Hacker News: Carrok

New comment by Carrok in "Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects"

Carrok — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:15:01 +0000

This if anything backs up my argument. Cruelty or kindness (when directed towards LLMs) is not expensive enough to matter.

New comment by Carrok in "Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects"

Carrok — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:06:23 +0000

Sorry but I just don’t buy the argument that telling the RNG that it is dumb is making me cruel.

New comment by Carrok in "Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects"

Carrok — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:00:42 +0000

It’s reprehensible to be mean to the random number generator?

New comment by Carrok in "Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects"

Carrok — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:44:19 +0000

You could make the same argument that burning compute to be polite is just as bad.

New comment by Carrok in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

Carrok — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:26:26 +0000

My current US city has municipal trash. My previous US city had municipal trash. It definitely “flies” here.

New comment by Carrok in "My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack"

Carrok — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:03:26 +0000

It also seems likely that an employee who used company assets (tokens) for personal use would have been fired rather than writing a blog post about it.

New comment by Carrok in "Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management"

Carrok — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:31:02 +0000

Bad by what metric?

New comment by Carrok in "Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use"

Carrok — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:55:53 +0000

We should absolutely stop using water to grow alfalfa in the desert that we then ship to foreign countries so they can feed it to their cattle.

New comment by Carrok in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

Carrok — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:40:42 +0000

This phrase has been around for years, I know because it has always infuriated me.

They took a well-defined unit of time, which is relatively short, and made it mean “some unknown but very long period of time”.

So frustrating. /oldmanyellsatcloud

New comment by Carrok in "Lion-man"

Carrok — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:21:11 +0000

More than 300,000 years.

New comment by Carrok in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

Carrok — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:45:15 +0000

> When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

New comment by Carrok in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

Carrok — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:04:49 +0000

Why would you even update? HDMI cables aren't really changing. No internet, ever.

New comment by Carrok in "Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”"

Carrok — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:25:43 +0000

You don't have to go back years, months will do.

There are more than you listed as well, like the raspberries https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbrea...

New comment by Carrok in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

Carrok — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:43:54 +0000

This comment confuses me a bit because Google Maps (at least in the US, in my experience) is really great about telling you what lane to be in.

New comment by Carrok in "typ.ing"

Carrok — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:41:39 +0000

I haven’t had printed symbols on any keyboard, split or not, in many years.

New comment by Carrok in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

Carrok — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:28:51 +0000

I’m not concerned about an attack scenario. I’m just saying that using the docker image, if someone (or their agent) isn’t careful, they could expose their browsing history publicly fairly easily. It might just be nice to default to at least a user and pass login rather than just wide open.

New comment by Carrok in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

Carrok — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:14:43 +0000

It seemed like the public mode was the default when I set it up. If so, that’s a fairly dangerous default as keeping a “clean” history with no secrets leaked seems neigh impossible.

New comment by Carrok in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

Carrok — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:56:04 +0000

I tried this out this week and liked it but really wish this project had some form of auth. Opening the contents of every page you’ve ever visited, even to the local network, is not the best idea.

New comment by Carrok in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

Carrok — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:39:45 +0000

Everything in moderation, especially moderation.

New comment by Carrok in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

Carrok — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:39:59 +0000

Sounds like a pretty strong argument to self host, and otherwise be in charge of the software you use.