Hacker News: baobabKoodaa

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

baobabKoodaa — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:09:00 +0000

Go get successfully policed and then come back here.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

baobabKoodaa — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:20:09 +0000

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

baobabKoodaa — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:39:48 +0000

I can confirm. I saw him take the $5.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

baobabKoodaa — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:03:29 +0000

Anecdotal counter example: I'm on HN and I have no idea what you're talking about.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Small Penis Rule"

baobabKoodaa — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:41:05 +0000

This is not the point. The point is about deterring lawsuits. The point is not about defending lawsuits. This is very clearly explained in OP.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

baobabKoodaa — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:30:52 +0000

Is fraud "more fraudulent" than non-fraud? Yes. Wtf man?

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

baobabKoodaa — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:28:35 +0000

Off-ramp does exist. Stop lying.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "UK's top data and AI regulator quits after 'inappropriate' humour"

baobabKoodaa — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:48:39 +0000

One side says it was humor. The other side says it was not humor. Without more information we can't know if it was humor or not.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"

baobabKoodaa — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:32:33 +0000

KRAZAM made a skit about this. You would like it.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

baobabKoodaa — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:25:17 +0000

Go take an algorithms 101 class. That's literally all it is: learning how to write different algorithms to do the same thing more efficiently.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

baobabKoodaa — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:45:21 +0000

> after standardization there's very little room to "develop the algorithms" because nonconformant implementations would be useless.

there is A LOT OF ROOM to develop the algorithms. it seems that you are confused about what an algorithm is, since you seemingly think that there can be only 1 algorithm that can decode a given media file.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

baobabKoodaa — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:12:38 +0000

> ffmpeg (codec specs)

if your mental model is that somebody writes codec specs and then fabrice bellard comes in and turns the specs into C, you are dead wrong. first of all, codecs are usually reverse-engineered, there is no spec. second of all, even when a well specified document describes the codec, that spec does not describe how to efficiently encode or decode with that codec. people like fabrice bellard develop the algorithms that do that.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

baobabKoodaa — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:07:12 +0000

A few years back these used to be called "Frankenstein models"

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

baobabKoodaa — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:40:56 +0000

Fine. Thiel will just fund a Hulk Hogan lawsuit against the Swiss magazine, then.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Surprise, pay $1000"

baobabKoodaa — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:03:01 +0000

Personally I do care if I get hacked or if my clients get hacked. If you don't care, you don't care, I guess. For you it's enough that the "paying customer experience" (???) is good, whatever that is. Okay buddy.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Claude Fable 5"

baobabKoodaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:40:28 +0000

The purpose of gendering into female gender like this is to signal to other leftists that you are part of their tribe.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Surprise, pay $1000"

baobabKoodaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:13:05 +0000

Awful, but true.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Surprise, pay $1000"

baobabKoodaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:39:52 +0000

The main issue is that you deceptively communicated what happens at the end of the free trial. You decided to use the wording "disruption", which implies that workloads will be stopped, which is the opposite of what happened. This is deceptive and predatory. I will never use your software and after this happened I am AMAZED that anybody else (particularly OP, but also anybody who read this post) will continue to trust you with their workloads. The way I look at this is: if you're willing to do deceptive and predatory billing, why wouldn't you be also willing to sell access to intelligence agencies or some other "grey area" party who wants to do supply chain hacks?

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Surprise, pay $1000"

baobabKoodaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:34:35 +0000

OpenAI used to do billing like this too.

New comment by baobabKoodaa in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

baobabKoodaa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:47:50 +0000

I don't agree with you wrt "the alternative". Things like scheduling a doctor's visit could be done without authentication. If some authentication is needed, it could be a traditional username/password setup (no MFA). Blocking part of the population from accessing basic services is just inhumane.