Hacker News: empath75

New comment by empath75 in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

empath75 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:02:39 +0000

I have noticed refusals as context windows grow.

New comment by empath75 in "Nowhere is safe"

empath75 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:57:52 +0000

> This is all predicated on creating thousands of drones which is a state actor level threat.

You can do a tremendous amount of damage with off the shelf consumer drones, and a minimal budget. Ukraine did an billions of dollars of damage to Russia's airfleet with a couple million dollars of drones hidden in trucks. Well in the range of cartels and terrorist groups.

> The first line of defense at this level should be diplomacy.

You are very much correct that the way to not get into this situation is to not start a war.

New comment by empath75 in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

empath75 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:55:08 +0000

The only lawsuits so far have been over training on open source software. You're inventing a liability problem that essentially does not exist.

New comment by empath75 in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

empath75 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:20:03 +0000

> we do know what the code does

You know if you check. Hardly anyone checks. It's just normalization of deviance and will eventually end up with someone exploiting it.

New comment by empath75 in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

empath75 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:15:48 +0000

There are ways for the government to do that sort of thing on an emergency basis, and it would take quite some time to make it's way through the courts. There are precedents from nuclear weapons technology and cryptography. I don't think it'll hold up or be particularly effective because the horse has left the barn already, but they could probably slow things down if they really wanted to.

New comment by empath75 in "EFF is leaving X"

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:36:13 +0000

> Yeah, somewhere where regular people that aren't terminally online won't ever have the chance to see it.

You think those people are on X?

New comment by empath75 in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:14:53 +0000

There is nothing more catholic than not practicing catholicism.

New comment by empath75 in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:12:32 +0000

Real catholics only think about the church on Easter, Christmas, baptisms, weddings and funerals.

New comment by empath75 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:15:29 +0000

> There is no wait they can be 100% sure, so they will ruin someone's life over what?

What harm is caused by this article, do you think? He is already incredibly wealthy, already has security, and many people already assumed he was Satoshi Nakamoto. Claiming that someone invented a world altering technology is neither libel, nor defamation, _even if it an intentional lie_. If it is not a lie, or is merely a mistake it _certainly_ is neither.

New comment by empath75 in "Claude mixes up who said what"

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:49:39 +0000

I think most people saying this had the following experience.

"Holy shit, claude just one shotted this "

"I should get Claude to try "

..repeat until Claude starts failing on hard tasks..

"Claude really sucks now."

New comment by empath75 in "After 40 Years New Mario Glitch Discovered [video]"

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:31:25 +0000

This is more about arbitrary code execution, with a great explanation for how it works, and how a team of people collaborated to try to exploit a newly discovered bug to find a new one.

After 40 Years New Mario Glitch Discovered [video]

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:31:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNulp6cDqUU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703503

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by empath75 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:24:03 +0000

Keep in mind that he could not have cashed out his tokens in the early days without destroying the whole project and by the time btc was valuable and liquid enough for him to sell, he would have already been wealthy from blockstream (if this is really him) and wouldn’t need the money. What would he do with it? buy gold, real estate, tbills? What asset would he ever put the money into that he would think is better than bitcoin?

New comment by empath75 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:11:50 +0000

I actually think the most compelling evidence is the fact that he was one of the first people to get rich from it, which also explains why he never had to touch his vault of coins.

New comment by empath75 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

empath75 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:09:43 +0000

I hate this idea that doxxing is some kind if crime. “Who is the creator of bitcoin?” is a matter of great public and historical interest. Finding out who he is, is the purest form of journalism.

New comment by empath75 in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

empath75 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:10:43 +0000

Do you feel the same about cows and pigs and chickens? One way to read this is your reading. Another way to read it is as an attempt to make you question the concept of meat.

New comment by empath75 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

empath75 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:28:22 +0000

When people are described as sociopathic it’s not about any particular lie, but the relationship that the person has with the truth, which is that they will lie when it suits them and tell the truth when it suits them and they don’t seem to distinguish morally between them. And more than that, they treat people the same way, and will use them while it suits them and then dispose of them when they are inconvenient.

New comment by empath75 in "Hybrid Attention"

empath75 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:07:18 +0000

Is this for just like auto complete, because you are not going to get anything very useful out of a code-only training set.

New comment by empath75 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

empath75 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:33:44 +0000

My comment was mostly that it lacks value to _others_. It was probably worth to your friend group roughly the time and money you spent on it. Nobody else is ever going to care.

New comment by empath75 in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

empath75 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:00:51 +0000

These kinds of comments are so spectacularly useless. It was almost impossible to measure productivity gains from _computers_ for nearly two decades after they started being deployed to offices in the 1980s.

There were articles as late as the late 1990s that suggested that investing in IT was a waste of money and had not improved productivity.

You will not see obvious productivity gains until the current generation of senior engineers retires and you have a generation of developers who have only ever coded with AI, since they were in school.