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New comment by arcfour in "Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos"

arcfour — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:04:51 +0000

What's the difference between me pasting a face over a body in GIMP manually and me prompting an LLM to make the same edit, faster, and better than I would by hand? They aren't particularly high-effort. The artwork isn't really the point, but I can't just upload a black video...

New comment by arcfour in "Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos"

arcfour — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:36:08 +0000

Yeah, I make song remixes in the style of a particular video game and while the music is completely human written (by me), I'll often have AI generated or edit the "cover art" for me so people have something to look at/chuckle at.

These videos are still marked as AI, and fairly so; however I don't think that means people should want them hidden :-(

New comment by arcfour in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2"

arcfour — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:44:03 +0000

No it doesn't. This reads like someone who hasn't touched a non-apple Laptop in 15-20 years.

New comment by arcfour in "A website for debloated open source alternatives"

arcfour — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:16:34 +0000

> IMHO, capitalism and FOSS are fundamentally incompatible.

A bold statement to make given the world we live in today contains plenty of both, working together, in harmony.

New comment by arcfour in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

arcfour — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:12:28 +0000

Not really. They can get RAM just fine, and delay upgrade/refresh cycles to stretch existing component lifecycle, which was already very long if they needed to.

New comment by arcfour in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

arcfour — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:30:50 +0000

Nobody really "needs" RAM immediately though, like a heart or a lung or something.

New comment by arcfour in "AI by Hand"

arcfour — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:05:03 +0000

Yes. Convince me why your site is worth my attention, don't try to force it through a dark pattern and then try to justify why I should waste my time figuring it out.

New comment by arcfour in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

arcfour — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:50:05 +0000

I moreso meant the quality of their hardware, though that's fair, I didn't recall that. Still, if they are bothering to go to the effort of getting audited (granted, I don't like reading audit reports so I didn't look at who actually performed them) - it seems like they are actually trying, as opposed to what you might expect from a less scrupulous company, where it's more like the wild west.

New comment by arcfour in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

arcfour — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:18:57 +0000

> Honest note: Anthropic has not shipped a public Claude watermark detector yet. This tool uses rewrite-based neutralization — a meaning-preserving paraphrase with a non-Claude model — which is the attack path watermark research points to. Not affiliated with Anthropic.

Well, they should have run their own AI slop website through their tool...

New comment by arcfour in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

arcfour — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:17:58 +0000

What on earth LLM are you using and do you tell it which distro/version of Linux they are supposed to be working with + give them access to web search or man pages? I haven't had this issue in like a year and a half.

New comment by arcfour in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

arcfour — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:04:54 +0000

Well, on the plus side, SoundCore (Anker) are at least reputable enough (even though security teams would still want to review that!):

Under the security part, they do seem to at least be compliant with your typical security standards (HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 1, etc.) and claim that all data is deleted within 12 hours of transcription. So it isn't like the contents of your meeting are being siphoned off to some fly-by-night service, at least.

https://www.soundcore.com/soundcore-work-ai-voice-recorder

New comment by arcfour in "Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]"

arcfour — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:17:39 +0000

I love these little anecdotes on HN, they are like a little dessert post-main-post. Thanks for sharing :-) what an incredible thing to have had the scoop on!

New comment by arcfour in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

arcfour — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:26:35 +0000

I'm sorry, but going to a quack doctor is not medical care, much like McDonald burgers would not be a healthy meal regardless of whether or not that's all you can afford.

Except at least in the McDonald's case you have to eat food to survive, so you may not have a choice. You don't have to go to a chiropractor to survive, so it's better to not go there at all than it is to go and receive possibly dangerous treatment from a con artist.

Remember, there is no science behind what they do. They don't know if they're going to hurt or paralyze you because they never went to medical school!!

New comment by arcfour in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

arcfour — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:44:26 +0000

I have had Claude and Codex look at third party repositories on several occasions as reference material for something I wanted to make my own version of, and not once have they ever cloned it unless I told them to. Sometimes I would notice they would just keep reading the repo through a ton of API calls so I'd just stop them and clone it for them and tell them to look there. And not once was the output anywhere near that close to the original, plus they usually added attribution info if the results were even (unscientific estimate) 50-60% similar.

New comment by arcfour in "Everything you do is being recorded"

arcfour — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:45:52 +0000

Not mine, UBlock has blocked that since day one, thankfully

New comment by arcfour in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

arcfour — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:10:32 +0000

> They are mostly just practicing physical therapy without a medical license

Oh, well as long as they're only practicing medicine without a license, I suppose that's okay then...

New comment by arcfour in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

arcfour — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:09:16 +0000

It's not "probably not" doing anything, it's definitely not doing anything, because chiropractic is quack pseudoscience that has been thoroughly debunked and also has a bunch of other bizarre and fantastical elements to it beyond "cracking your back"

New comment by arcfour in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

arcfour — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:58:58 +0000

Whenever I ask an LLM to do something and it manages to 1-shot something ingenious/perfect, I get this weird feeling of happiness tinged with looming existential dread echoing softly in the background.

New comment by arcfour in "I watched 13 legal pages for two weeks, three of them changed"

arcfour — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:43:38 +0000

Was it 4.5 or 4.6 that started using "load-bearing" all the time? Boy, the first time I saw that I knew immediately that was the Next Big Tic for Claude.

New comment by arcfour in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

arcfour — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:30:09 +0000

That's like saying "what, it was published in the paper of record in your local area!"

NOTAMs have so many issues it's not even funny. There's so many of them and 9/10 of them are irrelevant for one.