Hacker News: episode404

New comment by episode404 in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

episode404 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:43:15 +0000

My heart goes out to people like you who believe in that manufactroversy.

New comment by episode404 in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

episode404 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:40:37 +0000

this but unironically

New comment by episode404 in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

episode404 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:57:50 +0000

Just wanted to give another opinion on this topic because I think people are being overly nostalgic about radio in this thread: For as long as I can remember I have hated radio with a passion. The constant interruption of the occasional good song, the endless nonsense-talking hosts, the unfunny jokes, the annoying ads, the same songs over and over, etc. I hate radio and I’m glad it’s gone. I don’t miss it at all! Cheers A millennial

New comment by episode404 in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

episode404 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:08:35 +0000

> Calling base64 encoding obfuscation

I was expecting some cool js deobfuscation tricks, so to put nicely I’ll just say that my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

New comment by episode404 in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

episode404 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:06:01 +0000

Is it possible to change the maps' colors and contrasts now? Last time I checked I thought the lower contrast and washed-out colors compared to Organic Maps were a poor choice so I switched back to OM.

New comment by episode404 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

episode404 — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:34:27 +0000

AA scraped from the poor and resells books which are already free. Now AA is rich and wants to get richer. If you don't think that is true, consider their complete lack of financial transparency.

They try hard to pretend otherwise, but AA is a for-profit enterprise.

New comment by episode404 in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

episode404 — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:14:50 +0000

This probably won't surprise you, but most of the time, the only variable psychologists measure during initial patient assessment is penis size, because it explains nearly every male behavior there is.

New comment by episode404 in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

episode404 — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:10:42 +0000

Oh how conveniently this would fit into your worldview ;)

If you had read the actual study, you would have noticed this paragraph:

the odds of owning a gun (any gun or a military-style rifle) are lower for men who are more dissatisfied with the size of their penises. In fact, each one-unit increase in penis size dissatisfaction reduces the odds of owning any gun by 11% (OR = 0.89, p < .05) and the odds of owning a military-style rifle by 20% (OR = .80, p < .01). According to Model 2 of Table 5, each one-unit increase in penis size dissatisfaction also reduces the expected count of total guns owned by 11% (IRR = 0.89, p < .01). Across outcomes, we failed to observe any associations between penis enlargement and gun ownership.

New comment by episode404 in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

episode404 — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:36:01 +0000

100% agree. The porn industry's harms to society cannot be overstated.

New comment by episode404 in "EFF is leaving X"

episode404 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:55:27 +0000

I'm sure we humans can do better than "everyone who disagrees with me politically is evil"

New comment by episode404 in "EFF is leaving X"

episode404 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:48:33 +0000

if you think that blusky and mastodon is less censored than X, then I'd say that we do not live in the same world indeed

New comment by episode404 in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

episode404 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:08:58 +0000

> they used to write fantastical and very informative articles

> Still a very good website

These are indeed quite controversial opinions on ars.

New comment by episode404 in ""Yes, It's Happening. Yes, it's real." March For Billionaires, SF, 02/07/2026"

episode404 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:45:54 +0000

What kind of logic is this? Apply this to any other march for something and you’ll see that this makes no sense at all.

New comment by episode404 in ""Yes, It's Happening. Yes, it's real." March For Billionaires, SF, 02/07/2026"

episode404 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:41:19 +0000

Because ever having met Epstein invalidates all your success and everything you have built?

New comment by episode404 in "The Chrysalis Backdoor: A Deep Dive into Lotus Blossom's Toolkit"

episode404 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:26:44 +0000

Dang, even rapid7 is using AI to write articles now.

New comment by episode404 in "U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site"

episode404 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:45:35 +0000

I don't think your snarky comment is productive. Reddit seems like a more appropriate platform for it.

New comment by episode404 in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

episode404 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:14:07 +0000

cool story bro

New comment by episode404 in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

episode404 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:49:15 +0000

Agreed. I’m not at all surprised that they are the main contributor to anubis, which is also very obnoxious.

New comment by episode404 in "Linux is good now"

episode404 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:33:06 +0000

Please re-read the comment by mixxit. He mentioned systemd as just one example of why Linux isn’t there yet and no amount of gaslighting and pretending it ain’t so is going to change that.

New comment by episode404 in "Linux is good now"

episode404 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:09:57 +0000

It seems HN has decided to bury their heads in the sand and pretend it’s already great.