Hacker News: Dilettante_

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

Dilettante_ — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:37:52 +0000

>Also even the fixed game now is just a silly boring sandbox game, what makes it good is the story

Insane statement

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Where the goblins came from"

Dilettante_ — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:41:56 +0000

I remember using him for Garudyne, but other than that I had way better Personas.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Men who stare at walls"

Dilettante_ — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:15:22 +0000

A cat is fine, too.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

Dilettante_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:15:47 +0000

I'm seriously starting to understand Toyotomi Hideyoshi's feelings... (/j)

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

Dilettante_ — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:55:23 +0000

Didn't expect this to actually be about juggling, but I'm not complaining

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"

Dilettante_ — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:16:10 +0000

Doesn't have to be one or the other. Trust, but verify? Experts make mistakes, professional equipment can be mishandled. Don't take anybodies word, look at the evidence for yourself.

This is a very scientific way of thinking. It's only gotten a bad rap on account of people using it to attack others' research and then(crucially) failing to perform their own.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

Dilettante_ — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:49:21 +0000

I still haven't really been able to wrap my head around the usecase for these. Also fingers crossed the name doesn't stick. Something about it rubs my brain the wrong way.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

Dilettante_ — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:03:40 +0000

>Why does 2.2.0 come after 2.3?

Ask the paper how many 'r's in strawberry

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public"

Dilettante_ — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:45:14 +0000

Also there's a button that makes a fart sound!

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

Dilettante_ — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:24:50 +0000

This is my biggest fear wrt gov't search-and-seizure. I know the police won't be able to get at my juicy encypted bits, but I also know they're vindictive basterds who'll be held to no accountability. Of course they'll wipe my drives just to get revenge for me "winning" by having blocked their access.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "AI is a horse (2024)"

Dilettante_ — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:39:15 +0000

>2 views

I'm not saying that's your video but it sure looks like that's your video ;)

New comment by Dilettante_ in "AI is a horse (2024)"

Dilettante_ — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:34:38 +0000

*sweats profusely* https://imgur.com/a/PszeiAu

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Claude's new constitution"

Dilettante_ — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:02:43 +0000

Yeah but nobody is gonna read it if they waded through five paragraphs of insubstantial LLM slop from you before. You betrayed the trust of everyone reading that post, wasting their time, energy and quite frankly making us feel a little dirty for reading in good faith what turned out to be something you put zero effort into generating and took us a lot of effort to read. Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me and all that.

This is exactly, genuinely, 100% what I was talking about when I said you were being direspectful of good discussion culture. You're turning it from high-trust into low-trust and soon nobody will be reading any comment longer than two sentences by default.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Claude's new constitution"

Dilettante_ — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:47:23 +0000

People smother their infants to stop them from crying in order to have some quiet. Causing physical harm for their own satisfaction. I mean shit, if we're going there, people sexually abuse their children for their own gratification.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Claude's new constitution"

Dilettante_ — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:28:49 +0000

>I got lazy with your responses and just threw in a few bullet points to AI

This should legit be a permabannable offense. That is titanically disrespectful of not just your discussion partner, but of good discussion culture as a whole.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Claude's new constitution"

Dilettante_ — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:18:55 +0000

People absolutely "torture" babies for their own enjoyment. It's just "in good fun", so you don't think about it as "torture", you think of it as "teasing". Cognitive blind spot. People do tons of things that are displeasant or emotionally painful to their children to see the child's funny or interesting reaction. It serves an evolutionary purpose even, challenging the child. "Mothers stroke and fathers poke" and all that.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Our approach to age prediction"

Dilettante_ — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:07:00 +0000

They're all about saying things that apply broadly enough, in a way that makes them seem specific, in order to make people go "Wow, that's dead-on!" An example:

  You’ve recently been feeling a quiet tension between wanting stability and craving some kind of change. On the surface, things look mostly under control, but there’s a sense that one small adjustment—something you’ve been postponing—could shift your mood more than you expect.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Our approach to age prediction"

Dilettante_ — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:14:08 +0000

>It was dead-on with its answer. It guessed 30-35. I'm 32.

Horoscopes must feel like literal magic to you.

New comment by Dilettante_ in "Our approach to age prediction"

Dilettante_ — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:54:13 +0000

I'm sure it can figure out you don't like bean soup

New comment by Dilettante_ in "The Unix Pipe Card Game"

Dilettante_ — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:25:56 +0000

Nit: You can get a link to a specific time in the video by clicking the "share" button and ticking "start at": https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0?&t=296