Hacker News: lazystar

New comment by lazystar in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

lazystar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:21:31 +0000

"We created an app that displays a new picture of a cat with every click! There's a 1% chance that clicking the button will drain your bank account and deposit it in ours, but we promise thats a bug that will be fixed soon*"

New comment by lazystar in "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"

lazystar — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:34:18 +0000

...and that's different from our current leaders.... how....

New comment by lazystar in "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"

lazystar — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:49:50 +0000

I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords...

...could they be worse than our current leaders?

New comment by lazystar in "Google Accused of Felling 300 Hectares of Forest for a Finnish Data Centre"

lazystar — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:21:53 +0000

An AI-assisted invention that solves climate change would pay some pretty good dividends, i think.

New comment by lazystar in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

lazystar — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:40:02 +0000

> LLMs do not desire

Isn't that what the goal is, though? we're coding them to close the delta between what currently exists and some nebulous end-state - to me, that sounds like a formal definition of 'desire'.

New comment by lazystar in "Prediction: AI Will Collapse"

lazystar — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:38:43 +0000

> The users are, presumably, both sober

heh... the Ballmer Peak is still going strong, even with AI.

New comment by lazystar in "Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk"

lazystar — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:15:00 +0000

> but the safety of driving cars is far worse than that and most of us do that daily.

this "whattabout"ism is brought up during every safety discussion. can we please accept that 1/ everyone knows about the car issue, and 2/ the car issue being a problem does not mean we should stop talking about other issues that exist.

New comment by lazystar in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

lazystar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:57:21 +0000

on a similar note... what statistics show the accident rate of each model of car? or rather, a single driver's accident rate in various types of cars?

New comment by lazystar in "Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago"

lazystar — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:51:26 +0000

a high rate of mutations would be an advantage in a new environment, though.

New comment by lazystar in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

lazystar — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:52:54 +0000

in the 1800's, were the vast majority of horses produced through state owned companies? that process was upended by human ingenuity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz

begging governments to solve the problem has obviously failed; focusing our efforts on fostering ideas and inventions is our best hope at getting our of this mess.

New comment by lazystar in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

lazystar — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:39:39 +0000

acceptance; the problems identified. efforts now should focus on innovative solutions that dont rely on nation state investment.

New comment by lazystar in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

lazystar — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:37:06 +0000

from OP:

>setting off commercial grade fireworks bursting hundreds of feet in the air. The house was shaking,

I'm in Bellevue, WA, and experienced house-shaking fireworks for the first time this year. I was inside with my cats - theyve always been more or less fine with fireworks, just hiding under the bed - but this year's house shakers were on another level. When the first one went off, I thought an accident had happened and a cache of fireworks had exploded. Scared the hell outta me. Then there were about 5 more like that spread across the next 5 hours. 0% of pets would be ok with these ones, I guarantee it. Idk if theyre new this year or what but Ill be doing the same as OP next year.

New comment by lazystar in "Bring back crappy forums"

lazystar — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:19:28 +0000

you pay for upvotes from a third party upvote service.

New comment by lazystar in "Bring back crappy forums"

lazystar — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:26:36 +0000

the biggest issue with reddit/digg/hackernews style comments is how top comments can be gamed for profit. old forums had the problem of "first" and "bump" comments, but steering the conversation was harder.

New comment by lazystar in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

lazystar — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:47:52 +0000

ironically, you wont get a reply from the author...

New comment by lazystar in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

lazystar — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:17:32 +0000

nice. i guess AWS still had nothing to fear from GCP/Azure. ty for this

New comment by lazystar in "Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen"

lazystar — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:50:12 +0000

> ELIF: You trick the CPU to display screen data at a different starting point than as designed by the hardware. This is tricky and need to be executed cycle exact.

heh, is there a new meaning for ELIF? im not sure that there are many 5 year olds who would understand that ;-)

New comment by lazystar in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

lazystar — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:53:45 +0000

> I mean it's possible that I just haven't found the secret sauce

its possible that no one cracks it during the window of time where the product is useful and would pose a risk if cracked, but never forget that the first rule of security is nothing is ever 100% secure.

New comment by lazystar in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

lazystar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:30:45 +0000

well... just because you know how to ssh into the prod DNS host and manually update the prod zone files in vim to remove orphan A records + duplicate CNAME records, in order to fix an ip address exhaustion issue that is blocking new VM's from spinning up for your customers... it doesnt mean that you should, lol.

that was 8 years ago in my first gig. now i kinda wonder... having those skills made it easier to put off implementing a robust long term solution. it was playing with fire, sure, but i was a rookie

New comment by lazystar in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

lazystar — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:16:49 +0000

or more likely, like we the public do not have the full context of whats going on behind the scenes.