Hacker News: ShinyLeftPad

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "We won't "just hang out""

ShinyLeftPad — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:33:49 +0000

Does a trading bot constitute a consumer? This is the same thing. Who launched the bot is the consumer.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "We won't "just hang out""

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:07:56 +0000

Again the status quo continuing is the good outcome here. UBI is a means of control, not some utopian communism.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:06:10 +0000

aren't you supposed to be legal resident in the country where you're applying for your visa...

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:34:49 +0000

Well I don't have the problem it's trying to solve so I don't need to. But among people who install it, how many will? And remember to do it again before every upgrade?

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:29:54 +0000

That's likely new coming PRC sanctions on exporting LLMs, not something Nvidia did. https://sanctionsnews.bakermckenzie.com/china-proposes-expan...

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:35:32 +0000

Here's prompt injection via a harness for example: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exf...

took me about 30 seconds to find. there's tons of them. of course it's an arms race, the models get better the harnesses get better the attackers get better but again: for the model itself, your prompt and third party data it reads are the same thing (input). as long as it is true, the attack will always be possible.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:21:45 +0000

It's so funny to read these, as if countless examples didn't prove that llms don't actually distinguish between your instructions and the data they read at your request.

Do you think a malicious repo author won't think of hiding a suitable prompt within?

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:19:15 +0000

Have a problem with pesky permissions dialogs from sandboxed apps? This unsandboxed unverified app that requests Accessibility permissions, to the rescue!

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "We won't "just hang out""

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:02:39 +0000

> Who’s to say the consumers are humans?

economics is a social science. it studies humans. and yes "consumer" is by definition a person (or collective of people), with free will, feelings, needs, ideas and so on.

unless you are willing to say that models have gained those things and are now equivalent to us? then that is even more of a fantasy, because we should stop hurting them asap instead of talking about economy.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "We won't "just hang out""

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:54:28 +0000

What idea is a trap? That population will live at behest of overlords who control technology and give people the minimum necessary? Such an appealing trap huh

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:51:25 +0000

I haven't heard of it until this fall.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:49:44 +0000

That's what I thought but then the article says it's supposed to be "with unbroken footsteps". I thought that literally was impossible in modern society and i guess it is

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:36:32 +0000

Interesting, I heard PRC doesn't allow this anymore but apparently the law is only partially in effect so maybe they get away with it (https://sanctionsnews.bakermckenzie.com/china-proposes-expan...)

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:30:29 +0000

It's a bit mysterious how did he get from Russia to Mexico in 2006? The official website linked says just "displaced".

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:09:18 +0000

Are they? https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/LICENSE...

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:49:36 +0000

and if this trend will continue the good ones increasingly aren't going to be working either. hopefully they realize they are getting themselves there by cooperating

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "We won't "just hang out""

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:27:46 +0000

no we're back to UBI. First maybe UHI as Musk called it, later UBI. It's cheaper because people won't bite the hand that feeds you. If there's no hand, people won't fight each other for resources, they'll fight the rich.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:33:01 +0000

> (and of course Kimi, Qwen, etc)

Latest versions of Kimi, Qwen, GLM aren't open, you need to pay them for commercial stuff and comply with PRC laws

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:42:56 +0000

Yep and it's the same for Meta's "open" models which you omitted from the list.

Is there actually a competitive proper actually open model?

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

ShinyLeftPad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:41:12 +0000

Yeah to be fair you could've got me with "what about meds?", there is a blurred line when it comes to getting healthier from eating something...