Hacker News: Prof_Sigmund

What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels?

Prof_Sigmund — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:55:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846718

Points: 226

# Comments: 55

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "The Palantir's Stasi Protocols"

Prof_Sigmund — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:41:46 +0000

We as the team behind.

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "The Palantir's Stasi Protocols"

Prof_Sigmund — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:41:24 +0000

Thank you. I now get it. I am new here; never liked to post my own stuff and then went overboard.

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "The Palantir's Stasi Protocols"

Prof_Sigmund — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:47:19 +0000

Those flags were strangely funny to me. We posted our open source privacy tool. A flag. We posted a "Forensic analysis of the RLHF supply chain: The $2/HR labor behind AI alignment." A flag. :) Even our "In Memoriam: Jason Snitker, a.k.a. Parmaster. RIP Legend" was flagged!? Etc.

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "The Palantir's Stasi Protocols"

Prof_Sigmund — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:34:50 +0000

Host blocks VPNs and I just noticed a huge spike in traffic.

The Palantir's Stasi Protocols

Prof_Sigmund — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:01:23 +0000

Article URL: https://professorsigmund.com/praxis/palantir-stasi-protocols.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838178

Points: 88

# Comments: 23

Attack on Polish Energy Sector [pdf]

Prof_Sigmund — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://cert.pl/uploads/docs/CERT_Polska_Energy_Sector_Incident_Report_2025.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846084

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "A Quantitative Analysis of Unauthenticated LLM Infrastructure"

Prof_Sigmund — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:21:54 +0000

CerberusEye audits AI tools from the outside. Flags unauthenticated backends, model swaps, and silent degradations. Built after the ClawdBot/Moltbot collapse.

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "NakedOnline – Browser Privacy Exposure Scanner"

Prof_Sigmund — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:45:57 +0000

Live scanner (runs entirely client-side): https://xord.io/intelligence/naked-online.html

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "NakedOnline – Browser Privacy Exposure Scanner"

Prof_Sigmund — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:45:23 +0000

NakedOnline is a zero-dependency, real-time fingerprinting exposure tool. It shows what websites can extract from your device directly — without plugins or installs.

Everything runs in your own browser. Nothing is sent out. Built by XORD for the good grannies and curious users.

NakedOnline – Browser Privacy Exposure Scanner

Prof_Sigmund — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:45:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/XORD-AI/NakedOnline

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796840

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "AI Safety Theater: Inside the Failures of Real-World AI Systems"

Prof_Sigmund — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:12:31 +0000

The AGC landed men on the Moon. AI couldn't build a working drag-and-drop.

AI Safety Theater: Inside the Failures of Real-World AI Systems

Prof_Sigmund — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:12:02 +0000

Article URL: https://xord.io/intelligence/AI-development-failures-report.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778967

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "Show HN: MetaPurge – Strip metadata and timestamps from images/PDFs"

Prof_Sigmund — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:15:18 +0000

MetaPurge is a free Windows tool that removes hidden data from files.Drag and drop images or PDFs → gets clean copies with:All EXIF/metadata stripped (camera info, GPS, software tags) PDFs fully scrubbed (XMP + docinfo) File timestamps forced to 1990

Originals untouched. Overwrite confirmation if needed.Built because every photo/PDF leaks way too much without asking.Open source, MIT license. Single Python file – run directly or check source.Part of my XORD Defense privacy tools.Feedback and stars welcome.https://github.com/XORD-AI/MetaPurge

Show HN: MetaPurge – Strip metadata and timestamps from images/PDFs

Prof_Sigmund — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:15:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/XORD-AI/MetaPurge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744262

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: NeuralVoid – Block AI Telemetry from Copilot, Grammarly, Adobe

Prof_Sigmund — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:23:00 +0000

NeuralVoid is a free Windows tool that stops AI apps from sending your data home.One click adds blocks to your hosts file (with backup) for:

Grammarly Adobe (Photoshop/Firefly) Microsoft Copilot/Edge More common endpoints

No extra software running. Fully reversible.Built because AI "helpers" shouldn't spy on everything you type.

Open source, MIT license. Run the EXE or check the Python source.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738787

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans"

Prof_Sigmund — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:42:57 +0000

For some reason, this reminded me of the "little people" in a genius book, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.

New comment by Prof_Sigmund in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

Prof_Sigmund — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:39:11 +0000

The authors talk about "a model's ability to align with human decisions" as a matter of the past. The omission in the paper is RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback). All these companies are "teaching machines to predict the preferences of people who click 'Accept All Cookies' without reading," by using low-paid human evaluators — “AI teachers.”

If we go back to Google, before its transformation into an AI powerhouse — as it gutted its own SERPs, shoving traditional blue links below AI-generated overlords that synthesize answers from the web’s underbelly, often leaving publishers starving for clicks in a zero-click apocalypse — what was happening?

The same kind of human “evaluators” were ranking pages. Pushing garbage forward. The same thing is happening with AI. As much as the human "evaluators" trained search engines to elevate clickbait, the very same humans now train large language models to mimic the judgment of those very same evaluators. A feedback loop of mediocrity — supervised by the... well, not the best among us. The machines still, as Stephen Wolfram wrote, for any given sequence, use the same probability method (e.g., “The cat sat on the...”), in which the model doesn’t just pick one word. It calculates a probability score for every single word in its vast vocabulary (e.g., “mat” = 40% chance, “floor” = 15%, “car” = 0.01%), and voilà! — you have a “creative” text: one of a gazillion mindlessly produced, soulless, garbage “vile bile” sludge emissions that pollute our collective brains and render us a bunch of idiots, ready to swallow any corporate poison sent our way.

In my opinion, even worse: the corporates are pushing toward “safety” (likely from lawsuits), and the AI systems are trained to sell, soothe, and please — not to think, or enhance our collective experience.