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New comment by mukmuk in "Palantir Billionaire's Passion Project Is Criminalizing Homelessness"

mukmuk — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:18:16 +0000

I have tried to understand what evidence Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute uses to support its homelessness model legislation. My provisional conclusion is that they are working backward from undermining the Housing First approach. I base this on their misinterpretation of statistics on mental illness & substance abuse in [1]; and their misuse of statistically insignificant mortality differences in [2].

[1] https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/press-release/ucsf-b...

[2] https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/104501...

Mysterious Astroturf Group Popped Up to Defend the Paramount Merger

mukmuk — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:30:21 +0000

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/08/21/paramount-merger-warner-discovery-david-ellison-antitrust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404491

Points: 5

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New comment by mukmuk in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

mukmuk — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:54:25 +0000

The attorneys who did this were Carmen Ortiz, Stephen P. Heymann, and Scott Garland. To their everlasting shame.

New comment by mukmuk in "Show HN: Inertia – Not your Grandfathers animation editor"

mukmuk — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:11:00 +0000

It has become a little hard for me to get past landing pages that read as slop. There are only so many hours in a day. Maybe it would be useful for Show HN submitters to indicate whether the link is something they built themselves.

New comment by mukmuk in "The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers"

mukmuk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:15:59 +0000

See also: “Bellevue house at center of OnlyFans trafficking case” https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2026/06/09/bellevue-huma...

The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers

mukmuk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:15:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/18/malignant-rise-onlyfans-managers-exploiting-grooming-predatory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236710

Points: 21

# Comments: 2

New comment by mukmuk in "SAP stops all travel and hiring, telling employees "we need to be disciplined""

mukmuk — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:27:12 +0000

The current link is a cheap aggregation of the actual reporting by 404 Media:

https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel...

New comment by mukmuk in "Zed DeltaDB"

mukmuk — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:44:23 +0000

Anytime a company/group announces some random new project now, I tend to immediately suspect over-reliance on AI. From what I’ve seen, AI addiction frequently manifests as an explosion in scope, possibly because LLMs make so much initial “progress” on new projects which you can then demo and have resource allocators extrapolate to some glorious shipping version. But then you have to go back & clean up the slop, progress slows to a crawl, and it’s all way less exciting. That initial rush can be addicting. Ultimately a supercharged version of eternal human impulses I guess.

New comment by mukmuk in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

mukmuk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:17:56 +0000

fwiw, Gemini 3.5 has identified itself to me as an OpenAI product on multiple occasions.

AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

mukmuk — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:50:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847940

Points: 247

# Comments: 218

How to Tax a Billionaire

mukmuk — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:55:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/california-billionaire-tax-billionaires-wealth-gap-unrealized-gains-rich-possible-fair/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786301

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by mukmuk in "2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results"

mukmuk — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:13:12 +0000

I held my nose through the first third of the winning entry before giving up. Unbearable. Those metaphors… yeesh. Reminded me of this brutally fair minded attempt to read Shy Girl, the AI slop ‘horror novel’ Hachette pulled from shelves in disgrace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbeKTa5xhZo

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Ranks Its Members

mukmuk — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:34:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-members/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593035

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by mukmuk in "Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri"

mukmuk — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:40:14 +0000

The number of realists on this site is encouraging.

New comment by mukmuk in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

mukmuk — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:05:10 +0000

I’m not sure how to reconcile anthropic’s update / some of the exuberant comments here with recent feedback like the following from curl maintainer Daniel Steinberg:

“I see no evidence that this setup [Mythos] finds issues to any particular higher or more advanced degree than the other tools have done before Mythos. Maybe this model is a little bit better, but even if it is, it is not better to a degree that seems to make a significant dent in code analyzing.”

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-v...

New comment by mukmuk in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

mukmuk — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:57:03 +0000

Isn’t this illegal?

New comment by mukmuk in "ChatGPT for Excel"

mukmuk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:52:46 +0000

From my experience, LLM performance in these areas is being massively oversold. I have repeatedly tried using Claude to modify a range of models typical of investment banking / private equity / sellside research contexts, and the results have been generally disastrous. On multiple occasions, the xlsx would no longer open.

New comment by mukmuk in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

mukmuk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:58:31 +0000

Our country is currently enforcing a blockade that is murdering children in Cuba. It is all so sickening.

New comment by mukmuk in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"

mukmuk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:09:00 +0000

the word general in italics was intended to read as “in contrast to this”...

New comment by mukmuk in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"

mukmuk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:24:19 +0000

Somewhat relatedly, there is a pretty plausible theory that some “find the Yeti” expeditions were in fact cover for operations by my country’s intelligence services to sabotage China. See e.g., https://topsecretumbra.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-...

(Btw the general idea that there are animals that we don’t know about is not remotely far-fetched. A new possum genus was discovered like a month ago.)