Hacker News: gorbachev

New comment by gorbachev in "AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]"

gorbachev — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:49:15 +0000

> I'd be kind of surprised if OpenAI were really doing this deliberately because a whole bunch of their execs come from Meta, and all those guys learned the hard way.

The lesson they've learned is that if the profit from an activity is X, and the sanctions/reputational hit costs less than X, it's full steam forward.

New comment by gorbachev in "Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries"

gorbachev — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:27:57 +0000

I think a better solution would be to force retailers to submit accurate pricing information to price comparison aggregators preferably in real-time straight from their inventory system, and give consumers easy access to live price comparison data. If everyone knew how much your retailer is screwing with you, surveillance economy would cease to exist.

New comment by gorbachev in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

gorbachev — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:56:51 +0000

I bet there are an army of lawyers in those states preparing class action lawsuits right now.

I'm pretty sure Attorney Generals will also join the fray in due time.

This crap needs to be shut down hard.

New comment by gorbachev in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

gorbachev — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:31:29 +0000

I don't know a single company where an executive would be downloading training data themselves.

The only exception would be a very small startup, which isn't the case here, or all IT, admin and engineering staff told the company they aren't doing anything illegal for Zuckerberg. That's not going to happen at Meta either.

New comment by gorbachev in "Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year"

gorbachev — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:57:13 +0000

Expat...as in Finnish citizen living abroad.

New comment by gorbachev in "Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year"

gorbachev — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:39:05 +0000

It's also impossible to use if you're an expat, and you get locked out of every Government online system that requires strong identification.

New comment by gorbachev in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

gorbachev — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:24:02 +0000

I have colleagues who have replaced ctrl-f on a (long) document they already have open with prompting an LLM to find things for them.

New comment by gorbachev in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

gorbachev — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:40:39 +0000

This is incorrect. The physical card itself expires every 10 years, but your status as a permanent resident doesn't. That can only be revoked by a legal process.

Obviously if you do not renew the green card itself, you are going to face practical issues, because you have no easy way to prove your permanent resident status. So things like employment verification because of new employment and entering the country from abroad will become quite a bit more difficult.

New comment by gorbachev in "Felony Bench"

gorbachev — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:44:58 +0000

Now that everyone knows this can and will happen, are any of the future incidents inadvertent?

What if the damage in future incidents is more than just "The LLM saw some stuff it shouldn't"?

Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

gorbachev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:59:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/mamdani-assembles-his-nyc-tech-team/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212459

Points: 72

# Comments: 32

The Post-Literate Engineer

gorbachev — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:12:02 +0000

Article URL: https://joereis.substack.com/p/the-post-literate-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201790

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by gorbachev in "The End of an Era"

gorbachev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:21:45 +0000

Oh, yes, because one example makes this generally true.

I'm sorry, but I have about 1M counter examples.

New comment by gorbachev in "The End of an Era"

gorbachev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:50:26 +0000

The cap will be reached when LLMs run out of original material to train on and the large majority of their training material is AI generated content.

New comment by gorbachev in "The End of an Era"

gorbachev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:47:18 +0000

The average person, yes. A professional, competent writer, editor, journalist? Not even close (currently).

New comment by gorbachev in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

gorbachev — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:43:55 +0000

The Olympic Committee comes pretty close, maybe even ahead of FIFA.

New comment by gorbachev in "Police removed prominent scientists from American Diabetes Association meeting"

gorbachev — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:47:01 +0000

In the UK diabetes patients get automatically invited to followup appointments by the GP and eye screening tests every months, where n depends on the severity of your condition. Adjustments to medication will happen at those appointments.

New comment by gorbachev in "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin"

gorbachev — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:39:03 +0000

You'll understand when/if your Plex media library grows so large that every rescan takes a week.

New comment by gorbachev in "Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors"

gorbachev — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:01:04 +0000

So...don't buy any Ford vehicles designed and/or manufactured in the last 8 months or so?

New comment by gorbachev in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

gorbachev — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:54:21 +0000

yomomma@example.com works for me, most of the time. Some of the places that like to spam their users no matter what filter example.com out.

New comment by gorbachev in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

gorbachev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:27:44 +0000

I was a big fan of your OpenPhoto / Trovebox solution back in the day.

It was ahead of its time. Glad you're still working in the photo sharing space!