Hacker News: lain

New comment by lain in "Claude Fable 5"

__lain__ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:19:37 +0000

It won't even run a basic /security-review command without reverting to Opus 4.8. Utterly useless.

New comment by lain in "I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline"

__lain__ — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:15:47 +0000

Yeah go to a niche market C++ shop

New comment by lain in "Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario"

__lain__ — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:04:10 +0000

Every once in a while I'll send a false positive security alert to Claude, one that isn't even very subtle its just obviously incorrectly flagged, and every time it freaks out and tells me I have an active intruder and it actually gets itself worked up in a panic.

I have high hopes for our future.

New comment by lain in "Facebook is cooked"

__lain__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:53:52 +0000

The reddit bots are quite nefarious. Even in technical communities where no advertisement is happening there are so many posts made by bots either recycling old posts or masquerading as humans doing banal things like complaining about end users or something. Hundreds of bots that do nothing more than pretend to be people complaining about work, really curious what the goal of the operators is with these ones. Makes me wonder if they are bots supplied by reddit to artificially boost engagement.

New comment by lain in "Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person account to keep posting-chatting"

__lain__ — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:29:33 +0000

I guess when your user base is dying it makes sense to resort to necromancy.

New comment by lain in "In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks"

__lain__ — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:57:37 +0000

We will work more and more, endlessly, until we render ourselves useless through our own efforts. That is the quest.

New comment by lain in "Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases"

__lain__ — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:49:40 +0000

I'm sure they will mourn this crippling loss of a few hours worth of revenue.

New comment by lain in "ChatGPT Health"

__lain__ — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:36:30 +0000

This is part of the reason that alternative medicine has become so popular, there are definitely still some trustworthy doctors out there, but I share the same experience as you where I feel left with no recourse but to take care of things myself after seeing multiple doctors who make it very clear that they have no interest or time to listen to me.

New comment by lain in "Are we tired of social media? (2025)"

__lain__ — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:13 +0000

Social media has long stopped being an actual social outlet and is filled with either bots or influencer types trying to be the loudest voice shouting into the void. I recall going to Reddit in like 2010-2012, back when there was pretty much only college kids on it, and the posts were often witty and interesting. That no longer exists anywhere on the major sites and trying for any kind of conversation is a dead end.

Eternal September combined with profit focused engineering has created a wasteland.

New comment by lain in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

__lain__ — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:30:35 +0000

Hemingway was still a master of word choice. I recall an entire class spent on a few lines that conveyed a sense of heaviness to the scene. 'Plodding' was given a lot of attention.

New comment by lain in "How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)"

__lain__ — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 23:11:17 +0000

> 3. Gears, pistons, linkages, pulleys, wheels, etc forming elaborate moving mechanisms...

This is a really interesting phenomenon. Elaborate machinescapes are present in a lot of psychedelic closed eye visuals. Its unusual because we typically don't have a lot of interaction with these things, yet there's this shared experience. I wonder if the experiences we have had seeing complex machinery in real life have embedded some primal response to them.

I commonly see blobs of light, but a particularly frequent recurring visualization is circus imagery. If I'm listening to music I seem to be more prone to seeing something like cardboard cutouts of the Beatles in their Sgt Pepper outfits sort of bouncing up and down moving off to the side.

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New comment by __lain__ in "Claude Fable 5"

New comment by __lain__ in "I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline"

New comment by __lain__ in "Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario"

New comment by __lain__ in "Facebook is cooked"

New comment by __lain__ in "Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person account to keep posting-chatting"

New comment by __lain__ in "In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks"

New comment by __lain__ in "Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases"

New comment by __lain__ in "ChatGPT Health"

New comment by __lain__ in "Are we tired of social media? (2025)"

New comment by __lain__ in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

New comment by __lain__ in "How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)"