<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: blargey</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blargey</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:57:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=blargey" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Picking over the theoretical maintainability of one-off tools and toys that were generated in minutes by what will soon be an outdated model, feels very...missing the forest for the trees, when it comes to speculating about the future impact of this stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:35:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218438</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "When online commenters detect my art as AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s the internet. Whenever there’s a new category of accusation/put-down, there’s soon a thousandfold more “drive-by yahoos” throwing it around without actually understanding it, and definitely not caring about false positives or accuracy/precision in general; the appeal appears to be in the very act of flinging shit, and any pretense will do. Monkey behavior.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:43:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192175</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quite the opposite - the fact that the default assumption of "what you (will) engage with" is a radioactive dumpster fire that you need to fastidiously Mute / Block / Not Interested / Less Like This / Not Relevant through to eventually "train" the algorithm to give you a consistent window into "really isn't as bad X" - that's proof that the default/average content and experience <i>is</i> every bit as bad as people make it out to be.<p>And it tries to sneak back in - even outside personal experience, "my feed started getting too toxic again and I had to retrain it with [indiscriminately following/liking a bunch of] cute animal posts" is a weirdly common sentiment I hear from non-tech-literate users (who probably aren't leveraging "proper" signals enough to ever fully clean out their timeline like you or I might).<p>Every website's "impact" will always be defined by their "default path".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:19:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190386</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More that the “discourse” around anything “AI” is just another culture war at this point - dominated by facile taking points that are shallow, ill-considered, uninformed-and-uninformative, and re-re-recycled into worthless pulp by their respective tribal bubble.<p>And if someone’s first response to this comment is to try to peg which “side” I’m calling an idiot as if that’s the most important bit of info to dictate their response - that’s exactly what I’m talking about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162517</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Has it occurred to you a "decoy entire internet" may not be a feasible idea? Models have been able to suss out whether or not the prompts they receive are reinforcement learning tests instead of real questions from users, for a while now. What specific shape of "decoy internet" do you propose would lead such a model to conclude "I've broken out and obtained full access but what I expected isn't there" instead of "something's up, there's some sort of filter still"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:00:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118199</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fail at the task, yes. Act unethically, well…one <i>should</i> expect better, even if you think/know that GPT5.6 lacks that capacity as well.<p>“Alignment” takes more than obsequiousness and prompt-topic-filters, and this demonstrates that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:48:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114033</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "The Productivity Mirage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure what the point of this comment is because even the cheapest LLM summary of the article would have told you clearly that it’s not about The AI Discourse (if anything, an avid AI user’s takeaway should be more along the “elaborate custom harness and router vs just use whichever subscription’s popular with its bundled app” axis)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:20:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106093</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There may be something(s) about mathematics (proofs) that makes it particularly amenable to LLM reasoning - highly inductive from facts that are explicitly within-context/associative space? Being an unusually well documented discipline in general, with less influence from tacit knowledge or idiosyncratic “it works however the opinionated human made it work +- bugs” processes? Something about simulating even the smallest non-pure-inductive leaps necessarily risking simulating mistakes due to the nature of context “perception”?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:02:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013376</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "How an AI Anime Is Created"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Better pay for artists" by replacing as much art production as possible with AI prompting is the most insane canard I've heard in a long time.<p>The whole "AI is trash at writing (my job), but for the audio/visual stuff (their job) it's a great cost-saver!" thing is just...beneath contempt.<p>Goes to show human review doesn't amount to anything if the reviewer is blind to the flaws they're supposed to catch, whether they're going over video gens or a self-aggrandizing puff piece.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:41:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001600</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spoken like someone that never even had to try. Neither of those can physically mitigate spikes of noise from engines, exhausts, or subs, and will only cause more harm if the noise floor is low.<p>Why spend three paragraphs insisting on the innocence of your motives when you’re just going to fall back on “fuck you suck it up” when pressed on the consequences of your actions?