Hacker News: nemomarx

New comment by nemomarx in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

nemomarx — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:14:56 +0000

Tons of webforums have donation links or premium memberships. People will pay for their name to be displayed in a different color and basically nothing else, and it's not super hard if you have a few hundred users to pay for servers this way.

It's a fine model so long as you don't need it to scale to one million active users.

New comment by nemomarx in "Neural networks are clean"

nemomarx — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:41:29 +0000

I think the allegations for the LessWrong types started with the math pet thing?

New comment by nemomarx in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:10:15 +0000

It depends on how you define sex. Hormones cover most expressions from chromosomes already. Skull reconstruction could be better? Maybe some way to really rework skeletons and adjust height and hips or shoulders? But that's more on the cosmetic end.

Or if you want at will, it would be good to have some way to radically speed up changes. You're still looking at 3-8 years for some things.

New comment by nemomarx in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:01:11 +0000

Wives organizing social events, I think is part of the conventional wisdom? And more communal work and eating together after work etc.

New comment by nemomarx in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:47:29 +0000

It can be scary and hard to approach, but I would think you're not unexceptional or unimportant to your loved ones. Maybe you should talk to your wife about this at some point? It sounds like you're starting on this with date nights too which does seem good.

I hope you can find something that helps you feel like you're not just treading water, though.

New comment by nemomarx in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:36:57 +0000

It advances every so often. We might have womb transplants in the next decade, surgical techniques get more and more refined, etc.

New comment by nemomarx in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:35:49 +0000

Doing things to share them with others is pretty normal in a hobby. You might be baking for friends and family or sewing clothes or whatever, and want to enjoy the recipients appreciation for it. If people don't accept your gifts, the satisfaction of it will go away, and the same is often true of small coding projects I think.

New comment by nemomarx in "How the Military Will Hack the Election"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:23:12 +0000

they mean building bridges with other Americans, very obviously to me.

New comment by nemomarx in "How the Military Will Hack the Election"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:19:35 +0000

if you don't trust the us military it's obviously bad, right?

New comment by nemomarx in "Passkeys are not a trap"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:46:24 +0000

Can I do hardware attestation across several devices yet? My desktop, my phone, a console, my girlfriends phone of a different brand if I need to log into a shared account, etc?

It seems like one of those things that only works if you're sticking to one ecosystem.

New comment by nemomarx in "Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:01:35 +0000

It seems harder to sell on device ai as a subscription, I would guess? although the much lower inference costs mean maybe you could just sell it as a one time purchase

New comment by nemomarx in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:52:41 +0000

To be fair a lot of parties in the UK have appeared or changed names since around Brexit. I think "labour and tories" might have been simpler for American audiences than Reform vs Restore vs Rehab or whoever is up now

New comment by nemomarx in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

nemomarx — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:15:34 +0000

You still have same day shipping? I still get two days on basically everything even with prime, at the fastest. I thought their delivery service was getting worse after the pandemic or something

New comment by nemomarx in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

nemomarx — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:34:58 +0000

After all those people with chatgpt boyfriends, I think maybe yeah? any long term roleplay chat is going to tend towards that.

New comment by nemomarx in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

nemomarx — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:51:01 +0000

It seems like a bad way to get ai psychosis from personifying a LLM too hard. Keep your roleplay organic and find some friendly partners maybe

New comment by nemomarx in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

nemomarx — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:12:39 +0000

Not sure if it's related but there was a vuln published in August for the freezers in the article

https://www.claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controlle...

maybe groups have been looking for targets to use it on?

New comment by nemomarx in "QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions"

nemomarx — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:56:24 +0000

They'll destroy the prestige of it by doing this, though. Unfortunately the OSS model will have to change to cut them off now, and the more people rush it the faster that response will happen.

New comment by nemomarx in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

nemomarx — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:30:44 +0000

What's the justification for the phone or chat cancellation anyway? I get why they do it to make more money but it seems like it would be kind of nakedly extractive to explain the policy to anyone.

New comment by nemomarx in "Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects"

nemomarx — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:40:52 +0000

This is banning users who are cruel, not banning the model from being cruel right?

So in principle it shouldn't change the model or performance at all, they're just going to cut off your account if they see certain things in the user side of your session transcripts.

New comment by nemomarx in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

nemomarx — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:27:19 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...

one or two? this has been standing us law since the bush era.