Hacker News: agmater

New comment by agmater in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

agmater — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:57:04 +0000

That is basically how I understood the author and what makes the exploit novel, yes. Personally I don't think it's that simple or explicit, but there could be some truth to it?

New comment by agmater in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

agmater — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:50:51 +0000

Could you elaborate? I can't tell with music and voice

New comment by agmater in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

agmater — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:11:10 +0000

But they'd never optimize or loosen guardrails around helping people connect with grandma. It's an interesting hypothesis "use the guardrails to exploit the guardrails (Beat fire with fire)".

New comment by agmater in "Your Website Is Not for You"

agmater — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:56:29 +0000

What's the irony? The site telling your local time would be helpful how/why?

New comment by agmater in "Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis"

agmater — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:41:05 +0000

Malicious actors also buy 'aged' accounts, so you'd need to continually monitor this reputation? Seems a hard challenge to solve for individual site owners.

New comment by agmater in "We Will Not Be Divided"

agmater — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:10:39 +0000

https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/ here's some to get you started

New comment by agmater in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

agmater — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:42:11 +0000

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2027507717469049070

New comment by agmater in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

agmater — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:02:15 +0000

Hey it's Joey checking in again. We noticed you mentioned our company, let me know if you have any questions about our (free!) program. I'll go ahead and email you some more info, just in case.

New comment by agmater in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

agmater — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:20:51 +0000

In Dutch we indeed happily do this even for English loanwords like "creditcard" or something more obscure like "lockpick". When in doubt, remove the space.

New comment by agmater in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

agmater — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:36:34 +0000

What an infuriating website. I know complaining about bad websites is frowned upon, but they are actively making it hard to read and click through the links, yet that is the entire service. What is the point of keeping this online if a HN comment or a README offers a superior product? ;/

New comment by agmater in "Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws""

agmater — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:19:51 +0000

If you can't one-shot that you've been declawed /s

New comment by agmater in "I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion"

agmater — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:51:39 +0000

Journalist publishes lies about himself, is surprised LLMs repeat lies.

New comment by agmater in "OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'"

agmater — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:03:36 +0000

From the Wayback Machine [0] it seems they had a normal "open" set-up. They wanted to be indexed, but it's probably a fair concern that OpenAI isn't going to respect their image license. The article describes the robot.txt [sic] now "properly configured", but their solution was to block everything except Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo. That seems to be the smart thing these days, but it's a shame for any new search engines.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20221206134212/https://www.tripl...

New comment by agmater in "I made $100K from a dick joke"

agmater — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:32:24 +0000

Not so amazing, you're essentially earning money by helping people bully others anonymously. Probably some collateral damage (i.e. delivery) as well. Its just mean. OPs product is much better in that it can be seen by the recipient as funny, and edible at the least.

New comment by agmater in "Xerox to acquire Lexmark"

agmater — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:46:21 +0000

Why would Ninestar sell off Lexmark, is it just that they got a good price? I thought the pantum and printer business was an interesting move, but maybe they just couldn't make it work.

New comment by agmater in "Noise Filtering Using €1 Filter (2020)"

agmater — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:51:33 +0000

Yes exactly, my point was that it works the same in English and Dutch. But other comments mentioned how its based on a French paper, where they do place the currency after the amount.

New comment by agmater in "Noise Filtering Using €1 Filter (2020)"

agmater — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:38:33 +0000

In Dutch the currency symbol always comes before the number as well, so this is intentional of the author.

New comment by agmater in "I designed my website to look like a chat log"

agmater — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:59:18 +0000

I like it! By being novel, it effectively pitches the product of the website. Others mentioned how its a bit scroll heavy —I also found myself scrolling for the pricing (should be the second question, perhaps)— but all the info is on the page, so you'll get there if you're interested. Some feedback to consider:

- Is the strict refund policy really necessary? Since you screen clients I'd expect you rarely (<1%) deliver a product the client hates. Perhaps a more traditional 'satisfaction guaranteed' would make the sale easier, and highlight your expertise. But I get that it introduces admin work.

- The portfolio is really nice, I'd find a way to break the format a bit to include a carousel of latest work. Could also be higher-up, the third message even.

- On mobile it switches the response bubble to the left?

- Consider centering the logo; adding some padding-top for mobile.

- It's not clear where you are doing business from, in the EU this can be helpful to know for tax reasons.

- Not having a contact-form in the style of a composing a message at the bottom feels like a missed opportunity!

New comment by agmater in "Minimal Web"

agmater — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 11:07:07 +0000

I take issue with a lot of this advice, actually.

- The name of the site is not a necessity, the url makes it clear. Weird recommendation if you aim for a "pure reading experience".

- Having a comment section doesn't detract from the reading at all. It's after reading your content, and can then enhance the discussion. Fine if you want to leave it out, but encouraging discussion on Twitter instead isn't 'minimal'.

- Minimal images isn't something to strive for, visuals can greatly enhance your content.

- Short urls look nice, but just `w` as your slug is just confusing. No harm in normal length urls.

- Medium.com is used as an example, that site is 80% popups. Paul Graham's site is also awful to use (especially on mobile). Great content, hidden behind bad websites.

- Why would related posts, or even tags, be bad? Navigation doesn't have to distract, and is a tool for the user.

The author makes some fair points, nobody likes the bloat of the modern web. But you don't have to go "full minimalist" either, your website would be greatly improved if you change the #ffffff background with #000 text. It's the same with motherfuckingwebsite.com vs bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com; small changes can greatly increase the appeal, which will help your content get seen and spread. Like others mentioned, prioritizing a good user experience is probably what you want, not striving for minimalism.

New comment by agmater in "Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game"

agmater — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:16:36 +0000

Must be lonely, even making up fake code comments:

> /* This makes the words flip over like in Wordle. Ask Gary if we can change it to letter by letter like wordle */