Hacker News: CaptainFever

New comment by CaptainFever in "Codeberg Divides"

CaptainFever — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:16:42 +0000

That's a nice xenophobic fantasy. There's a reason why border guards are known for their power trips.

New comment by CaptainFever in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

CaptainFever — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:12:33 +0000

It exists. Search up POW blocker or Anubis blocker extensions.

New comment by CaptainFever in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

CaptainFever — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:24:00 +0000

What if I was an active member, and voted no?

New comment by CaptainFever in "Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium"

CaptainFever — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:13:41 +0000

> Why were your projects no longer welcomed at Codeberg?

> Oh, I see. Well I won’t be installing this then.

> Very illuminating.

Man, talk about anti-social. What a bad faith question. It feels like you've already made up your mind on this. Were you actually looking for an answer, or just looking for an argument?

New comment by CaptainFever in "Rsync and outrage"

CaptainFever — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:02:33 +0000

We'll see if you're right, and if HNers can redeem themselves. I'm not holding out much hope, though.

New comment by CaptainFever in "Rsync and outrage"

CaptainFever — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:42:22 +0000

It's sad that the outrage posts got hundreds of comments while this article, from the maintainer explaining the CVEs and test suites, only has this singular comment and is already on the second page.

A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN.

New comment by CaptainFever in "Clanker: A Word for the Machine"

CaptainFever — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:47:51 +0000

If a meatbag uses this word in public, they're rightly going to get punched. It's not their word to claim. Is there any wonder the word has become associated with slavery and racism?

New comment by CaptainFever in "Jeremy Scott gets cheer after ripping up AI-written commencement speech"

CaptainFever — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:34:46 +0000

Boo! Cheer! Boo! Cheer!

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/331b0df7-02f2-4c5f-add8-fe...

New comment by CaptainFever in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

CaptainFever — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:55:07 +0000

It's been polled.

> First reported in the 2023 AI Index, significant regional differences in AI optimism persist. A large majority believe AI-powered products and services offer more benefits than drawbacks in countries like China (83%), Indonesia (80%), and Thailand (77%). In contrast, only a minority share this view in Canada (40%), the United States (39%), and the Netherlands (36%).

Source: https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/publi...

New comment by CaptainFever in "I Will Never Use AI to Code"

CaptainFever — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:08:10 +0000

local models exist

New comment by CaptainFever in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

CaptainFever — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:58:05 +0000

That exists! Check out Hoardy Web. https://oxij.org/software/hoardy-web/

Its whole point is undetectable archiving because it just saves what your browser already sees.

New comment by CaptainFever in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

CaptainFever — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:25:41 +0000

People are unhappy with Anubis because it's not designed to stop "AI crawlers", despite marketing as such. It's designed to stop DDoS attacks on layer 7. Anyone who pays the computing-fee gets to pass, regardless of species.

New comment by CaptainFever in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

CaptainFever — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:10:47 +0000

Why not?

New comment by CaptainFever in "Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task"

CaptainFever — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:20:49 +0000

Who reads the ToS anyway?

New comment by CaptainFever in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

CaptainFever — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:34:25 +0000

> AI by its very nature removes attribution.

This is incorrect. RAG preserves attribution. Training data doesn't, but it doesn't make sense to attribute that anyway, unless you want a list of every person who has ever lived.

New comment by CaptainFever in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

CaptainFever — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:29:47 +0000

Website-crawling services tend to have better luck accessing these websites due to their experience solving CloudFlare's challenges. Might want to try those.

New comment by CaptainFever in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

CaptainFever — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:50:12 +0000

There's probably value in a web extension that uses a small embedded LLM to filter out comments that complain about literally any AI that's used in the submission.

To make it really funny, that extension should be vibe coded.

Seriously though, it should just be against HN guidelines. It's annoying to see that 90% of the comments are just people fighting over vibe coding on a completely unrelated topic. On this submission? There's only 1 (one) on-topic comment.

New comment by CaptainFever in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

CaptainFever — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:31:13 +0000

^ This is a troll; new account, troll username.

New comment by CaptainFever in "Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images"

CaptainFever — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:16:22 +0000

You could have government-signed models + programs that are approved for generating CP (not CSAM). It's legal if the signature checks out. Something like https://contentauthenticity.org/ but for verifying that something is definitely made by AI.

(You need to sign both the models and the programs to make sure there's no img2img.)

New comment by CaptainFever in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

CaptainFever — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:05:00 +0000

This reminds me of a voting method I've seen some anarchists advocate for: the rules passed by votes should only be enforced on those who voted for it.