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New comment by littlecorner in "Our position on open-weights models"

littlecorner — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:37:49 +0000

Every time I read Hugging Face, my brain first jumps to facehugger from Alien. I really wish they chose a different name...

New comment by littlecorner in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

littlecorner — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:59:28 +0000

It's much easier to blame everyone else instead of trying to change myself

New comment by littlecorner in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"

littlecorner — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:43:01 +0000

The cynical side of me wonders if some books might be "banned" on purpose to have the distinction of being a banned book. Probably few books are actually that way, but these days it seems like a shortcut to notoriety

New comment by littlecorner in "Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks"

littlecorner — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:47:05 +0000

Kids like repetition in their media. They often ask to watch the same movie for days/weeks on end, or read the same story every night, or the same story. And if you don't tell it the same way they remind you...

Suffice it to say, repetition isn't the same frustration that it can be for adults

New comment by littlecorner in "The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters"

littlecorner — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:07:01 +0000

> Perhaps true malice, then, resides not in the monsters themselves but in the systems that classify them as enemies No, malice does not come from the systems. It comes from us who make the systems

New comment by littlecorner in "You Should Not Update Your Dependencies"

littlecorner — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:30:23 +0000

Perhaps upgrade to one a few versions out of date but confirmed to be good?

New comment by littlecorner in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

littlecorner — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:20:31 +0000

"Wait, those are real people whose jobs I cut? I thought they were just numbers"

New comment by littlecorner in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"

littlecorner — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:59:40 +0000

And, in weird circumstances, men can lactate. There's even a story about a viking whose name is escaping me who nursed his son after his wife died.

New comment by littlecorner in "Honda is killing its EVs"

littlecorner — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:11:59 +0000

The world we live in is capitalistic. We can imagine another world that isn't, but when we're considering specific pieces of technology, it's worthwhile to judge it by how it will perform or be exploited in the world we live in.

New comment by littlecorner in "India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders"

littlecorner — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:25:41 +0000

>>Some human still has to be accountable. Someone has to get fired / go to jail when something screws up.

Now I'm trying to imagine a way they could apply a criminal charge against an AI in such a way that it would prevent the AI from being used in official capacity or something

New comment by littlecorner in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

littlecorner — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:21:56 +0000

On the plus side, the current administration isn't obscuring the corruption like previous administrations, which is somewhat refreshing.

New comment by littlecorner in "Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files"

littlecorner — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:44:39 +0000

It's very disconcerting to think that this "innocent" toy or clothing I see my children playing with as "tainted" by this monster. Suddenly he's not just some nebulous monster out there, but in some way the idea of him is here with my children, arousing protective instincts without anything in particular to direct that energy towards.

It also shows him as a human like other humans, which then makes me ponder is that person walking down the street also a monster? Could I become a monster like Epstein?

Such thoughts are very disconcerting

New comment by littlecorner in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

littlecorner — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:58:24 +0000

Did not realize I could do that! Thank you!

New comment by littlecorner in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

littlecorner — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:57:10 +0000

And have schools stop giving kids laptops or tablets. I wonder how much of the Chromebooks for school incitive was to develop a new market for Google

New comment by littlecorner in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

littlecorner — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:54:21 +0000

Everyone thought that we were designing the system, but it's really been the system designing us.

(Only half joking; the medium is the message, and changes us as much as we change it)

New comment by littlecorner in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

littlecorner — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:18:19 +0000

I think some of the released documents included images of victims, which where redacted. So it's not necessarily malicious removals

New comment by littlecorner in "Sins of the Children"

littlecorner — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:42:13 +0000

The Sun Eater series is an interesting one that kind of goes both ways. The big alien baddies are basically demons, and humanity gets a lot of love, but all the politicking and whatnot shows humanity to be both good and bad

New comment by littlecorner in "This is not the future"

littlecorner — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:34:18 +0000

Hopefully without spoiling it, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time has an interesting take on game theory at the end

New comment by littlecorner in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

littlecorner — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:07:22 +0000

There's an instinct in many of us to destroy and pervert, and it can lead to very dark places.

New comment by littlecorner in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"

littlecorner — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:44:58 +0000

Many of the fairy tales have it too. Maybe its something deeper common to humanity