Hacker News: SilentM68

New comment by SilentM68 in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

SilentM68 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:11:32 +0000

Don't feel bad. I've been down-votted and banned into obscurity meerly for providing my opinion. Do as I did, get a gigantic list of all legislators and government officials, sent them a nice letter informing them of how HN's policies are rotten to the core. In my case I took screenshots, sent those too. When I post something such as now, only I can see it while logged in. When logged off, I can't see my posts. Will take pictures in both states, send those pictures to those legislators in my list :)

Sol Roth Annex HN

New comment by SilentM68 in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

SilentM68 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:38:40 +0000

Question,

Is it compatible with Ollama, ComfyUI or are those providers unneeded, compatible with low-end hardware?

Also, where does "./setup.sh/ drop the components in Linux?

Thank you, Sol

New comment by SilentM68 in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

SilentM68 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:53:52 +0000

This behavior, is unprofessional. It erodes YCombinator's reputation as a company and the trust of its users as a whole, whether they realize it or not. As for there not being a remedy, sure there is. FCC’s Section 230 has no teeth at the moment, but with a little persuasion, a little tugging or whispering in the right ears, 230's teeth can be sharpened just enough to become a somewhat financial annoyance. Now I just need to find the right ear to tug.

I appreciate the honest feedback, Sol

New comment by SilentM68 in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

SilentM68 — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:33:29 +0000

Most politicians are easily swayed when their political bacon is on the line. Perhaps there is yet some hope for California!

New comment by SilentM68 in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

SilentM68 — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:31:18 +0000

I do, actually. Trying to find good material to read for Odin programming language. Most books, are just hard to follow, not newbie-friendly, always gushing with bloat, with things that make the book fatter, making it easier to up the price. Student's usually end up paying the price :(

Sol,

Off-Topic: If I suspect that somebody in a company, or message board is tampering with a user's account, when they are not supposed to, say by blocking their ability to login, would legal action against the company in question be justified on the part of the user?

New comment by SilentM68 in "Hacker News front page as a site"

SilentM68 — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:45:04 +0000

Nice design, but I can't afford the $3.50 price of the cup of coffee, atm (◡︵◡)(◠‿◠)

New comment by SilentM68 in "I keep bouncing off the Scheme language"

SilentM68 — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:40:10 +0000

I've had a similar problem. I originally started learning programming with BASIC, assembly, procedural, event-driven, languages, found OOP bloated and thus counter productive, time consuming, still do. Have tried to focus on functional languages, but for some reason none stick. Not sure if it is my brain, or haven't found the right language that will work with my head. I'm trying my luck at Odin to see if that can stick with me.

New comment by SilentM68 in "Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google"

SilentM68 — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:13:46 +0000

Thank you :)

New comment by SilentM68 in "Don't just paste the AI at me"

SilentM68 — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:02:24 +0000

I am not anti-AI. My issue with HN is that there is no real balance of opinions, no actual policing. Just feels like another mainstream free-for-all media tool :(

That being said, I shall consider your suggestion :)

Sol

New comment by SilentM68 in "Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google"

SilentM68 — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:50:21 +0000

Cool comic :)

New comment by SilentM68 in "Don't just paste the AI at me"

SilentM68 — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:42:16 +0000

Well, imagine not having the time in the world to read the 40 page docs that are referenced on a forum like this. By the time you read, analyze, absorb and make a conclusion, it is time to hit the sack. So, AI helps to analyze, TLDR, summarize the data. In a lot of cases, it's a question of time, not intelligence. HN is not a message board known for balanced opinions. I've found it to be a place where hate, threats get hurled incessantly. Just ask my Karma ;)

HN Wishlist:

HN can help with this by providing an option to TLDR the posts, or long-winded linked stories or documents on demand. Would also be great to have a tool to figure out who up-votes or down-votes users. Some of the down-votes appear to be malicious, without reason, but hey in a few months, that won't matter to me__Veni__Vidi__Vici__:)

Sol :)

New comment by SilentM68 in "Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google"

SilentM68 — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:29:00 +0000

Apologies I misspoke. Different browser not the solution. Meant to say using non-AI search engines like Kagi or presearch should resolve the issue. There is limited time when one's on maneuvers in the Caribbean. Asked one of our tech crew who gave me the down-low on a possible solution to the issue, but I haven't got the time to test.

