Hacker News: 9991

New comment by 9991 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

9991 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:31:31 +0000

Poppycock. Copyright infringement at worst, and probably not even to that level for most stuff.

New comment by 9991 in "Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries"

9991 — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:43:51 +0000

You're not yourself when you're hungry.

New comment by 9991 in "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem"

9991 — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:19:35 +0000

> Why must moving slowly be stigmatised?

If you're quicker you can do more. I didn't have time to read the rest of your comment.

New comment by 9991 in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

9991 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:38:00 +0000

Source: it came to me in a dream.

New comment by 9991 in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

9991 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:08:03 +0000

That's not a realistic concern for most people. Children don't generally want their parents to divorce.

New comment by 9991 in "Average is all you need"

9991 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:03:05 +0000

In high dimensional spaces, almost all of the volume of a sphere is in a thin shell close to the surface.

New comment by 9991 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

9991 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:59:50 +0000

March 2027 -> Neuralese recurrence and memory

> For example, perhaps models will be trained to think in artificial languages that are more efficient than natural language but difficult for humans to interpret.

New comment by 9991 in "Ban the sale of precise geolocation"

9991 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:57:52 +0000

GrapheneOS is a proper Linux. The hardware isn't open, but otherwise it's quite nice and clearly designed for the end-user's benefit, in stark contrast to the more widely-adopted alternative mobile OSes.

New comment by 9991 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

9991 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:08:37 +0000

You should just read the thing, whether or not you believe it, to have an informed opinion on the ongoing debate.

New comment by 9991 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

9991 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:07:28 +0000

That's not supposed to happen til 2027. Ruh roh.

New comment by 9991 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

9991 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:33:15 +0000

The guy who decided to wrestle with law enforcement officers performing their lawful duties?

New comment by 9991 in "Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem"

9991 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:00:48 +0000

Wrong question. Why does he continue to do business with a company who clearly doesn't want him?

New comment by 9991 in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

9991 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:31:08 +0000

Did this prompt some reflection on your part?

New comment by 9991 in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

9991 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:16:17 +0000

Oh, refreshing that the people watching are simultaneously the customers.

New comment by 9991 in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

9991 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:42:28 +0000

Who are their customers in this scenario?

New comment by 9991 in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

9991 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:41:53 +0000

No, not equal. They're all varying amounts of stupid.

New comment by 9991 in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

9991 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:07:40 +0000

They're Muslims. You can debate whether that means 'stupid', but they've come to totally erroneous opinions on the structure of reality.

New comment by 9991 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

9991 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:10:55 +0000

Arithmetic may have updated.

New comment by 9991 in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

9991 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:50:02 +0000

Yea, it's called Mom & Dad.

New comment by 9991 in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"

9991 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:11:49 +0000

Code is speech, so how on Earth isn't this a First Amendment violation?