Hacker News: fluidcruft

New comment by fluidcruft in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

fluidcruft — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:02:23 +0000

States could harmonize laws (if they wanted to).

New comment by fluidcruft in "Mistral Large 4"

fluidcruft — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:44:33 +0000

That would have been a scathing criticism if anyone believed any of the American companies have the goal of helping humanity or open-source.

Notwithstanding that Chinese publishing methods actually does help both humanity and open-source.

New comment by fluidcruft in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

fluidcruft — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:13:23 +0000

I remember seeing some documentary about an art forger who donated his works to museums where the authorities were profoundly frustrated that they couldn't do anything precisely because he didn't get any gain.

Edit: the documentary is "Art and Craft" [1] about Mark Landis [2]

> It appears that in donating forgeries to art museums, Landis has not actually broken any laws, even though his activities were clearly deceitful. If he had sold the work to museums or taken a tax deduction on them, he might have fallen under federal art crime statutes. But the fact that he did not gain economically from his actions (apart from a few gifts from curators), and that he addressed his donations to specialists who had the expertise to detect his forgeries but did not, protected him in the eyes of the law. No legal action has been opened against him to date (as of 2014). As one art crimes expert put it: "Basically, you have a guy going around the country on his own nickel giving free stuff to museums."

[1] https://artandcraftfilm.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Landis

New comment by fluidcruft in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

fluidcruft — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:47:09 +0000

That's a great option.

I just wonder whether that could be too annoying for Android Auto / Car Play. But to be fair wireless is an option.

The other downside I guess is that a thief would just plug a USB drive in to disable device tracking. But they could just wrap the damn thing in foil so dunno if that should matter.

New comment by fluidcruft in "The death of web development education"

fluidcruft — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:53:57 +0000

A Book Apart shut down and says all copies have been sold. They suggest reaching out to Rachel Andrew directly to see if the book is available elsewhere. (Her website just links back to A Book Apart).

New comment by fluidcruft in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

fluidcruft — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:54:59 +0000

You can just take a picture of a pile of dice, a pile of rice, or a tree, patch of grass, etc, and compute a secure hash/whatever and base six it to get the rolls.

New comment by fluidcruft in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

fluidcruft — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:54:11 +0000

Why not automatically power down if any unknown USB device is attached?

New comment by fluidcruft in "What a Massive New 728-Foot-Wide Crater Means for Future Moon Bases"

fluidcruft — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:23:15 +0000

Why hasn't that happened in Antarctica?

New comment by fluidcruft in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

fluidcruft — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:45:37 +0000

Governments shouldn't "want" anything. If people want more taxpayers, so be it.

New comment by fluidcruft in "Claude partial outage"

fluidcruft — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:57:58 +0000

OpenAI has nothing better to do than to hack Anthropic?

Would be interesting to see how OpenAI and Anthropic would respond to being "accidentally" hacked by their respective Frankenstein monsters.

New comment by fluidcruft in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

fluidcruft — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:27:09 +0000

It's not about the analogy, it's about what the original commenter spun about shitting out satellites fastest to claim orbital space and deny it to others as some sort of laudable SpaceX competitive advantage.

New comment by fluidcruft in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

fluidcruft — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:31:27 +0000

To elaborate: the park is a shared resource and people don't want to picnic next to dog shit. Suppose you have a dog that shits in the park significantly faster than other dogs. LinkedIn/California types would celebrate the dog's ability to stake claim to the entire public park (as progress as the commuter I replied to has done) without even a smidgen of self-awareness they are stealing from the commons.

New comment by fluidcruft in "Sonnet 5.5"

fluidcruft — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:50:00 +0000

Would Jev-type functionality be a reason to dust off Haiku?

New comment by fluidcruft in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

fluidcruft — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:05:08 +0000

Probably, but I assume it would depend on price differentials and payload. Something like constellations of multiple identical satellites could plan to tolerate losses. One-offs like space telescopes not so much.

New comment by fluidcruft in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

fluidcruft — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:12:47 +0000

> Locks out the orbit for competitors

I swear to God LinkedIn would describe taking a shit in a public park this way. The West Coast is out of their damn minds.

New comment by fluidcruft in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

fluidcruft — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:19:39 +0000

I mean... I'm watching it. What's there to say? Who wants to argue with Musk/Trump/detractors and their bots.

New comment by fluidcruft in "As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'"

fluidcruft — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:07:11 +0000

That happens even when AI isn't involved.

New comment by fluidcruft in "As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'"

fluidcruft — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:06:11 +0000

Now AI will proofread it and quality improves.

New comment by fluidcruft in "As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'"

fluidcruft — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:43:47 +0000

Are there even any FDA labeled AI diagnostics for MRI? Just about everything I've seen is more things that are meant to help radiologists do things faster (and it's rather debatable whether they ultimately achieve that). The things I've seen gaining traction are very specific measurements (that are not themselves diagnostic) or things that improve workflow.

New comment by fluidcruft in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

fluidcruft — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:53:33 +0000

Would depend entirely how Flock is marketed and represented to the people who buy them and whatever training Flock provides.