Hacker News: Anonbrit

New comment by Anonbrit in "Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling (2017)"

Anonbrit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:10:02 +0000

Nearly a decade old story now

New comment by Anonbrit in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

Anonbrit — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:34:19 +0000

He can apply to the court for special permission - and probably use ADA to guide permission

New comment by Anonbrit in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

Anonbrit — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:50:03 +0000

It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable

New comment by Anonbrit in "Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found"

Anonbrit — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:10:30 +0000

People have been making the same complaint about Dr Who for at least 40 years, couched in the language of the day. Same with Star Trek.

New comment by Anonbrit in "Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for fast sandbox boot times"

Anonbrit — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:45:58 +0000

The phrase "the key insight" now sets my teeth on edge due to how often it appears in LLM writing

New comment by Anonbrit in "What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief?"

Anonbrit — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:29:06 +0000

Nothing unites a group like a common enemy. If it does fall apart into civil war, expect past and random terrorism for years

New comment by Anonbrit in "Thermal Grizzly was scammed twice on raw materials worth €40k"

Anonbrit — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:27:30 +0000

Was he buying from Ea-nāsir?

New comment by Anonbrit in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

Anonbrit — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:08:49 +0000

I don't think any commercial entity can be trusted to break the law on behalf of customers who only pay a small fee each

New comment by Anonbrit in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

Anonbrit — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:46:24 +0000

Any chance of pushing it to GitHub? My swift knowledge could be written out on an oversized beer coaster currently, so I'm still collecting useful snippets

New comment by Anonbrit in "Indefinite Book Club Hiatus"

Anonbrit — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:43:05 +0000

There are plenty of examples of AI being successfully used to emulated the email / messaging style of a specific individual already known to the target, for spear fishing attacks, and fake video and audio of family members tricking people. I think you're substantially underestimating the peak ability of AI these days

New comment by Anonbrit in "Circle Games (2019)"

Anonbrit — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:31:35 +0000

Plausible but lacks suggested experiments or predictions. Seems testable in principle though, in both human and animal models

New comment by Anonbrit in "Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering"

Anonbrit — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:19:56 +0000

Humans also write endless amounts of convincing bullshit, and have done since time immemorial. False papers and faked results have been a growing scourge in academia before LLMs were a thing, and that's just counting the intentional fraud - the reproducibility crisis in science, especially medical and psychological science, affects even the best designed and well intentioned of studies.

Humans also make mistakes and assumptions while reverse engineering, so it will always need more engineers to go through the results, test things

New comment by Anonbrit in "Shut Up: Comment Blocker"

Anonbrit — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:40:12 +0000

You have to be careful when you edit comments - you can be seen as editorialising, which can lose you protection against being liable for defamation in some jurisdictions. Probably not a huge issue for a small website, but now risk than I'd like to take

New comment by Anonbrit in "US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says"

Anonbrit — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:26:31 +0000

Found to be illegal when? 3 decades after they've done their damage?

New comment by Anonbrit in "TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app"

Anonbrit — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:59:03 +0000

There's plenty of evidence that many people are not making rational and informed decisions due to advertising practices. That is absolutely being forced into things

New comment by Anonbrit in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

Anonbrit — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:06:26 +0000

I don't control most of the discord communities I'm in. Some have been going a long time, and every platform migration sheds and shreds members. The 'mild effort' to move an old community to a new platform more often than not killed the community

New comment by Anonbrit in "Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number"

Anonbrit — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:15:36 +0000

Several companies have resisted these court orders successfully. Google can afford a lawyer to go over the order with a fine tooth comb if they wanted to - it's just easier to roll over and let the government rub their belly.

Trump has also repeatedly used government apparatus to illegally retaliate against companies and individuals for not going hos way, with no consequence, so it is hard to entirely blame corporations for behaving that way

New comment by Anonbrit in "Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number"

Anonbrit — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:12:08 +0000

Don't use products from large US tech companies?

Apple has a slightly better track record than Google of fighting this stuff, but ultimately if you're using a product from a US tech company then it's likely ICE can get their grubby little mitts on everything that company knows about you

New comment by Anonbrit in "America isn't exceptional – it's the exception"

Anonbrit — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:57:29 +0000

But that 8% is almost as many prisoners as comparable countries have, total. The lobbying and sometimes outright corruption around private prisons doesn't care if it also feeds people into non-private prisons as long as it also feeds the private prison beast

New comment by Anonbrit in "Corruption Perceptions Index 2025"

Anonbrit — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:05:31 +0000

I expect to see the USA flying down the ranks this year... seems their whole government and judiciary is for sale, and not even expensive