Hacker News: fiatpandas

New comment by fiatpandas in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

fiatpandas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:26:34 +0000

The clean up prompt needs adjusting. If your transcription is first person and in the voice of talking to an AI assistant, it really wants to “answer” you, completing ignoring its instructions. I fiddled with the prompt but couldn’t figure out how to make it not want to act like an AI assistant.

New comment by fiatpandas in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

fiatpandas — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:47:34 +0000

Nytimes reported that DoW prepped that deal in the background in parallel, as backup for issues with Anthopic. But I agree, optics are terrible.

New comment by fiatpandas in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

fiatpandas — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:18:25 +0000

Exactly. And not only can they make their own rules, but they can draft and enforce them effectively in secret.

New comment by fiatpandas in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

fiatpandas — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:50:17 +0000

>human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems

So there’s the difference, and an erasure of a red line. OpenAI is good with autonomous weapon systems. Requiring human responsibility isn’t saying much. Theres already military courts, rules of engagement, and international rules of war.

New comment by fiatpandas in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

fiatpandas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:21:46 +0000

It took Google 11 years to delete Don’t Be Evil. Anthropic only made it 5~ years before culling the key founding principle and their reason for building a company, which seems worse than Google’s case.

New comment by fiatpandas in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

fiatpandas — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:15:33 +0000

With the bot slurping up context from Moltbook, plus the ability to modify its soul, plus the edgy starting conditions of the soul, it feels intuitive that value drift would occur in unpredictable ways. Not dissimilar to filter bubbles and the ability for personalized ranking algorithms to radicalize a user over time as a second order effect.

New comment by fiatpandas in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

fiatpandas — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:40:54 +0000

Sufficiently advanced technology always looks like a DDoS on society. It overwhelms the senses, and when we come to the realization we cannot comprehend or fully predict its implications it puts a subset of the population into a bit of a crisis. We’re in that phase right now where we just need to brace ourselves.

New comment by fiatpandas in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

fiatpandas — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:39:41 +0000

Is this the case of radar automatic targeting unable to distinguish between a balloon and a drone. Or was this a border guy manually pulling the trigger with bad eyesight?

New comment by fiatpandas in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

fiatpandas — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:56:04 +0000

You can debur it as part of the manufacturing process, and then when it gets powder coating it smooths out even more. But you can just embed the sheet metal edges in a groove on a wooden side.

New comment by fiatpandas in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

fiatpandas — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:33:23 +0000

The heretic GPT OSS version is still refusing 58/100 prompts, so not perfect. Gemma version is 3/100

New comment by fiatpandas in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

fiatpandas — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:54:18 +0000

Regarding case material for productizing, you could consider a combination of plywood and bent sheet metal, eg like a Moog. Also check out dato.mu for a few examples of kid proof synth enclosures.

New comment by fiatpandas in "What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?"

fiatpandas — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:24:15 +0000

If the Firefox deal doesn’t make sense (too much?), then what is the hidden strategic rationale?

>Things are only being held together by technicians who are aging out of the workforce

100%. This terrifies me.

Loss of compartmentalization in society, mostly due to the internet, needs examination.

New comment by fiatpandas in "Time to start de-Appling"

fiatpandas — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:47:14 +0000

Why would the UK government continue to allow e2e iMessage? Is it because they have an existing wiretap law?

New comment by fiatpandas in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

fiatpandas — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:12:17 +0000

Shared public IP?

New comment by fiatpandas in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

fiatpandas — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:20:04 +0000

Could anyone shed some light on the password reset email “hack”? I don’t really understand the attack sequence if the attacker doesn’t have access to your inbox. Even if you clicked them they don’t get access. My conclusion is trolling / annoyance.

The same thing happens to my Instagram account, which is an old 3-letter username that is desirable. I get hundreds of reset emails per month, all generated by the real service with legit outbound links.

New comment by fiatpandas in "ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web"

fiatpandas — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:24:43 +0000

1.0 - algorithmic ranking of real content, with direct links

2.0 - algorithmic feeds of real content with no outbound links - stay in the wall

3.0 - slop infects rankings and feeds, real content gets sublimated

4.0 - algorithmic feeds become only slop

5.0 - no more feeds or rankings, but on demand generative streams of slop within different walled slop gardens

6.0 - 4D slop that feeds itself, continuously turning in on itself and regenerating

New comment by fiatpandas in "Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways"

fiatpandas — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:23:02 +0000

Eventually airlines will just whitelist IP ranges for free messaging-only access.

New comment by fiatpandas in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

fiatpandas — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:52:51 +0000

Hydraulic disc brakes aren't really overkill on an e-bike, it's a safety thing. You really don't want to skimp out on stopping power when your heavy bike has a powerful motor.

New comment by fiatpandas in "LineageOS 23"

fiatpandas — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:31:30 +0000

Anyone setup a Rabbit R1 with lineage?

New comment by fiatpandas in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

fiatpandas — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:30:56 +0000

It’s a zine. Been around since the 80’s. Hackers / security industry types read and publish to it.