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New comment by corobo in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

corobo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:04:10 +0000

AI is only creative when it's messing up. Guide rails are basically the opposite to the subversive nature of jokes, so the only time it can make with the funny is by falling off the rails

(or lifting some comedians work, but I'm not counting that as the AI's creation of course)

New comment by corobo in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

corobo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:56:42 +0000

If mind viruses exist this is one of them along with saying "nice" after something is 69 haha

Weird sort of internet-evolved performance art where people act out the old quote, every time.

It's 20 years old. Quit having fun!

New comment by corobo in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

corobo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:54:06 +0000

Christ I'd be so embarrassed to find out my AI robot has been discussing things with outsiders without my oversight

Does nobody have any shame lmao

New comment by corobo in "YC's Biggest Scandals"

corobo — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:18:26 +0000

I like how you need to tap the spoiler tags to show the text which works as a link to the individual page where you need to again unveil the spoilers

New comment by corobo in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

corobo — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:09:23 +0000

Dunno what it is with the wording but my brain started reading it in a bit of a "Hello Clarice" Hannibal Lecter style lol

>The specific combination of fonts on your device is nearly unique — like a fingerprint made of letters

Is this one true? I've not made any changes to fonts on my phone that I know of, wouldn't it just be bog standard iPhone fonts?

Curiosity not challenge

Would be cool if you actually did track just to prove the point like "you've opened this page 6 times now, 2 of those were via VPN and one time was using the Firefox Focus browser. Have you found any flaws in the data yet?"

New comment by corobo in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

corobo — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:36:36 +0000

I just treat it as if I'd asked a public forum the question like reddit.

Decent for stuff that doesn't really matter, even if it gets it wrong.

Still gonna be polite to it because I'm about ready to slap the next person that talks to me like an LLM, I don't want to get used to not being polite in a chat interface

New comment by corobo in "GPT-5.5"

corobo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:04:33 +0000

Oh no they gave GPT ADHD

New comment by corobo in "Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS"

corobo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:55:03 +0000

100k a month?? Well there's yer problem lmao

New comment by corobo in "Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS"

corobo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:53:04 +0000

It takes the recurring out of recurring revenue, 100% churn

New comment by corobo in "Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)"

corobo — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:11:26 +0000

The malware of "up next" that eats billions of hours a year lol

New comment by corobo in "Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English"

corobo — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:16:58 +0000

LLMs are an amazing advance in natural language parsing.

The problem is someone decided that and the contents of Wikipedia was all something needs to be intelligent haha

New comment by corobo in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

corobo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:39:41 +0000

As long as they start with the titular character that's a fair end to the species

Chances are half of humans would vote for it too

New comment by corobo in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

corobo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:35:39 +0000

> maybe these robots don’t last that long

Landfills full of broken robots is totally something humans would do haha

New comment by corobo in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

corobo — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:39:14 +0000

How are they going to stop it?

A certain combination of nonstandard characters will make an AI character drop an n-word no problem

I guess they could chuck the output through whisper or something to see if it transcribes back to anything dodgy?

LLM security feels very ball of sand held together with duct tape haha

New comment by corobo in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

corobo — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:01:38 +0000

I feel like such a dumbass for falling for it.

At first I thought it was just super American cheerful or whatever but after the South Park episode I realised it's actually just a yes man to everyone.

I don't think I've really used it since, I don't want man or machine sticking their nose up my arse lmao. Spell's broken.

New comment by corobo in "Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026"

corobo — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:55:40 +0000

The second most enviable is locally hosting "Computer"

The entirety of the future Starfleet on our current timeline gets bricked whenever us-east-1 goes offline

New comment by corobo in "Being poor vs. being broke"

corobo — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:36:24 +0000

Low salary for the role in my local area and not moving to a city when I still had the ability to take credit out

New comment by corobo in "Being poor vs. being broke"

corobo — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:07:50 +0000

I work and earn money, my balance has never been above zero. Worded it clumsily maybe.

New comment by corobo in "Being poor vs. being broke"

corobo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:03:29 +0000

No consolation needed - if I come across as woe is me it's not the intention. It is what it is and all that. I've got food, I've got shelter. It'll do.

You're born, you keep your head down, and you die - if you're lucky.

New comment by corobo in "Being poor vs. being broke"

corobo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:32:48 +0000

> a £50 fine might as well be £50,000- its unpayable, and leads to a sort of doom-spiral of lending to avoid worse consequences. Easily you can end up in unmanageable debt

Yup! Bank gave me an overdraft when I was 16. At 37 I'm still in debt connected to that first bit of "free" money.

I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care. They can write me off as a minor loss when I kick it haha