Hacker News: Extropy_

New comment by Extropy_ in "Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years"

Extropy_ — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:55:52 +0000

Nice one! I agree

Learn from Your Mistakes: Tree-Like Self-Play for Secure Code LLMs

Extropy_ — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03489

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428558

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Extropy_ in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

Extropy_ — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:50:34 +0000

Most cameras already produce metadata. You can remove this metadata. Can you not also detect and remove watermarks?

New comment by Extropy_ in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

Extropy_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:57:06 +0000

Right back at ya

New comment by Extropy_ in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

Extropy_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:23:19 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064334

New comment by Extropy_ in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

Extropy_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:23:12 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064334

New comment by Extropy_ in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

Extropy_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:22:58 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064334

New comment by Extropy_ in "NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address"

Extropy_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:47:53 +0000

They acknowledge this in the article as well, surprisingly enough.

> Corporate law experts say while there is nothing illegal about housing a business inside a shell company, the practice is often a strategic move to protect a firm's wealth or shield it against lawsuits and action from government regulators.

What is the thought process of someone writing this? Does this article have any meaningful or critical thought behind it?

New comment by Extropy_ in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

Extropy_ — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:48:15 +0000

I'm really bad at it for things that aren't novel or really interesting, especially repetitive tasks, like doing illustrations for a customer for example, I know what to do, I've done it hundreds of times, but I'd just rather be doing something else. It does also happen for things I want to do but only usually if it's something I'm not confident about. Like I want to do a really comprehensive gardening setup this year, I've done all the research and planning, I just have no experience sewing seeds or growing vines, or how to setup indoor seed hatching, and I'm just dreading the whole starting process and have put it off too long- I should've started mid-April.

New comment by Extropy_ in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

Extropy_ — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:43:05 +0000

Pretty good. I don't find I get derailed by other tasks but I do find others related to what I'm doing like "Oh, dishwasher's done, let's empty it, but oh wait let's clean the counter first" and then end up cleaning the sink and emptying the garbage as well

New comment by Extropy_ in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

Extropy_ — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:59:38 +0000

I find similar behaviour in myself, particularly that dreading a task makes it significantly more difficult to start. I find that if I can manage to do just a little bit, even just open the application and maybe look around a bit at what I need to do, it really gets the momentum going for me.

Do you think there's anything that differentiates what we might call "general task dread" that perhaps anyone experiences to a certain degree from a more broad executive function disorder? Or is it that dreading leading to task paralysis is one of many symptoms of an executive function disorder?

New comment by Extropy_ in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

Extropy_ — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:14:29 +0000

Someone ought to try feeding the BTC whitepaper in and share what comes out

New comment by Extropy_ in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

Extropy_ — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:07:01 +0000

Even if they reset to several days ago and lose, say, thousands of edits, even tens of thousands of minor edits, they're still in a pretty good place. Losing a few days of edits is less-than-ideal but very tolerable for Wikipedia as a whole

New comment by Extropy_ in "OpenClaw is dangerous"

Extropy_ — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:26:39 +0000

That's a total mischaracterization. OP is saying there are no safer fireworks, so some damage will be done, but until someone develops safer and better fireworks, people will continue to use the existing ones

New comment by Extropy_ in "Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die"

Extropy_ — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:00:44 +0000

How is intent relevant to this? Or is it not? If you did happen to play out your scenario, your intent would clearly be to insidiously confirm delusions. What is OpenAI's intent? To confirm delusions?

New comment by Extropy_ in "Kitchen optimizations"

Extropy_ — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:33:17 +0000

That's a nice trick. What we do is use a reversible magnet that says "dirty" on one side and "clean" on the other

New comment by Extropy_ in "Kitchen optimizations"

Extropy_ — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:31:57 +0000

I understand your confusion. If you clean off and rinse your dishes before you put them in the dishwasher, it can sometimes get confusing

New comment by Extropy_ in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

Extropy_ — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:05:06 +0000

Banning substances naturally decreases use, that's obvious, but prohibition criminalizes use, which will always persist. You cannot stop drug use. Drug legalization so far has resulted in declining use of dangerous substances like tobacco and alcohol. Far more young people today choose smoking pot over smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol. Many people choose not to drink because they've observed the widespread dangerous effects of it since it's been legal. If heroin was made legal all over the world today, you'd 100% see increased use. But maybe humanity needs to see the consequences in order to respect them? Just like alcohol and cigarettes?

New comment by Extropy_ in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

Extropy_ — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:02:29 +0000

I like your libertarian approach. You're right the line can move a lot. Of course, my support/interference would (hypothetically speaking) be different on a situation to situation basis, my reasoning is simply love. If I love someone, like my son, I want them to be free to make mistakes and hurt themselves, and certainly if they start hurting others I would seek to stop that. I think it's important, though, to be there for people, nut the line does change like you pointed out. So I'm really not sure- my decisions would be situationally dependent. I'm still inclined to say that prohibition is ineffective and potentially more dangerous for some people

New comment by Extropy_ in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

Extropy_ — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:29:53 +0000

Cheers bro!