Hacker News: colordrops

New comment by colordrops in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

colordrops — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:51:40 +0000

Don't defend them then. Do you believe the same should be true of your operating system? If not, then it shouldn't be true of the browser either.

New comment by colordrops in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

colordrops — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:15:17 +0000

So our strategy should be to shut down AI so it leaves vulnerabilities everywhere? Not sure what you are saying. Fixing security bugs across the world's software isn't some single policy action that we can vote on.

Governments should behave. I know they don't, but they should, and the population should do everything in their power to force them to. What other choice do we have?

Please demonstrate your powerful faculty of critical thought and explain what we should do instead.

New comment by colordrops in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

colordrops — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:12:50 +0000

What do you mean "Nope", you mean "Yep" right? What you are describing is precisely "more authoritarian and aggressive"

New comment by colordrops in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

colordrops — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:07:51 +0000

Which is to say that they will become more authoritarian and aggressive? That's not a good reason to be unhappy that they can no longer hack shit. They shouldn't do that either.

New comment by colordrops in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

colordrops — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:06:26 +0000

Right? I saw "I’m concerned that U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are about to go dark, meaning lose a huge portion of their capability." and my first reaction was GOOD.

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

colordrops — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:27:52 +0000

There really needs to be a "terse mode" for Claude. It's WAY too loquacious. I'm hoping they aren't doing it on purpose to burn tokens.

New comment by colordrops in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

colordrops — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:10:47 +0000

I'm still confused about Qwen 3.6 35B A3B. Everything I read said that the 27B model performs better at coding tasks, so what's the purpose of the 35B model?

New comment by colordrops in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

colordrops — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:30:56 +0000

Assuming your model of reality is materialist and all of reality is created by grey matter, then yes.

New comment by colordrops in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

colordrops — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:30:00 +0000

They might be neurotoxic.

New comment by colordrops in "Grok 4.6"

colordrops — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:05:48 +0000

Also, "criminal activity" doesn't have the same definition across jurisdictions. Seems like it would either be overzealous in its refusals or be easy to jailbreak by claiming a jurisdiction that is loose.

New comment by colordrops in "Pixel Watch 5"

colordrops — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:17:13 +0000

then what's the point of the watch? Can you see the data without a cloud connection? Can it be uploaded to your phone without going to the cloud?

New comment by colordrops in "Pixel Watch 5"

colordrops — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:41:27 +0000

Too bad all your health data gets sent to Google.

New comment by colordrops in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

colordrops — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:14:10 +0000

Do you realize how much stamina and physical prowess are required to drive an F1 car?

New comment by colordrops in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

colordrops — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:12:40 +0000

https://futurism.com/sim-racing-virtual-motorsport-beat-form...

New comment by colordrops in "Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia"

colordrops — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:58:18 +0000

I regularly get "adult missing" alerts in Los Angeles, often with no more content than that. Absolutely useless. I can't think of any reason they send those out other than abject brain damaged incompetence or priming for some false flag.

New comment by colordrops in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

colordrops — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:15:43 +0000

Yeah, I'm familiar with that, and I try to break them into small pieces, but sometimes I just pop one. I always get the smallest dose I can find. I don't really use it except for jetlag anyway.

New comment by colordrops in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

colordrops — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:12:55 +0000

You can instruct it to be terse and even take on a specific voice if the standard prose bothers you.

New comment by colordrops in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

colordrops — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:16:37 +0000

Anecdote - I've used it dozens of times and I'm always foggy in the AM, so I avoid it if I have to be sharp the next morning. Perhaps it's a coincidence and this study is flawed, but I can believe it pretty easily.

New comment by colordrops in "Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes"

colordrops — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:18:34 +0000

For those downvoting me:

https://samueli.ucla.edu/bursting-your-bubble-chewing-gum-re...

This includes natural gum bases.

New comment by colordrops in "Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes"

colordrops — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:14:27 +0000

This is a content-free comment. First, it's a statement of fact, not a logical deduction. Please explain where I'm wrong and educate all of us.

HN is pretty good normally, but it has its share of idiots too.

https://samueli.ucla.edu/bursting-your-bubble-chewing-gum-re...