Hacker News: fosco

New comment by fosco in "Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz"

fosco — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:55:07 +0000

I initially thought Claude was a reference to clod from warbreaker and your spelling made me think of it again, for those that read warbreaker they might understand his description is darn close to what Claude is, but alas I believe I was deftly wrong

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

fosco — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:49:35 +0000

Is there a handy list of all of this that users contribute to?

Visa Releases Its AI-Powered Cyber Defense System to Open Source

fosco — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:03:29 +0000

Article URL: https://corporate.visa.com/en/sites/visa-perspectives/security-trust/visa-cybersecurity-mythos-project-glasswing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014156

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by fosco in "All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS"

fosco — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:31:34 +0000

Not defending any malicious behavior but is it at all possible Amazon is more honest in their reporting compared to others who may lose income by reporting certain incidents?

New comment by fosco in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

fosco — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:05:33 +0000

I started the cosmere this year and have officially consumed every available book in the cosmere, really enjoyable brain junk food! He has written so much and I love the different systems and characters development. Highly recommend his works! I daydream in the various parts of cosmere weekly and am excited for more books to come out.

New comment by fosco in "How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator"

fosco — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:08:35 +0000

This is ridiculous but I’d like to lower my electric bill, this is not practical but I was just “surfing the web” and found this. I wish something like this was practical

How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator

fosco — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:04:00 +0000

Article URL: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-to-build-a-practical-household-bike-generator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707565

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Open data institute solid open call

fosco — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:57:45 +0000

Article URL: https://theodi.org/news-and-events/blog/solid-open-call/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535541

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Police removed prominent scientists from American Diabetes Association meeting

fosco — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:06:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.the-scientist.com/police-removed-prominent-scientists-from-the-ada-meeting-researchers-respond-74607

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030474

Points: 78

# Comments: 43

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