<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: MattDaEskimo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MattDaEskimo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:56:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=MattDaEskimo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We built our own ways to filter these because *we* went to the website and gathered a lot of information on it.<p>Now, the model slips it in without any verification and casually builds on top of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:22:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168763</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly this. Why does nobody blame the company advertising "connect your financial & health data to our model"?<p>Why is it that somehow LLMs are given full clearance to dox, hack, spam, and scam without any liability?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034325</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's the collective action of losing access to information that's the issue, not the potential of the book itself.<p>Regardless, these books were available. Researchers, hobbyists - many people have and will find value.<p>Justifying the destruction of information for a for-profit company is bizarre.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:40:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755997</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If we ignore the massive amount of books being destroyed, the outages and increased usage bills for once free websites (some resulting in closure), the increased difficulty to access public information such as Reddit and Twitter, and lastly ignore the amount of conversations being taken away from the public in favor of LLMs, I would agree.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:21:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754032</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feels like their purpose is to test the boundaries, take the hits, and eventually sell off</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:42:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729623</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Compared to BL (Before LLMs) when all human-authored pages were completely reliable?<p>In either case it's important to verify information, and LLMs are increasingly more capable of fact-checking.</p>
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<p>It'd be nice if you could back up your feelings with some reasoning.<p>The neighborhood is safe enough and the community is cohesive enough that kids can congregate along their way to school: go to their friend's house, meet at a park, etc.<p>It's researched enough that you can go and learn about it and challenge your feelings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:52:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550738</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In what world should a citizen be required to provide their details to a foreign, for-profit company in order to view the updates provided by their government?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:35:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451946</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Never had an X account, never will.<p>Now I'm completely locked out of police reports & municipal updates in my area because it's the only platform they post on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:17:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448616</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People don't like to be watched and recorded. That's it.<p>This data - which includes their facial features, geolocation, and activities is not yours to take and immortalize.<p>This should be intuitive to any empathetic human being. One person saying "this breaches my sense of safety and privacy" should be enough for you to understand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:07:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349913</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because you're not _just_ recording your kids. You are a walking surveillance camera that nobody has consented to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:25:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346094</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As I recall they actually used closed models, were rejected by cybersecurity guardrails, and then used open models</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:12:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260495</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Sorry, you're out of tokens until next week!<p>What, last I checked I had 15%!<p>> Apologies, I was searching for the closest <Large Franchise Restaurant> since you are typically hungry around this time</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:34:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198980</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is it misleading if this would be the consumer's cost?<p>Eventually Codex's subscription subsidization will diminish to near-zero, like the rest of the providers.<p>It's extremely important that people understand how expensive these models currently are. Even $300k in raw API costs is alarming for the output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 13:05:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159919</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If a transaction is locked then subsequent requests would return a 409, ideally with an error message indicating that it's currently being processed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 16:05:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085073</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This makes sense.<p>Initially, the focus was consumer use of AI. People needed to feel safe, they needed to feel part of something better.<p>Now, the focus is enterprises, and they need to know that their tokens aren't going to spike in price from taxes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 23:08:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981559</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how many are account farming.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:12:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960800</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly this. I can't count the number of enterprises with their whole stack inside of Microsoft's ecosystem.<p>Many of these enterprises are grid-locked with the IT department and AI usage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:04:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935654</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Might be cheaper & safer to buy an identity than use my own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:37:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878749</link><dc:creator>MattDaEskimo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattDaEskimo in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have similar experiences. Asked to find and list a bunch of suppliers near a specific city. It started showing me places that were >5 hours away, claiming them to be a "short drive".</p>
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