Hacker News: byteknight

New comment by byteknight in "GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades"

byteknight — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:33:58 +0000

Never thought about it from that perspective, but I think you're right. It is by design, not deceptive intent, just the infinite monkeys theorem where we've replaced randomness with pattern matching trained on massive datasets.

New comment by byteknight in "A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS"

byteknight — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:58:28 +0000

May be helpful for others. Fully packaged version

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

New comment by byteknight in "Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript"

byteknight — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:43:22 +0000

Seems similar to the problem encountered when making the stupid idea PyNQ:

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/PyNQ

New comment by byteknight in "Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]"

byteknight — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:22:21 +0000

Isn't that specific to pictures?

New comment by byteknight in "Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]"

byteknight — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:12:16 +0000

Encryption is defined as "the process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access."

What you describe is the same thing just not cryptographic.

New comment by byteknight in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

byteknight — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:24:56 +0000

Are you doing roleplay?

New comment by byteknight in "FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons"

byteknight — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:05:26 +0000

Seems so easy! You only need the entire world even tangentially related to video to rely solely on your project for a task and you too can have all the developers you need to work on performance!

New comment by byteknight in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:15:27 +0000

"Just ask AI" is a phrase you will hear around enterprises now. You less often hear "Google it". You hear "ChatGPT it".

New comment by byteknight in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:14:38 +0000

Not sure how that fits. Do you produce good results every time, first try? Didn't think so.

New comment by byteknight in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:19:51 +0000

I think you replied in the wrong place, bud. All the best.

EDIT - I see now. sorry.

For all intents and purposes of the public. AI == LLM. End of story. Doesn't matter what developers say.

New comment by byteknight in "NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:56:36 +0000

As an American, I obviously can get behind it, but I can easily see how a declared goal of superiority of others would rub those others the wrong way (and possibly prevent their contribution)

[Insert xkcd new standard image here]

New comment by byteknight in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:58:25 +0000

I have to disagree. Anyone that says LLMs do not qualify as AI are the same people who will continue to move the goal posts for AGI. "Well it doesn't do this!". No one here is trying to replicate a human brain or condition in its entirety. They just want to replicate the thinking ability of one. LLMs represent the closest parallel we have experienced thus far to that goal. Saying that LLMs are not AI feel disingenuous at best and entirely purposely dishonest at the worst (perhaps perceived as staving off the impending demise of a profession).

The sooner people stop worrying about a label for what you feel fits LLMs best, the sooner they can find the things they (LLMs) absolutely excel at and improve their (the user's) workflows.

Stop fighting the future. Its not replacing right now. Later? Maybe. But right now the developers and users fully embracing it are experiencing productivity boosts unseen previously.

Language is what people use it as.

New comment by byteknight in "Uber will let women drivers and riders request to avoid being paired with men"

byteknight — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:18:14 +0000

While it is totally nonsensical, as as suggestion as a business practice, I will indulge in the idea as if you are being genuine.

You cannot give a gender more money to do the same job with the criteria being a specific gender. That is blatantly illegal.

New comment by byteknight in "Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet"

byteknight — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:31:47 +0000

But in reality, would much more consistently be automated by a single playwright script.

New comment by byteknight in "MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation"

byteknight — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:18:55 +0000

He rewrote history to hide it?

He admits it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44516104

New comment by byteknight in "Get the location of the ISS using DNS"

byteknight — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:52:53 +0000

Gives a whole new meaning to its always DNS.

New comment by byteknight in "FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores"

byteknight — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:38:53 +0000

Regardless no one can make you buy anything

New comment by byteknight in "EchoLeak – 0-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from 365 Copilot"

byteknight — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:26:24 +0000

No, zero click requires no interaction from the user. For a hypothetical example simply having a phone on a cellular network and being susceptible to base-band attacks. No interaction needed, just existing.

New comment by byteknight in "A dark adtech empire fed by fake CAPTCHAs"

byteknight — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:31:24 +0000

It bypasses a lot of the checks they do on the initial site when submitting to ad networks. It also allows custom redirections based on user agent, potential ip location, etc. Common in phishing.

New comment by byteknight in "Chatterbox TTS"

byteknight — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:04:01 +0000

TTS is a very common initialism for Text-to-Speech going back to at least the 90s.