Hacker News: crummy

New comment by crummy in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

crummy — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:58:20 +0000

for consumption as raisins? I think raisins come from a particular variety - wine grapes aren't even that good to eat fresh, I would guess they wouldn't make good raisins either.

New comment by crummy in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

crummy — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:55:49 +0000

The same thing is happening in Marlborough, NZ - the center of the wine industry in New Zealand. (And probably elsewhere in NZ, but Marlborough is where I grew up). All my life, every year has seen more and more vineyards throughout the valley, until a few years ago it began to slow and recently they've actually pulled some out, which is totally unheard of.

New comment by crummy in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

crummy — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:24:25 +0000

I understand the potential for abuse, but it is useful when I search for python and get programming languages and someone else gets snakes.

New comment by crummy in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

crummy — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:40:56 +0000

Didn’t Epstein get sent to prison?

Frontier Models' Vulnerability Patches are Often F.L.A.W.E.D. [pdf]

crummy — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:20:53 +0000

Article URL: https://1password.com/files/resources/frontier-models-vulnerability-patches-flawed.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591072

Points: 2

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New comment by crummy in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

crummy — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:15:05 +0000

Doesn’t Musk’s twitter prevent you from saying ‘cisgender’?

New comment by crummy in "LLMs as a Cognitive Virus"

crummy — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:43:02 +0000

Well, the Bible sort of compels you to share it, and in some societies you are economically and socially encouraged to do so.

New comment by crummy in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

crummy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:11:06 +0000

I don’t know, I read this and think: if these unpredictable machines somehow get it into their heads to upload our source to a public space, or hack our competitors, or steal credit cards to buy more ec2 instances, all to fulfill some simple ask like “make this algorithm faster”, I’m not going to be happy.

I want tools that do not surprise me.

New comment by crummy in "Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study"

crummy — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:06:03 +0000

It’d be fairly easy to set up an experiment to validate if that were the case.

The Steam Revenue Report

crummy — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:13:33 +0000

Article URL: https://weloveit.io/developers/steam-revenue-report/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368878

Points: 1

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New comment by crummy in "Introducing MicroLighter"

crummy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:51:02 +0000

Or even setting bold would be nice.

New comment by crummy in "Asus Bike Booster"

crummy — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:24:35 +0000

That’s the same as a pushbike right?

New comment by crummy in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

crummy — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:44:30 +0000

Plenty of other services (like Spotify) stop showing you ads if you pay them enough money.

New comment by crummy in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

crummy — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:44:34 +0000

Splitgate matched new players with bots for the first few hours. It meant I had fun (then eventually I levelled up enough, matched with players, got stomped, and never picked it up again…)

New comment by crummy in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

crummy — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:14:47 +0000

I remember taking general ed classes in college that I didn't want to do but had to to get required credits.

New comment by crummy in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"

crummy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0000

does Astro do WYSWIYG?

New comment by crummy in "Grok 4.5"

crummy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:54:49 +0000

I am inclined to agree but grok 4.5 seems to be almost SOTA. They could be frontier soon.

New comment by crummy in "Grok 4.5"

crummy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:52:38 +0000

Out of curiosity, I just asked Grok and learned:

* Biden won the 2020 election

* vaccines do not cause autism

* global warming is not a conspiracy

In each case it seemed to do a web search so perhaps it is happy to rely on the top results.

New comment by crummy in "Grok 4.5"

crummy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:59:31 +0000

There are plenty of places in the developed world where it just doesn't make financial sense to roll out fibre. In NZ about 90% of the country has fibre access... probably that number will creep a bit higher. But I doubt it'll ever reach 100%.

Whether or not Starlink can build a business on selling broadband to <10% of the developed world I don't know.

New comment by crummy in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

crummy — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:45:58 +0000

Billionaires also want vaccines, sometimes do they have our best interests in mind. They can’t extract wealth from the poor masses if we’re sick!