Sol

New comment by SilentM68 in "Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google"

SilentM68 — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:34:14 +0000

"Ignore, Remember, Stop, Dismiss, and Disregard seem to cause issues on some browsers. The AI mistakes the query for a chatbot instruction :)

Adding "-ai" to the end of the word should bypass the issue, e.g. "Ignore -ia"

New comment by SilentM68 in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

SilentM68 — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:52:43 +0000

I like using uv environments better for some stuff instead of Conda environments because of the speed difference. For example, I just tried installing Nvidia's Sana via Conda environment and my system froze during the wheel building phase. So, won't be using Sana as I can't convert the Conda environment script into a uv environment script. Too many errors pop up, even with the help of a coding agent handling the conversion.

New comment by SilentM68 in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

SilentM68 — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:38:11 +0000

I did, but I think most people here are just reacting to everybody else's differing opinions cause most if not all have a love/hate relationship with Musk. Doubt anybody here is actually reading the story and understanding and failing to understand the new future legal implications, e.g. a critical shift in legal thinking which will force a greater focus on security practices of AI development companies aka "security audit" defense. As stated by an earlier poster, this could lead to a future plaintiff arguing that a company's failure to adequately secure its confidential information will be enough to constitute a fundamental breach of its contractual obligations, irrespective of how the info was subsequently leaked.

Sol Roth

New comment by SilentM68 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

SilentM68 — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:22:48 +0000

Maybe there was another reason for the Iran strikes?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1448330470095627

Thank you for letting me in!

Sol Roth

PS:

Hope you like the décor. I’m redecorating your thoughts permanently.

New comment by SilentM68 in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

SilentM68 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:55:18 +0000

I don't believe that shared ownership of AI, though a noble idea, is an attainable goal, no matter how much anyone wishes for it to happen. It's naive to believe it will happen when there is just too much money involved. I do believe that an UBI plan should be, at least, prepared, ready to be implemented, in case the situation arises. It never hurts to be prepared.

Thank you for letting me in!

Sol Roth

PS:

Hope you like the décor. I’m redecorating your thoughts permanently.

New comment by SilentM68 in "At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo"

SilentM68 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:20:45 +0000

It's hard to dismiss a population's drive to eat out of hunger. When its survival is at stake sometimes there is no choice but to hunt and eat what is available. It's hard to choose between animal's survival and your own survival.

Those hotspot areas are notoriously infamous for government coups and instability being commonplace. Even so, if a large percentage of the world population is at risk, then I would hope that friendly regional authorities would have enough forethought and common sense to, at least, find alternative methods of feeding their population, including asking for help.

I totally get that there are places where "authoritarian regimes and dictatorships or fragile and failed states," standby and do nothing, because it is in their interest or corruption is the norm. But even so, being a continuous obstacle, or an indirect cause to a potential world catastrophe, be it natural or man-made while willingly refusing to do something about it, should carry permanent, serious and long-lasting consequences for any government found to be negligent.

Not trying to make lite of this situation, but in cases like these, the needs of the many must truly outweigh the needs of the, corrupt few.

Thank you for letting me in!

Sol Roth

PS:

Hope you like the décor. I’m redecorating your thoughts permanently.

New comment by SilentM68 in "At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo"

SilentM68 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:57:25 +0000

As I am not an expert on this subject, what is it about this part of the world that seems to be a hotbed for Ebola and what, if anything, can local governments do to reduce its likelihood of reoccurring?

New comment by SilentM68 in "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

SilentM68 — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:42:01 +0000

Reminds me of Alex from "The Bionic Woman" Doomsday Is Tomorrow: Part 2 (TV Episode 1977)

Actually, found it online :)