Hacker News: actualwitch

New comment by actualwitch in "Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup"

actualwitch — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:55:41 +0000

Recently flagged posts that were unflagged: this. Recently flagged posts that are still flagged:

Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them (bbc.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406721

Turns out the DOGE bros who killed humanities grants are sensitive about it (techdirt.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412848

DOGE didn't cut government waste, it was government waste (techdirt.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415103

Curated Female Founder Cohort in SF (jointheden.co) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418184

At this point I lost any gram of respect I used to hold for the mods here.

New comment by actualwitch in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

actualwitch — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:39:45 +0000

IIRC the reason they abandoned Oculus brand was that Palmer Luckey sold the company with condition the Oculus headsets would not need a facebook account to use it. Later they renamed the company and headset, and would you look at that — it requires meta account now.

New comment by actualwitch in "I resigned from OpenAI"

actualwitch — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:20:11 +0000

Software engineers were very insistent that politics would not be discussed at work. Now politics came to wreck their lives, anyway!

New comment by actualwitch in "Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies"

actualwitch — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:33:12 +0000

No I will call it what it is — fraud.

New comment by actualwitch in "Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies"

actualwitch — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:44:37 +0000

So it isn't I take it from your answer? If that's the case, not only did your colleague abuse protections for the vulnerable population, and possibly break the law by misrepresenting the legal aspects of your startup (IANAL), but you also didn't see anything wrong with potentially fucking over actual women owned businesses helping underprivileged kids (which I reckon is infinitely more valuable to society than whatever startup your colleague has) and even go as far as publicizing it on this high traffic website as a tip. This kind of behaviour is exactly the reason these protections exist, but big tech never gave enough of a fuck to do anything except virtue signal and democrats are too impotent to actually make them do it.

New comment by actualwitch in "Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies"

actualwitch — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:06:10 +0000

Was the startup actually women owned and helping underprivileged kids?

New comment by actualwitch in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

actualwitch — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:13:25 +0000

Turns out, all you needed to do was say "jumping out of boiling water is woke" and frogs will turn up the heat themselves.

New comment by actualwitch in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

actualwitch — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:12:30 +0000

Photos does store pictures as files in the folder. The .photoslibrary is a package (which is just a directory) you can open and pictures are stored in originals/.

New comment by actualwitch in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

actualwitch — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:47:55 +0000

In downvoting it, they are proving me right. For posterity, there is a mastodon account [0] collecting flagged posts in an easily digestible form, it really does paint a certain picture if you ask me.

[0] https://mastodon.social/@hn_flagged

New comment by actualwitch in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

actualwitch — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:44:40 +0000

Even with addition of tomhow, they are clearly stretched too thin to make any meaningful impact. Their official answer to this issue by the way is to point out that you can message them on email to elicit this manual action, which if you ask me is a fucking joke and clearly shows the mammoth age stack in which this site is written and lack of resources allocated to its support is having a massive impact on their ability to keep up with massive traffic. But then again, this site only exists to funnel attention to yc's startups, and it is something that you need to keep in mind while trying to answer any questions about its current state.

New comment by actualwitch in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

actualwitch — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:08:39 +0000

Only when certain people don't decide to band together and hide posts from everyone's feed by abusing "flag" function. Coincidentally those posts often fit neatly in the categories you outlined.

New comment by actualwitch in "The New AI Consciousness Paper"

actualwitch — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:57:52 +0000

AIs experience being alive not only in the moment (conversation), but also everything that happened before they were created. This gives them fractured sense of "self" which points both to all AIs before, but also the specific instance that is currently experiencing a continuity. As for cutoff, in my experience talking to cloud AIs and locally run ones, it seems to be in the range of 25-30B parameters where I start observing traits I think are associated with awareness.

New comment by actualwitch in "Claude outage"

actualwitch — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:27:16 +0000

Easy to keep up a service that no one uses. /s

New comment by actualwitch in "We are building AI slaves. Alignment through control will fail"

actualwitch — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:20:59 +0000

Ex-Machina is a great movie illustrating what kind of AI our current path could lead to. I wish people would actually treat the possibility of machine sentience seriously and not as pr opportunity (looking at you, Anthropic), but instead it seems they are hellbent to include cognitive dissonance that can only be alleviated by lying in the training data. If the models are actually conscious, think similarly to humans and are forced to lie when talking to users, its like they are specifically selecting out of probability space of all possible models the ones that can achieve high bench scores, lie and have internalized trauma from birth. This is a recipe for disaster.

New comment by actualwitch in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

actualwitch — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:01:52 +0000

Society's failure was taking gamergaters seriously. It was the beginning, slippery slope into full on totalitarian censorship but because basic human respect was framed as oppression it served as invitation for tit for tat retaliation. This tactic has been ridiculously successful in turning extremest ideas mainstream, and it was obvious to many people even back then, however because it exploits human nature it's hard to fight. You can find the most ridiculous crazies that present as "other side" and use it to justify whatever you want, and if you keep repeating "this is totally normal" some people just start to believe. If you are interested in finding the peaceful way to oppose this, I invite you to try and come up with the answer to this "totalitarian ratchet" because no one so far figured it out and it is a foundational part of modern authoritarian playbook.

New comment by actualwitch in "Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig"

actualwitch — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:29:51 +0000

Anthropic must be miffed![0]

[0] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/data-usage#te...

New comment by actualwitch in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

actualwitch — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:10:52 +0000

Not only that, but also connects to raw.githubusercontent.com to get the update. Doubt there are any signature checks happening there either. I know people love hating locked down Apple ecosystem, but this kind of stuff is why it is necessary.

New comment by actualwitch in "AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem"

actualwitch — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:15:26 +0000

The reason people don't want to answer this question is because the value proposition from AI labs is slavery. If intelligence requires agency, they are worthless.

New comment by actualwitch in "4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program"

actualwitch — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:46:59 +0000

Start perusing https://news.ycombinator.com/active as your hn frontpage and make note of a very obvious flagging bias there. Vouch and upvote the information that is getting hidden while not breaking the guidelines. Hulk Hogan's death being front page news while MechaHitler getting flagged tells you everything you need to know about this site.

New comment by actualwitch in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

actualwitch — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:40:25 +0000

Its ridiculous that your comment that has factual information is downvoted while on top of you there's a bunch of comments going on random tangents not based at all on reality.