<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ChrisKnott</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ChrisKnott</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:18:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ChrisKnott" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ChrisKnott in "Unverified: What Practitioners Post About OCR, Agents, and Tables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a SOTA OCR model that prioritises failing in a debuggable way?<p>What I want is an output that records which sections of the image have contributed to each word/letter, preferably with per word confidence levels and user correctable identification information.<p>I should be able to build a UI to say: no, this section is red-on-green vertically aligned Cyrillic characters; try again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649360</link><dc:creator>ChrisKnott</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ChrisKnott in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is almost certainly because a member of the public phoned the police/FBI and alleged that GM was /u/maxwellhill, not that it was part of the FBI’s case. Look at the other stuff on the list.<p>I don’t know if the claim is “absurd” but it appears to be essentially baseless.</p>
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<p>Other ones that to me felt like completely fair value and better than anything I had as a child were the Creator Bunny, Space Telescope, and Space Robot. Something like £18/£25/£25 the second two having light bricks included.<p>JK Brickworks has an alt build for the bunny that doesn’t require a massive amount of different pieces and makes it lay mini eggs.</p>
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<p>I don’t think this is true at all. What do you mean by “general bricks”? If anything there is more brick-built stuff nowadays.<p>For example the Creator 3-in-1 Castle (which I got for my son for Christmas) is pretty similar to castle sets I had as a child but basically way better and with brick built horses rather than large mould ones</p>
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<p>The citation for your quote appears to be an unsourced Reddit post.<p>The agreement at the heart of 5 Eyes is to <i>not</i> surveil the other nations - this must be up there for most persistently misunderstood fact among techies (probably why AI spits it out)</p>
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<p>This is literally my favourite website, I use it several times a week.<p>I do wish the search was a bit better; it could show the matching quote below the matching frame, and it doesn’t seem to support phrase queries.<p>A more advanced feature would be searching by speaking character too.</p>
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<p>You can do this [0] just press Add Meme after Make GIF.<p>[0] <a href="https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E08/ZzAEDYhlQxZ5l2A8E5aowS1M82I=.gif" rel="nofollow">https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E08/ZzAEDYhlQxZ5l2A8E5aowS1M82...</a></p>
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<p>Yeah, what a tiny joy when it "picked up" the canvas as it went</p>
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<p>Both the use of “founder” and “the” are inaccurate and misleading (I notice you’ve switched to “a” without comment). He was a government adviser 20 years ago that was central to the work of creating Ofcom. How is he closely related to the running of Ofcom, today?<p>The conspiracy theory is your suggestion he is deriving some kind of financial benefit to Carnegie via Yoti - what is the basis for this? (I agree it would be a conflict of interest, though not hypocritical).</p>
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<p>Ludicrous to call William Perrin “the founder” of Ofcom or refer to it as “his” quango.<p>Passive voice, evidence free conspiracy nonsense that flatters HN biases? Updoots to the left!</p>
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<p>The homepage is manually edited isn't it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:17:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723694</link><dc:creator>ChrisKnott</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ChrisKnott in "Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The phrase they actually use is "content recommender system". The definition is in the link; you could maybe see some search features falling into it but I don't see how Wikipedia as it exists now is Category 1.</p>
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<p>One of the main motivations for this law was pro-suicide and pro-anorexia content being pushed to teenage girls. In particular Molly Russell's death received a lot of press coverage and public outrage at tech companies. The coroner's report basically said Instagram killed her. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Molly_Russell" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Molly_Russell</a><p>Of course if you get your news from HN then the motivation is actually something to do with limiting discussion of immigration or being dystopian just because.<p>But yes, if they could just name Instagram and TikTok they probably would.</p>
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<p>Is Wikipedia actually Category 1?<p>Seems to require an algorithmic feed to be Category 1 - <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348267174" rel="nofollow">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348267174</a></p>
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<p>I think the general point is you are presenting something as a hardship that is a quality of life unachievable for most people (even in the UK), and unthinkable for most people in the recent past, even in the West.<p>You come across as out of touch and entitled. You live in the future - enjoy it!</p>
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<p>I don't think this hypothetical behaviour would change the 95th percentile or any percentiles below it, would it?<p>If the income of everybody above the 80th percentile dropped to be equal to the 81st percentile, the 80th percentile income wouldn't change the ones above would just be very closely bunched.<p>(Last time I checked the opposite was true and they got more spread out)</p>
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<p>> "Do you know of other western countries that send cops to your house because you posted memes on X ?"<p>This guy was prosecuted in the US for posting a meme on Twitter [0].<p>I imagine this can happen in almost every country. What ones do you think it can't happen in?<p>[0] <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/on-trial-for-memes-man-asks-second-circuit-to-overturn-conviction-over-election-day-shenanigans/" rel="nofollow">https://www.courthousenews.com/on-trial-for-memes-man-asks-s...</a></p>
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<p>Do you have any examples of people being arrested for criticising a law?<p>Most of the time these dystopian descriptions of the UK turn out to be completely overblown nonsense when you look into them properly.</p>
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<p>The forum is still up so was this thread in fact mistaken?</p>
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<p>It’s totally superficial rage porn. Solutions offered include “a total rethink” and “an integrated strategy”. Brilliant…</p>
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