Hacker News: bulder

New comment by bulder in "Cloudflare's AI Psychosis"

bulder — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:12:33 +0000

Being signed into Google doesn't really figure into Cloudflare's systems at all, haven't for years. They replaced ReCaptcha ages ago.

New comment by bulder in "Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case"

bulder — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:44:28 +0000

The code for expert systems and especially decision trees can be audited. How do you audit a language model's decisions when it could have had hidden trigger phrases that subtly influence its reasoning baked into it?

New comment by bulder in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

bulder — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:08:34 +0000

Because they use a commercial service (AT Internet) for analytics and visitor tracking as stated in their cookies policy and cookie inventory. This information is readily available through the cookie banner.

New comment by bulder in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

bulder — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:29:21 +0000

If it was overtrained on academic papers it'd reiterate the point multiple times for structure. Instead, it's burying the lede seemingly just to pad.

New comment by bulder in "Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it"

bulder — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:14:16 +0000

The stigma surrounding AI use will get worse if... People know AI is being used? Sorry how does maintaining heightened paranoia by omitting clear signals help exactly?

New comment by bulder in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

bulder — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:39:03 +0000

The figures used don't count browser users at all, signed in or not

New comment by bulder in "Grok Bot"

bulder — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:24:28 +0000

Presumably it'll either mean selling "agent seats", or billing seats for every started hour of use. With a monthly minimum, of course.

New comment by bulder in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

bulder — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:41:43 +0000

Would you be willing to do free work for a corporate entity that explicitly financializes that work's benefits? Would you be willing to do free work for a corporate entity whose entire business model is making sure they sit as a gatekeeper between your free work and others who would benefit from your work?

For some it's demoralizing to know that your work will be broken down and atomized into language model mush, and the credit will go to the computer.

New comment by bulder in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

bulder — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:50:23 +0000

The downside, as stated in the message, is implicitly supporting the LLM data ingestation pipeline by providing fresh content. It's not a direct harm in itself, but feels very tragedy of the commonsy

New comment by bulder in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

bulder — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:06:45 +0000

Generally when I read a literal genie story, the message isn't 'well it was reasonable of the genie to do this'. It's more commonly either a morality tale of the person being wrong to ask for whatever it was they asked for, or just a "wouldn't it be fucked up if the genie did that huh"

New comment by bulder in "200 Milliseconds"

bulder — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:34:33 +0000

The user-facing string stuff is definitely the thing that drives me the most nuts. I guess it's nice that it defaults to gag-inducingly transparent, but I don't think the backend structure should be written out in the title element of the app.

New comment by bulder in "Apple is getting this wrong"

bulder — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:11:08 +0000

Corporate posting in the weeks immediately surrounding a legal case or ruling impacting tech companies is definitely my favorite brand of written text. Despite not paying full attention to EU legislation, I get reliably notified by Google about every tiny bit of antitrust from them posting a "Google brings millions into the EU's [field they are getting hit with antitrust in] ecosystem" vagueblog about it.

New comment by bulder in "Show HN: ssh ssh.place"

bulder — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:12:44 +0000

Agent forwarding would be pretty big, if it for example pushed your git credentials to the remote host.

New comment by bulder in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

bulder — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:36:33 +0000

LLMs very much operate on the level of text. That text can represent ideas, but it can also directly be a copyrighted work.

I am however very interested in the novel interpretation of copyright that says that you can do whatever as long as your compression is lossy.

New comment by bulder in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

bulder — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:13:53 +0000

Destroying unsold clothes is financially the most efficient thing to do. It remains unclear to me how taking actions to maintain higher markups on products would be socially efficient in any way. Companies of course can keep doing it, they just will face financial and legislative repercussions for it.

New comment by bulder in "Lego building instructions through time"

bulder — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:55:38 +0000

There's a bunch of lines before the 7th paragraph that say stuff like "suggests" and immediately before the line you quoted, "Although the material is scarce on the subject,". That's just the nature of history, sometimes you just don't have the full documentation even when you're talking about your own company.

New comment by bulder in "Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning"

bulder — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:50:33 +0000

Any specific reason as to why you'd want to make that, outside of intentionally enabling fraud?

New comment by bulder in "GPT-5.6"

bulder — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:09:14 +0000

If it's anywhere close to the same universe as smaller models in its behavior, a lot of time in "thinking" mode is spent on reiterating on any constraints given in a prompt. So the more constraints you give it, the more tokens it will spend going "Hold on, the prompt said I have to dot my i's and cross my t's. Let me go through my work to check that all the i's are dotted."

New comment by bulder in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

bulder — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:52:12 +0000

How is pasting an article into an LLM going to get you a neutral opinion? It'll be at best an 'opinion' that aligns towards the fine tune dataset used by the org that made the LLM. I'd rather people own their own bias and bring something into the conversation rather than act as a mouthpiece for a statistical median.

New comment by bulder in "Jim's TrueType QR Code Font"

bulder — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:12:55 +0000

Conventional web technologies already can handle this kind of use case, either by wrapping an image in a link tag, or using an alt= value.