Hacker News: infinite_spin

New comment by infinite_spin in "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]"

infinite_spin — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:29:13 +0000

out of curiosity, what kind of junk/garbage is typical?

New comment by infinite_spin in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

infinite_spin — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:54:45 +0000

the success of mythos isn't from model weights, it's from the harness and toolset it has access to

New comment by infinite_spin in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

infinite_spin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:28:35 +0000

Probably due to road conditions during the winter season. Imagine asking someone who isn't used to driving on icy roads to drive a large van full of equipment up through the Rockies

New comment by infinite_spin in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

infinite_spin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:24:45 +0000

Yeah, it's just a holdover, the term "vitamin" originated from "vital amine", and vitamin D doesn't even have an amine group

New comment by infinite_spin in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

infinite_spin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:08:31 +0000

They actively encourage addicts to "self-exclude" themselves from winnings, meaning if they go to a casino and win, the casino will bar them from collecting those winnings.. but they don't appear to stop that same person from placing bets in the first place.

https://massgaming.com/about/voluntary-self-exclusion/

New comment by infinite_spin in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

infinite_spin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:07:50 +0000

> According to Miller, who is no longer with KODA, TJ's declaring physician believed he showed too many signs of life _to continue with the surgery_, but KODA wanted to proceed anyway. https://www.kxlh.com/health/kentucky-man-wakes-during-organ-...

New comment by infinite_spin in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

infinite_spin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:17:37 +0000

There's a lot of proposed legislation trying to expand mobile gambling too:

https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/114277/massachusetts-ig...

https://sportsbettingalliance.org/take-action/ohio_igaming/

https://sportsbettingalliance.org/take-action/texas/

https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/h...

New comment by infinite_spin in "NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours""

infinite_spin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:16:01 +0000

It's important to point out that it's not necessarily the underlying model, but also the harness, which is the real wagon in this race

New comment by infinite_spin in "A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech"

infinite_spin — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:29:09 +0000

This was pretty easy to find examples of.

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/when-complaining-about...

https://ij.org/press-release/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-of...

https://www.rcfp.org/supreme-court-throws-out-1876-criminal-...

https://www.fire.org/cases/larry-bushart-v-perry-county

There's a lot more.

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

infinite_spin — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:42:19 +0000

I would like to see these regulations in place here. I have always felt very uncomfortable with companies like TurnItIn.com getting to train their models off of my work, without compensation, where my consent is assumed and there is no opt-out. I've brought this up before, and the general consensus was that my college enrollment is optional, and therefore my consent is freely given. I should have a right to attend a school I pay for and qualified for, without requiring me to give up other rights.

New comment by infinite_spin in "We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall"

infinite_spin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:25:43 +0000

it's also an odd situation to say a tabular database can replace a document store .. sure, it can, but that's not good practice from my point of view

also, I've run ES on an old laptop and it worked really well, so the cost of it can be pretty low if you're still in development

New comment by infinite_spin in "We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall"

infinite_spin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:23:09 +0000

that would be a pretty frail architecture too, I think I recall ES even saying not to rely on it for data persistence. Every time I've worked with ES it was always backed by some other database used as a source of truth.

New comment by infinite_spin in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

infinite_spin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:58:55 +0000

> absurd to the point of being actively malicious

No, it's not, and this is why you were called a shill .. not merely due to a disagreement, but due to you actively portraying your opposition as malicious, while you actively describe multi-billion dollar corporations as just people trying to "pay their rent and feed their children by selling games"

Deeply dishonest indeed.

New comment by infinite_spin in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

infinite_spin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:51:48 +0000

I sincerely ask that you do not trivialize what happened to Aaron Swartz by linking what happened to him to any criminal actions on his part. He did nothing wrong.

New comment by infinite_spin in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

infinite_spin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:59:52 +0000

both are intentional, both are wrong, we don't need to compare two wrong things and say one is better.. you also cannot predict whether intentionally leaving a hazard in a roadway will give someone a choice, that very thing happens all the time and it causes a significant number of deaths.

New comment by infinite_spin in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

infinite_spin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:57:38 +0000

This is like saying I can slip malware into a project and so long as the user is the one who executed the code I'm free and clear.. which we both know isn't true.

New comment by infinite_spin in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

infinite_spin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:55:21 +0000

There already are laws against this, both in the USA and Germany

New comment by infinite_spin in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

infinite_spin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:54:31 +0000

Aaron Swartz didn't code malware into a project with the stated goal of destroying data.. and this has nothing to do with copyright infringement or an overzealous federal agency. How does this situation relate to what he went through?

New comment by infinite_spin in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

infinite_spin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:50:07 +0000

Or if the AI agent decides "delete" means something much broader than just source, and includes other project resources, such as databases

At the end of the day we have a developer injecting malicious instructions into their project, with the openly stated goal of causing data deletion, and the people supporting that effort are doing so because of their personal ideology. We have laws against this for a good reason.

New comment by infinite_spin in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

infinite_spin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:43:16 +0000

It's also a bit odd that this article seems to support the use of malicious prompt injection