Hacker News: elohimushttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=elohimusHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:33:33 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by elohimus in "GLM-Legal"]]>A lot of law is combing through large bodies of rule sets and reference cases to find inputs or parallels relevant for a case. Are you sure you'd rather have Lionel Hutz, Esq. with his limited comprehension do that at half a page per minute?

]]>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:26:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058753elohimushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058753https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058753<![CDATA[New comment by elohimus in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"]]>I feel it's worth distinguishing between the Hacker News Audience that is highly tech-educated and security-conscious and the general public that just wants to use the web and seems more than happy to give all their data to Meta, Google & Co.

If you ask my 70-year-old mom to decide whether she'd like to allow the WebGL API, she'll go bonkers. If anything, the constant cookie banners have just trained her to consent to stuff out of muscle memory. You could probably design a "Are you ok to sign over the deed to your house" question in the rough shape of a cookie banner and get 90%+ agreement.

]]>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:52:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054469elohimushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054469https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054469