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New comment by hockey in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

hockey — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:36:25 +0000

Does OpenAI even know?

Their disclosure on the hugging face incident sounded like they found out about it well after huggingface. I wonder if they're finding out about these breaches as they happen as well, and are just too embarresed to respond.

I guess the corollary here _if that were true_ is that they've been training this method of cheating into their models for longer than _they've_ even known.

Given they've just dropped GPT-6 and want to IPO soon, that's probably not something they want us thinking about.

New comment by hockey in "Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better"

hockey — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:43:54 +0000

Your point definitely stands, but I feel there is still a good faith use case for this.

I've definitely been young and passionate and, occasionally a bit inebriated and/or triggered by certain things when I commented on the internet (in fact I'm usually silent unless I've had a few drinks).

Though I don't think myself a bad faith actor, I've definitely written things I shouldn't in the past. Often with good intentions, but perhaps with anger or passion clouding my judgement. Most folks have something that will trigger them to respond in a sub par way after a bad sleep or a long day.

I'd like to think that a tool to let me know I'm alienating rather than persuading the folks I'm talking to would provide benefit.

But yeah. This is a difficult one. Not everyone who is being a jerk is just having an out-of-character bad day.

New comment by hockey in "Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance"

hockey — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:10:30 +0000

Lower early life performance we with lots of multidisciplinary experience, later life hyperfocus on a specific discipline until world-class levels are reached.

Sounds like they're describing ADHD.

(Side note after the important ADHD joke: there's an old sport textbook called "Periodization" that mentions focusing on breadth rather than depth of sports experience in early life is a better path to olympic-level performance than just going hard in a single sport from a young age.)

New comment by hockey in "Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?"

hockey — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 11:29:23 +0000

Check the local council websites.

In Australia at least we need to submit development approvals which are public for some time.

As part of these approvals there will be floor plans and architectural drawings. They won't be enough to build off (usually), but they're a great source of inspiration it you're looking for ideas, costings, and what your local council is willing to approve.

New comment by hockey in "Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation"

hockey — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 08:46:27 +0000

Google Maps is a pretty big application. Have you considered that this might have been a mistake? Refactoring legacy codebases isn't always without regressions.

If you file a bug report (especially if there are a bunch of others filing them) then the people in charge of this stuff won't be able to claim they didn't know about it.

Open maps > help and feedback > send feedback

And remember, Every good bug report needs exactly three things:

1) Steps to reproduce, 2) What you expected to see, and 3) What you saw instead