Hacker News: Dotnaught

New comment by Dotnaught in "The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox"

Dotnaught — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:40:01 +0000

So, client?

New comment by Dotnaught in "Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety"

Dotnaught — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:53:30 +0000

>we've had a legal principle that platforms are relatively shielded from liability for what their users do.

...when they've made a good faith effort to address harms.

New comment by Dotnaught in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

Dotnaught — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:17:49 +0000

By "shadowy cabal of European media elites," is Prince referring to elected Italian officials? What have they asked Cloudflare to ban?

Researchers propose web scraping defense based on prompt injection

Dotnaught — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:03:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/boffins_build_ai_kill_switch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005225

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI Wins Imitation Game: Readers Prefer Fanfic Written by ChatGPT

Dotnaught — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:12:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/ai_wins_imitation_game_readers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656065

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Android 'Pixnapping' attack can capture app data like 2FA codes

Dotnaught — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/android_pixnapping_attack_captures_2fa_codes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568710

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Dotnaught in "A tech-law measurement and analysis of event listeners for wiretapping"

Dotnaught — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:56:02 +0000

Is there a way, perhaps via extension or user script, to override third-party keystroke event listeners?

New comment by Dotnaught in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Dotnaught — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:50:54 +0000

It has not been conclusively established that COVID came from a lab: https://www.who.int/news/item/27-06-2025-who-scientific-advi...

New comment by Dotnaught in "Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt'"

Dotnaught — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:57:18 +0000

I wrote a similar generic text replacer, EditoriaLies:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editorialies/pdokni...

https://github.com/Dotnaught/EditoriaLies

Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system

Dotnaught — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:02:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/boffins_build_automated_android_bug_hunting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45141584

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Biased bots: AI hiring managers shortlist candidates with AI resumes

Dotnaught — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:28:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/ai_hiring_biased/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121067

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by Dotnaught in "Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy"

Dotnaught — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:53:52 +0000

AI-generated summaries should not be upvoted.

Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor responses to inferred politics

Dotnaught — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:23:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/chatgpt_has_a_problem_with/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054057

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Dotnaught in "This website is for humans"

Dotnaught — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:54:13 +0000

https://localghost.dev/robots.txt

User-Agent: * Allow: /

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved

Dotnaught — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:08:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/google_ai_maps_world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750723

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Dotnaught in "Death by AI"

Dotnaught — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:03:33 +0000

You can append -ai to your searches to omit AI Overview replies. It's not enough but it's something.

New comment by Dotnaught in "Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP"

Dotnaught — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:41:30 +0000

In most of San Francisco and parts of the East Bay, there's MonkeyBrains: https://www.monkeybrains.net/

Ask HN: How much are you spending monthly to use AI?

Dotnaught — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:40:57 +0000

AI billing is highly variable. What are you paying and what steps do you take to optimize costs? And has the cost proven to be worth it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389018

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

Dotnaught — Thu, 08 May 2025 21:51:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/google_gemini_update_prevents_disabling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931729

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

Dotnaught — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:18:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/microsoft_vs_code_subtracts_cc_extension/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788125

Points: 243

# Comments: 344