Hacker News: jkuli

New comment by jkuli in "'Our consciousness is under siege': On chatbots, social media and mental freedom"

jkuli — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:56:05 +0000

The author says they want freedom, but demands restrictions. They can't just make their own decision, they need to live everyone else's life too. This is part of a sustained attack on all internet users. They give multiple rationales.

Thousands of similar articles amount to brainwashing. The public is inundated with a false reality.

People like this claim to be injured by infinite scrolling, there is no way to have a consistent standard with claims that are so frivolous.

I expect a pile of down votes... my account is already tanked for similar reason. More manipulation of social media by people who claim to abhor it.

New comment by jkuli in "It's all a blur"

jkuli — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:58:30 +0000

A simple solution is to use a system of linear equations. Each row of a matrix is a linear equation, Ax = b Each row contains kernel weightings A across the image X, B is the blurred pixel color. The full matrix would be a terabyte, so take advantage of the zeros and use an efficient solve for X instead of inversion.

Enhance really refers to combining multiple images. (stacking) Each pixel in a low res image was a kernel over the same high res image. So undoing a 100 pixel blur is equivalent to combining 10,000 images for 100x super resolution.

New comment by jkuli in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

jkuli — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:41:17 +0000

There was no suicide hotline offered either. Strange because youtube always gives me one whenever I search the band 'suicidal tendencies'.

Giving medical advice is natural and intelligent, like saying take an aspirin. I'm not sure where to draw the line.

My friends are always recommending scam natural remedies like methylene blue. There are probably discords where people tell you 'down the road, not across the street' referring to cutting.

New comment by jkuli in "Parse, Don’t Validate – Some C Safety Tips"

jkuli — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:19:14 +0000

validating twice is safe. it will not error the second time.

it is against the rules to call someone dumb on this server.

New comment by jkuli in "The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon"

jkuli — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 23:01:15 +0000

It's not enough to be against Amazon. You need to be against everyone who - sells tech to the gov, - undercuts prices, - exploits employees, - lobbies for regulation.

Not to mention the real reason we hate Jeff Bezos. Because you wouldn't like it if I mentioned it.

New comment by jkuli in "AI Responses May Include Mistakes"

jkuli — Sat, 31 May 2025 06:38:39 +0000

Humans can also make mistakes. This is the first test I apply every time. Could it be that AI is actually more capable than a human? If industry decides than humans are more reliable, they will choose to use humans. Reliability is part of cost-effectiveness, and it's built in to the business decision process.

New comment by jkuli in "Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected"

jkuli — Mon, 12 May 2025 03:27:19 +0000

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New comment by jkuli in "Chinese Ship Suspected of Dragging Anchor 100 Miles to Cut Baltic Cables"

jkuli — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 02:08:20 +0000

Another attempt to protect children from the internet? How thoughtful.

New comment by jkuli in "An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)"

jkuli — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:19:33 +0000

Focusing on the "worst ever" is sociopathic. These people do not want entertainment at all, they have a completely foreign agenda.

New comment by jkuli in "People need this 'essential' cognitive ability–and fewer have it"

jkuli — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:24:55 +0000

This person invented a new word to describe how OUR tech-savvy culture is lacking. This new word 'receptivity' is probably synonymous with gullibility. See how I used quotes for a quotation and not for emphasis? And fewer have it than ever before... really ? did someone measure it? Psychology is pseudoscience again.... How can I measure receptivity? Its a made up word! How can I measure it... This is a tech website... please go away. We LIKE tech, we don't want your brainwashing pseudoscience!

New comment by jkuli in "Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act"

jkuli — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:54:16 +0000

I'm unable to register. This is GME stonks all over again. It takes less than 1 second to process an account. There are 18,000 seconds in five hours. There must be a lot of comments that they don't agree with. Maybe they shut it down to protect humanity from extinction?

New comment by jkuli in "Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act"

jkuli — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:48:31 +0000

Haha, confidently incorrect. You made that up didn't you. Absolutely times infinity.

New comment by jkuli in "Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act"

jkuli — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:42:05 +0000

The evidence is the damage caused by their actions. No need to punish people for crimes that haven't occurred.

New comment by jkuli in "Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act"

jkuli — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:23:41 +0000

Is this true?

New comment by jkuli in "Stop: Disable the scanning of documents by Adobe AI solutions"

jkuli — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:34:51 +0000

"We and our 152 partners use cookies" Your website is a virus! One Hundred Fifty Two Advertising Partners? And you want me to be afraid of the AI boogeyman!?!? What a zombie... Can you just go watch television? Please go back to your zombie masters.

New comment by jkuli in "How Microwaves Cook from the Inside Out"

jkuli — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 07:38:22 +0000

There is also a reddit post with further discussion. https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/153gh89/reverse_tomog...

New comment by jkuli in "How Microwaves Cook from the Inside Out"

jkuli — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:26:33 +0000

This simple program demonstrates that 8 audio speakers can deliver completely different customized signals to 8 specific locations.

This has applications for surround sound and directed energy.

How Microwaves Cook from the Inside Out

jkuli — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:26:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jkuli-net/reverse_tomography

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36780769

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by jkuli in "Pangram"

jkuli — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 03:43:57 +0000

some pangram heterograms found by others:

  Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q.
  Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz.
  Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox!
  Q-kelt vug dwarf combs jynx phiz.
  TV quiz drag nymphs blew JFK cox.

program i wrote that found 184000 pangram heterograms in the scrabble dictionary:

  https://github.com/jkuli-net/pangram