Hacker News: air7

New comment by air7 in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

air7 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:43:04 +0000

In this context that isn't the right question.

Rather one should ask "Would you be able to answer any question and fulfill any request about the Grand Canyon given to you by others in a way that will be indistinguishable from someone who has been to the Grand Canyon"

New comment by air7 in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

air7 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:35:13 +0000

With the risk of giving a spoiler, it seems the correct answer is almost always the longer, more elaborate one.

I would guess this causes an up shift in results even if not consciously noticed.

New comment by air7 in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

air7 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:12:31 +0000

I don't get it.

The IRS sees a clean million dollars in your bank account. They ask "how did you get that?" You answer "Oh I just sold this super expensive thing on a marketplace". Then they ask "Ok, but how did you get/buy this expensive thing?" What do you say?

Two Autonomous Humanoid Robots Seamlessly Work Together to Make the Bed

air7 — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:29:29 +0000

Article URL: https://laughingsquid.com/robots-make-bed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176494

Points: 4

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New comment by air7 in "Doing the thing is doing the thing"

air7 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:40:58 +0000

we didn't really survive photoshop.

The obviously fake ones were easy to detect, and the less obvious ones took some some sleuthing to detect. But the good fakes totally fly under the radar. You literally have no idea how much of the images you see are doctored well because you can't tell.

Same for LLMs in the near future (or perhaps already). What will we do when we'll realize we have no way of distinguishing man from bot on the internet?

New comment by air7 in "Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft"

air7 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:02:06 +0000

Naive question, but can't this be solved with device-level error correction?

New comment by air7 in "How I block all online ads"

air7 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:22:12 +0000

But at least you have IKEA

There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence – Nature

air7 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:20:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05868-8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808274

Points: 2

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New comment by air7 in "Show HN: I made a small site to share text and files"

air7 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:34:45 +0000

I'd be happy to see that list. Perhaps consider sharing it.

New comment by air7 in "How and where will agents ship software?"

air7 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:37:18 +0000

but who will buy the advertised products? and with what money?

Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)

air7 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:29:55 +0000

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415233

Points: 417

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New comment by air7 in "Prompt engineering playbook for programmers"

air7 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:53:53 +0000

A few days ago Sergey Brin said "We don't circulate this too much in the AI community – not just our models but all models – tend to do better if you threaten them … with physical violence"

-- https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/google_brin_suggests_...

New comment by air7 in "Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names"

air7 — Mon, 26 May 2025 12:38:49 +0000

Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I would like .COM domains to ~ 1000$ per year. As these domains are intended (and actually are) used for COMmercial ventures, the sum should be low enough to not be a burden on even a small real business, but be high enough to not be economically viable for squatting.

Anthropic new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

air7 — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:48:39 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073412

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Common household plastics linked to heart disease

air7 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:16:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/health/phthalates-heart-disease-wellness/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43841514

Points: 2

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New comment by air7 in "NIST Selects HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post-Quantum Encryption"

air7 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:51:08 +0000

wow, This is our reality from now on...

New comment by air7 in "AI tools are spotting errors in research papers"

air7 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:39:26 +0000

I've had this idea that reproduction studies in one's C.V should become a sort of virtue signal, akin to philanthropy among the rich. This way, some percentage of one's work would need to be reproduction work or otherwise they would be looked down upon, and this would create the right incentive to do go.

Claude Became Tech Insiders' Chatbot of Choice

air7 — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:28:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/technology/claude-ai-anthropic.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42438617

Points: 2

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New comment by air7 in "Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application"

air7 — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:57:07 +0000

Sounds like an amazing idea but I installed the windows app from the website and it crashes immediately after opening.

Life Found on Ryugu Asteroid Sample, but It Looks Familiar

air7 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 04:01:39 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2024/11/27/life-found-on-ryugu-asteroid-sample-but-it-looks-very-familiar/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42302984

Points: 1

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