Hacker News: dmschulman

New comment by dmschulman in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

dmschulman — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:07:34 +0000

I just launched my digital media shelf on my personal website, a catalog of my favorite books, movies, records, podcasts, and more. Lots of fun to build despite some false starts and fits:

https://dmschulman.com/shelf/

Calabi–Yau Manifold

dmschulman — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:34:36 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabi%E2%80%93Yau_manifold

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48494549

Points: 3

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New comment by dmschulman in "The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers"

dmschulman — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:13:36 +0000

Funny you should mention this. Benn Jordan, on the heels of his Flock camera research, reverse engineered a non-flock ALRP unit and built his own system using some off the shelf parts, a tablet, and 3D printer. He did it mostly as an experiment but also due to the fact that Flock's algorithm for image detection is astoundingly bad and has a high incident of reading plates incorrectly.

There are a handful of open-source models for license plate detection, I forget exactly which model outperformed the rest, but it was an excellent watch and help me really understand just how inefficient these commercial systems are and how easy they can be to defeat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

New comment by dmschulman in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

dmschulman — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:22:09 +0000

Have we colonized Mars yet? Asking for a friend.

Pope Leo's encyclical on preserving the human person in the AI era drops May 25

dmschulman — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178647

Points: 2

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Operation: Epic Furious

dmschulman — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:13:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.epicfurious.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109519

Points: 382

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New comment by dmschulman in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

dmschulman — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:29:12 +0000

I read this as "why are they going after a soldier who made $30k when they could be going after guys who made seven figures off of expertly timed trades on going to war with Iran"

New comment by dmschulman in "EFF is leaving X"

dmschulman — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:37:19 +0000

One of the biggest accounts on X hosts one of the most listened to podcasts on Spotify/Apple and has a huge following that's grown exponentially since 2023. He's an active Holocaust denier, proud antisemite, and dined with the president and members of his cabinet on more than one occasion.

To say there's no growing movement towards Nazi and anti-Jewish ideologies is to be willfully ignorant of the world around you.

New comment by dmschulman in "Peptides: where to begin?"

dmschulman — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:46:26 +0000

Your internal organs can't keep up with that kind of mass fluctuation, for one. Keep an eye on your kidneys.

New comment by dmschulman in "Peptides: where to begin?"

dmschulman — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:44:58 +0000

Taking continuing education credits to check a box for retaining professional licensure and educating yourself about emerging and novel concepts in your field are two vastly different things. If anything, CE helps professionals update their knowledge base regarding existing processes and procedures.

New comment by dmschulman in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

dmschulman — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:10:56 +0000

Hey now, I'm still reading the booK!

New comment by dmschulman in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

dmschulman — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:37:03 +0000

It's been interesting to watch some of Wynn-William's claims be vindicated by recent court decisions about the addictive and manipulative qualities of Meta and Google's products. She left the company in 2017, and along with her many other allegations about Facebook and their executive team, had a good amount of information in the book about the reasoning, rationale, and management decisions that led to allowing advertisers to hyper target "coveted" demographics of tweens and children (among other claims).

Facebook, according to Wynn-Williams, sold advertisers on the fact that they could target young girls who post and then remove selfies from their services in order to market to demographics who were likely experiencing depression and negative feelings about their body image.

30th Annual Webby Awards: Go Vote

dmschulman — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:26:52 +0000

Article URL: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594299

Points: 1

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New comment by dmschulman in "A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)"

dmschulman — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:27:54 +0000

Woosh

New comment by dmschulman in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

dmschulman — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:49:13 +0000

In addition to all the other answers here, foreign governments would fall over themselves to get this kind of data.

New comment by dmschulman in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

dmschulman — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:29:07 +0000

Additionally that kind of public trust only works if you have a government operating under the constraints of a legal framework, and to a lesser extent, an ethical framework. When a government serves the whims of an individual and instead of the function of their office, shirking agreed upon laws, etc, then you no longer have a government serving the people.

New comment by dmschulman in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

dmschulman — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:18:28 +0000

Google Glass failed because they made the user look like they were wearing a high tech computer on their face ala Dragon Ball Z. It looked odd. Meta and Snap learned from this, but it had nothing to do with smartphone cameras not being part of daily life.

The first iPhone was 2007. Google Glass came out in 2013

New comment by dmschulman in "Facebook is cooked"

dmschulman — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:46:15 +0000

One thing I've noticed is a large difference between what's served on Facebook's desktop site and what's served on their mobile version. I don't use the app, I just log into facebook.com on my phone, but the mobile version is serving 100% more of this AI slop than on desktop.

I think it's obvious why given the way users interact with sites/apps on their devices vs on desktop (they want to make FB mobile as TikTok-like as possible), but it's really striking how much of Facebook on mobile is just a bunch of AI slop at this point. I see some creep in on desktop too, mostly within the Reels/Shorts section (same creators/videos on both platforms, that is), but to see my recommended feed content be so vastly different indicates a lot to me about how the algorithm interprets user behavior and a lot of Meta's thinking about mobile audiences.

EDIT: mind you I don't follow a single topic or favorite anything on the platform, the content being served/recommended to me is purely based (as far as I can tell) on gender/demographic info they know about me and user behavior.

New comment by dmschulman in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

dmschulman — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:33:31 +0000

Did they even end up launching and maintaining the project? Did things break and were they able to fix it properly? The amount of front-loaded fondness for this technology without any of the practical execution and follow up really bugs me.

It's like we all fell under the spell of a terminal endlessly printing output as some kind of measurement of progress.

I Put My Cat on a T-Shirt That References the Movie 'Hackers', You Can't Stop Me

dmschulman — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:10:42 +0000

Article URL: https://defector.com/i-put-my-cat-on-a-t-shirt-that-references-the-movie-hackers-and-you-cant-stop-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916104

Points: 1

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