Hacker News: bag_boy

New comment by bag_boy in "Seedance 2.5"

bag_boy — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:48:55 +0000

I was so disturbed I couldn’t spell!

New comment by bag_boy in "Seedance 2.5"

bag_boy — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:11:18 +0000

This specific video is the first time I have been distributed by AI video.

This is extraordinary lifelike.

New comment by bag_boy in "Our position on open-weights models"

bag_boy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:15:11 +0000

He cited the Demis Hassabis’s framework for testing.

From Hassabis’s essay:

“It could establish a new Standards Body modelled on a federally overseen public-private partnership or self-regulatory organisation, much like the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), with a board that includes independent leading technical experts and open-source representatives.”

New comment by bag_boy in "OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Margin"

bag_boy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:40:37 +0000

This article has lots of links that are paywalled. Not a lot of primary sourced info.

This can be a little annoying when you’re reading.

New comment by bag_boy in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

bag_boy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:54:36 +0000

I should have clarified that it’s not difficult for technical workers to switch, but for your average knowledge worker…it’s not easy switching from Claude Cowork to Codex. I don’t think the switch from Cowork to open source is easy.

New comment by bag_boy in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

bag_boy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:55:30 +0000

Switching an agent harness is more difficult, especially on the enterprise/teams level.

Once your team gets settled with Claude teams, cowork, and the various plugins, it’s going to be a pain in the butt to switch.

New comment by bag_boy in "Zuckerberg Urges Meta to Explore Working with Polymarket and Kalshi"

bag_boy — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:44 +0000

Meta? More like…betta.

New comment by bag_boy in "5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)"

bag_boy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:30:26 +0000

Wow! I had never heard of pooding.cool - what an awesome site.

New comment by bag_boy in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

bag_boy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:59:32 +0000

Additionally, they are one of the few for-profit companies that uses “.org” with a straight face.

Even if it was not the original intent, it’s somewhat deceptive to keep it.

New comment by bag_boy in "When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?"

bag_boy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:42:32 +0000

I don’t know if bleak is the right word, but keeping up with the pace of change with LLMs is exhausting.

New comment by bag_boy in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B"

bag_boy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:24:34 +0000

Fin is dangerously close to Walter Jr. naming himself “Flynn” in breaking bad.

New comment by bag_boy in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bag_boy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:03:36 +0000

“Anthropic buys 75% of Truth Social’s ad inventory”

New comment by bag_boy in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bag_boy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:56:39 +0000

Some people do. Read the extropian newsletters from the 90s.

New comment by bag_boy in "I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You [video]"

bag_boy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:54:11 +0000

Can you give me your use case here? I have not gotten around to trying loops in Claude code but have started to notice the hype.

New comment by bag_boy in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

bag_boy — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:43:11 +0000

I had ChatGPT write up a Zillow description for my house in the style of Carrie Bradshaw from “Sex and the City” to impress my wife.

It was unlike anything I had ever experienced.

My wife was unimpressed lol.

This was 2022.

New comment by bag_boy in "The Website Specification"

bag_boy — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:50:07 +0000

Why include the LLMs.txt?

New comment by bag_boy in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

bag_boy — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:32:41 +0000

A test where a computer draws a pelican riding a bike is propaganda of the highest order?

New comment by bag_boy in "Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist, has died"

bag_boy — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:31:12 +0000

My favorite Sony Rollins story: he heard ‘Waiting on a Friend’ in a grocery store.

He thought to himself, “finally, a Rolling Stones song that I like.”

Then he remembered he was the saxophone player on the song…

New comment by bag_boy in "Takedowns AI is carpet bombing the web with baseless DMCA (Copyright) complaints"

bag_boy — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:30:59 +0000

Takedowns AI is a takedown service for OnlyFans models. When they find a website that is hosting an OnlyFans model's proprietary content, they file a DMCA complaint on behalf of the model.

The problem is that Takedowns AI is WILDLY inaccurate and is flagging content based on simple word association. Websites with zero affiliation to adult content are getting product pages removed from Google for no reason at all.

Google removes first and asks questions later:

"It is Google's policy to remove copyrighted content when the copyright holder or their authorized representative alleges that a use is infringing. Therefore we are in the process of removing the reported content from Google Search results for users globally."

Something must be done soon, as scaled baseless DMCA complaints can eliminate a lot of value from small businesses.

My thoughts are:

1. Takedowns AI should have their DMCA complaint privileges temporarily revoked.

2. Google could force a human in the loop for DMCA complaints.

Takedowns AI is carpet bombing the web with baseless DMCA (Copyright) complaints