Hacker News: fosco

New comment by fosco in "Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI?"

fosco — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:37 +0000

LLMs have had an irreversible effect on everything up to and including how humans talk to each other face to face without LLMs in between as I’ve discussed this very topic.

As an example we things like this likened to issues with nuclear tests https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/

New comment by fosco in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

fosco — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:02:08 +0000

Know where I can read about that?

Fisker Owners Association

fosco — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:25:30 +0000

Article URL: https://fiskeroa.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449235

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fosco in "Isseven"

fosco — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:56:32 +0000

00000111 also came back false

New comment by fosco in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

fosco — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:35:00 +0000

Aside from daily login rewards, loot boxes, gamifying gambling behaviors and FOMO designed micro purchases? Roblox is bad and many times if your nearby is absolutely not appropriate for kids and I’m quite liberal on what’s appropriate beyond normalizing emotional damage.

https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/the-system-is-made-to-i...

The funniest one? The 10-k discussing legal issues as risk regarding addiction

Hardwick et al. (2025) “They’re Scamming Me”: How Children Experience and Conceptualize Harm in Game Monetization https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/5164006.pdf?abstra...

Kou, Hernandez, Gui (2025) “The System is Made to Inherently Push Child Gambling in my Opinion”: Child Safety, Monetization, and Moderation on Roblox https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/the-system-is-made-to-i...

Song et al. (2025) How Predatory Monetization Designs Manifest in Child-Directed Online Games (SOUPS 2025) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2025-song.pdf

Kou & Gui (2023) Harmful Design in the Metaverse and How to Mitigate It: A Case Study of User-Generated Virtual Worlds on Roblox https://sites.psu.edu/healthandplay/files/2023/05/Harmful-De...

Tunca et al. (2025) Navigating parental concerns in children’s engagement with Roblox https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12821821/

Roblox Corporation (2024 Form 10-K) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1315098/000131509825... I find this hilarious.

Not all games are created equal, I loved Zelda tears of the kingdom and the sounds and rewarding game were in my opinion addictive however they are not in the same league as roblox

The best part is when you get a cohort of a few families to go camping and teenage daughter forced dad to drive 45 minutes each way for cell service to avoid breaking the daily login chain.

I don’t think people appreciate how these mechanisms impact society as a whole

New comment by fosco in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

fosco — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:34:54 +0000

Can you share what equipment was used to capture those images?

New comment by fosco in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

fosco — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:11:40 +0000

I never buy beyond/impossible at restaurants because of this.

I often have some at home and instead of having two red meat burgers have one and one of these, occasionally when they go on sale at Costco I’ll buy a bunch.

I am not vegan or vegetarian but do seek ways to reduce my red meat intake which years ago was grilling ribeyes 4-5 nights a week. I was unreasonably unhealthy and having alternate options helped balance my health out over the long run. I like both beyond burgers and impossible. I wish they were cheaper than hamburger meat, when I compare to buying hamburger meat in bulk it’s still more expensive at this point

New comment by fosco in "Dark Alley Mathematics"

fosco — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:07:44 +0000

The intro strongly reminded me of https://existentialcomics.com/comic/604

Really enjoyed this keep writing!

Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack

fosco — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:58:41 +0000

Article URL: https://ctrlaltroute.com/2026/01/15/rfc-7258-pervasive-monitoring-is-an-attack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726209

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

AI and Corporate Capture of Knowledge

fosco — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:12:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663521

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by fosco in "Using AI generated images to get refunds"

fosco — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:00:54 +0000

Local stores bullshit too, I was at a well known American ‘sporting goods’ store and got an exercise ball of 75cm size (it states on box), it is fully pumped and smaller than a 55cm ball that I have. When purchasing online I’ve had better luck

Caveat emptor

New comment by fosco in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

fosco — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:44:33 +0000

I still think about my lost address that I obtained when Gmail was invite only. My family still occasionally CCs it and it drives me nuts, I would pay money to at least have it shutdown so they don’t think I received an email. I had email forwarding to another address when stolen and immediately after it was stolen it had the weirdest messages, I tried multiple ways reaching out to google and it still bugs me I was unsuccessful. I’d love the their of my account to at least have it shutdown

New comment by fosco in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

fosco — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:16:10 +0000

“Modern” risk boards have Australia with 3 borders to defend including the normal and addingcross-map Argentina to New Zealand and Japan to Philippines (I believe this map comes from a risk computer game)

New comment by fosco in "CrowdStrike: Security Flaws DeepSeek-Generated Code Linked to Political Triggers"

fosco — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 06:18:15 +0000

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/deepseek-and-musk's-gro...

CrowdStrike: Security Flaws DeepSeek-Generated Code Linked to Political Triggers

fosco — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 06:18:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-researchers-identify-hidden-vulnerabilities-ai-coded-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094327

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by fosco in "Ask HN: What games let you simulate running a startup?"

fosco — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:52:33 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504023

New comment by fosco in "Ask HN: Malicious Gmail activity on my personal account"

fosco — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:50:14 +0000

I was hoping that was case but the problem is the message id of the email appears as if google generated it from mx.google.com

Perhaps I don’t know enough here? This would not be the first time a google account was stolen and I’d like to protect what I have, despite having repeatedly tried and having facility members with threads and emails as proof google offered zero help to resolve or even close the account from the their so senders would at least be notified I didn’t get it

Ask HN: Malicious Gmail activity on my personal account

fosco — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:03:44 +0000

I’ve been receiving emails about not deliverable email sent to my gmail account to TLDs within googles service, based on error they successfully sent from my actual account but it did not arrive because the account didn’t exist in that TLD.(I’ve already changed password which I already do frequently)

Can I pay for my gmail account so it’s associated with credit card? What can I do to protect? I’ve already had an account stolen from me when gmail was invite only and it impacted family members sending emails to me still on accident due to saved history on their end. I really do not want to lose this one

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580164

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Make the Prompt Public

fosco — Tue, 20 May 2025 03:40:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ai-futures.org/p/make-the-prompt-public

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44037567

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by fosco in "Ask HN: What are your thoughts on LLMs and user privacy?"

fosco — Fri, 16 May 2025 04:12:13 +0000

I think it’s terrible, I asked one to find a picture I thought was copied to me from somewhere was a quote not knowing it was made by that person.

The LLM uploaded to internet and “found” the exact picture stating it didn’t exist anywhere else, that source is still viewable on the internet despite me immediately submitting a request to remove. It’s not private but I felt like I’d been had.