Hacker News: negurahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=neguraHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:49:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by negura in "The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments"]]>stylometric analysis can be used to profile you. so if you were using em-dashes, this is good news. it helps you blend in better than before

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:51:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787359negurahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787359https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787359<![CDATA[New comment by negura in "The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought"]]>over the past 20 years technology has become more and more catastrophic for children. i suspect a large number of grownups who oppose child safety legislation don't really grasp the bleakness. they project their idea of a technology that they grew up with. they don't get to see the kind of data that policymakers, healthcare providers and LEAs see. i'm not saying the proposed legislation is justified. but i don't think the people behind it are necessarily draconian

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:36:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787266negurahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787266https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787266<![CDATA[New comment by negura in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"]]>ultimately it will depend on their opsec. i do think it shows that opsec strategies and tech can have a use case that is not morally bad (at least not in a straightforward way). so the good research done in this field is actually justified

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:35:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776757negurahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776757https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776757<![CDATA[New comment by negura in "Let's talk space toilets"]]>made me think of zizek's hermeneutics of (gravity-based) toilets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:26:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775010negurahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775010https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775010<![CDATA[New comment by negura in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"]]>any prediction requires a model/theory of some sort. and a lot of economists make correct predictions. a lot of them also make incorrect predictions

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:07:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774578negurahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774578https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774578<![CDATA[New comment by negura in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"]]>anecdata that is an apropos to the actual submission is somehow at the top of the thread with 100 (now +1) replies

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:22:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774316negurahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774316https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774316<![CDATA[New comment by negura in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"]]>I'd also call it isolated, but I mean it in a different way. I can't recall similar attacks against a tech bilionnaire. Which I guess makes it notable?

> organized anti-AI terrorism too

There were already memes about that

> When you have people out there saying “AI will kill us all”

It's the "clickbait" mechanism becoming more cancerous

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