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New comment by cluckindan in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

cluckindan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:49:49 +0000

What did you spend the money on?

The other half goes where?

New comment by cluckindan in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

cluckindan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:53:19 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

New comment by cluckindan in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

cluckindan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:13:06 +0000

Please don’t use these sites, they alter archived content and use visitor browsers as a ddos botnet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

New comment by cluckindan in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"

cluckindan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:57:51 +0000

I made it in 3. Git gud.

New comment by cluckindan in "Tell HN: Meta is down"

cluckindan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:06:09 +0000

A communications disruption can only mean one thing…

New comment by cluckindan in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

cluckindan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:45:18 +0000

Sure it would, if it can capture the humidity evaporated from skin and breath.

New comment by cluckindan in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

cluckindan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:48:23 +0000

Food being made appealing is one thing and adding behaviorally reinforcing drugs into foods is another. Especially when the latter are not just one product, but a spectrum of products, each one engineered to produce addiction in a different group of people (nationality, ethnicity, genetics)

New comment by cluckindan in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

cluckindan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:21:22 +0000

It’s more than marketing, they’re applying cigarette processing principles to food processing: choosing specific flavor chemicals and additives to produce maximum addiction within the varied neurophysiological profiles of different consumer cohorts

They’re essentially engineering food to produce subtly mind-altering effects.

New comment by cluckindan in "I Must Attempt to Explain the Lego Scandal Rocking YouTube State of Utah"

cluckindan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:00:31 +0000

The people stealing legos were Mormons.

The cops defending the thieves and harassing the owners and investigators were Mormons.

New comment by cluckindan in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

cluckindan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:11:51 +0000

The rest of the nervous system

New comment by cluckindan in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

cluckindan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:27:15 +0000

A fundamental misunderstanding of consciousness is to attribute it entirely to the brain.

New comment by cluckindan in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

cluckindan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:26:18 +0000

Who cares?

AI models alone are most suitable for producing text nobody wants to read, music nobody wants to hear, images nobody wants to see, and videos nobody wants to watch.

Navigating around that maelstrom requires considerable effort from a human consciousness.

If your job can be fully replaced by an autonomous agent, it was already a bullshit job. Garbage in, garbage out.

New comment by cluckindan in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

cluckindan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:09:23 +0000

>We and our 1255 technology partners ask you to consent to …

That’s a new record!

Also, please don’t use archive.is/archive.today etc, they are known to use visitor browsers as a DDoS attack botnet and have been caught altering archived content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

New comment by cluckindan in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

cluckindan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:10:56 +0000

Flash worm into device and RMA it. Boom.

New comment by cluckindan in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

cluckindan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:08:09 +0000

It’s kind of insane this doesn’t happen in the publish pipeline by default.

New comment by cluckindan in "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert"

cluckindan — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:02:36 +0000

In the middle of a desert?

New comment by cluckindan in "We suggest using living spiders as cooling devices for data centers (2020)"

cluckindan — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:34:48 +0000

Finally, a C-suite position!

New comment by cluckindan in "Claude Opus 4.8"

cluckindan — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:56:52 +0000

As far as it has been studied, the relationship between model size and capability is inversely logarithmic: 10x increase in params less than doubles capability.

New comment by cluckindan in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

cluckindan — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:11:01 +0000

You get what you measure.

New comment by cluckindan in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

cluckindan — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:04:36 +0000

The average person sees a synthesizer keyboard and thinks ”piano”.