Hacker News: dpoloncsak

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

dpoloncsak — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:12:42 +0000

I'm not familiar here, but if both the publishers and readers are unhappy, why do these services still exist? Is it the 'prestige' of being published with some of these guys? Or do you need to be published for xyz reasons?

Seems like, in 2026, we can have direct publishing without the need of these services? Is it the infra, like query tools and such, that prevent a migration away?

edit: I'm not going to reply to every comment, but thank you all, helps paint the picture a bit better for me!

New comment by dpoloncsak in "OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber"

dpoloncsak — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:05:01 +0000

So it' okay to lie as long as the other party is aware you're lying?

New comment by dpoloncsak in "What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant"

dpoloncsak — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:03:26 +0000

The entire purpose of the assistant was to see how others would try to abuse it. How would you do that without having it discoverable online? Seems like that's kind of the whole point...

It's literally called 'HackMyClaw'

New comment by dpoloncsak in "OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber"

dpoloncsak — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:52:09 +0000

Nobody said anything about it being the first time seeing it. You still get to be upset when lied to.

New comment by dpoloncsak in "OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber"

dpoloncsak — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:50:19 +0000

But that's the exact standard that was set by the LLM providers, right? My ChatGPT 3.5 sub became a 4o sub, which became a 5.1 sub and so on

New comment by dpoloncsak in "OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber"

dpoloncsak — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:48:26 +0000

Not championing it, but this is where something like OpenClaw comes into play, right? The harness around the model, the ability to call tools, etc.

New comment by dpoloncsak in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

dpoloncsak — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:39:41 +0000

I'd setup the .onion in a heartbeat. Take crypto donations, cash out in Monero

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Running local models is good now"

dpoloncsak — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:02:59 +0000

Which is not illegal to do. It becomes illegal if you directly use or reference the material in your product. Consuming copyrighted material personally is fully legal, training a model on that same copy-righted material is illegal. Where is the contention?

(Not a lawyer, just a nerd)

New comment by dpoloncsak in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

dpoloncsak — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:41:55 +0000

Just throwing it out there, Im a Verizon customer in the Tri-State Area and I frequently lose service on the train or bus on my way to the city. It's more than just a 'rural issue'. I looked into getting a StarLink plan for my commute until I realized logistically, at best, I'm a freak sitting next to the window with a satellite dish on the train.

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time"

dpoloncsak — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:22:07 +0000

"The White Noise of the Internet" as they call it

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Running local models is good now"

dpoloncsak — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:12:00 +0000

Because the laws were written by humans for humans, and that's where they seem to be drawing the line

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

dpoloncsak — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:57 +0000

If you're looking to commit cybercrime I doubt you'd draw the line at token cost. Just find CC dumps on TOR or something

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Chameleon Ultra: a flashdrive sized NFC toolkit"

dpoloncsak — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:11:24 +0000

If you can't figure out what the project is, while the description says "...card emulation more stable. And gave the chameleon the ability to read, write, and decrypt cards...." then I'm not sure you should be playing with software that can easily cross the line of breaking laws. Grey-hat software like this rarely screams "NFC CRACKER" since it hurts the credibility, is more likely to get it flagged by automated scans, and attracts skids. Look what happened to the flipper...

Also, my comment was in reply to 'What if I want to learn more about it'. RTFM is the objectively correct response, no short description is going to help there. Maybe we have different ideas of what "learn more" means

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Running local models is good now"

dpoloncsak — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:05:40 +0000

A product is not a human. They are selling a product based off copy-righted material without the rights to it. It's a pretty easy line to draw, honestly.

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Chameleon Ultra: a flashdrive sized NFC toolkit"

dpoloncsak — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:47:10 +0000

Then you read the thorough documentation provided?

New comment by dpoloncsak in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

dpoloncsak — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:27:38 +0000

OneDrive likes to come back when O365 updates I think, but you might be able to change the settings to just not back those dirs up?

New comment by dpoloncsak in "The desperation of NYTimes"

dpoloncsak — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:26:05 +0000

I second this...in my experience, just the WebUI the printer spins up, and maybe grabbing drivers from their site has always been enough. I'll do anything in my power to avoid that cursed HP app. Although I'm sure there is good money in increasing app downloads, so maybe things have changed, especially on the consumer-side of things

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

dpoloncsak — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:43:59 +0000

I honestly don't think the average Google Chrome user knows what a 'local' device is, and we should go something more ELI5 "This website wants to spy on every other device connected to your network" or something

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Stop Killing Games"

dpoloncsak — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:33:57 +0000

I'm not entirely sure...I know the battle AI is custom, and a few moves are still not implemented. This makes me lean towards "they're scripting it themselves" but it could be a hybrid of the two for all I know

New comment by dpoloncsak in "Stop Killing Games"

dpoloncsak — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:27:52 +0000

Adding on to this but I'm not sure if it's 1:1 what you're talking about.

PokeMMO is a online Pokemon Fangame that combines the first 5 generations of games. From what I gather, this is possible because it is up to the user to provide the ROMs, so litigious Nintendo cannot say they are re-distributing copyrighted material