Hacker News: gnarlouse

New comment by gnarlouse in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

gnarlouse — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:47:51 +0000

Woz rizz, Jobs dead

New comment by gnarlouse in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

gnarlouse — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:48:06 +0000

Good!

New comment by gnarlouse in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

gnarlouse — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:24:01 +0000

Y'all see the plan though, right? Control the internet. Remove e2e encryption. Control/stifle dissent and uprisings.

The plan is to replace the 99% with machines. It doesn't matter to the 1% if you survive their glorious, great filter.

The great filter is billionaires. It's a billionaire control problem, not a superintelligence control problem. You're livestock. There's a better ox and cart that just pulled down the gravel road.

New comment by gnarlouse in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

gnarlouse — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:57:35 +0000

nauseating to think that Amazon was only charged $2.5B when they made somewhere around $25-44B off the Iliad cancellation thing.

New comment by gnarlouse in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

gnarlouse — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:08:36 +0000

If the Mythos era isn't just hype marketing, "sec-scurity" might not be a valid strategy anymore. If you're taking a beat because you're small and irrelevant, you could still be massively fucked over a breach.

Mom & Pop code shops might be high risk if nation-state level vulnerability-exploitation becomes economically viable to any disgruntled prick.

New comment by gnarlouse in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

gnarlouse — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:56:14 +0000

Listen, I would actually be willing to support something like this, but Jesus Christ when will we put somebody in congress with a CS background who can literally just chime in and say "use Zero Knowledge Proofs for this, people might actually buy that you're not just building a surveillance state."

New comment by gnarlouse in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

gnarlouse — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:01 +0000

I wonder if this is happening because Mythos

New comment by gnarlouse in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

gnarlouse — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:01:51 +0000

A cybersecurity pandemic will surely be the Hiroshima that wakes people up to AI. /s

New comment by gnarlouse in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

gnarlouse — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:11:22 +0000

Agree. Maybe novel is the wrong term given my framing. "Listenable?" The combinatorial space of music is hyperastronomical, effectively infinite. And most of it is probably noise.

AI isn't "searching" in the standard indexing sense. But if say, Suno, is doing stable diffusion on fourier transform heat maps, and there's a finite space of configurations... it is using a heuristic approach to pick an option from a well-defined (gargantuan) set of options.

New comment by gnarlouse in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

gnarlouse — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:51:29 +0000

Exactly. Gorillaz was literally the cartoon characters in my mind for the entirety of my childhood, before I knew who Damon Albarn was.

New comment by gnarlouse in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

gnarlouse — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:41:19 +0000

I love music, I make music. It is sincere.

New comment by gnarlouse in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

gnarlouse — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:38:00 +0000

I'm not saying AI music is inherently good. I'm saying good music is good music.

My take is literalist, not reductive: Music (and any art product) is configuration. The media involved are the physical laws of nature that present the configuration.

> It can be a means of communication, sharing human experience, ...

1. You're construing the journey with the result. The act of creating is not typically the result product itself.

2. Any perceived relationship to the artist via product is virtual and parasocial (respectfully stated). You have no relationship with Bach or Shakespeare or Michelangelo--you have an appreciation for their accumulated works. You may have a fascination for their stories and life through literary works. You have no relationship with your favorite artist, you have their works in your media library.

New comment by gnarlouse in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

gnarlouse — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:05:45 +0000

I see music as "the space of all possible 5-second clips at stereo 48kHz 24bit depth". If you think about it, that space contains the intro to Stairway to Heaven and Oops I Did It Again, and the end of either song. It contains every 5-second segment of O Fortuna, plus a previously unimagined O Fortuna Remix with MF Doom rapping the pledge of alliegance backwards. My point is, AI is getting good at searching music space for novel patterns, and that's entirely the point of music, not making a career out of being an alcoholic minstrel with a tour bus.

The audience will out the good patterns, and it's up to the musicians or AI companies to serve better patterns.

New comment by gnarlouse in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

gnarlouse — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:55:29 +0000

Used Suno to reimagine a handful of my old demos late last year, and honestly the results floored me. I could never release those tracks though, purely out of shame. But it seems pretty practical to study the AI remixes to understand what I like about them, and use these as a practice tool for music production.

New comment by gnarlouse in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

gnarlouse — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:32:34 +0000

I... wow, you made an LLM that can actually tell jokes?

New comment by gnarlouse in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

gnarlouse — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:48:02 +0000

This shark story the book opens with seems... implausibly Hollywood. But alright I guess.

New comment by gnarlouse in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

gnarlouse — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:48:30 +0000

Maybe it's a language barrier problem, but "by AMD" makes me think its a project distributed by AMD. Is that actually the case? I'm not seeing any reason to believe it is.

New comment by gnarlouse in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

gnarlouse — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:52:41 +0000

Happy April Fools Day!

New comment by gnarlouse in "I'm betting on ATProto"

gnarlouse — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:10:57 +0000

> I don’t think any social media platform was designed to do this. But it’s where most of them have ended up.

They were, quite literally, designed to do this. They needed to monetize the user base to pay for the server costs. Zuck wanted a business.

New comment by gnarlouse in "Bernie Sanders, AOC announce AI data center moratorium bill [video]"

gnarlouse — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:45:58 +0000

It's a billionaire alignment problem, not a super-intelligence alignment problem.

I think you need to make class warfare M.A.D. So that it simply doesn't happen without everybody losing.