

8474_s — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:57:58 +0000

> The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look.

New comment by 8474_s in "The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers"

8474_s — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:51:36 +0000

Except those who have to solve reCaptcha and leave it instantly.

New comment by 8474_s in "The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful"

8474_s — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:49:05 +0000

> Release the hypnodrones

If you are not building the next paperclip optimizer the competition already does!

New comment by 8474_s in "Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits"

8474_s — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:44:48 +0000

it was part of this crypto scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)

New comment by 8474_s in "Context engineering"

8474_s — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:09:24 +0000

The only thing that passed the test of time,so far is specificity: if you ask for multiple things or vague things, you receive half-baked answers trying to cover all bases. If you ask for specific one thing and describe it, the answer quality goes up;e.g. LLMs creating multi-part content mix up the parts and qualities of them, so e.g. asking for Part 1*specific, will always get a better answer than "list all parts of X"(quality drops with length of list).

New comment by 8474_s in "Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)"

8474_s — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:17:29 +0000

The macros are fine as concept, i've used something similar before for reducing code size,e.g. defining hundreds of similar functions and stuff. What is incomprehensible and puts the entire thing into "Obfuscated C" territory is one-letter variables. You'll need to memorize all of them and can't reuse them in normal code. If at least the variables were self-descriptive i'd support such coding style, but it clearly need comments.

New comment by 8474_s in "Ask HN: When will the AI bubble burst?"

8474_s — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:02:03 +0000

CorticalLabs uses Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, but human cells might be more effective due human neuron superiority. Just some ethical problems with harvesting and you can build a hyperscale cluster.

New comment by 8474_s in "Ask HN: When will the AI bubble burst?"

8474_s — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:52:01 +0000

The only thing that could pop the bubble is an alternative architecture for inference that doesn't need GPU clusters and datacenters to compete within the ecosystem. AI itself isn't going away anytime soon.

New comment by 8474_s in "The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)"

8474_s — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:50:30 +0000

max-width: min(70ch, 100% - 4rem); Results in one tiny column of text on desktop, both sides are empty margins. Its an interface exclusively for mobile phones.

New comment by 8474_s in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

8474_s — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:48:46 +0000

AWS-based youtube would be astronomically expensive and much slower than dedicated video servers. Youtube shapes the entire internet total bandwidth.

New comment by 8474_s in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

8474_s — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:28:33 +0000

So if you succeed, how the terabytes of content and bandwidth will be sponsored - by what? The only way i can think of it is some super-efficient neural codec with extreme video compression ratio that runs on mobile devices. Othewise Youtube wins by sheer scale google invested in it.

New comment by 8474_s in "Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack"

8474_s — Sat, 03 May 2025 04:51:01 +0000

I've been seeing that anime girl pop-up in some websites, mainly because i use "rare" browsers.I prefer it over captchas and cloudflare "protecting websites from real traffic", whatever they're doing is just a few seconds and doesn't require solving captchas or something equally obnoxius like microsoft puzzles.

New comment by 8474_s in "A unique sound alleviates motion sickness"

8474_s — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:44:45 +0000

How its exactly 100hz? Nature doesn't follow arbitrary measures, its likely the approximations of some nearby frequency in range that has maximal effect(likely something resonating in inner ear mechanisms)

New comment by 8474_s in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

8474_s — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:13:52 +0000

This is interesting concept, if there was more variety it could be some like timeguessr.

New comment by 8474_s in "New OpenAI models hallucinate more"

8474_s — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:36:55 +0000

Looks like latest chatGPT likes to hallucinate code segments that don't work or wrong API calls. Simpler instructions work fine, but at some point it starts to diverge and experiment.

New comment by 8474_s in "The most famous carbon dioxide absorber"

8474_s — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:44:44 +0000

The part of story where Co2 absorbers were incompatible between two modules sounds really dumb. What was the cause?

New comment by 8474_s in "Show HN: AI Debater, because my school doesn't have a debate team"

8474_s — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:56:46 +0000

What is the point of this over e.g.arguing on Reddit?