Hacker News: forestry

New comment by forestry in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

forestry — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:18:39 +0000

This is where myself and a colleague have settled. We design for longevity but it can still type, search, and debug faster than we can.

New comment by forestry in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

forestry — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:31:59 +0000

This is fantastic. Not being able to share my gameplay with friends on Discord is one of my biggest gripes.

New comment by forestry in "US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'"

forestry — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:07:07 +0000

It’s a good question, and it’s not well defined. I am hoping that it allows us to customise feeds more. If I have problems with body image, don’t show me topless photos. Same goes with alcohol and gambling, which some platforms do have. The answer must not be either be subjected to content you don’t want to see or don’t use social media at all.

I think the line for algorithms is anything machine learning or neural network based, not simple ordering.

Side note: When iterating on male avatars, ChatGPT incrementally increases muscular features without being prompted to do so. There are biases in these machine-learned algorithms.

New comment by forestry in "T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F"

forestry — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:52:44 +0000

This is what I told my chemistry teacher in high school when he marked me down for not including units, too.

New comment by forestry in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

forestry — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:53:23 +0000

I thought the US courts decided that APIs aren’t copyrightable, and the rest of it is not their content.

New comment by forestry in "LG says we're fake news [video]"

forestry — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:18:01 +0000

What’s stopping you from disconnecting it from wifi mow?

New comment by forestry in "Starcraft website "glitching" foreshadows announcement"

forestry — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:44:29 +0000

I want to be excited but the company’s lost its mojo.

New comment by forestry in "Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face"

forestry — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:29:37 +0000

Dupe.

New comment by forestry in "Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default"

forestry — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:42:37 +0000

That’s just your opinion on your own characterisation.

New comment by forestry in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

forestry — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:31:24 +0000

I don’t know the full history but before CarPlay it was used to read and respond to messages using entertainment systems.

New comment by forestry in "Chinese Implants in the Supply Chain"

forestry — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:32:01 +0000

Its be nice to see some repercussions for selling backdoored devices. Yes, that includes Amazon corporate for listing it.

New comment by forestry in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

forestry — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:47:49 +0000

Ironic.

New comment by forestry in "Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store"

forestry — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:57:59 +0000

Someone has to pay for it, one way or another.

New comment by forestry in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

forestry — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:33:47 +0000

Printing hundreds of billions of dollars is also inflationary. Governments change but the impact of all this takes a very long time to flow through the economy.

New comment by forestry in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

forestry — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:31:24 +0000

Most spending is legislated and can’t be cut without congressional approval.

New comment by forestry in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

forestry — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:28:55 +0000

You can’t be serious.

New comment by forestry in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

forestry — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:19:38 +0000

It’s all well and good until the person who has that discretion comes after you personally.

New comment by forestry in "Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter"

forestry — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:53:04 +0000

They registered it like any other, I imagine.

New comment by forestry in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

forestry — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:27:48 +0000

So Apple will remove them from the App Store. Thats their whole argument for their closed system - they’ll protect users from malicious apps. Right?

New comment by forestry in "US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures"

forestry — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:21:58 +0000

This. It’s to protect themselves against any potential future investigations.