<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gmerc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gmerc</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:20:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gmerc" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s not because humans are rate limited which is the entire point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328896</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That sounds like Anthrophics watermark explanation though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:18:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320877</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Almost there. Who controls management?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:19:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254899</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nobody learned nothing from the metaverse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:39:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254635</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:54:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246375</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Metas job is to maximize those 1% because that’s where the business value is. Like every other product they’ve done. 17 strikes policy for grooming for the win.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:06:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244693</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Deepseek never fucked us over. zuck has. A decades of harm creation run doesn’t get excused by the US flag. Zuck is not on your team and if you can’t see that by now, oh my.</p>
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<p>In the digital world quality is a post purchase signal and the ability for consumers to communicate about quality has basically been destroyed by allowing paid counterparts by businesses to drown out the signal</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:12:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239438</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>pa-ro-dy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:23:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214442</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://claw-guard.org/adnet" rel="nofollow">https://claw-guard.org/adnet</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:06:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212560</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> As was standard in our cyber testing, we had intentionally permitted internet access, and model-provider cyber classifiers were deliberately disabled - conditions that do not reflect how frontier models are made available to the public.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:40:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207977</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>PR</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:39:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207972</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe this business should be impossible. Why should it be possible?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:18:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206548</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s not A it’s B. Thanks. Slop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:18:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205857</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What’s good for Trump is good for the US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:17:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205558</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes.<p>> As was standard in our cyber testing, we had intentionally permitted internet access, and model- provider cyber classifiers were deliberately disabled - conditions that do not reflect how frontier models are
made available to the public.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:52:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194188</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194188</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://claw-guard.org/adnet" rel="nofollow">https://claw-guard.org/adnet</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:54:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182944</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Capitalism. Once you Acknowledge the problem, you're gonna get punished</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:34:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178938</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This. See Bobby Kotik and the Epstein files.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:28:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178898</link><dc:creator>gmerc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gmerc in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So let's get this clear: A frontier lab that fears Chinese extraction of their crown jewels, in Silcon Valley where every machine and VM is in full on employee surveillance mode because of competition and theft fears, A lab that's swimming in more funding than any startup in history, has been warning of the f'ing dangerous technology for 7 years now and with employees and CEO history of deception and lawbreaking left .... didn't detect a massive egress signature and the compute spikes from all these toolcalls coming from the research server hosting said crown jewels.<p>Go home Sam, nobody, absolutely nobody should believe this shit.</p>
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