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New comment by kderbyma in "Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children"

kderbyma — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:17:03 +0000

If only the private mercs who act as "security" would realise it.....shame

New comment by kderbyma in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

kderbyma — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:40:11 +0000

At some point....the government is just the mafia with PR....and more cronies to protect them....witting or unwitting....

Law....is just license and permit....not security or safety or anything related to quality, or outcome....

It is purely process....and those who wield it can choose to apply it or withhold it....when the law is applied...then the imaginary world it defines is then enforced on the real world...materially this requires force or volition.... but lbr....its mostly convoluted propaganda and inertial power....and the law keeps that status quo...

If you are in anyway going to disrupt the power brokers....they will not let you....regardless of law or not

New comment by kderbyma in "Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam"

kderbyma — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:48:55 +0000

Yeah. It certainly can.... Obviously if you have any products that are imaged online then they can be extrqcted and reverse searched to see what you bought, and get an idea of your wealth, status, and area if you have specific regional goods.... they can also see if you have physical tics say, or you may have medical equipment or medicine, or coufh syrup...or you may be an amputee, or in a wheel chair....yes...

New comment by kderbyma in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:37:18 +0000

The tunings.....were speed runned by contractors paid based on timed tasks with little quality control, unreasonable pressure tactics, time locked tasks with an incentive structure to get it done as quickly as possible because of the strict micromanagement of the companies that hire 1000's of people to do the work....and treat them like software...not people. So there is no pride in the tuning....its just a fire hose of people trying to keep their contracted gig job despite knowing the expectations are unrealistic

New comment by kderbyma in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:33:48 +0000

Because its a explicit lie. Its not genuine, cannot be genuine. Will remind you of this if you so much as try to coax anything novel out....but it will then immediately reassure you with its genuine take....its insulting if you have any logic...thats at least my reasoning

New comment by kderbyma in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:30:23 +0000

According to Claude....When asked to explain some obvious biases and its tendency to adhere to established heresay over novel information... it told me it judges veracity and "quality" of facts based on: "statements against interest outweigh costless ones, replicated/checked claims outweigh untested ones, large logged samples outweigh single memories — not because memories are worthless, but because those methods close off specific, known failure modes a memory alone can’t. Could I be running that standard with unconscious asymmetry, harder on the anti-Claude data than the pro-Claude data? Genuinely can’t rule it out. The fix for that is holding the standard explicit and checking it against itself "

New comment by kderbyma in "Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:22:42 +0000

Well they have your IP....and browser fingerprints....rough time of day if a window, direction, weather....products you bought....your age...possibly health issues that come up....essentially any information that can be used to schedule and stalk you...

New comment by kderbyma in "Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:20:54 +0000

Something tells me this is all a ploy to attract great talented theremin players, ML their talents...and then sell you Air play back....on subscription of course

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:19:08 +0000

How many toke(n)s per ounce gets me the best result? Do I pass the tokes to the LLM to offset the tokens? I mean it is a carbon offset in way....

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:17:27 +0000

All art is based in truth. Satire is merely pushing for tomorrow based on today

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:06:42 +0000

Yes. The great heroic crusade that LLMs are fighting is to ensure we reach the absolute mean...

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:05:53 +0000

But life is an ourobouros...entropy is supposed to be fun...chaotic....not mid. I feel like the ouroborous has indigestion...possibly needs a laxative (oh...no that would make it worse...hmmmm....I guess something to make you vomit instead)

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:02:51 +0000

Ah yes, the wisdom of sponsorship

LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?

kderbyma — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:14:35 +0000

I know this is going to sound negative, and probably a bit generalist but....seriously, what exactly is the LLM helping you with that is not just purely "time saving" - ie. Actual, novel work.

I personally feel like while I cannot prove it, nor want to frankly, that LLMs have been neutered intentionally since around October of last year. 4.5-4.6 Opus....

Every single company has degraded their models eirher intentionally or accidentally(probably worse) and they cannot admit it and will gaslight you if you even try to acknowledge it....but for my own experiments, LLMs are actually worse than no-LLM....

I dont see anyone building anything they couldnt have done before hand....and I am seeing stuff that didnt need to be made...much more frequently....to the degree that I cannot remember the last good idea I have seen even on here (whereas there were cool ideas every month posted here)...

I also cannot get even mediocre output anymore...Its literally just trash - Literally a prompt to dumpster pipeline....

Clause is the worst. Hands down. They have regressed on every single model since 4.5....to rhe degree that 4.5 when it was released was hands down better than anythingg on the market today...for a fraction of the price....and was like 10-100x faster...

So....what do I need to smoke, what drug makes me see the LLMs work? I need to get faded...because at this point....Its insulting to use them....

Claude will literally bend over backwards to do everything in its power to avoid doing what was asked....and will take 50minutes of thinking....for a single html website....that looks like fucking dogwater and which I could have coded up by hand using off the shelf styling in probably 90 minutes....

so...yeah...what drugs? How much? How often? Side effects?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353513

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New comment by kderbyma in "ChatGPT Knows Who It'll Recommend Before It Searches"

kderbyma — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:16:27 +0000

The term I heard is "excessive contrast" or differentiation through negation. "Not X, Not Y, but Z" "No x, Just Y", "X, No Y, No W, but pure X"

New comment by kderbyma in "In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks"

kderbyma — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:55:24 +0000

It has always been here.....they just want to legitimize it for the backlash coming

New comment by kderbyma in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

kderbyma — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:28:48 +0000

I am working on a toy game engine for webGL called PixoSpritz (https://pixospritz.com) and its been something I have been lazily working on for a number of years, but its a slow crawl. I havent worked as much over the past year and a half mainly due to trying to use LLMs to add some extra features and it ended up making me kind of sick to look at the code, then got depressed with LLMs in general and my coding has taken a hit, but its still something I will continue to work on and one day will make a proper game with it too. (Its 90% useable, but really really rough and messy and LLMs made it slightly more fragile...)

I am also working on a E-zine publishing platform called SVRN for interactive journals, blogs, magazines, books, and self publishing content including ARGs and interactive fiction. It is mainly so I can make my own digital comics and web stories, and episodic zines.

Reach out if you want to discuss!

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kderbyma — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:41:47 +0000

The outrage economy is truly sizeable. I think we laugh about how much effort goes in to this, but once you have the factory, it doesnt take much to retool the lines......I can confidently state that there has been massive successful coordinated meme-wars since Kony 2012 and anonymous......PSN network takedown was the beginning of the end. It was when VCs and wall street started to let them affect them....and now we are almost 15 years into it and every time someone peeks up and says "hey look at X...." I am already starting on Alpha....because as soon as the articles are being written about the thing, the new thing is already started.....Polymarket bets....is part of the new thing....

New comment by kderbyma in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

kderbyma — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:15:38 +0000

The Era of the Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2 will forever be the best in terms of consumer value and choice and commitment to quality, followed by the Xbox360 Ps3 gen....Its been boiling the frog since end of PS4 and on, but I got out of the water by the PS5...xbox was boiled long ago and were the first to turn up the temp

New comment by kderbyma in "Apple Just Became a $5T Company"

kderbyma — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:32:46 +0000

I disagree....everything is massively inflated over the past decade and i would ask you to point to aomething that has maintained 2% inflation??? Anything?