Hacker News: hananova

New comment by hananova in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

hananova — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:32:58 +0000

> One of the most serious examples is her health insurance. Prost receives coverage through AXA, the French company that provides insurance for the court. She says the company has refused to pay her claims even though it is not legally required to follow the U.S. sanctions.

Then it is high time to make the company legally required not to follow the U.S. sanctions.

New comment by hananova in "Dutch Computer Museums"

hananova — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:30:40 +0000

And just last week they opened a store diagonally across from the museum where you can buy their surplus.

New comment by hananova in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

hananova — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:07:04 +0000

Dating apps are a Cursed Problem: If they worked well, they’d be out of business. Therefore they must not work well.

New comment by hananova in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

hananova — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:58:55 +0000

I just don’t understand why casino’s feel the need to do that. They already have the edge, they would still turn a profit.

Same goes for banning advantage players. Why? The people that can successfully do it are a vanishingly small group, and even if every single one of them picks your casino because it doesn’t ban advantage players, the sheer amount of incompetent advantage players that would try alongside those would make it so you still turn a profit.

New comment by hananova in "Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]"

hananova — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:32:50 +0000

The name FM always bothered me. You're not modulating the frequency, you're modulating the phase. PM would be a better name.

If you were to modulate frequency, well first of all you'd have to define a reference point or you'd just get glitchy sound. In practice that means most FM implementations just have a highly oversampled single cycle of a sine wave in memory, and it's the speed at which the sample pointer consumes the looping sine that's set to correspond to some frequency, and then that value is modulated. In other words, phase modulation.

New comment by hananova in "An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord"

hananova — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:11:10 +0000

No, just tried that. In this case it’s blocked on the recipient side, not on the sender side.

New comment by hananova in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

hananova — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:24:35 +0000

Actually I didn’t sign anything. And I will watch online content however I want to. You’re free to paywall it or not put it online at all if you don’t like it, someone else will fill the gap.

New comment by hananova in "An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord"

hananova — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:44:47 +0000

It’s actually trivially easy to detect if someone isn’t verified adult: If you DM them something normal it’ll go through, but if you try to send them any image marked as spoiler it’ll show you an error, and they don’t see anything.

So yes, it’s super easy for groomers to focus on children with this update.

New comment by hananova in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

hananova — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:07:21 +0000

You simply do not say something like “we don’t record continuously” if the reality is that you only record when voice control or speech to text is active. Given the entire industry’s track record, the only sane thing to do when confronted with weasel wording is to assume the truth is the worst possible interpretation that isn’t a blatant lie, and even then, sometimes it is just a blatant lie.

Here’s some examples:

- We don’t record continuously -> We record nearly all the time, only stopping to upload the recording.

- We do not sell your data -> But we do “share” it.

- All your data is protected from unauthorized LLM scraping -> But we define all the big tech companies as authorized scraping.

New comment by hananova in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

hananova — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:19:01 +0000

Of course you can. Stockfish plays very different compared to a human, and it never ever blunders or makes mistakes.

New comment by hananova in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

hananova — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:48:54 +0000

That proves what data travels between your computer and the API server, not what data may or may not secretly get shared within processes at the API server.

New comment by hananova in "Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10"

hananova — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:38:50 +0000

Valve has in the past given refunds for something that was changed to deliberately no longer work on certain systems. Given that this involves their own hardware devices in this case they're likely to do so here.

New comment by hananova in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

hananova — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:22:33 +0000

Except nobody can prove that those subagents aren't secretly sharing information with the main agent in the backend, and frankly I don't trust Anthropic not to do exactly that to cheese benchmarks.

New comment by hananova in "A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

hananova — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:59:36 +0000

Given how often dang replies to an @dang post, he clearly has a running search for it. Expecting us to go out of band is ridiculous and won't happen.

New comment by hananova in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

hananova — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:31:02 +0000

There's already been one case where the prompts were allowed to as a subject of discovery, and lying about it is perjury. Lawyers really are probably safe.

New comment by hananova in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

hananova — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:41:00 +0000

Yes, sociopathic tech bros making everything insanely expensive for regular people is indeed incredibly disrespectful!

New comment by hananova in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

hananova — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:50:15 +0000

You’re deliberately bringing up irrelevant minimal counter examples in bad faith.

New comment by hananova in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

hananova — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:48:59 +0000

Yes that is one part of how dog whistles work. Disguise it well enough to get rubes to run interference for you. You’re doing that very well.

New comment by hananova in "Apple Compared My Neurodivergent Disability Adjustments to Dog-Sitting: VisionOS"

hananova — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:57:32 +0000

This is why you do not disclose anything until the contract is signed.

New comment by hananova in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

hananova — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:03:36 +0000

Doesn't change anything. If you buy something for a certain price, regardless of whatever reasons you have for doing so (including but not limited to, being rich and irresponsible, being insane, or doing it for the memes.) Then that thing has that value to you at that point in time.

Whether someone else will share your judgment of its worth is highly unlikely, but it is also entirely irrelevant. Worth has never meant "objective value to literally everyone."