Hacker News: flufluflufluffy

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

flufluflufluffy — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:42:24 +0000

> We remain committed to the private and public sector consensus that AI should not be used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weaponry without appropriate human oversight.

And starts the lying to our faces. The public and private (from your own employees!) consensus is that it should not be used for those things at all, regardless of “human oversight.”

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

flufluflufluffy — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:50:21 +0000

Strains are very real and the general concept exists in not only many other farmed plants as well, but domesticated animals, like dogs. All members of the same species, specifically bred for a certain phenotype through manual selection.

Now some people might say that X strain is good for sleep, Y strain is good for anxiety, Z strain is good for creativity, etc… That type of “phenotype” is much harder to quantify and I agree a lot of that type of stuff could be mumbo jumbo, though there could be something to it. But overall high THC strains (more stimulating) vs high CBD strains (more relaxing) have a clear difference.

However flavor is also a big differentiator among strains and that is much more easily quantifiable through the terpene/flavonoid profile, and plain old smelling and tasting. And people have been breeding plants for specific smells and tastes for thousands of years, so it’s not like this is some new concept specific to cannabis.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "The end of responsive images"

flufluflufluffy — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:09:37 +0000

> We’re not here to talk about picture.

Bro you just spewed 2 long paragraphs about picture at me. Don’t talk to me like that.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

flufluflufluffy — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:44:37 +0000

If you take their claim that they don’t use vulnerabilities in their products as true, then I don’t see a contradiction. If it isn’t true, then obviously there is a contradiction.

But your considering of all methods that enable fingerprinting as vulnerabilities is your own opinion. There are definitely measurable signals that are based on a user’s behavior, rather than data exposed by the browser itself.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Human Accelerated Region 1"

flufluflufluffy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:52:08 +0000

As others have said, a complete dataset for that is basically impossible. You would have to monitor every cell type in an individual from the moment of conception until death. Maybe in a couple hundred years we’ll have nanotech robots that could do that, and our overall morals and ideas of what constitutes ethical research will have changed enough that we allow the creation of such humans with these robots inside them.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

flufluflufluffy — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:28:33 +0000

This seems so obvious to me. Why would you ever put information regarding a legal case you’re party to into an AI chat

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

flufluflufluffy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:38:26 +0000

And slowly siphon your personal essence away from yourself and into the model.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

flufluflufluffy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:34:53 +0000

Why do you need to ask any AI questions regarding your health every day?

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Codex is switching to API pricing based usage for all users"

flufluflufluffy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:39:32 +0000

wouldn’t it be “usage based pricing” not “pricing based usage”

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "DoorDash Tasks"

flufluflufluffy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:09:28 +0000

I have no idea but when reading the article my mind immediately went to businesses having dashers take photos of competing businesses as some type of weird crowdsourced corporate espionage.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Windows native app development is a mess"

flufluflufluffy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:58:42 +0000

Yeah he literally answered his own question and then used a random excuse for not going with the option.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare"

flufluflufluffy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:48:52 +0000

And here I am thinking if I needed to do that myself I’d just run it on my local machine and upload the final video to wherever it needs to go.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

flufluflufluffy — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:26:58 +0000

I assume it uses an error tolerant parser, same as most language servers.

Ex: https://github.com/microsoft/tolerant-php-parser/blob/main/d...

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

flufluflufluffy — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:19:26 +0000

Not when your actions don’t align with your professed virtues.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

flufluflufluffy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:09:04 +0000

It is public information. The private company whose database is being deleted processed the public information into an easier to search and consume dataset

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

flufluflufluffy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:05:36 +0000

The data is publicly available. The data being deleted is the private company’s own copy of it.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

flufluflufluffy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:01:22 +0000

Should we always send the source of truth to a private company to have it repackaged and presented in a more inoffensive manner?

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

flufluflufluffy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:19:14 +0000

Who knows? Maybe they are. I’m not from Chad myself (and sounds like you aren’t either), so we’re really not in a position to speculate on that. I do know that it’s quite common for one culture to have values or think in ways that are unintuitive to another culture.

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "Kolakoski Sequence"

flufluflufluffy — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:39:38 +0000

I guess you could say the Kolakoski sequence is special in being the “simplest” version of such a sequence (ignoring the finite trivial case {1} xD)

New comment by flufluflufluffy in "MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China"

flufluflufluffy — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:42:16 +0000

> We install them without a second thought. They're in the official marketplace. They have thousands of reviews. They work. So we grant them access to our workspaces, our files, our keystrokes - and assume they're only using that access to help us code.

Who is this “we”? I don’t, and don’t know anybody else who does this.

Also, was this article itself written by an AI assistant? If the author is that carefree regarding these extensions, I guess probably.