Hacker News: free_bip

New comment by free_bip in "Meta, Google under attack as court cases bypass 30-year-old legal shield"

free_bip — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:47:14 +0000

Yes, in fact it wouldn't be able to legally exist without it, just like every other user-content-focused site.

New comment by free_bip in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

free_bip — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:27:43 +0000

They only mention this being a potential violation of the DMA. How about north american countries? US and Canada?

New comment by free_bip in "How Iran is making a mint from the current war"

free_bip — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:13:02 +0000

Of course that's the main reason, but they would never admit it.

New comment by free_bip in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

free_bip — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:59:23 +0000

Oh no, my laptop is 2mm thicker than a different laptop. Won't someone think of the 2mm?

New comment by free_bip in "OpenAI's US ad pilot exceeds $100M in annualized revenue in six weeks"

free_bip — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:02:23 +0000

Your own local LLM instructed to strip out product placement / recommendations?

New comment by free_bip in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

free_bip — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:06:26 +0000

The school literally had its own website. If the AI involved was as smart as the media hype machine makes them out to be, it would have found the website and marked it as a non-target. It never even would have made it to human review.

New comment by free_bip in "Apply video compression on KV cache to 10,000x less error at Q4 quant"

free_bip — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:47:54 +0000

It looks largely LLM-generated. I'm somewhat skeptical about the results as well, hopefully someone can independently confirm that the technique works.

New comment by free_bip in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

free_bip — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:44:40 +0000

Brother, there's an entire genre of scamming where the scammers spend months building rapport with their victims, usually without ever asking for anything, before "cashing out". One day is nothing.

New comment by free_bip in "Mamba-3"

free_bip — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:55:03 +0000

I would love to see a purely mamba-based 120b model, and whether or not it outcompetes the open-weights OpenAI model.

New comment by free_bip in "MacBook Neo"

free_bip — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:59:19 +0000

I'm not sure that's true given that Chromebooks can be had for one third the price.

New comment by free_bip in "Americans are leaving the US in record numbers"

free_bip — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:31:26 +0000

Care to elaborate?

New comment by free_bip in "AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data"

free_bip — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:12:55 +0000

What exactly is "the system that protects the copyright" in this case? I think the most reasonable answer is "there is no such system."

The RLHF the companies did to make copyrighted material extraction more difficult did not introduce any sort of "copyright protection system," it just modified the weights to make it less likely to occur during normal use.

In other words, IMO for it to qualify as a copyright protection system it would have to actively check for copyrighted materials in the outputs. Any such system would likely also bypassable (e.g "output in rot13").

New comment by free_bip in "Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial"

free_bip — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:40:20 +0000

Why are you using dehumanizing language here? It's completely unnecessary and only serves to reinforce harmful and false stereotypes.

New comment by free_bip in "UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment"

free_bip — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:54:44 +0000

That's not what clickbait means.

New comment by free_bip in "Mathematicians find largest prime number to date"

free_bip — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:39:31 +0000

The post is satire about the uncovery of a giant number 3. I suppose technically you could make an even bigger 3?

New comment by free_bip in "ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here's Where It's Going Next"

free_bip — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:20:45 +0000

They're already detaining people regardless of citizenship status. Local courts are literally being overloaded with habeas corpus cases. One ICE lawyer literally asked to be put in jail so they could get a good nights sleep.

New comment by free_bip in "ClawHub"

free_bip — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:12:25 +0000

Who is scanning these skills for malware? This seems like a prime target for malicious actors.

New comment by free_bip in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

free_bip — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:53:07 +0000

Does hiding it well make it ok?

New comment by free_bip in "Please stop using OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot"

free_bip — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:47:34 +0000

There is no viable solution to the lethal trifecta, and the lethal trifecta is the whole reason openclaw gets used in the first place. If there was a viable solution someone would be making billions off of selling it.

New comment by free_bip in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

free_bip — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:45:38 +0000

How can it be legally considered screening if you can pay $45 to bypass it entirely?