Hacker News: Avicebron

New comment by Avicebron in "Karen Hao: AI Doesn't Have to Be Built This Way"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:18:29 +0000

New comment by Avicebron in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:48:58 +0000

People will _always_ need things. There are very few things that will eliminate people's need for things and producers will of course adapt to the environment.

What we need is an environment that does not give the producers asymmetric power over consumers and the products will naturally align with that.

New comment by Avicebron in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:39:45 +0000

> There’s a balance that needs to be carefully managed here. Yes, fairness to consumers is important. But you can’t destroy the incentive to produce value in so doing.

The value is derived from the people consuming the product. Placing the "incentive to produce value" above the people who presumably are the source of this value seems...misaligned.

New comment by Avicebron in "An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:03:54 +0000

Increasingly more of it, as we become more saturated with information. Image-maxxing is probably a more modern term.

Pretending that the thing you want to be true is true so people who don't have the attention bandwidth assume it's true. Similar to a foam sword I guess.

New comment by Avicebron in "Plants Get Wearables to Track Their Health"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:59:38 +0000

"Wearable" for a plant seems like it's going out on a limb.

New comment by Avicebron in "Systems and Delays"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:35:35 +0000

Or if you want something lighter but still fascinating "Sync" by Steven Strogatz is also good :)

New comment by Avicebron in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:40:03 +0000

I trust you when you say that.

> What the heck would I be "stealth-marketing" here?

Cynically, "thought-leaderishness".

I've been spending a lot of my time these days outlining why we can't "just make an agent for it" to CEOs who read blogs like yours. They can't distinguish a production system from a quick HTML tool from a guy whose job doesn't depend on it working.

New comment by Avicebron in "The South Carolina town in turmoil over a $545,000 email phishing scam"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:24:01 +0000

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC folks.

New comment by Avicebron in "Silicon Valley Splits over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:30:03 +0000

https://archive.is/CHarj

New comment by Avicebron in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

Avicebron — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:25:36 +0000

Is this genuine concern or is it stealth-marketing? It's hard to tell when someone is so publicly benefiting off the hype.

New comment by Avicebron in "Lake Vostok"

Avicebron — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:28:50 +0000

Europa Report at home :)

New comment by Avicebron in "A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras"

Avicebron — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:03:39 +0000

Ikr, "Florida man" already has a distinguished pedigree

New comment by Avicebron in "The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras"

Avicebron — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:44:18 +0000

Is there any historical precedent for a defacto public square?

We can't relegate (unwillingly even) every bit of our lives to the private sector and suddenly say rights shouldn't exist.

New comment by Avicebron in "The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras"

Avicebron — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:00:03 +0000

It's also wild to me we live in a country where people who _live_ in a region are not allowed to make decisions about something as foul as surveillance cameras. If people who live, work, and are affected by these don't want them that should be the end of the conversation.

It should be to the people who live in an area to make decisions about it. With the legal ability to tell a company like Flock to fuck off.

New comment by Avicebron in "Lake Vostok"

Avicebron — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:53:47 +0000

https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/scientists-drill-2-miles-do...

We need more frontiers like this.

New comment by Avicebron in "Bitchat is now on Radicle"

Avicebron — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:46:53 +0000

It's 2026, learn to flimble. A plumbis won't get far in today's economy.

New comment by Avicebron in "Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic"

Avicebron — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:48:32 +0000

https://archive.ph/p4o1a

New comment by Avicebron in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

Avicebron — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:13:45 +0000

> Sorry for pointing out the obvious, but if your country's safety depends on ability to block all forms of private person to person messages, your government has failed in one of its primary goals: providing safety for its citizens.

Exactly. How about doing something for people instead of trying to control them, people aren't becoming radicals when their basic needs are met, they have a well paying jobs, housing, and health insurance.

New comment by Avicebron in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."

Avicebron — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:21:01 +0000

If anyone is curious, this the USA, it came from the ACA in 2010 championed by Democrats. It's almost like it doesn't matter which jersey is being worn.

New comment by Avicebron in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

Avicebron — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:44:08 +0000

There's a reason most pros will tell you pick two of the three.