Hacker News: bo1024

New comment by bo1024 in "[dead]"

bo1024 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:59:26 +0000

If Claude code is written by Claude code, and AI outputs are not currently considered copyrightable, then how is Anthropic asserting copyright over the leak?

New comment by bo1024 in "A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025)"

bo1024 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:35:05 +0000

No, it's not enough. Maybe if the bias is 10% or more.

New comment by bo1024 in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

bo1024 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:59:27 +0000

Not saying this gets through to people, but copyright is purely about the legal ability to restrict what other people do. Whereas property rights are about not allowing others to restrict what you do (e.g. by taking your stuff).

New comment by bo1024 in "An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters"

bo1024 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:34:33 +0000

Interesting. I don't quite agree. It's one thing to predict what general topics will be hot and popular this year. But that's not the same as what particular research problem will be important and have lasting influence.

There are a few kinds of important research. One is solving a well-defined, well-known problem everyone wants to solve but nobody knows how. Another is proposing a new problem, or a new formulation of it, that people didn't realize was important.

There is also highly-cited research that isn't necessarily important, such as being the next paper to slightly lower a benchmark through some tweaks (you get cited by all the subsequent papers that slightly lower the benchmark even further).

New comment by bo1024 in "No right to relicense this project"

bo1024 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:41:13 +0000

I agree that (while the ethics of this are a different issue) the copyright question is not obviously clear-cut. Though IANAL.

As the LGPL says:

> A "work based on the Library" means either the Library or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Library or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated straightforwardly into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".)

Is v7.0.0 a [derivative work](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work)? It seems to depend on the details of the source code (implementing the same API is not copyright infringement).

New comment by bo1024 in "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"

bo1024 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:09:15 +0000

Yes, and it opens by talking about STEM fields. I consider CS part of both STEM and science generally.

New comment by bo1024 in "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"

bo1024 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:38:39 +0000

This is not how computer science publishing works, however. Post it on arxiv, submit to a conference, get 3 peer reviews, accepted, “published”. 99% of papers are effectively open access for free.

New comment by bo1024 in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

bo1024 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:01:05 +0000

Logically and legally equivalent to "we will keep your data forever unless legally required to delete it.".

New comment by bo1024 in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

bo1024 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:39:44 +0000

That's such a bummer and seems like poor design. It ought to be easy for a user to have multiple keys associated with their account.

New comment by bo1024 in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

bo1024 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:49:44 +0000

I thought the point of passkey security is that you don't have to send the private key around, it can stay on your device. Different passkey per device. Lose or destroy a device, delete that passkey and move on.

New comment by bo1024 in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

bo1024 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:32:42 +0000

I don't know, but arguably the OS version is better for privacy, as each app can just trust the signal sent by the OS instead of collecting a bunch of personal/biometric data.

New comment by bo1024 in "What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics"

bo1024 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:39:45 +0000

The easiest way to read it is "there exists a function h in O(1) such that f(x) <= g(x) + h(x)."

I think first we should teach "f in O(g)" notation, then teach the above, then observe that a special case of the above is the "abuse of notation" f(x) = O(g(x)).

New comment by bo1024 in "Be wary of Bluesky"

bo1024 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:42:29 +0000

> But people do and it is reportedly fairly easy so the majority of people are on Bluesky's layers while all is well.

The post discusses why, when all is not well, it will be too late.

New comment by bo1024 in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

bo1024 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:17:54 +0000

None of the author’s blog post or actions indicate any level of concern for genuinely supporting or improving open source software.

New comment by bo1024 in "Why HN is a decade behind on crypto"

bo1024 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:31:43 +0000

Thanks! I read it.

New comment by bo1024 in "Why HN is a decade behind on crypto"

bo1024 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:24:21 +0000

Looks like a good video based on the overview. But like many here I’d prefer a text option.

New comment by bo1024 in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

bo1024 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:42:34 +0000

What is the smallest phone that Graphene will run on? I would love to switch but these massive pixel phones are a no go for me.

New comment by bo1024 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

bo1024 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:00:09 +0000

No, it’s not fully threaded like those examples (or HN). In a particular discussion, you can’t reply to a post in the middle and have your reply branch off from the main discussion.

New comment by bo1024 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

bo1024 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:15:58 +0000

Thank you!

I'd like to convince other parts of my organization to move to Zulip, this will help.

New comment by bo1024 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

bo1024 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:54:50 +0000

What’s the state of accessibility on Zulip?

(Thanks for making Zulip, I love it)