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New comment by m348e912 in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

m348e912 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:07:51 +0000

>I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday

It appears to still be up for me. ??

New comment by m348e912 in "What sort of maths are LLMs good at?"

m348e912 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:05:38 +0000

>TASK REQUEST: Clear, not too long not too short prompt, for LLMs to go out and research freelance consulting gigs for one specific IT domain, and in one specific country in Europe, including maybe opportunities driven from temp agencies based in geographically close countries.

As a human, not an LLM, I could interpret "including maybe opportunities driven from temp agencies based in geographically close countries" as meaning "including opportunities in nearby countries outside of Ireland" (that happen to be driven by temp agencies).

Before writing off LLM as simply a "stochastic parrot" or a "parlour trick" remember it can't read your mind, not yet anyway.

New comment by m348e912 in "Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short"

m348e912 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:40:52 +0000

Where did I say it was a good thing (or even a bad thing)? I was just making an observation, and yet downvoted for doing so.

Tesla is making a huge bet on robotaxi, it’s quite possible it will come to fruition.

New comment by m348e912 in "Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short"

m348e912 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:32:30 +0000

Tesla is manufacturing thousands of robotaxis a month. LARP or not, I'd be very surprised if none of the robotaxis are put to use.

New comment by m348e912 in "Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?"

m348e912 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:15:32 +0000

They cloned their slaves and killed some of them?

New comment by m348e912 in "Skate"

m348e912 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:39:59 +0000

New comment by m348e912 in "Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?"

m348e912 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:05:15 +0000

I'll make the argument that part of the value of "consciousness" and "humanity" is uniqueness.

Here is an absurd example: If I could carbon copy 100,000 of you.... and later I decided to "take out" one of the copies, would there be a whole lot of societal blowback? Especially if I could make another one.

New comment by m348e912 in "The AI Aesthetic"

m348e912 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:41:51 +0000

I love this analysis. I chalked the new aesthetic up to AI companies using a new breed/generation of highly talented and highly paid UI/UX designers who have the opportunity to bring their own flavor and influence to an emerging but extremely influential space.

New comment by m348e912 in "Netflix Sued for $105M After Hard Drive of Nicolas Cage Movie Stolen from Office"

m348e912 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:36:17 +0000

Something doesn't sit right about this story. I suspect the Netflix office has security and cameras. For hard drives to get mysteriously stolen, all of which are empty but one that happens to contain a high-profile unencrypted unreleased movie sounds sus.

New comment by m348e912 in "Will AI Bring Power to the People"

m348e912 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:20:23 +0000

It's more likely AI will bring ultimate power to the leader of whatever AI company reaches recursive super intelligence first. ASI includes power of immense societal coercion, unlimited wealth creation, unchecked global influence and control. The sky's the limit. The question is it going to be Altman, Amodei, Musk, or someone else who emerges with ASI first.

New comment by m348e912 in "SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]"

m348e912 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:39:12 +0000

>Just watching the live-stream, does SpaceX only hire young guys in their 20's?

Basically. It's a rough work-life balance at SpaceX and as people get older, they want to live their lives and not live at work.

New comment by m348e912 in "House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent"

m348e912 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:44:41 +0000

The House on Tuesday voted to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, amid a yearslong push to end the twice-annual clock changes.

House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent

m348e912 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daylight-saving-time-permanent-house-vote/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914418

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by m348e912 in "Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets"

m348e912 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:39:55 +0000

Archive.is doesn't seem to be working. Here is the gist of the article:

Apple sued OpenAI and one of its top executives Friday alleging the AI company stole trade secrets as part of its effort to develop competing devices.

The civil suit filed in the Northern District of California accuses OpenAI’s chief hardware officer, Tang Tan, and Chang Liu, a member of its technical staff, of taking Apple’s confidential information through various methods. Both are former Apple employees who went to work for OpenAI.

Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets

m348e912 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:35:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-openai-lawsuit-f86bd58c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864887

Points: 77

# Comments: 5

New comment by m348e912 in "Meta's glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light"

m348e912 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:25:07 +0000

https://archive.is/8C6vM

Article without paywall.

Seems like the next evolution of a cat-and-mouse game between Meta and the modders. How long before the new tamper protection is defeated?

New comment by m348e912 in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

m348e912 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:46:23 +0000

Here is a mirror of the article without a paywall.

https://archive.is/FziAy

The Economist is partly owned by the Rothschild dynasty and was chaired by Evelyn de Rothschild for 17 years, so I've always just assumed it is going to tell you whatever would favor the global elite banking class.

New comment by m348e912 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

m348e912 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:25:14 +0000

The memory manufacturing industry is historically notorious for its "feast or famine" cycles, bouncing violently between periods of extreme supply gluts and crushing shortages. We're in a shortage with massive demand right now, but manufacturers are hesitant to significantly invest in new manufacturing capacity due to the risk of being left holding the bag if demand drops.

New comment by m348e912 in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

m348e912 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:50:14 +0000

>ssh -J user1@bastion1,user2@bastion2 targetuser@targethost

Are you using SSH key auth or password authenticating three times when you do this?

New comment by m348e912 in "AI Boom Hits Labor Market Reality Check"

m348e912 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:25:13 +0000

https://fivetakes.news/articles/workers-are-emerging-as-the-...