Hacker News: high_5

New comment by high_5 in "Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages"

high_5 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:30:24 +0000

That is 50 in the US, not in some 3rd world country.

New comment by high_5 in "Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?"

high_5 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:24:02 +0000

So the AI is already auto-shunning itself from the math community.

New comment by high_5 in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

high_5 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:21:08 +0000

The world doesn't care. They've got China firewalled away anyway.

New comment by high_5 in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

high_5 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:19:52 +0000

Public only as accessible by government issued identity.

New comment by high_5 in "Passkeys are a trap"

high_5 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:31:09 +0000

To remove it from the spec you would need to get enought votes in the FIDO alliance workgroups and board and whatnot. That's just politics.

New comment by high_5 in "Plan mode is dead"

high_5 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:35:48 +0000

Correct code is not cheap. And some places you need a very correct code. Like in mission critical systems.

New comment by high_5 in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

high_5 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:14:16 +0000

For the normie guy who used google search just to get to facebook, ELIZA is much cheaper to run than a fully fledged GPT. It's just sensible business wise. Trash the brain of the already poorly educated user to use cheaper AI on him.

New comment by high_5 in "Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'"

high_5 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:59:55 +0000

The HTTP protocol and HTML fromat that Tim Berners Lee created, were meant for sharing documentation and information which foster collaboration via internet. It wasn't really meant for doing business in trusted environments.

The WWW acronym should stand for Worldwide Wild West.

New comment by high_5 in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

high_5 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:45:27 +0000

This reminds me of the ole days of cleaning up preinstalled Windows of bloatware. Some clean Linux distro on desktop is the only path open to human-first tech.

New comment by high_5 in "The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use"

high_5 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:44:27 +0000

Chat apps have already replaced socialapps like FB long ago and the companies know it. Meta has FB Messenger and WhatsApp.

New comment by high_5 in "The last Romans are still around"

high_5 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:39:24 +0000

Because of the allusion to British Empire?

New comment by high_5 in "We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together"

high_5 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:32:15 +0000

Yeah, I had Fred Turner in mind when posting. A bit dry, but comprehensive.

New comment by high_5 in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

high_5 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:48:04 +0000

The Personal Computer culture in the SV developed from the counterculture in the valley: https://kbsm.org/technology/california-tech-culture-that-sha... It then hopped on the Free Software movement with redefining it as "open source" while the Internet was booming. And all of that is now being reaped by the corporations the "tech-hippies" themselves helped to create.

New comment by high_5 in "Bible as RAG Database"

high_5 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:45:13 +0000

Excellent! Just searching "giants" pops our many more of these characters than just Nephilim and Goliath.

New comment by high_5 in "A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias"

high_5 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 09:07:37 +0000

The more the behemoth of bureaucracy and total control will grind and (o)press the societies to atomized individuals, the more lone wolfs will crop up.

New comment by high_5 in "Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security"

high_5 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:30:57 +0000

Passkeys deployment reminds me of a cartel agreement among FAANG without the actual coordination. It's too good of a new tech frontier not to colonize.

New comment by high_5 in "Cleaning up after WWII (2017)"

high_5 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:34:37 +0000

Imagine then having a forest fire in zone rouge: https://www.businessinsider.com/slovenia-wildfires-set-off-h...

New comment by high_5 in "Cleaning up after WWII (2017)"

high_5 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:50:54 +0000

WWII??? We haven't managed yet to clean up after WWI! For example, nearly every day unexploded munitions are found on the former Isonzo frontline.

New comment by high_5 in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

high_5 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:39:41 +0000

Wine is becoming like archive.org, but for win32 runtimes.

New comment by high_5 in "A Gentle Introduction to SAML"

high_5 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:24:27 +0000

Ha, just found out you already posted the spec. Still, even if it gets published, IMO multilateral federations will migrate veeeery sloooooowly.