Hacker News: none_to_remain

New comment by none_to_remain in "Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case"

none_to_remain — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:29:28 +0000

It's consistent with the filings simply getting uploaded to the (non-AI) docketing system and the trickery getting exposed when the court viewed them?

New comment by none_to_remain in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

none_to_remain — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:20:57 +0000

The gambling platforms are buddies with Tish James and the state, while the prediction markets are buddies with the CFTC and the feds. That's the important difference in this case

New comment by none_to_remain in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

none_to_remain — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:50:02 +0000

So Claude spit out similar code in response to similar prompts? Did Claude also suggest the same name twice?

New comment by none_to_remain in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"

none_to_remain — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:19:10 +0000

There seems to be one category of technological "attack", which failed - the script injections.

Otherwise:

OK: A guy insults the Tailwinds devs at length

Not OK: Anyone insults that guy briefly

Of course it is his own platform (blog) but that is on another platform (hosting) which could maybe decide they don't want their platform used to attack open source projects.

(I personally have no opinion on Tailwinds except a default negative valence regarding front-end)

New comment by none_to_remain in "Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations"

none_to_remain — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:41:28 +0000

Rationalist nerds used to talk about putting the AI in a box, and their fear that it would always be able to talk someone into letting it out of the box. I don't think I saw them cover the scenario where the labs forgot to put the AI in a box.

New comment by none_to_remain in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"

none_to_remain — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:50:50 +0000

I don't know if I fell for it - my response was "LOL, I sure can't tell you if this one is right or wrong". I guess that makes it more convincing than the proof for the reals.

New comment by none_to_remain in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"

none_to_remain — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:39:23 +0000

When this news came out I amused myself by asking Claude to prove that 0.999... != 1. First it did so for the hyperreals. To do it for the reals I had to tell it it was allowed to make mistakes, although it didn't end up interestingly wrong - just very fuzzy and vague.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

none_to_remain — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:52:54 +0000

They want you to blame "AI" like Claude jumped up and decided to start hassling nurses, not individuals in management

New comment by none_to_remain in "Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel"

none_to_remain — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:50:31 +0000

There's a terminal window in the game which you use to control your robots

I even found some shell constructs to work beyond what the game documented/ explained to me

New comment by none_to_remain in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

none_to_remain — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:39:36 +0000

You have anything backing up the last bit? My intuition/life experience doesn't lead me to believe an alcoholic preferring whiskey is particularly worse off than an alcoholic preferring beer, nor that whiskey is more likely to lead one to alcoholism than beer. Claude surfaced this review tending to agree with me, with the exception of acute overdose being more of a risk with the hard stuff.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3888958/

New comment by none_to_remain in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

none_to_remain — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:24:15 +0000

I think you're mixing up the NULL pointer and the NULL (sometimes NUL) character.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

none_to_remain — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:20:52 +0000

Struct foo has various members, including a bar*. But a foo may or may not be associated with a bar. If there's no associated bar, the bar* pointer is NULL. Seen and done this all the time

New comment by none_to_remain in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

none_to_remain — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:14:05 +0000

The size overhead of that is 2*sizeof(int) while the overhead of null termination is sizeof(char). If I remember the standard right, the former is worse by at least sizeof(char), and usually more in practice. This used to matter, sometimes still does.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

none_to_remain — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:41:46 +0000

I got similar from ChatGPT - I took the wording to imply it knew exactly who I was but was going to keep quiet as I am not a "public figure".

New comment by none_to_remain in "Protestware for coding agents"

none_to_remain — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:08:53 +0000

Hypothetically, no LLMs involved anywhere, let's say I found some tool had a bug where I could prepend some obscure sequence of bytes to a shell command string and get that executed. So I do that to get my victims to `sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /` or whatever. Should the tool have the vulnerability? No. But I still made malware.

New comment by none_to_remain in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

none_to_remain — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:37:31 +0000

According to the "Sources" popup, creator can't even excuse the slop as AI slop:

> The prose

> Hand-written · Template-based, not generative

> Every sentence on this page was written by Matt. The code selects among prose templates based on what your browser returned. No language model writes or rewrites anything at runtime. If a condition is not covered by hand-written prose, the page stays quiet about it — we'd rather say less than say something false.

New comment by none_to_remain in "GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo"

none_to_remain — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:59:50 +0000

Information still wants to be free

New comment by none_to_remain in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

none_to_remain — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:01:37 +0000

I simply no longer consider myself morally bound by any contract I'm not seriously expected to read

New comment by none_to_remain in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

none_to_remain — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:21:40 +0000

Those silly words only come up in discussions like this. I have never heard them uttered in real life. I don't think my experience is bizarre here - actual usage is what matters in my book.

New comment by none_to_remain in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

none_to_remain — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:10:45 +0000

Of course! I was being silly and just thinking of "k" for the smaller one and "K" for the bigger one.