Hacker News: AuthAuth

New comment by AuthAuth in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

AuthAuth — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:52:04 +0000

There is plenty of discussion on Gaza or Luigi. If you find youself being "censored" consider that your views and "solutions" are far outside what is accepted on the platform. On the old web you could also get banned if your views did not align with the platform.

Dont compare wanting a pro terrorism fourm with niche interests its so disingenuous.

New comment by AuthAuth in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

AuthAuth — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:38:23 +0000

Most niches dont have to self censor. Even the ones that do still have no trouble communicating their message. I follow a lot of military channels and they post uncensored versions of their videos off yt but there is little reason to go because seeing the gore is not why im watching the video. I still get the entire value of the video from youtube even though you might argue its self censoring.

New comment by AuthAuth in "SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles"

AuthAuth — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:04:42 +0000

So then flock employees are unlikely to care at all since they are already being tracked by flock. The it will concern them once some crazy person is driven to the point of enacting real world violence. The entire point of this project is to collect that data in hopes that someone acts on it.

New comment by AuthAuth in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

AuthAuth — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:44:51 +0000

Niches nowdays are far deeper and more vibrant than they were 20 years ago. Instead of 1 guys website or 1 fourm with 30 users you now have many discord servers with 1000s of users talking in real time, youtube channels putting out videos and making money, reddit/lemmy aggregating content, the community interacting in real time and building what it needs.

New comment by AuthAuth in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

AuthAuth — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:34:12 +0000

Having people use the model generates real world training data which could be useful. Other than that I think you're right that there is little reason to artificially boost users with subsidized pricing.

New comment by AuthAuth in "WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale"

AuthAuth — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:43:55 +0000

AI strips a lot of the intention from the work. The artist might want a wooden house with a straw roof and while they design the house they might add framing and other small touches to the house and to the viewer the small decisions could be as important as the choice for a straw roof.

When the artist AI generates it they get a house with wooden house with a straw roof and nothing else has any thought or intention. Its less personal, the viewer previously did not have to question what the artists intention was now they do because its likely the artist had no intention or thought towards a particular part of the art.

New comment by AuthAuth in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

AuthAuth — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:46:25 +0000

>I do wonder how many pages that are generated specifically to influence AI make it into training data

https://dfrlab.org/2026/04/08/pravda-in-the-pipeline/

There is quite a bit of evidence now that state "internet" agencies pump out blogspam and news to influence search results and LLM datasets.

I'm not sure what can be done to counter this.

New comment by AuthAuth in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

AuthAuth — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:39:47 +0000

big idea wants to keep all the ideas to itself

New comment by AuthAuth in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

AuthAuth — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:44:25 +0000

Yeah. If I see a guy with a posh british accent im going to think subconciously that he is smarter than the guy with the scuffed british accent.

New comment by AuthAuth in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

AuthAuth — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:43:41 +0000

No. So we can have confidence that our online discourse is by humans and by humans in our country.

New comment by AuthAuth in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

AuthAuth — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:37:59 +0000

If they can ID them they can go to where they live. The gov has records of its population

New comment by AuthAuth in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

AuthAuth — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:46:12 +0000

The day cannot come soon enough where every online user is tied to a verified person in a government database.

New comment by AuthAuth in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

AuthAuth — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:31:20 +0000

Yes different accents carry different things subconsciously.

New comment by AuthAuth in "The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)"

AuthAuth — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:50:56 +0000

I dont know how to convey this in a sticky way but these extremist beliefs are not organic. People do not organically become neo nazis or Marxist lennists. They are not randomly adopting these beliefs because of circumstances of the world.

These groups specifically target and craft messages and strategies. You can see it if you browse their spaces and they openly talk about it. They will have threads where they pick a common argument and refine the response. They then go into the space and make the bad side of the argument on one account and pile on it with the refined arguments. Praise all the people that agree as intelligent and demean all the people that disagree. It really does not take that many people to successfully flip a space.

Because the message is crafted its always just on the edge of what can be banned for. If they are banned its a good opportunity to act like it was a massive overreach.

People see these tiny little seeds getting planted and eventually when they are presented with the argument they reach the extreme position and feel like it was their own work.

New comment by AuthAuth in "Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards"

AuthAuth — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:18:40 +0000

if demand drops to 0 you still need to pay money to run a power grid and the energy gen capacity.

New comment by AuthAuth in "Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards"

AuthAuth — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:16:53 +0000

The power capacity is already built out. They shrink the demand(and revenue) of that built out capacity. But then when renewable power is bad they pop back onto the grid to spike demand.

The get to enjoy the best of all worlds free energy when its good and the safety of the grid while the grid gets the worst of all worlds a non paying household that will spike demand at the worst time.

New comment by AuthAuth in "Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards"

AuthAuth — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:13:36 +0000

The grid is made up of many different energy generating parts. Some are cheap to gen energy like solar others are expensive but consistent like gas. Utiliy companies sell the power to cover the costs of maintaining all these core parts of the grid. Personal solar decreases revenue because you have people generating energy and either using it or selling it back to the grid this is money that is taken away from grid maintenance. But when there is a low amount of solar they will all want to draw from the grid.

This puts extra burden on government/poor electricity buyers who cant afford solar to now cover the cost of the grid.

New comment by AuthAuth in "The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)"

AuthAuth — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:42:06 +0000

That is not something that should be encouraged. Hacking together projects like a wifi calculator is fun, harmless and builds knowledge. Hacking a phoneline can land a kid in jail. Attacking public infra is not something that should be treated lightly.

New comment by AuthAuth in "Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards"

AuthAuth — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:19:37 +0000

This is in my opinion a bad solution to the problem of expensive energy or renewable transition. Having individuals start managing their power via plugin solar and plugin batteries creates a gap between the people who can afford it and those who cant. The people who cant afford it end up paying more for electricity.

A better solution is to do this on a local or federal government level and build the required amount of power.

New comment by AuthAuth in "Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes"

AuthAuth — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:11:05 +0000

yes but their pollution is from coal so it will ultimately make little difference.