Hacker News: Ferret7446

New comment by Ferret7446 in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

Ferret7446 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:37:54 +0000

Most people don't care, provably from historical data. And trying to keep secret knowledge is a losing battle; as the saying goes, three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Look how well that strategy served Claude with the recent source code leak

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

Ferret7446 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:30:32 +0000

For better or worse, Bitcoin is a true democracy. If all/most users decide to switch to a new quantum safe algorithm, then it is so.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "NY Times publishes headline claiming the "A" in "NATO" stands for "American""

Ferret7446 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:27:36 +0000

I'm more surprised that you still think the NYT is competent. Mainstream media has been questionable for a hot decade. At best you get propaganda

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

Ferret7446 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:59:31 +0000

As far as I can tell, the people affected are primarily those using their Claude code tokens for openclaw or similar and burning as many tokens as possible

New comment by Ferret7446 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

Ferret7446 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:50:17 +0000

> We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art".

Uhh... Cheap, basically AI generated art for home decor definitely exists.

> And then we have music that is art and is supposed to be listened to explicitly

Just like how most people are not sommeliers, most people just listen to pop music "slop"

New comment by Ferret7446 in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

Ferret7446 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:20:30 +0000

You do not hit YouTube directly. You hit Google's frontend server which then does internal routing. Likely it would be able to route around it. Or rather, the auth part of YouTube is not the same as all of the other parts of YouTube. For big tech companies like Google, a website is not one single binary that serves requests, but a ton of services handling different things (and some of those services being caching so it doesn't show things down as you might think). It is highly unlikely that the main services comprising YouTube as a video streaming site would bring down Google auth

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

Ferret7446 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:46:09 +0000

That was always the "winning game". Only problem is that's a lot of work. The more things change, the more they stay the same; if you want more money, work harder. People who don't want to work harder complain that other people make more money because they either don't understand or are in denial about the amount of work the people they envy put in.

Yes there are exceptions. No pointing out exceptions won't help you, though it might make you temporarily feel better about yourself.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch"

Ferret7446 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:01:40 +0000

As I recall, raw oats are not edible. All of the "raw" oats that you can buy are not actually raw, they are at least steamed.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch"

Ferret7446 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:55:34 +0000

I assume they mean non animal sources of protein. Of course it'll be hard for plant based foods to compete. Out of non animal sources, oatmeal is pretty good, especially as a cheap staple food no less

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:06:05 +0000

Perhaps, but I'm more angry at the 100+ billion gone to fraud in California. This is very far down the list of government "waste" to be worth giving an ounce of outrage about.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "The open web isn't dying, we're killing it"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:51:31 +0000

Likely because it used common writing techniques, which people have now convinced themselves are a surefire way to identify AI content, because the AI, having been trained on writing that uses common writing techniques, also uses those techniques.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:43:56 +0000

Think of the average person, in terms of communication skills, education, critical thinking, emotional regulation, etc. Now realize that half the population is below that.

If you're in a social bubble, which is hard to avoid nowadays, I recommend watching police body cam videos to help recalibrate where the ends of the spectrum are. It's also given me sympathy for police in general

New comment by Ferret7446 in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:38:32 +0000

Wait till you hear about the resources required to sustain an equivalent number of humans.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:34:59 +0000

Cars removed the fun part (raising and riding horses) and automatic transmissions removed the fun part (manual shifting), but for most people it's just a way to get from point A to B.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:27:35 +0000

> My favorite bit of Googleism: Go to any site you sign in with Google SSO and watch the URLs in the eight redirects it has to do before it signs you in. You'll see a "youtube.com" in there. Even on a Workspace account. Youtube.com is a load-bearing website in their core auth flows.

I assume that's just because they need to set a cookie on the YouTube domain in case you visit YouTube later on the workspace account, and not "load bearing"in the manner you insinuate

New comment by Ferret7446 in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:12:53 +0000

What a strawman. Murder is done to other people. Gambling is something people do themselves consensually. Murder is banned and people universally condemn it. Gambling is banned and people have always been generally tolerant of it.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Demand for autism care is soaring"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:17:06 +0000

Wasn't autism care also one of the avenues for fraud recently highlighted in Minnesota et al?

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure"

Ferret7446 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:18:07 +0000

I imagine you'd get a similar distribution as when asking humans to come up with a random number on the spot

New comment by Ferret7446 in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

Ferret7446 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:08:07 +0000

Humans have tried to ban gambling for as long as gambling existed, and gambling has existed for about as long as homo sapiens. Gambling still exists.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

Ferret7446 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:03:06 +0000

LLMs are great at it because it was already a widely adopted standard and fed to LLMs in training sets