Hacker News: cowlevel

New comment by cowlevel in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:56:35 +0000

LLMs don't know about their human review processes or safeguards except insofar as they're in the training material.

New comment by cowlevel in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:42:42 +0000

why?

New comment by cowlevel in "Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:36:17 +0000

This one doesn't since it's a US outlet and they don't have free speech in the US, on Israel-related matters. The Irish Times reported the Israel connection though.

New comment by cowlevel in "Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:34:46 +0000

Most of Europe and especially Germany; and Oceania; and half the gulf states. And that's just the places I know of, because the news about them is in English.

New comment by cowlevel in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:52:11 +0000

Is California making itself less car dependent or is it just taxing cars while remaining car dependent?

New comment by cowlevel in "Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:51:20 +0000

We also know it was Israel because they said it was Israel, as reported by other media from the few Western countries that don't like Israel: https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/10/06/former-ge...

New comment by cowlevel in "Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:50:16 +0000

And that's probably why Israel is allied with everyone. They have such good spies, they have endless blackmail material for politicians.

For instance, it's suspected that Epstein worked for Israel to acquire blackmail material. We know Epstein recorded everything that happened on that island, and not secretly.

New comment by cowlevel in "Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:49:04 +0000

> Hanning is strongly suspected of treasonous espionage, attempted treason, and espionage.

Well that clears that up.

Is anyone else shocked that the head spy was a spy, or that Germany was being blackmailed by Mossad?

New comment by cowlevel in "I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:46:46 +0000

And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

New comment by cowlevel in "I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:44:59 +0000

And you best control the birth rate by royally messing up the economy. Do you know how bad things have to be, for a mammal to voluntarily decide not to reproduce?

New comment by cowlevel in "Christophe Pettus: The Vector That Lied About Its Dimensions"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:43:53 +0000

AI writeup

New comment by cowlevel in "Building advertising for the way people use AI"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:43:06 +0000

Don't you think VC-backed startups need to know the trends in advertising?

New comment by cowlevel in "Screens Aren't Destroying Young Minds. I Should Know"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:41:29 +0000

Also the friends you don't get from real life aren't compensated by the ones you get online. Also just life experience.

And everyone thinks they're fine. When I was 25, I was still afraid of eating at restaurants. But I thought I turned out fine.

New comment by cowlevel in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:44:49 +0000

Either a whole lot of money is about to be sucked out of markets or money is about to massively devalue. This is the bill coming due for the zero interest rate years, seen from one company's vantage point.

New comment by cowlevel in "We are going to kill "unalive""

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:32:12 +0000

I take it you're talking about Gaza.

New comment by cowlevel in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

cowlevel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:54:33 +0000

Models don't have access to the internet unless you give them access to the internet

New comment by cowlevel in "A third way of using Linux"

cowlevel — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:29:16 +0000

PC is the weird exception in having a character mode at all for compatibility reasons. every other platform does the character mapping in software.

New comment by cowlevel in "A third way of using Linux"

cowlevel — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:28:15 +0000

Emacs in ed mode, but you list them in the opposite order from the article.

New comment by cowlevel in "A third way of using Linux"

cowlevel — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:27:45 +0000

> What gives you the benefit of a visual interface, without the bloat that comes with Wayland or X11?

fbdev?