Hacker News: bttrpll

New comment by bttrpll in "Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want"

bttrpll — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:15:28 +0000

DJT got rid of the middlemen (lobbyists)?

New comment by bttrpll in "Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's 2024 Letter to Shareholders"

bttrpll — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 03:08:23 +0000

Quite fitting, as Jassy loves hockey.

New comment by bttrpll in "Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's 2024 Letter to Shareholders"

bttrpll — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 03:06:25 +0000

ahhh... 5 whys... having horrible flashbacks of that place.

New comment by bttrpll in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

bttrpll — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 01:27:31 +0000

Brave Search + Google Scholar for me.

New comment by bttrpll in "Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access"

bttrpll — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:52:51 +0000

> Give me a way to filter out results with ads on them please.

Use Brave Search with Goggles (https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover). It's great.

New comment by bttrpll in "Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access"

bttrpll — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:44:12 +0000

For me, quotes no longer are exact match. Google Search is kind of a bust.

New comment by bttrpll in "Apple's $22B Loss Risk as Google Might Cease to Be Default Search Engine"

bttrpll — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:14:48 +0000

Selling off your data privacy... duhhh. :crying:

New comment by bttrpll in "Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic"

bttrpll — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:13:02 +0000

My favorite is these "vibe coding" situations that leave SQL injection and auth vulns because copy-paste ChatGPT. Never change.

New comment by bttrpll in "Apple's $22B Loss Risk as Google Might Cease to Be Default Search Engine"

bttrpll — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:15:57 +0000

Use Mullvad + Brave Search. Problem solved.

New comment by bttrpll in "Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28"

bttrpll — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:05:26 +0000

This equates to "Mic popping at-will." "Hyper-surveillance state."

Unplug those things already. Alexa devices are spyware.

New comment by bttrpll in "Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo"

bttrpll — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:08:56 +0000

yes. that was the original design actually. and it worked. latency was a bit much though.

New comment by bttrpll in "Enhancing Frame Detection with Retrieval Augmented Generation"

bttrpll — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 04:33:32 +0000

Love FrameNet. Awesome to see it's alive and in-use.

New comment by bttrpll in "Alexa+"

bttrpll — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:52:14 +0000

I remember when Alexa in a household appliances (e.g., microwaves) and nearly burned people's houses down. This should be interesting.

New comment by bttrpll in "uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled"

bttrpll — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:30:52 +0000

Brave Browser works (Chromium)

New comment by bttrpll in "uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled"

bttrpll — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:30:13 +0000

works on Brave Browser

New comment by bttrpll in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

bttrpll — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:38:32 +0000

is X susceptible to DDOS?

New comment by bttrpll in "Amazon's new Alexa delayed – again – over incorrect answers"

bttrpll — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:58:56 +0000

Humans get things wrong too. Humans are not 100% accurate; not by any stretch.

New comment by bttrpll in "Anduril to take over Microsoft's U.S. Army $22B headset program"

bttrpll — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:25:21 +0000

Smart move.

New comment by bttrpll in "[dead]"

bttrpll — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:14:17 +0000

Perhaps DJT took a liking to Altman after Altman's own sister came out with the sexual assault allegations[1], and Altman's business continues to be hit with an ever-growing list of lawsuits[2]. "One of us! One of us!" style.

Altman clings to the presidential coffers, while DJT clings to Altman's presumed innocence until proven guilty (because DJT is a convicted felon, guilty many times over of sexual assault, abuse, and fraud). Quite the villainous duo.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6lq6x2gd9o [2]https://www.thestreet.com/technology/copyright-lawsuits-agai...

New comment by bttrpll in "California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023"

bttrpll — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:20:42 +0000

Also reminds me of Amazon being sued for giving employees access to Ring data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/08/ring-ha...