Hacker News: free_bip

New comment by free_bip in "Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI"

free_bip — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:21:47 +0000

How is it patronizing to say "You've never worked this job and clearly have no idea if it truly is good or not"?

If anything it's patronizing to say that staring at disturbing content all day is preferable to agricultural jobs, you know, the jobs people have been working and enjoying for literally tens of thousands of years.

New comment by free_bip in "Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI"

free_bip — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:46:51 +0000

Spoken like someone who's never had to do it.

New comment by free_bip in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

free_bip — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:56:23 +0000

Are you taking this single congressman's word as fact?

New comment by free_bip in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

free_bip — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:10:12 +0000

The amount of mental gymnastics people will do to support fascist dictator wannabes is truly insane. For your sake I hope you find reality.

New comment by free_bip in "Mississippi AG says use of force was 'justified' in fatal shooting of toddler"

free_bip — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:22:15 +0000

Perhaps trying to "both sides" an incident where a cop killed a literal toddler is not the best idea.

New comment by free_bip in "Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3"

free_bip — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:38:39 +0000

When the CEO of the company starts ranting and raving about "sentient cars", it's time to look somewhere else for your purchase.

New comment by free_bip in "An Apology"

free_bip — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:44:54 +0000

Is it stalking if there is no ill intent? (No, trying to get your bike back is not ill intent)

New comment by free_bip in "Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts"

free_bip — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:42:36 +0000

It's really a miracle that any judicial system considers "clicking accept without reading" to be a valid form of binding contract in the first place.

New comment by free_bip in "Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in damages, finds Arm breached agreement"

free_bip — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:19:34 +0000

I expected this to be a title typo ($2m instead of $2) but no, that's the correct number. I'm not informed on this case so I have to wonder why, the article doesn't say.

New comment by free_bip in "Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done"

free_bip — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:30:01 +0000

I agree. The primary gotcha about game development, that differentiates it from ordinary software development, is that the desired outcome is "fun" / "entertainment". That is not a verifiable outcome. You cannot make a unit test for fun. LLMs don't understand what "Fun" is because they've never been taught what code is and isn't fun.

New comment by free_bip in "YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit"

free_bip — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:57:12 +0000

They also ride into work on Polar Bears.

I can make stuff up too!

New comment by free_bip in "New gTLD Application for .lan"

free_bip — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:59:59 +0000

You know, just because it's in an RFC doesn't mean it's actually practical. 'home.arpa' is significantly worse than every other option.

New comment by free_bip in "Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas"

free_bip — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:15:23 +0000

That doesn't matter because companies who use AI art in their projects either proudly proclaim they're using it, or actively hide it and get found out by someone and face significant backlash for hiding it. Labeling laws in the EU also make it extremely difficult to do the latter if you want to have an audience outside NA.

New comment by free_bip in "Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas"

free_bip — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:05:32 +0000

Commercial art projects will not be 50% AI soon. Consumers at large hate all AI art even if it's only used in the conceptual stage and will actively avoid projects that use it.

New comment by free_bip in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

free_bip — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:19:54 +0000

If you think this is true then you simply lack the creativity to understand how bad domestic laws can get.

New comment by free_bip in "OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week"

free_bip — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:28:32 +0000

They have access to all the same open models that the rest of the world does, so just fine I would think.

New comment by free_bip in "Can you tell which images are AI-generated?"

free_bip — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:36:35 +0000

I'm sure it's not the intended way to play but guessing randomly seems to have a net positive score, so getting a high score is as simple as spamming the buttons as fast as you can. I got 10k on mobile through this strategy.

New comment by free_bip in "Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)"

free_bip — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:11:14 +0000

The entire concept of IP-encumbered seeds is cruel and dangerous.

New comment by free_bip in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

free_bip — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:06:56 +0000

I understand if you don't like how the person phrased it, but the goal of the DM was obviously to get the store owner to replace the AI poster. Assuming that they would have gone on a crusade because they didn't pick a "preferred artist" is pure unsupported speculation on your part.

New comment by free_bip in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

free_bip — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:00:24 +0000

Basic economic theory states that only holds if the goods / services being provided are equivalent in the eyes of consumers. It seems self evident here that consumers do not consider them equivalent.