Hacker News: firtoz

Lateral thinking, liminal thinking and differential analysis

firtoz — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:09:55 +0000

Article URL: https://latthink.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105740

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by firtoz in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

firtoz — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:03:17 +0000

remove free signups

$5 minimum to sign up

New comment by firtoz in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

firtoz — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:42:12 +0000

Wait, so you'll pay the $60, and then, will you lose access?

New comment by firtoz in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

firtoz — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:39:54 +0000

Then people will carve around the edges. Also do you need to moderate every single post or comment by anyone? That's not free also.

New comment by firtoz in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

firtoz — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:38:15 +0000

The people rely on them too much, sadly

New comment by firtoz in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

firtoz — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:59:08 +0000

I didn't know some of these details and it's quite impressive what they were capable of, if this website's accurate, at least...

New comment by firtoz in "Can gzip be a language model?"

firtoz — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:20:01 +0000

TIL they're Turkish

New comment by firtoz in "Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post"

firtoz — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:29:30 +0000

Only 200s if a query parameter value is the solution to a question encoded on the rest of the route, and has to be a question listed in the index, and can respond with 200 only one time per correct answer.

New comment by firtoz in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

firtoz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:31:26 +0000

Improvement in what way?

New comment by firtoz in "The August 17 outage"

firtoz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:26:38 +0000

A lot of these projects and commits would benefit a ton from proper decentralisation. What functionality of GitHub are you *actually* using?

New comment by firtoz in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

firtoz — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:55:37 +0000

Why?

New comment by firtoz in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

firtoz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:35:41 +0000

It's so that they can sell more things to enterprise customers

New comment by firtoz in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

firtoz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:01:22 +0000

Is the policy now to "harvest whatever we can ASAP" without any regard or consideration for the future or the environment?

New comment by firtoz in "LLM Honeypot"

firtoz — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:46:01 +0000

There are dozens of us!

New comment by firtoz in "The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections"

firtoz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:32:30 +0000

I got mine to build me an interactive quiz for the UK elections, unsure if that's better or worse... It felt not so biased but who knows right?

New comment by firtoz in "A Tesla Crashed Through a Harris County Home. Is the Car to Blame?"

firtoz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:31:47 +0000

@wingdiction please always link to the direct article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/tesla-autopilot-c...

New comment by firtoz in "Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers"

firtoz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:08:35 +0000

Reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM - "Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off"

New comment by firtoz in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

firtoz — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:57:35 +0000

I see that people are recommending rclone instead

New comment by firtoz in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

firtoz — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:49:38 +0000

vibrant colours that don't match

X. Y. SUPER Z. heading

X. Y. SUPER Z. in subheading

excessive purple and gradients

--> arrows

cards, cards, cards, cards

doesn't just X, emdash, it [SUPER Y]

more cards

ridiculous awful contrast in copy that makes things unreadable (grey on black etc)

New comment by firtoz in "Bun's unreleased Rust port has 13,365 unsafe blocks"

firtoz — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:53:20 +0000

> Bun's Rust port has not shipped in a released build yet. The Bun you install today still runs the original Zig implementation. This audit is the pre-release pass over the port.

That's good to see. I was getting a bit worried but now feeling better about it.