Hacker News: naruhodo

New comment by naruhodo in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

naruhodo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:24:52 +0000

Thank you. That completes the picture for me.

New comment by naruhodo in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

naruhodo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:19:13 +0000

Finally I can automate my paranoia and relax.

New comment by naruhodo in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

naruhodo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:55:50 +0000

> It's not like we treat math as a charity project for eccentrics who like blackboards.

Love it! XD

I agree, and I think, as with physics, mathematical research produces building blocks whose utility won't be realised until later.

New comment by naruhodo in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

naruhodo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:02:29 +0000

> but if you have a loved one who just needs a one click fix, these can likely save them from the next attack.

I'm not letting gam gams anywhere near that shit. She can continue writing her own apps in assembly language - it's good for her brain health!

New comment by naruhodo in "Grok Build"

naruhodo — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:09:20 +0000

Let’s just say that it only does light-themed UIs.

New comment by naruhodo in "Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian"

naruhodo — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:46:10 +0000

Works in Firefox 150.0.3 (64-bit) on Linux.

New comment by naruhodo in "AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention"

naruhodo — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:16:46 +0000

It’s one of those “you criticise society and yet you participate in society… curious” critiques. Also, I saw some AI detector flagging Bible passages as 97% AI generated. It doesn’t inspire confidence.

New comment by naruhodo in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

naruhodo — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:28:33 +0000

> A search for vertical 5x5 obsidian/crying obsidian pinwheels was also made, and only 1258 were found, with only 613 within a 25k radius of spawn. There were many more than this in December of 2025, so this is either a sign of other players removing them, or the owner(s) of 2b2t worldediting them all out at some point.

I did Nazi that coming.

New comment by naruhodo in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

naruhodo — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:42:16 +0000

Anecdata, but in my experience, my cognitive difficulties respond very positively to commonly recommended dietary supplements for cognitive disorders such as ADHD - particularly vitamin D3 and omega 3. Zinc and magnesium... not so much.

I have IBS - which could lead to nutrient deficiencies - and I've passed the initial pre-screen gate for ADHD assessment (coming soon). I also suspect autism, but the reward to cost ratio for assessment of that doesn't thrill me at the moment.

A different gut microbiome might simply be a way to solve nutrient deficiencies.

New comment by naruhodo in "The Third Hard Problem"

naruhodo — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:49:22 +0000

For me, the canonical example is organising images in folders vs tags.

New comment by naruhodo in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

naruhodo — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:16:41 +0000

I don't agree, and I'd like to understand your point of view.

To me, asking if a function has something wrong with it is just a very basic code review - something that should happen with every function. A competent, security conscious engineer would respond the same way as the model, unsurprisingly, since the model is... modelling competence.

New comment by naruhodo in "Cannabis and driving? Studies reveal big risks"

naruhodo — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:25:19 +0000

It's not unexpected that infrequent users are more impacted by acute use.

The article doesn't quantify accident risk, from what I can see.

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), however, actually has quantified the relative change in accident risk. [1]

The table in the linked document (N/A = not available):

                Crash Risk   Culpability
    Alcohol (BAC = 0.02) 1.03–1.19 1.36
    Alcohol (BAC = 0.05) 1.38–1.75 2.19
    Alcohol (BAC = 0.08) 2.69–2.92 3.63
    Cannabis 1.11–1.42 1.20–1.42
    Antidepressants 1.35–1.40 N/A
    Antihistamines 1.12 N/A
    Benzodiazepines and Z-hypnotics 1.17–2.30 1.41
    Opiates 1.68–2.29 1.47

In Australia, the legal limit for Blood Alcohol Concentration when driving is 0.05. We are subject to roadside drug testing that checks for alcohol, methamphetamine, cannabis and cocaine. But not benzos, opiates or depressants, AFAIK. In almost all Australian states and territories, having a cannabis prescription is not a valid legal defence against loss of licence when a roadside test detects cannabis metabolites. The tests do not indicate impairment, only past use within the last few days. The Australian political class actively resists changing the law to be fair to medicinal cannabis patients.

If the system was really fair, it would perform a field sobriety test to prove impairment. Recognising that cannabis use only increases crash risk by the same amount as a legal BAC would be a good start.

[1] https://www1.racgp.org.au/getattachment/ef4cc327-723b-42c9-b...

New comment by naruhodo in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

naruhodo — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:06:37 +0000

Irony detected, but it's 2026, so nobody can be sure.

New comment by naruhodo in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

naruhodo — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:23:31 +0000

Weak sauce.

curl | sudo dd of=/dev/sda

New comment by naruhodo in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

naruhodo — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:30:50 +0000

Prop 13, for those who don't know...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

New comment by naruhodo in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

naruhodo — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:21:40 +0000

It didn't pan out though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001

New comment by naruhodo in "I want to live like Costco people"

naruhodo — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:32:17 +0000

I see you've played knifey-spoony before.

New comment by naruhodo in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

naruhodo — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:51:59 +0000

When you use a coding model running on someone else's computer, you're giving an AI company your proprietary source code and associated documentation, and you're giving free training examples to make a future AI model better equipped to eliminate your job. Valuable data indeed.

New comment by naruhodo in "I want to live like Costco people"

naruhodo — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:53:47 +0000

That brand was in fact created for the American market, I recall. Australians also don't talk about "throwing another shrimp on the barbie". That's another Americanism. We call them prawns.

New comment by naruhodo in "The USB Situation"

naruhodo — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:05:10 +0000

I have no idea what kind of cable it was, but the bloke who installed the control panel for my ducted air conditioning got the cable snake stuck in the wall cavity. He had to cut it and use a different snake. So there's a dead snake in my wall, and your comment brought this to mind.