Hacker News: NewsaHackO

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Making Claude a Chemist"

NewsaHackO — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:29:10 +0000

I think one time I asked opus about copyfail when it just came out and it did treat me like some sort of criminal, but are there really people that run into this on a regular basis other than cybersecurity experts (which cannot be a big enough group to generate all of this criticism)?

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Human Routers of Machine Words"

NewsaHackO — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:44:52 +0000

I do not agree that the concept of writing can be considered a specific tool at all. Maybe a pencil, but writing opposed to remembering everything is a more substantial level of a paradigm shift than AI use is.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

NewsaHackO — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:12:38 +0000

This is like a smoker that lives to 100 saying that he had no increased risk of developing lung cancer because he didn’t at 100.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

NewsaHackO — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:28:42 +0000

It has to be sort of impressive, given that you tried so hard to use it instead of the regular Opus.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

NewsaHackO — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:54:32 +0000

I guess the issue is that when someone can't use a product immediately, they have an urge to abandon it altogether, not learn how to use it.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

NewsaHackO — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:39:10 +0000

The personalized algorithm is not the root issue though. The root issue is that social media sites live by increasing engagement of its viewers. Because of this, they all get away from the original stated purpose of bringing people together, and go all in on maximizing engagement by increasingly shady ways. Of course, the personalized algorithm is a huge one, but there are also things like "Show HN" controlling what is on the front page, selectively taking down flagged material. Remember, HN has advertisements as well, and will regularly post job ads for positions in startups. They know that outright going in the direction of 'personalized algorithm' would alienate their viewerbase, so they avoid it, but still do all of the other practices that social media sites do.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

NewsaHackO — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:10:52 +0000

Yes, just because it is uncomfortable for them to realize, doesn't make it not true. Words have meanings.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas"

NewsaHackO — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:09:28 +0000

Do you have any actual examples of documents where it did not work?

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas"

NewsaHackO — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:08:48 +0000

>doesn’t seem to be replicating documents all too well based on the many other testimonies in these comments

Ironic, that you are agreeing with a post saying they put in little effort for the implementation when you have put in absolutely no effort in saying that it doesn't produce pixel-faithful documents, such as producing a single concrete example.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser"

NewsaHackO — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:50:13 +0000

Why do you say it doesn't work? It seems to work fine for the feature parity they claim.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

NewsaHackO — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:54:50 +0000

I agree. To each their own, but the UI updating automatically doesn't really add much value to me. I would prefer that the view I am seeing is a snapshot in time of what the ground truth server was, not some mixed state that forces me to consider the possibility that seeing my request go through on the screen doesn't actually mean it went through and has been sent to the server.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

NewsaHackO — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:47:50 +0000

>will categorically reject AI-made metal on principle.

I think this is a huge part of the reason people sometimes find AI criticism so dismissible; there is always some factor other than the actual product it seems that AI-made assets are judged on. With Suno, the biggest ones I've seen are 1) hating AI-created music by virtue of it being AI-created, and 2) the hate is from people who attempt to generate income from their music production, and Suno made music cuts into that pie.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Lockdown Mode"

NewsaHackO — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:52:30 +0000

Has there been any real, major attacks using prompt injection?

New comment by NewsaHackO in "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy"

NewsaHackO — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:35:41 +0000

Why can't you just post the list as a comment?

New comment by NewsaHackO in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

NewsaHackO — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:15:12 +0000

Did actually expect people to read the article before commenting?

New comment by NewsaHackO in "NSA using Anthropic's Mythos for cyber attacks"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:35:43 +0000

Yeah, I honestly feel like some sources should be banned if they regularly editorialize titles like this. FT wants to sell subs by any means necessary, even if it means creating some clearly misleading titles to do so. By amplifying their reach and allowing posts like that only further incentivizes them to continue to do it.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:21:03 +0000

so 250 million people? Thats a good amount of people.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:12:54 +0000

No, but in a peace time, it's a lot easier to convince someone not to use nukes than in a war when the party who has nukes has its back against the wall.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:37:57 +0000

A lot of people are face blind (including me), and it's extremely embarrassing, especially when I'm supposed to remember a person's name. Wouldn't wear survialiance tech to try to fix it though.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

NewsaHackO — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:26:38 +0000

I think that has to do more with the thinking "train of thought" that some models show as what the model is processing before making the response. There shouldn't be a distillation risk with actually asking the model to explain why it made a decision and getting the response.