Hacker News: GaryBluto

New comment by GaryBluto in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

GaryBluto — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:11:24 +0000

I think that throwing a submarine sandwich at anybody would be considered assault or battery (unwanted, offensive physical contact), although I do think selective enforcement could be a real problem in the future.

New comment by GaryBluto in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

GaryBluto — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:10:10 +0000

You mean the guy who assaulted a federal officer and got off scot-free? Woe is him.

Emergency alerts sent to millions across England over threat of wildfires

GaryBluto — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:06:37 +0000

Article URL: https://news.sky.com/story/uk-heatwave-stourbridge-fire-latest-weather-live-13571553

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302459

Points: 4

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Some of tech's CEO suite is cloning itself with AI. What happens next?

GaryBluto — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:04:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260811-what-its-like-to-meet-an-ai-clone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275524

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub

GaryBluto — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:54:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/11/mozilla-revokes-firefox-signing-key-after-unencrypted-copy-lands-in-github/5285908

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267943

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

Powered by mushrooms, living computers are on the rise (2025)

GaryBluto — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:44:10 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.osu.edu/news/2025/11/powered-mushrooms-living-computers-are-rise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267888

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by GaryBluto in "Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI"

GaryBluto — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:52:43 +0000

I'd argue anonymity is a component of privacy.

New comment by GaryBluto in "Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI"

GaryBluto — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:25:57 +0000

Most consider privacy important.

New comment by GaryBluto in "About Rx Kids"

GaryBluto — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:00:54 +0000

>It is difficult to believe you are approaching this in good faith when you started with drug testing and background checks, then pivoted to it being about tax brackets,

I wasn't claiming there needs to be all of those in the first place - I was using it to illustrate how little protections are in place. Nor was tax brackets my proposed solution, just one of many protections that could help. You don't need (or shouldn't be required to) to come up with a perfect solution to alert people to a problem.

> are replying to most comments to be sure your perspective always has the last word

It's odd to complain about people engaging in discussion on a discussion bulletin board. It's the most recent discussion in my comment history, so when I check my comment history once in a while I see it's updated (often with some type of accusation of cruelty, bad-faith, et cetera).

> which happens far more from the wealthy than from those in poverty,

We're not really talking about the very wealthy here and it'd be strange to go on an off-topic rant about fraud committed by them.

> and now are resorting to telling people they are breaking the rules when they disagree with you.

I've only mentioned the Guidelines to someone uncharitably accusing me of "look[ing] for a reason not to help [those who need it]", who then at least attempted to engage further up the thread. It's not against the guidelines to disagree with me, but my interpretation is that it is to automatically assume bad faith if somebody disagrees with you and attack things they didn't say, which numerous people have.

New comment by GaryBluto in "About Rx Kids"

GaryBluto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:37:27 +0000

Putting on a seatbelt adds a negligible 3 second delay to get where you need to go in exchange for a valuable addition to safety. I'm saying that Rx Kids needs at least a seatbelt, I'm not asking for constant eye tracking to be required. (Yes, I do admit the irony of me employing a strained metaphor)

New comment by GaryBluto in "About Rx Kids"

GaryBluto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:31:32 +0000

I suppose it's about finding a balance. I understand not having unreasonable amounts of repetitive checks, but if you make it too easy to abuse more than a few people will abuse it, which takes away money from the people who need it.

New comment by GaryBluto in "About Rx Kids"

GaryBluto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:26:59 +0000

> All of the checks you listed would just serve to make it harder for this money to reach the mothers that need it.

In the same way seatbelts just serve to make it harder for drivers to get to where they need to go quickly. It would not be difficult to restrict this to people below a certain tax bracket.

It all comes down to how much public money (that could have been used to help people who need it) you're willing to accept the possibility of being defrauded for one person to get support a couple days sooner.

New comment by GaryBluto in "About Rx Kids"

GaryBluto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:25:35 +0000

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I've already discussed this in a separate reply.

New comment by GaryBluto in "About Rx Kids"

GaryBluto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:18:17 +0000

I think giving taxpayer money to anybody without basic checks is a bad idea and it will undoubtedly be exploited by people who don't need it or choose to spend it on the wrong things while neglecting their child's needs; I don't disagree with the idea of giving money to new families who actually need it.

If this received no taxpayer funding I wouldn't care, but when public funding is involved there need to be some checks to ensure no abuse, which Rx Kids doesn't have.

New comment by GaryBluto in "About Rx Kids"

GaryBluto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:52:11 +0000

Such a strained metaphor designed to obscure the fact it's just taxpayer-funded welfare for expectant and new mothers without any background checks, drug testing, income limits or work requirements.

New comment by GaryBluto in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

GaryBluto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:04:14 +0000

I imagine he was referring to the open source LLM model race considering the subject of discussion.

New comment by GaryBluto in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

GaryBluto — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:55:47 +0000

Popup windows could be easily blocked if you knew how, whilst modern in-page popup modals are much more tedious to deal with.

New comment by GaryBluto in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

GaryBluto — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:57:53 +0000

Why should I care that they don't?

New comment by GaryBluto in "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"

GaryBluto — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:32:58 +0000

If you count Google as an appropriation of Googol, surely Nvidia appropriates Invidia?

New comment by GaryBluto in "Proving a human wrote something"

GaryBluto — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:01:06 +0000

> One could work around Semoi by, for example, typing out a bunch of gibberish, leaving their editor open, and then pasting in an LLM generated texting and minting the proof. To which I would respond: why? That’s really pathetic.

I don’t think security through shame is practical.