Hacker News: crumpled

New comment by crumpled in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

crumpled — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:41:53 +0000

Does anyone know the status of this whole release. The metadata was hosted, and now not hosted. I saw a torrent leaked of unpopular tracks.

No statements or blogs from AA explaining the metadata removal, or an updated release timeline.

Can anyone say more?

New comment by crumpled in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

crumpled — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:47:20 +0000

"...the company whose entire brand is AI safety"

Absolutely no AI company is trying to take up this banner. Examples of Claude being used in all kinds of nefarious ways are surfacing all the time, and all those human operators are still current customers. Anthropic has very little to say on the matter.

The idea that Anthropic is a "safety" brand suggests that AI companies operate in a much lower realm of morality.

New comment by crumpled in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

crumpled — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:41:21 +0000

The aurora store will identify whether apps require google play services before you try to install them.

New comment by crumpled in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

crumpled — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:07:44 +0000

If you use Aurora Store instead of the Play store, you can download APKs. They are a Google Play store proxy.

New comment by crumpled in "My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack"

crumpled — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:43:24 +0000

I was concerned about that too. Often when you tell them not to do something, you were better off not mentioning it in the first place. It's like they get fixated.

New comment by crumpled in "Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026"

crumpled — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:34:26 +0000

et.aliens.gov, mexicans.aliens.gov

It can do it all!

New comment by crumpled in "Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency"

crumpled — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:48:48 +0000

While the school is paying Thompson Reuters CLEAR for information about where their students supposedly live, CLEAR isn't limiting their data collection to just student families.

They are collecting information about everyone en masse and making up different problems they are "solving". Everyone in the US should realize that this is a story about themselves, not just some family in Chicago.

New comment by crumpled in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

crumpled — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:17:45 +0000

I agree with your point, and am only responding to the last sentence.

Starring can be useful to the starer. They are just counted because it is countable. Whether you find the number meaningful remains up to you.

New comment by crumpled in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

crumpled — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:47:46 +0000

The software seems to get into more and more and communicate about what it's doing less and less. That's the crux.

Pondering... Noodling... Some other nonsense...

New comment by crumpled in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

crumpled — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:06:11 +0000

Is Github an application store? Is npm? apt? yum?

If not, why not? You need age verification before you even create an account.

New comment by crumpled in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

crumpled — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:00:46 +0000

My partner has a 4a and no such issues. Are you talking about stock Android or something else,

New comment by crumpled in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

crumpled — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:27:29 +0000

Arguably, you get more and better domain experts in Wikipedia. I have a set of Britannicas, it's severely lacking in citations and definitely out of date, no matter how new.

The question of article quality has been studied from the very beginning. Wikipedia almost always wins.

New comment by crumpled in "Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware"

crumpled — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:18:59 +0000

I recognize that screenshot. The office managers just wanted smilies in their Outlook email.

New comment by crumpled in "Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware"

crumpled — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:15:46 +0000

I'm not the commentor, but you could get different results from the same curl command depending on what the server wants to give you at the time. The bash script can make additional curl calls or set up jobs that occur at other times.

I'm sure both of you understand this. I'm guessing it's just semantics.

New comment by crumpled in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

crumpled — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:44:57 +0000

Wikipedia is Creative Commons. Someone could conceivably publish a dead tree version that goes through an editor / editorial process.

Imagine being an editor of Britannica. Without having domain knowledge into absolutely everything, you are forced to trust domain experts.

Wikipedia has a marked advantage when it comes to building that trust, as the articles have been written under public scrutiny and with a great deal of discussion.

What else are you looking for with "traditional editorial structures"? Consistency in quality and completeness, which Wikipedia lacks. However, whenever an article has lower standards, Wikipedia is happy to point that out to the reader, and allow further refinement. A more traditional encyclopedia would simply omit the article entirely.

I'm not really seeing what a traditional editorial structure would be gaining anyone, seems like it would just be a smaller encyclopedia.

New comment by crumpled in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

crumpled — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:04:06 +0000

What's the point of these questions? Seems like, "what's the point of dissent if the cards are stacked against you?"

New comment by crumpled in "Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections"

crumpled — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:30:18 +0000

I would change that classification from "mere proposal" to "credible threat".

I'm honestly disappointed to see this flagged. What's the saying, "Even an SEO farm is right twice a day"?

New comment by crumpled in "Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections"

crumpled — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:04:50 +0000

What's happening on the media landscape is an enormous problem, highly manipulated and coordinated on the right-wing side. Flooding the zone is happening, among other things that weaken trust in journalism, weaken/defund/discourage investigative reporting, burying the lede information etc.

However, using the goon squad to illegally intimidate and disenfranchise voters is a problem large enough that calling it a would-be distraction from the Epstein files is doing everyone a disservice.

We have to pay attention to more than one thing. Saying is just a distraction from , means that you're too distracted by and need to step back and look around at all the other horrors.

New comment by crumpled in "Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections"

crumpled — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:50:49 +0000

It's not deflection. They're just doing multiple evil things at the same time.

New comment by crumpled in "Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections"

crumpled — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:49:29 +0000

The Project 2025 crew is so obvious about what they are doing, and the counter-measures seem to be along the lines of, "well, let's see how it goes."