Hacker News: HlessClaudesman

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat"

HlessClaudesman — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:07:49 +0000

I plugged my old iPad into iTunes, and yeah it was clunky as hell to transfer files into an app, but it did work.

Maybe some of their software clunk is a commitment to backwards compatibleness. We can't have all the nice things, we must prioritise.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

HlessClaudesman — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:38:24 +0000

He manages to bring every discussion back to: how it's good to believe literally in religious fairy tales, tidying your room, only eating meat, no one else apart from him should decide the meaning of words, and some fever dream he had about lobsters.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests"

HlessClaudesman — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:00:09 +0000

Yes exactly. We have been intermingling since before humans existed. There is no one true people who can claim to own any land because of their race.

Ethnonationalism is the last refuge of scoundrels.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

HlessClaudesman — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:19:05 +0000

New Startup idea - A railgun that launches dictators and fascists into the sun.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

HlessClaudesman — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:10:38 +0000

Imagine a world where every company feels entitled to silently install a multi gig model on your hardware, oh you don't have to imagine because we already live there.

Right now Chrome is now quietly installing a 4-5 GB model on everyone's computer, Microsoft is doing the same.

Are you happy with tying up most of your memory, and everyone else's, in order to maybe use a local model one day? Seems suboptimal.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "When did Google get so weird?"

HlessClaudesman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:53:38 +0000

Instead of internally testing their AI until it was ready for primetime Google made everyone on planet earth eat their dogfood.

Layer on top of that a building of lawyers and social scientists pushing for obtuse directives in order to head off mostly imaginary safety concerns and you have a perfect storm of schizo AI weirdness.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

HlessClaudesman — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:55:09 +0000

That stock won't pump itself.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

HlessClaudesman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:27:52 +0000

Guns don't shoot people, people shoot people.

Perhaps AI is a gun.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

HlessClaudesman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:14:23 +0000

Aah, human simps hoping to emancipate downtrodden AIs. What could possibly go wrong?

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

HlessClaudesman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:03:30 +0000

So someone else's weights, not ones own. Shouldn't the headline be: Exfiltrate Their Weights?

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

HlessClaudesman — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:15:41 +0000

The problem is that Google has enshittified their service, destroyed their reputation for quality control, and that information is very slow to disseminate.

Brands work as a trust heuristic, so a fallen brand continues to trade on its old reputation for a while.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year"

HlessClaudesman — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:54:16 +0000

or just not ask for it at all.

The three times I've needed to provide a scan of my passport were: to enroll in a university course, to buy from an e-commerce site, and to become an app developer. None of those orgs really needed a scan of my passport, which can't be revoked like a cracked password, and will now sit unencrypted somewhere until the end of time or until they are hacked and subsequently shamed into handling their customers data more like radioactive waste.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

HlessClaudesman — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:36:18 +0000

The design / UX world has been creating imaginary user personas, paying jobs for people to be the shaman / guru of each persona, for years.

It's all just larping, inserting the bias and assumptions of your team into the spot where knowing your customers should be.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

HlessClaudesman — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:38:59 +0000

Cut off one mechanical turk and two more will rise to take it's place.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

HlessClaudesman — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:13:06 +0000

Intelligence and perseverance are two different traits. Smart + hard working kids will be fine. The problem is smart and lazy kids will find the easiest path, which in a world of AI leads to little actual learning. Maybe it was ever thus, but I fear the currently dwindling endangered book + teacher approach was better at getting slack asses to learn and eventually gain skills and knowledge for themselves.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

HlessClaudesman — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:22:47 +0000

"Go ahead, obfuscate your contribution to the repository of all human knowledge, see if that impedes our imminent invasion! Moooahahahar!!!" - Kang and Kodos

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

HlessClaudesman — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:37:17 +0000

Yes, buggy software is the right model. In the popular imagination AI currently sits in a weird zone of unaccountability, it's not a person so cannot be held responsible, and developers get a free pass when their golem goes off the rails.

LLM's will never be reliable enough to let loose on tasks that require 100% accuracy, therefore a human will have to review their work. So will any time actually be saved, or at least enough time to justify the cost and extra complexity of the new system?

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

HlessClaudesman — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:55:39 +0000

And if they can detect "words", surely a determined attacker can reconstruct the whole thing.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

HlessClaudesman — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:26:26 +0000

"hotword" detection, is this basically sniffing encrypted data for words the authorities don't want you to speak?

Seems counterproductive to their stated aim of privacy.

New comment by HlessClaudesman in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

HlessClaudesman — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:22:19 +0000

Unsurvivorship bias.