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New comment by b800h in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

b800h — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:37:56 +0000

That isn't necessarily an easy fix at all. Depending on how this feature was written, separating comments from instructions may be quite difficult, especially if the original implementation was quite naive.

New comment by b800h in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

b800h — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:51:53 +0000

They effectively had tourist English. They're probably in through an agency so the financial incentive is to find an examiner who will give the right answer.

New comment by b800h in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

b800h — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:37:42 +0000

Her nurses frequently couldn't speak English. I had to spell out her medical conditions letter by letter so that the nurse could input it onto the medical system. She was entering gibberish / wrong info until I stepped in, as I was watching the PAS out of interest.

New comment by b800h in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

b800h — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:13:49 +0000

Well it was a nightmare for my mother's do-nothing GP surgery in the UK. She had several conditions which were being handled completely separately without central coordination, and her health was in serious decline. We went in with a list of 20 AI-generated questions based on her conditions and treatment (which I was able to screen as I have a bio postgrad, but not medical training), including those related to NICE guidelines and procedure, and, frankly the GP bricked it and ordered a load of new interventions. My mother started to get proper treatment.

I wouldn't trust AI to make a diagnosis, but I would absolutely trust it to notice where procedure hasn't been correctly followed, where a treatment is counter-indicated because someone has missed a line on a health record, or where there's a clear potential alternate diagnosis which has been missed for spurious reasons. Also, unfortunately, where doctors aren't doing a decent job - often because they're overworked or underfunded.

New comment by b800h in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

b800h — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:06:17 +0000

I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying that medicine is inherently fallible and therefore AI is more likely to make a good diagnosis - particularly a cluster of specialist AIs?

New comment by b800h in "8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea"

b800h — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:11:22 +0000

I quite enjoyed using the memory segments - I thought they were quite intuitive and helped in reasoning about the machine.

New comment by b800h in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

b800h — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:32:15 +0000

It's very possible that this occurred during the IR35 shake-up - HMRC moved the liability for unpaid income tax (in a situation where a contractor was determined to be a de-facto employee) from limited company contractors themselves onto the client (the bank, in this case).

Banks had a very low risk appetite and so had to let these people go. What was going on in a lot of places was that vital staff who had to be dumped were intermediated by outsourcing providers. These companies either then paid the staff a very high salary and sold them in as temp labour, or took on the risk themselves and hired them as contractors for the same purpose.

This all made sense, but for a lot of contractors at the time, it felt like the apocalypse. The net effect was that HMRC exchanged flexibility in the labour market for immediate tax take. This may not have been a sensible decision.

New comment by b800h in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

b800h — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:58:30 +0000

Banning under 16s from social media is de-facto censorship of political views outside of those promulgated by mainstream media, and as the mainstream media in this country tends to be urban-liberal in orientation, this will have an effect. Perhaps the people who set up GB News were prescient to do so.

New comment by b800h in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

b800h — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:49:29 +0000

This isn't an axis from freedom to control, with the country sitting at an identifiable point. All of these things are happening, antagonistically, at the same time. Right wing people set up a television station, government cracks down on the internet, courts protect people's rights to express philosophical beliefs, police record "non-crime hate incidents" for things written online. It's all chaotic.

New comment by b800h in "DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'"

b800h — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:43:50 +0000

Sorry, Brit here, I'm confused. Why is the plaintiff here the NAACP?

New comment by b800h in "Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning"

b800h — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:44:09 +0000

Why do people use Medium?

New comment by b800h in "A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot"

b800h — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:26:55 +0000

There are a lot of buzzwords in there. Does it work?

New comment by b800h in "Ferrari Luce"

b800h — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:12:47 +0000

Jesus, did the bloke from the Jaguar rebrand move to Ferrari?

New comment by b800h in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

b800h — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:10:14 +0000

If you're working with an agent to write code, you want it in the most quickly-readable format possible. That's generally Python, although YMMV. I want to be able to skim and zoom in on parts of code that might need attention. This makes it easy.

If the code were written in Java, I'd have more to read. If it were in JavaScript, I'd be slower following the calls (although the type system might catch issues more quickly - not a problem in my experience). I think Python is a good choice.

New comment by b800h in "Flipdiscs"

b800h — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:31:42 +0000

Popular in UK train stations until very recently. I suspect that there are still a few out there!

New comment by b800h in "We're pausing Asimov Press"

b800h — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:16:25 +0000

Ah, I found this particularly offensive when I heard about the naming of the parent company. Randomly nicking a famous person's name for your company is pretty rubbish behaviour IMO. The odiousness decreases as a function of time since a person's death.

New comment by b800h in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

b800h — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:55:40 +0000

Bias towards women would be understood by most readers as favouring them. I would have written bias against women here.

New comment by b800h in "Personal Encyclopedias"

b800h — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:10:44 +0000

I've been looking for a solution for this problem for a long time, and this is a particularly innovative approach.

I'll look into this more: Most appreciated, thank you.

ClearanceKit – Protect your Mac from compromised packages (OSS)

b800h — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:12:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/craigjbass/clearancekit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422989

Points: 2

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New comment by b800h in "Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims"

b800h — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:42:35 +0000

I thought it was supposed to be called the Department of War?