Hacker News: Fairburn

New comment by Fairburn in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

Fairburn — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:08:15 +0000

Are we winning yet?

New comment by Fairburn in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

Fairburn — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:44:54 +0000

Google shot it's shot with that alternative history artwork generation fiasco. Don't know why anyone would be too hot for them now. Dime a dozen at this point.

New comment by Fairburn in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

Fairburn — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:27:30 +0000

Use anything BUT Chrome or Edge.

New comment by Fairburn in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

Fairburn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:51:12 +0000

Nothing spectacular about it. Except for the obvious degradation of our planet, there isnt anything special about it. Its just our home.

New comment by Fairburn in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

Fairburn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:49:27 +0000

Once Iran ramps up, its going to be a free-for-all against all US data infrastructure. Iran has friends in low places so they don't have to do all of the dirty work themselves. This should be a wake-up call.

New comment by Fairburn in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

Fairburn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:44:40 +0000

Would be really cool if that book made its way to Youtube. Immortalize it.

Abacus Agentic Behavior

Fairburn — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:32:32 +0000

Deep agent is wonderful. It has helped our company immensely in numerous ways. The flow was always great.. helpful.

Now, however, enshittification by way of "useful" developmental changes have become a pain in the ass.

Working with their Deep Agent has recently become onerous.

Any time it "thinks" you are deviating from the agentic flow, it pops up an intrusive modal stating:

"Do you want to continue? This query does not seem to be related to previous turn queries. Are you sure you want to continue in the current conversation?

For optimal and cost-effective performance we recommend starting a new conversation with this prompt."

This breaks the flow considerably when I have to take myself out of my moment to address your apparent lack of insight that not everything in a flow is going to be related to the session. Stop trying to guide us. We know where the fuck we are going.

Stop trying to babysit us. There are other LLM services out there.

Don't make us choose.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568594

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New comment by Fairburn in "CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook"

Fairburn — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:24:23 +0000

Religion = blind loyalty (to those in power of said religion)

It's one of the oldest tools we have to control society. And it gets abused. All. Of. The. Time.

New comment by Fairburn in "Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]"

Fairburn — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:20:37 +0000

He would cry and cry

New comment by Fairburn in "Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]"

Fairburn — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:15:24 +0000

Flock is a terrorist organization. So there. Now what.

New comment by Fairburn in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

Fairburn — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:11:43 +0000

Exactly. Use cases differ. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/mysql/difference-between-mysql...

New comment by Fairburn in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

Fairburn — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:09:41 +0000

How refreshing.

New comment by Fairburn in "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress"

Fairburn — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:13:39 +0000

To get folks riled up. Does it bolster her claims? No. But it does work on smooth brains.

New comment by Fairburn in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

Fairburn — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:20:23 +0000

Lock em up, sell thier property. Rinse and repeat.

New comment by Fairburn in "Finland seizes ship from Russia suspected of breaking telecom cable to Estonia"

Fairburn — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:32:48 +0000

Just drop those 14 overboard and let them swim back to Russia.

New comment by Fairburn in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

Fairburn — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:40:44 +0000

Block updates, remove bloat via PS scripts. Done.

New comment by Fairburn in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

Fairburn — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:28:19 +0000

Lets be real. As someone pointed out, browsers are black boxes, regardless of who made/forked a browser family. Unless you make it yourself, we will forever be a dog chasing its tail. I would love to believe in the best of whichever I choose. And use it according to my comfort level.

New comment by Fairburn in "Windows Notepad adds support for formatting, rolling out to Windows Insiders"

Fairburn — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:20:21 +0000

Just can't leave well-alone, can they. Boil that frog, MS!

New comment by Fairburn in "Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it"

Fairburn — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:30:18 +0000

Because it wouldn't work. What is the point of having some flagship feature among the fanfare to just leave it off by default? They start the race by never having gotten off of the starting line. I agree the framing is messed up.

New comment by Fairburn in "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

Fairburn — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:21:49 +0000

AI is great; it makes my job easier by removing repetitive processes, freeing me up to tackle other "stuff". I like that I can have it form up json/xml scaffolding, etc. All the insanely boring stuff that can often get corrupted by human error.

AI isn't the solution to move humanity forward in any meaningful way. It is just another aspect of our ability to offload labor. Which in and of itself is fine. Until of course it gets weaponized and is used to remove the human aspect from more and more everyday things we take for granted.

It is being used to accelerate the divisions among people. Further separating the human from humanness. I love 'AI' tools, they make my life easier, work-wise. But would I miss it if it wasn't there? No. I did just fine before and would do so after it's flame and innovation slowly peters out.