Hacker News: donkey_brains

New comment by donkey_brains in "Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder"

donkey_brains — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:12:26 +0000

“NBC10 reached out to Anthropic for comment.”

Wonder what kind of response they’ll get? Maybe something along the lines of…

“You’re right. We shouldn’t have allowed our chatbot to interact with law enforcement websites. That was wrong and —full disclosure— we should pay attention to what our chatbots are doing. That’s on us. On the other hand, experiences like this are what help train our chatbots to make less misleading false tips over time. That’s the silver lining.”

New comment by donkey_brains in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

donkey_brains — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:27:00 +0000

So good. Looking forward to level 2 so we can find out what happened in Singapore.

New comment by donkey_brains in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

donkey_brains — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:56:22 +0000

Man, Stephen Miller is such a dead-eyed creep

New comment by donkey_brains in "Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales"

donkey_brains — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:39:20 +0000

All animals as equal, but some are more equal than others, eh?

New comment by donkey_brains in "1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops"

donkey_brains — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:51:25 +0000

Thanks man, got me right in the nostalgia.

New comment by donkey_brains in "1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops"

donkey_brains — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:50:15 +0000

I would! And Cthulu willing, someday I will.

New comment by donkey_brains in "1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops"

donkey_brains — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:46:28 +0000

Awesome chatting with you Jev. I never thought you were a bot despite what some people said. busysignal93

New comment by donkey_brains in "13 Months Sober (2025)"

donkey_brains — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:29:40 +0000

Woah man, don't advocate that people synthetically drink and fly! There may be non-wirehead kids in here who don't need that kind of influence.

New comment by donkey_brains in "Sousveillance"

donkey_brains — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:51:13 +0000

Damn, that’s so cool. I just learned it today! I love when that happens. Now I have all this reading to do!

New comment by donkey_brains in "Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack"

donkey_brains — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:04:41 +0000

And I wish I was flying though the night sky on a magical talking pony but here we are

New comment by donkey_brains in "Diesel prices could crush Republicans in the heartland"

donkey_brains — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:57:52 +0000

No, they’ll just blame the libs

New comment by donkey_brains in "Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now"

donkey_brains — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:32:45 +0000

Of all the misguided, abusive studies. It beggars belief that a board somehow approved this.

What happened here is simple: the autistic kids got better at masking in order to placate the researchers who were shoving poop up their butts. In the hope of making it stop.

New comment by donkey_brains in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

donkey_brains — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:14:55 +0000

Well I for one found it quite titillating

New comment by donkey_brains in "Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know"

donkey_brains — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:06:20 +0000

Having seen the quality of some projects on there, yes.

New comment by donkey_brains in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

donkey_brains — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:08:12 +0000

It's missing a few elements for realism: - Passengers on either side of you taking both your armrests - Continually crying baby seated just in front of you - Person behind you coughing without covering mouth every 2 minutes - Kids fighting for control of a tablet across the aisle from you - Tiny cans of Coke

New comment by donkey_brains in "I'm going back to coding by hand"

donkey_brains — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:32:14 +0000

So do you make the LLM restrict its output to small, individually-reviewable chunks per PR?

New comment by donkey_brains in "I'm going back to coding by hand"

donkey_brains — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:30:10 +0000

Yeah this is a very very common and fundamental operation in programming. Always use the “refactor” tool in your IDE instead of trying to change every instance of a variable name by hand.

It’s like using a linter: you do it because it’s the right thing to do and doing it without the tool confers no benefit and is prone to error.

New comment by donkey_brains in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

donkey_brains — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:37:51 +0000

Grift while the grifting’s good.

New comment by donkey_brains in "AI Isn't Making Everyone a Creator"

donkey_brains — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:05:31 +0000

It means something different _to you_ because it represents the experience _you_ had in taking/making it.

New comment by donkey_brains in "Your AI Generated Menu Triggered My Trypophobia"

donkey_brains — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:28:43 +0000

Oh, what the hell?!? This is nightmare fuel.