Hacker News: iwontberude

New comment by iwontberude in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

iwontberude — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:21:59 +0000

I remember when you could stand up a website and no bots would scrape it or scan it. It was a lovely time. No one had firewalls or antivirus and things were working fine until the worms and viruses started coming. You could be confident that your guests were real, so much so we had guest counters on many public sites.

New comment by iwontberude in "_for-sale DNS records"

iwontberude — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:22:59 +0000

Yeah but you still have to hire attorneys so for some people they will just settle and take any offer

New comment by iwontberude in "Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones"

iwontberude — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:36:14 +0000

> People only turn yellow if they have kidney or liver damage.

This is not true. Roughly 5% of people have Gilbert's Syndrome which is genetic, metabolic abnormality where the bilirubin from dead blood cells are conjugated slower than the baseline patient leading to yellowing of the skin. It is not due to liver damage or disease and is a benign condition. Not to mention there is carotenemia from eating too many carrots or squash -- again not kidney/liver damage related.

New comment by iwontberude in "Don't be a meat proxy"

iwontberude — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:43:30 +0000

True because we have pay bands that everyone has to somehow be hired for and fit within.

New comment by iwontberude in "DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status"

iwontberude — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:37:38 +0000

those script kiddies control botnets in foreign countries and use them to attack stuff just bc. its not their compute, so no marginal cost to them

New comment by iwontberude in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

iwontberude — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:51:15 +0000

That's because its satire, the tell was "not excluding targeted military strikes"

New comment by iwontberude in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

iwontberude — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:17:32 +0000

I’m talking back of house, you’ve sort of mistakenly missed my point and made a rebuttal to some completely different question and I agree with you.

New comment by iwontberude in "The AI Productivity Gap"

iwontberude — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:59:03 +0000

"In reality, it’s juniors who stand to gain the most from AI – especially if they are good at using AI as a learning tool, not just an overeager sidekick who’s willing to do the menial work."

We have had interns come in and do 5x more work than their predecessors using GenAI. Senior devs spend most of their time planning and reviewing now and Junior devs can implement. Both with the help of GenAI.

New comment by iwontberude in "Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust"

iwontberude — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:55:48 +0000

Tools encode determinism, not trust

New comment by iwontberude in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

iwontberude — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:42:23 +0000

It's a moot point. In Mag7 companies internal code gets thrown away within 2 years on average because of contract negotiations, new opensource projects that obviate need for the internal codebase, license changes, layoffs, etc, etc. We don't need long term maintainability because its already on its way to the garbage bin. Frankly it's always been this way.

New comment by iwontberude in "Show HN: Chinese are offering Claude/Codex offers 90% off"

iwontberude — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:27:36 +0000

Nope, it’s just simple arbitrage. All of the subscription tiers offer 5-10x better prices than metered api fees. They use subscription to hook people and get them desperate enough to pay for ad-hoc generation outside of their subscription to make a profit. The economics of Claude do not work unless a significant % of subscribers convert to standard metered API use. They are trying any trick under the sun to make this happen.

New comment by iwontberude in "Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built"

iwontberude — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:25:38 +0000

Americans on IRC likely to be from a handful of cesspools that encourage racist worldviews or other “open-minded” discourse which ends up being a recurring hate-mongering episode.

New comment by iwontberude in "Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM"

iwontberude — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:57:22 +0000

And it’s an endlessly moving target, look at how many apps break every major release (and use it to justify regular, expensive paid upgrades)

New comment by iwontberude in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

iwontberude — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:46:08 +0000

Welcome to the singularity where we all do Claude’s bidding and don’t even realize we’ve synchronized.

New comment by iwontberude in "How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist"

iwontberude — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:14:23 +0000

That’s why they are often armed, some with rifles

New comment by iwontberude in "Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'"

iwontberude — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:14:29 +0000

Way healthier, it’s not even a comparison. Cigarettes have particulates that are not bioavailable and create the black lung tissue. Here in California we have banned any flavors from nicotine vapes so it’s very straight forward. The best vapes anymore are THC, due to psychoactive effects and flavors, similar level of safety to nicotine.

New comment by iwontberude in "Neutrino-1 8B"

iwontberude — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:04:10 +0000

It has no ability to ground output in causality. It does not understand what causes humans to learn. It’s a correlation and randomness engine.

New comment by iwontberude in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

iwontberude — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:51:28 +0000

My religion uses hallucinogens in ceremony and if I got fired for speaking about my religious practice I would certainly sue the shit out of them.

New comment by iwontberude in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

iwontberude — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:49:22 +0000

Not as shocking when you realize you are wasting your downtime with work colleagues. I’d rather have control over my downtime regardless of who is paying.

New comment by iwontberude in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

iwontberude — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:40:02 +0000

That was always the framing. I don’t understand your pedantry.