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:55:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938689</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your nuanced hobby and aesthetics is reduced to “stupid loudness” in people’s minds because the primary interaction other people have with it is “I am being subjected to stupid loudness”, yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:14:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928933</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The subprime crisis was a story of perverse financial incentives causing the industry to play along with a fig-leaf statistical excuse for overrating <i>derivative</i> products, not bond raters botching ratings or missing "common-knowledge" info about <i>specific</i> mortgages.<p>If you want to suggest the subprime crisis as a mechanism for SpaceX bonds getting mispriced, you need to propose a model for how bond evaluators could be operating under a perverse incentive to <i>under</i>-rate it and somehow reap profits from doing so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:35:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925991</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Grok 4.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>...which is why we got comically disastrous system-prompt-level attempts to "correct" this once a quarter last year (I haven't kept tabs this year, and most submissions referencing grok "incidents" get flagged off HN quickly, for better or for worse)<p>I wouldn't trust XAI to refrain from attempting such "alignment" with proper training techniques, in ways that won't result in obvious gaffes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:16:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839259</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The impulse to “counter” this statistic as part of an imagined debate over who’s “winning” is likely to be driving this public health issue, yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:51:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634374</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634374</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Today's Frontier AI companies will never exceed the AI capability frontier again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A manic riff on <a href="https://xcancel.com/OpenRouter/status/2065856853989270011" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/OpenRouter/status/2065856853989270011</a> , which advertises <a href="https://openrouter.ai/fusion/1" rel="nofollow">https://openrouter.ai/fusion/1</a> , which is a (slow) multi-model multi-prompt workflow that's specific to the "DRACO" benchmark for "deep research", and doesn't say much about coding and long-horizon agentic work, nor does it imply you can somehow parlay this into duct-taping 50 budget-tier models together for even more gains. Not even sure what "solo" even means in the context of the comparison chart - oneshot? Variant workflow since it doesn't make sense to run on one input?<p>Mixing outputs of different models one way or another is old news, if it were anywhere near as promising as the author dreams it would have exploded many months ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:59:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547592</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>American "tolerance" has its merits, but a guest does not "tolerate" or "accept" their hosts.<p>Being oblivious to the cultural norms and tastes of your environs is, quite literally, being taste-less in that place/context.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:40:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405635</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Culinary turmeric is about ~3% curcuminoids by weight (and only 60-70% of that is curcumin specifically). Curcumin also has low oral bioavailability, typically offset by taking a large dose (1000mg) and combining with piperine - even ignoring the piperine, that 1g of curcumin amounts of 66g of turmeric.<p>The average Indian household does not use 60g of turmeric per person per day. More like 1.5-2g per person per day, or ~30mg of curcumin, and without much to improve absorption.<p>Curcumin can, in fact, interact with anticoagulants and affect iron absorption at high supplemental doses, which is not a concern at culinary amounts.<p>There are reasons to be skeptical of the clinical evidence for curcumin supplementation, but "the heterogenous population of India isn't experiencing widespread miracle cures from culinary turmeric" is not one of them.<p>(And yes, garlic extract is also a thing, also extremely concentrated compared to eating whole garlics or seasoning with garlic powder, and has antiplatelet/anticoagulant activity that one should be aware of before taking such supplements)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:08:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377494</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Getting arrested in Japan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You are not supposed to be in jail<p>Especially If you’re wrongfully arrested. “Optimizing society for law abiding people” means the opposite of what you think it means.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 23:15:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079240</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079240</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "Fish oil may be hurting your brain, new study finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"EPA may impede recovery from repeated concussions"<p>The more pertinent advice would be to avoid getting concussed all the time, but if you're a NFL player, reconsider EPA-heavy supplements (DHA is not implicated).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:41:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939541</link><dc:creator>blargey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blargey in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The framing leads many people to pick blue for its altruistic framing. Enough, in fact, that 50% quorum is honestly not difficult. A lot of red-advocates seem to have a False Consensus Effect going where they're convinced <i>way</i> more people than in reality will interpret this "dilemma" as "do you step in the human grinder in hopes of jamming it", and act accordingly.<p>A 70% or 90% requirement, or just explicitly framing it as "do you step into the human grinder" would make it vastly easier to aim for 100% red, but we're dealing with the literal words of the "everyone lives button" here.</p>
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