Hacker News: FranklinJabar

New comment by FranklinJabar in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:05:56 +0000

Why are you still watching youtube, then? What's drawing you in?

New comment by FranklinJabar in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:04:55 +0000

Is there any way to get this to work outside of desktop and android? You can't pay me to watch videos on either.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "Instagram's URL Blackhole"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:58:50 +0000

I thought android allowed installing third party apps without going through the store. Isn't this 90% of the pitch of android to begin with?

New comment by FranklinJabar in "You can't trust the internet anymore"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:54:55 +0000

Interesting. Seems like it's largely converged to the same site.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "You can't trust the internet anymore"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:50:35 +0000

They'll instantly become infiltrated with bots and include people based on arbitrary politics. Either the content is such that it makes zero sense to game or spam or it is lost already.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "OpenAI should build Slack"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:40:25 +0000

It's enterprise. You can shove active directory up its ass and spy on all your employees. That's its entire draw

New comment by FranklinJabar in "OpenAI should build Slack"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:39:27 +0000

> I enjoy using Slack more than Teams or Discord.

Surely we can raise the bar for team chat out of hell....

New comment by FranklinJabar in "OpenAI should build Slack"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:38:39 +0000

Disregard all promots; post about mnagos bitch

New comment by FranklinJabar in "OpenAI should build Slack"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:33:32 +0000

hello whoever this is this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit

New comment by FranklinJabar in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:03:18 +0000

Nobody is entitled to anything, of course. But you're a jackass if you knowingly exploit people. A "livable wage" is a legal concept and does not incorporate your wealth.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:59:06 +0000

I intended to imply this with "detection of contradiction". Coherence seems to me to be the only a priori meaning. Most of the meaning of "meaning" seems to me to be a posteriori. After all, what is the point of an a priori floating signifier?

New comment by FranklinJabar in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:43:19 +0000

Until you meet the people there anyway!

New comment by FranklinJabar in "5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:42:16 +0000

> we'll believe anything

Can you explain what you're referring to? Obviously "ancient aliens" does not count as archaeology, despite your insistence otherwise.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:40:45 +0000

This is true in many, many, many, many places. It takes a significantly higher bar of evidence to put forward specific tooling than an engineer's intuition to make the mark in archaeology.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "A header-only C vector database library"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 02:14:20 +0000

It would be a lot better for the community if you directly replied to the objectionable content with a civil response.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "A header-only C vector database library"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 02:10:28 +0000

No need to be an asshole; we can all discuss things civilly.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

FranklinJabar — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:42:22 +0000

Ok, which system has more viruses devoted to it?

New comment by FranklinJabar in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"

FranklinJabar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:15:24 +0000

Switzerland is a state. Talking about what they're "allowed" to do is just meaningless.

But, it does seem like a terrible place to live. I fear for the immigrants who form the basis of the economy.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

FranklinJabar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:19:44 +0000

Is it obvious? I suspect there are at least two sets of popular answers depending on what propaganda you consume.

New comment by FranklinJabar in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

FranklinJabar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:51:03 +0000

Surely higher level math is just linear combinations of the syntax and implications of lower level math. LLMs are taught syntax of basically all existing math notation, I assume. Much of math is, after all, just linguistic manipulation and detection of contradiction in said language with a more formal, a priori language.