Hacker News: HlessClaudesman

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

HlessClaudesman — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:43:56 +0000

A 4gb unbidden download is insane! I'm still running machines with 30gb HDs.

I blame the kids these days (waggles fist), downloading their Pokiman shows at 4-5gb a pop! No respect for their disk space limited elders.

I'm actually gonna have to uninstall Chrome from a few machines tonight.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "How will OpenAI compete?"

HlessClaudesman — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:13:42 +0000

I think you're right about stickyness up to a point.

Cultural defaults seem unchangeable but then suddenly everyone knows, that's everyone knows, that OpenAI is passé.

OpenAI has a real chance to blow their lead, ending up in a hellish no-man's land by trying to please everyone: Not cool enough for normies, not safe enough for business, not radical enough for techies. Pick a lane or perish.

Not owning their own infrastructure, and being propped up by financial / valuation tricks are more red flags.

Being a first mover doesn't guarantee getting to the golden goose, remember MySpace.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

HlessClaudesman — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:44:11 +0000

We have built a magic hammer that can make 100 houses in a second, but all the houses are slightly wonky, and 5% of their embedded systems are actively harmful.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

HlessClaudesman — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:24:58 +0000

Just in time for AI to go all tits up.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

HlessClaudesman — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:07:08 +0000

The US was in decline, a vote for Trump was a vote to accelerate that decline.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

HlessClaudesman — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:02:34 +0000

Become a hermit kingdom to own the libs.

At a certain point we have to ask: what is the point of politics? Who are we doing all this civilisation stuff for? Is a nation an engine of prosperity to enrich the lives of its people, or a life support system for the Dear Leader?

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants"

HlessClaudesman — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:49:33 +0000

"Allow us to use your data to improve our service." ...by selling your data to improve our service's profitability.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "JPEG XL Test Page"

HlessClaudesman — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:06:05 +0000

Crappy as a .jpg, only bigger.

Actually, I remember when JPEG XL came out, and I just thought: cool, file that one away for when I have a really big image I need to display. Which turned out to be never.

Names have consequences.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

HlessClaudesman — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:39:45 +0000

Drivers who use their indicators, getting a little tired of all their incessant signaling.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Is Firefox Firefucked?"

HlessClaudesman — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:44:49 +0000

I disable everything that is of no direct benefit to me. It's shocking that so many companies don't make the case for the benefits of their systems at the on / off decision point. If you can't outline a positive benefit to the end user what does that say about your product?

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

HlessClaudesman — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:11:06 +0000

Some people seem to exist in a bubble where they believe that nothing bad will ever happen to them or their loved ones, so paying to improve society has no benefit to themselves.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be"

HlessClaudesman — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:32:30 +0000

Like a dog shaking fleas, Microsoft seeks to concentrate on paying customers, leaving granny to fend for herself in a world full of scams and misinformation.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "RFK Jr's 'Maha' report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies"

HlessClaudesman — Fri, 30 May 2025 08:56:58 +0000

At a certain point all public communication will just be AIs making content for other AIs, and we can humans can assend to just talking to eachother again.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Claude can now search the web"

HlessClaudesman — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:07:35 +0000

If only search engines weren't also in the business of inserting unverifiable AI assertions into our information ecosystem.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Reflections on Palantir"

HlessClaudesman — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:32:56 +0000

The use case for Palantir is generally understood, whereas nobody knows why SAP exists.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

HlessClaudesman — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:21:24 +0000

Sure, sounds good. The war on drugs was a dumb idea.

Let's spend 1/4 of that all the drug enforcement money on harm reduction.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

HlessClaudesman — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:58:38 +0000

Actual murderers get out in the time that Ross served.

The concept of justice must include an element of proportionality, I would argue that Ross's sentence, for a first time non-violent criminal, was over the top. Without proportionality justice becomes arbitrary, based more on luck and your connections to power.

We punish those we can punish: the little guy. Whilst those running governments, corporations and networks that facilitate repression, hatred and genocide go scot free.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

HlessClaudesman — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:46:30 +0000

Can it turn off the tape on my camera?

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"

HlessClaudesman — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:33:59 +0000

Anyone else recently tried to search for a location, even using keyword map, and still not be shown a Google Maps link? I would much rather be shown a map, than whatever BS AI generated dogwater summary they are dishing out instead.

If Google mangement can't see the user value of putting their own useful products in search, what hope is there for the rest of the world's useful information?

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab"

HlessClaudesman — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:08:21 +0000

People are attracted to "I climbed a ladder, and it was safe" stories, which are usually presented without the context on the societal harms of ladder use in aggregate.