Hacker News: Seattle3503

New comment by Seattle3503 in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

Seattle3503 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:31:15 +0000

You are talking about false negatives, but this thread started with a discussion around the potential for false positives causing writers anxiety

> Even if 2/10000 is true that’s nowhere near accurate enough to make aggressive accusations that create anxiety at levels people need to medicate with potentially fatal consequences.

False positives and false negatives are different problems that have different impacts.

Does your single example prove that Pangram doesn't work, or that it doesn't work on short snippets of text? Try to get a detection error on a longer run of text. I'd be curious to see the results, particularly if you can get a false positive.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

Seattle3503 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:43:41 +0000

> Pangram’s market claims are very different from independent validations of the platform.

Do you have a link to independent validations? The ones I found, like an upcoming nber paper confirm the companies claims.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

Seattle3503 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:35:34 +0000

Maybe, but we should force them to make that argument after we demonstrate age verification doesn't require identifying ourselves to every website. It would reveal they aren't seeking pragmatic solutions.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

Seattle3503 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:42:59 +0000

Are there hollistic analysis? I generate income with my labor, but I also save in retirement and investment accounts. On analysis like this that we typically see, are these two things competing? Are we really just seeing a rise in retirement savings?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:46:29 +0000

I'm happy with Pangram so far.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:32:41 +0000

What if I run it through an AI detection model (eg Pangram) first, and if the shows up as AI I skip it entirely. Does that work for you?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Fox to buy Roku"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:34:32 +0000

Time for Graphene based streaming boxes?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Iroh 1.0"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:54:06 +0000

What are people building with Iroh?

New comment by Seattle3503 in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

Seattle3503 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:27:41 +0000

Presumably the people paying the author for translation services are aware of AI, but for whatever reason are choosing a humans services instead. IMO it would be a form fraud to heavily rely on AI and not disclose that to the customer.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:57:19 +0000

Why was the board involved in that decision to begin with?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

Seattle3503 — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:56:12 +0000

The valuation must be outside of the tech. Are there relationships or contracts Accenture is getting access to?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:41:00 +0000

What companies are examples of that bait and switch strategy?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:45:26 +0000

Does mercurial allow you to re-write history like that?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:53:09 +0000

The rules around CVE reporting changed recently and it would be expected a lot more are accepted.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:38:24 +0000

My team has been using AI to add code, but also to aggressively remove old deprecated code. "Is anyone still using this? How does this get called" is easier to answer when you can toss your FE, BE, and entire codebase at an agent and let it create a map of your software project. IDEs can do this in a single language to some degree usually in a single project, but RPC, REST, etc... break some of these tools in a lot of IDEs.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:32:05 +0000

Are you a dev? What does part time look like?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "AI slop is killing online communities"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:04:15 +0000

I have a similar problem in a community I'm a a part of? How are you reliably detecting AI?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

Seattle3503 — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:39:38 +0000

Yes

> The question is whether the company can show, before rolling a product out to billions of people, that it is not predatory by design.

"Not predatory" is a negative

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

Seattle3503 — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:29:17 +0000

Proving something is addictive is not proving a negative

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

Seattle3503 — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:50:00 +0000

And examples where it goes right. Federal reserve, FDA, SEC, etc..