<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: menacingly</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=menacingly</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:43:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=menacingly" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know the particulars, but in general, silence around a massive tech company on warrants does not mean "they said no and the feds decided to leave them alone"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:35:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134454</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>stuff like this working is why you get odd situations like "don't hallucinate" actually producing fewer hallucinations. it's to me one of the most interesting things about llms</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:48:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42588365</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42588365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42588365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they seemed to enjoy the internet access in russia</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:19:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372613</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Show HN: I made a Sonic runner game in JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is great!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:59:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918629</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>sum the amount of "you simply <x>" in this thread, then account for the fact that we're talking about running afoul of a regulation if you don't understand it, and you end up with a hassle. I'm not weighing in on whether or not it's bad, I'm just saying what I said. If you aren't accounting for a significant portion of revenue to justify it, you're going to get blocked because you represent a liability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:41:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594330</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm surprised I don't see it more. You can't impose a regulatory burden more troublesome than your traffic is worth</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:23:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41587115</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41587115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41587115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Decentralized on centralized hardware?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:16:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41584235</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41584235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41584235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>could something like steam or a linux distro use it to distribute software? seems crazy not to.<p>I think what people are saying is we know there is probably a silent line somewhere, and we have no way of knowing when we cross it. It feels like it has an implied "most of the people reading this can treat it as unlimited in practice"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:45:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102692</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure selectively enforced shakedowns instill a lot of confidence either</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:33:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102604</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>unless I'm misunderstanding, the same data could be pulled from those services.<p>the message content wasn't leaked here</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:07:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40949899</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40949899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40949899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "The Death of the Junior Developer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're only allowed to believe LLMs are a kind of digital messiah or that they're complete hype garbage, when of course the answer is some point between.<p>There is obviously a lot of potential here, but there is also a lot of solution looking for a problem.<p>My current red flag is if an argument hinges on a trademark breathless frisson for the growth potential. Statements like "models are getting smarter every month" that hasn't been true for a year. If your excitement over AI is based not on what we can do today, but a presumed future expansion for which we have no evidence, that's silly.<p>But what they can do today is cool. We worked for a long time to get computers to understand natural language intent, and LLMs demonstrably solve this problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:31:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40784177</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40784177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40784177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Uncensor any LLM with abliteration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it’s similar asking the gemini-1.5 models about coding questions that involve auth<p>one of my questions about a login form also tripped a harassment flag</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 07:54:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667091</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it will defer to the server a _lot_, if you just consider the capability they can fit on that phone</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:57:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40637022</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40637022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40637022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if the servers are so private, why is on-device such a win? here are some irrelevant distractions:<p>- the cpu arch of the servers<p>- mentioning that you have to trust vendors not to keep your data, then announcing a cloud architecture where you have to trust them not to keep your data<p>- pushing the verifiability of the phone image, when all we ever cared about was what they sent to servers<p>- only "relevant" data is sent, which over time is everything, and since they never give anyone fine-grained control over anything, the llm will quietly determine what's relevant<p>- the mention that the data is encrypted, which of course it isn't, since they couldn't inference. They mean in flight, which hopefully _everything_ is, so it's irrelevant</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:51:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636902</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>microsoft was always going to take SMBs. Data is what makes them useful, so Microsoft keeps their SMBs, Apple gets consumers, Google gets their slice of productivity and android, where their preachy models will let you know if you did a harassment</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636803</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The privacy conversation was pretty shady, and honestly full of technical holes with pointless misleading distractions</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:43:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636734</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "WWDC 2024 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you should have seen them when they had a soul</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:32:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636601</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "WWDC 2024 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it feels like microsoft showing off apple software</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:27:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636552</link><dc:creator>menacingly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by menacingly in "WWDC 2024 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To a technical person, the discussion around AI felt really creepy and disingenuous, full of irrelevant distractions</p>
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<p>this is the video form of "bug fixes and performance improvements", and about as charismatic</p>
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