<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fennecbutt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fennecbutt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:22:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fennecbutt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fennecbutt in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pro tip: people did this long before AI was a thing.<p>People have always loved to defer to a "leader" or (supposed) "expert". Take the hard decisions away daddy.</p>
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<p>Tbf it seems pretty common internationally that women get lower sentences for the same crime regardless of any legal framework behind it.<p>Moreso if the crime was done with a man as the that woman was "most likely coerced".<p>As a gay dude in the UK the fact we have a specific MP for violence against women and children confuses me in that men suffer from way more incidences of violence - but what I get told is "yeah but men are doing the crimes mostly" aka a sexist judgement applicable to all men regardless of what sort of person they actually are.<p>Honestly, I'd rather be harassed for being gay than every join the heterosexual ecosphere; the interactions between opposite sexes are just ridiculous and illogical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 12:10:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256618</link><dc:creator>fennecbutt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fennecbutt in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show)</a><p><a href="https://youtu.be/xph_VDc78Y0" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/xph_VDc78Y0</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:35:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215226</link><dc:creator>fennecbutt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fennecbutt in "I’ve joined Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>CEOs also get paid millions and billions to do nothing. Sooooo...<p>"Improve yourself, no mistakes" in a loop. Woooah sooo revolutionary...</p>
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<p>Agree. Watch people glaze him tho. Same as John Carmack who is supposedly brilliant but hasn't actually really done anything since Doom.</p>
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<p>Isn't this more like a "Macs don't have viruses" type scenario though?</p>
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<p>I've bought stuff thru sendico as well. Only thing I don't like about em is their weird credit system that you have to top up before a purchase even though there's no way to predict shipping etc</p>
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<p>Agree and it has applied to pretty much everything for a long time.<p>It's why when I bitch about the UK, I get told if I don't like it why don't I leave.<p>It's like my dudes fail to grasp to concept of loving something and wanting it to be even better, to solve minor quibbles with it.</p>
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<p>I think it's more that our governments only leap to patch up some of those chips and cracks when big biz rolls thru, even though "the little guy" has been raising it as an issue for decades.<p>But then again, democracy absolutely fails in that you have to already be rich to be a politician most of the time and people tend to vote extremely tribally by party rather than on policies (lest they accidentally vote for the wrong party!)<p>The truth is in many democracies none of the parties are prepared to do what needs to be done most of the time, nor is the average voter prepared to accept any form of compromise or abstain from uninformed, knee-jerk and tribally motivated reactions to proposed policy.<p>Aka we only have our dumb selves to blame.</p>
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<p>Good old video of a guy shouting in a data center <a href="https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4?si=ebFDFYufOdNIU9av" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4?si=ebFDFYufOdNIU9av</a></p>
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<p>Never.<p>The people accountable didn't get punished last time and they won't this time. You & I will pay for it.<p>Imo, the flaw is with our species itself, we never evolved to live in such large complex societies. And that's why it's trivial to distract a drooling sugar & dopamine addicted voterbase with issues like which bathroom people should be allowed to use, whilst billionaires become trillionaires and the planet slowly cooks despite token initiatives.</p>
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<p>Bloke is definitely not as common in the UK as it is in NZ and Australia.<p>Just like togs, which I've never heard anybody say here though I've read that parts of Ireland still use it.</p>
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<p>The world will remember who you Americans chose to vote in.<p>And then we'll do nothing anyway because the wealthy and corrupt run every single country on the planet. Money talks.<p>And people are too easily preoccupied with trivial policy squabbles to care about how badly we've all been fucked by the last 50 years or so.</p>
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<p>Does anthropic trust spacex enough for this though.</p>
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<p>And photos steal a person's soul? Or something like that.</p>
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<p>But is it only dehumanising in the context of the western world and generally high migration numbers in that direction vs. the opposite direction?<p>Are you going to also fight the good fight for Chinese and Japanese depictions of and reactions to black people, for example? Because those caricatures are certainly worse.<p>But I think so long as people are given the choice it's not dehumanising at all. Just like how I choose to speak a little slower if speaking to someone who doesn't speak English very well when it becomes clear they're struggling to follow what I'm saying.<p>So in a way it's actually more human than completely ignoring the reality of a situation like that. Same as that first human binding the leg of another.</p>
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<p>Surely that's where checks in the harness come into play though. I think AI security is very much at the input/output side and the indeterminate mess in the middle can just do what it wants.<p>Its tool for email should only allow to person@business.xyz. Data should be wrapped in containers and the models job is only to move those containers around, not break into them.<p>Agents that do work with data should not have access to comms tools. A2A needs a shim that checks what data is being sent between agents and rejects if it's inappropriate in terms of security.</p>
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<p>It's not that nobody cares. It's just that nobody who does care has the money or the power to change it.<p>Business school. Ahaha.</p>
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<p>Would be pretty rad to see what happens I suppose.<p>Same goes for other tools. If Mythos can find vulnerabilities (through smarts or just extensive combinatorial testing who knows) what's to say it can't help find physical vulnerabilities as well.</p>
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<p>Well ultimately I want human beings to not be so tribal and apathetic so that they'd actually care about the things above and learn to compromise.<p>But that ain't happening anytime soon.</p>
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