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New comment by bryanrasmussen in "France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months"

bryanrasmussen — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:31:01 +0000

Not everybody writes in the language they want to exploit I suppose, that's the great thing about LLMs!

on edit: even though I don't know C or C++ (I suppose it's C but can't be sure) I do think I can figure out what it's doing and how to guess what the password is, so that seems bad.

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

bryanrasmussen — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:20:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp814l80pw2o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50162044

Points: 3

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New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky"

bryanrasmussen — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:11:01 +0000

in English you say bow-wow. And a lot of other potential words.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky"

bryanrasmussen — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:09:41 +0000

obviously the idea is not that all cultures have the same word for the sound that a dog makes, but rather if you ask people from cultures which is the sound a dog makes "woof" or "miaow" assuming they have these concepts for the animals they would say "woof".

I am not arguing this is the case, but the original poster obviously feels it is, connecting it to the top level post's idea of common ideas for what words describe over languages.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Show HN: I re-read the terms of 175 AI tools twice; 60% changed in 15 weeks"

bryanrasmussen — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:15:34 +0000

user abdallahamjid is evidently flagged, I've noticed this a lot for new users, I guess to comat spam/bots, but I think the comment is ok.

perhaps should not be flagged automatically in their own posts?

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Show HN: I re-read the terms of 175 AI tools twice; 60% changed in 15 weeks"

bryanrasmussen — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:12:58 +0000

since the post right below this is https://www.theaithinker.com/p/how-to-build-a-saas-product-w...

how to build a saas product with claude code I wonder what limitations on monetization exist for code.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "A database of temperatures for large inland lakes across the coterminous U.S."

bryanrasmussen — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:08:29 +0000

original title: A database of in situ water temperatures for large inland lakes across the coterminous United States

A database of temperatures for large inland lakes across the coterminous U.S.

bryanrasmussen — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:08:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03103-8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150913

Points: 6

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New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana"

bryanrasmussen — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:43:48 +0000

given that you are now officially required to show furigana on names in family registers there seems to be a small but consistent market for something like this

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/06/06/language/furiga...

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Super Intelligence"

bryanrasmussen — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:59:19 +0000

What?! And raise revolutionaries!? That's crazy talk.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter"

bryanrasmussen — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:34:34 +0000

>In the context of using LLMs as a higher-level compiler, I don't think people are arguing that management should be the people writing that higher-level code.

I felt this was somewhat arguing it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114047

>It seems like your points are:

>1. Programmers sometimes do something other than what they're told, so what's the harm in letting an LLM be disobedient instead?

1. People spend a lot of time talking about how LLMs often do something other than what they are told, as if people forget that they aren't especially good at doing what they're told either.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter"

bryanrasmussen — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:26:33 +0000

How often do programmers do what managers say, and how often do managers say what is wanted or needed?

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "We are entering a period of overlapping crises"

bryanrasmussen — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:22:17 +0000

I feel like you rephrased what I said, as if it would correct my understanding?

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Turn an old junk phone into a Talking Jack-O-Lantern"

bryanrasmussen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:59:55 +0000

even though I've just been badmouthing Denmark in another thread, in Denmark it is pretty unlikely to be gone - like less than 1% chance I would say, especially if you just do it for Halloween night which is the only one that it would be important.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "We are entering a period of overlapping crises"

bryanrasmussen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:54:27 +0000

I don't feel like it's AI, but I do get the feeling of reading someone dipping into the bucket of their local version of English slang, and maybe doing some context switching that they cannot handle as adeptly as could be hoped, to the detriment of the article's readability.

I suppose there are probably people out there snorting in disbelief and saying "you're one to talk", but that's how I feel.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA"

bryanrasmussen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:44:13 +0000

I feel the stilts are somewhat ugly, the roundness of the house is enticing, although roundness is bad for storage and furnishing things (as everything is built for square things) I have experienced that round rooms are very pleasant to be in.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA"

bryanrasmussen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:41:36 +0000

the national park service has a nicer outside picture I think https://www.nps.gov/places/donaldson-futuro.htm

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)"

bryanrasmussen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:36:55 +0000

I would put resourcefulness as a form of intelligence. So it may be that I have a more expansive definition of what can be smart, and what can be stupid, than you do.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)"

bryanrasmussen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:25:31 +0000

someone else's experience as black.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100397

I knew a good number of gay people, and I don't think they had it particularly easy.

As a punk rocker I was always having to fight because of how I looked, but I guess that is just for being an asshole who did not look enough like other people. Again, if you fit into Utah, it is probably a really nice place. This is probably the case about almost anywhere though.

on edit: obviously I might have had the same experiences and noticed the same experiences somewhere else. I was in Eugene Oregon from 13 to 15, Utah from 15 to mid twenties, San Francisco a couple of years, Utah, and then returned to Denmark. The only place I ever experienced assholes every time I went out was Utah, until Denmark and having a disabled child that didn't "look" disabled.

But maybe if I had lived on the East coast I would have the same observation, that you can go out all the time and meet assholes and it isn't your fault , and the implication that it is your fault is really implying that you need to change your skin color or gender preferences and you'll stop being "the asshole", which is a pretty fucked up opinion to be conveying in the nice pithy aphorism.

New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)"

bryanrasmussen — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:22:12 +0000

Well, maybe it has changed since I lived there. Nonetheless, about 11 years ago at my daughter's kindergarten I met a black guy he grew up in New York and I said I'd lived in Utah and he said he passed through there once and he remembered walking down the street, he had big dreadlocks and I guess looked alternative (the street must have been South Temple given his description) and he was freaked out about all the weird stares he got from people and how people were locking doors as he walked by, because, and I quote, he had "never experienced anything like that place" and perhaps my own feelings about Utah affected my opinion that yes, that was very like Utah.