Hacker News: bklosky

New comment by bklosky in "Never Give Them Your Face"

bklosky — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:52:30 +0000

it's wild to me how many AI written articles get front page on HN

New comment by bklosky in "Google's 20% 'project' has become AI's 120% 'attention'"

bklosky — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:48:00 +0000

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-papers/artificial-writing-a...

The OP article is also just so, so obviously AI slop... if you're already thinking "this is probably AI" and pangram thinks the same, that's fairly damning.

New comment by bklosky in "Google's 20% 'project' has become AI's 120% 'attention'"

bklosky — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:56:24 +0000

Pangram reports 76% of this text is AI generated.

New comment by bklosky in "Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock"

bklosky — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:52:55 +0000

You're making a strong statement about the counterfactual here; how could you know? Clearance rates for most crimes in the US are abysmal, the expected outcome for most crimes is "unsolved."

New comment by bklosky in "At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025"

bklosky — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:56:57 +0000

Poverty alleviation is not a silver bullet (or anywhere close) for crime reduction, as nice as it would be if that were true.

New comment by bklosky in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

bklosky — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:48:29 +0000

According to Pangram, this is likely AI generated, surprised that no one has pointed this out

New comment by bklosky in "I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable"

bklosky — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:57:41 +0000

This is straight up AI generated economic disinformation. Are you seriously claiming that computers cost more in real terms today than 20 years ago?? Some of these goods (housing) do cost more, but a lot of these examples don't make any sense.

New comment by bklosky in "New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice"

bklosky — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:53:14 +0000

Rent seeking via occupational licensing, there is nothing new under the sun

New comment by bklosky in "What if AI is both good and not that disruptive?"

bklosky — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:57:40 +0000

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0254477200A

New comment by bklosky in "AI Slop vs. OSS Security"

bklosky — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:26:47 +0000

Companies soliciting big bounties should charge a fee to submit, making slop costly. Steam, the video game publisher, does this. Developers need to pay a fee to list their game, and if their game sells sufficient volume, the fee is returned. Creating a separating equilibrium here is not hard, the hand wringing is weird to me.