Hacker News: bloqs

New comment by bloqs in "The complete IPv4 address space, mapped"

bloqs — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:22:48 +0000

I can immediately identify it now. it's painfully obvious

New comment by bloqs in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

bloqs — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:54:55 +0000

So let me get this straight, you have to 'the break the numbers down' to contextualise US safety, but you don't have to 'break the numbers down' to contextualise European safety?

Are you Tucker Carlson?

New comment by bloqs in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

bloqs — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:26:08 +0000

They aren't, that was a push from manufacturers and PR. Find me one person that asked for a thinner phone after the iPhone 4

New comment by bloqs in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

bloqs — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:22:59 +0000

I can only imagine how horrifyingly good at FPS games this will make me

New comment by bloqs in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

bloqs — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:21:16 +0000

well put.

New comment by bloqs in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

bloqs — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:40:56 +0000

When you work in STEM fields you tend to interact with people with higher non verbal reasoning skills (often called Performance IQ) who generally have lower verbal IQs (not always). These people are definitively less articulate and cannot see the linguistic inconsistencies and inhuman demeanor of LLM outputs. Much in the same way that non creative people cannot tell why some AI art is unappealing, they can't easily comprehend the value of the human dimension of art. Similarly, people with poor non-verbal/performance reasoning skills cannot understand the difference between AI produced code and human produced code.

New comment by bloqs in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

bloqs — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:26:37 +0000

This is the whole point. They have clearly removed it to stop people jailbreaking, but it's hysterically ineffective, and simultaneously degrades their core product quite remarkably

The correct description is hilarious

New comment by bloqs in "Do teachers need advanced degrees?"

bloqs — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:04:17 +0000

This is true of every single job.

Teachers are high in big five trait agreeableness which means they typically don't negotiate on their own behalf

New comment by bloqs in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

bloqs — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:18:16 +0000

It later resolves, but by definition of the human condition, it does initially I'm afraid. It's less about colour and more about values and creed

New comment by bloqs in "Gemini API File Search is now multimodal"

bloqs — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:33:37 +0000

Yeah, what happened to no more SWE

New comment by bloqs in "Teaching Claude Why"

bloqs — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:16:39 +0000

You were evolved to struggle. This is actually very clear from psychiatric literature.

New comment by bloqs in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

bloqs — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:23:39 +0000

I'm not familiar with this?

New comment by bloqs in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

bloqs — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:16:26 +0000

1. Because it's most popular. Guaranteed support and "monkey see monkey do".

2. The adblocking is preconfigured, and non technical users trying to find the right extensions has a very bad history of unintentional malware. Ad block? Adblock plus? Ublock? Ublock origin? This is a great example of what floors a lot of technical folk who would be "why not just install ublock origin" and fail to understand the "why should I when I can just get Brave one and it works"

3. Most people don't use macs

New comment by bloqs in "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it"

bloqs — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:38:30 +0000

To quote another thread - "LLMs are glue traps for narcissists"

New comment by bloqs in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

bloqs — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:36:54 +0000

Jeez. I actually stopped short of reading the article because of this screenie

New comment by bloqs in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

bloqs — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:27:31 +0000

that said - the customisation options could use some work. I also find it seems to handle some windows differently (steam for example won't show an activity window, just a dock icon)

New comment by bloqs in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

bloqs — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:56:11 +0000

Hey great change, am now buying. It was by pure chance i came back to this thread after 3 days, which is a damn shame as Im sure there were many people put off by the pricing that missed the change.

New comment by bloqs in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

bloqs — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:44:32 +0000

Fantastic work, but ubar is going to eat your lunch with that subscription

New comment by bloqs in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

bloqs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:33:19 +0000

Fantastic news

New comment by bloqs in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

bloqs — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:21:18 +0000

It's not unilateral but if it is a commercial interest, then I'll agree that it usually is