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New comment by not2b in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

not2b — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:22:56 +0000

Rather, several missing, useful APIs that were hard to emulate efficiently have been added. That's not "Windows in the Linux kernel".

New comment by not2b in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

not2b — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:22:06 +0000

They process those error messages in the same way that they process your instructions about what code to generate. It is just more commands.

New comment by not2b in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

not2b — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:55:10 +0000

That would matter if we were asking the AI to generate code open-loop: someone probably already wrote something close to what you asked for in Python. But if the agent generates code, tries to compile it, sees the detailed error messages and acts on those messages to refine the code, it's going to produce a higher quality result. rustc produces really good diagnostics. And there's a lot of Rust code online now, even if there's so much more Python and Javascript/Typescript.

New comment by not2b in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"

not2b — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:37:31 +0000

The strongest evidence that something like MOND isn't the answer is that in some galaxy collisions, the visible matter and the dark matter appear to separate: the collision disrupts the visible matter and the dark matter appears to pass right through, uninterrupted, and we see galaxy remnants that look like they don't have dark matter. If MOND or some other modification of gravity were the answer we'd never see this kind of sorting.

See, for example, https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/dark-matter-flies-ahead-o...

New comment by not2b in "LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request"

not2b — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:50:56 +0000

If by some miracle someone managed to create this, and a critical mass of people somehow discovered it and used it, at some point they'd burn out, sell it, and it would turn into the same shit that we see everywhere else.

New comment by not2b in "GCC 16 has been released"

not2b — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:13:00 +0000

That is why egcs was launched, to get around the inability of the old team to do gcc releases. The issues had little to do with ideology and were about fixing a broken process and replacing it with something that had a hope of working.

New comment by not2b in "The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client"

not2b — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:52:45 +0000

I looked at it and it is impressively lightweight. It would help if it could collapse duplicate notifications, right now the notifications page is filled with repeats even though I'm not all that popular on fedi.

New comment by not2b in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

not2b — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:07:37 +0000

If the navigation simulates what would happen if we follow links to SPA#pos1, SPA#pos2, etc so that if I do two clicks within the SPA, and then hit Back three times I'm back to whatever link I followed to get to the SPA, I guess it's OK and follows user expectations. But if it is used as an excuse to trap the user in the SPA unless they kill the tab, not OK.

New comment by not2b in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

not2b — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:12:24 +0000

Clearview again. ICE is using it too, and their people think it is an oracle that is always correct, so that when someone shows a passport card or a RealID showing that they are someone else, a US citizen or permanent resident, they are usually accused of having a fake ID. It's a flawed tool and it misidentifies people sometimes.

New comment by not2b in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

not2b — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:10:35 +0000

I understand why OpenAI is trying to reduce its costs, but it simply isn't true that AI crawlers aren't creating very significant load, especially those crawlers that ignore robots.txt and hide their identities. This is direct financial damage and it's particularly hard on nonprofit sites that have been around a long time.

New comment by not2b in "Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?"

not2b — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:15:33 +0000

What does "verified" mean here? You can verify that a real company posted that job, but you can't verify whether it is fake in the sense that they really have an H1B candidate they really want for the position and they are just advertising it to meet legal requirements.

New comment by not2b in "An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia"

not2b — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:17:31 +0000

Conservapedia had to have a person create each article and didn't have the labor or interest. Grok can spew out any number of pages on any subject, and those topics that aren't ideologically important to Musk will just be the usual LLM verbiage that might be right or might not.

User "Claude" committing vulnerabilities at a rapid rate

not2b — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:49:36 +0000

Article URL: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040144

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by not2b in "Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025"

not2b — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:37:47 +0000

You dropped my words "into trying something more effective". Steering people into treatments found to be more effective is, precisely, giving people the best available information. Ivermectin is great if you have a parasitic infection. It doesn't help against viral infections.

New comment by not2b in "Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025"

not2b — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:05:59 +0000

People were literally buying horse dewormer when their doctors wouldn't prescribe it for them. "Influencers" were selling it. So the media were being accurate. To the extent that this made people look dumb, the intent was mostly to shame them into trying something more effective.

New comment by not2b in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

not2b — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:44:30 +0000

This is going to be a huge problem for conferences. While journals have a longer time to get things right, as a conference reviewer (for IEEE conferences) I was often asked to review 20+ papers in a short time to determine who gets a full paper, who gets to present just a poster, etc. There was normally a second round, but often these would just look at submissions near the cutoff margin in the rankings. Obvious slop can be quickly rejected, but it will be easier to sneak things in.

New comment by not2b in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

not2b — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:25:45 +0000

I think on HN, people waste too much time arguing about the phrasing of the headline, whether it is clickbait, etc. and not enough discussing the actual substance of the article.

New comment by not2b in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

not2b — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:40:41 +0000

No, but they like the sycophancy.

New comment by not2b in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

not2b — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:23:35 +0000

You're right, mostly, but the fact remains that the behavior we see is produced by training, and the training is driven by companies run by execs who like this kind of sycophancy. So it's certainly a factor. Humans are producing them, humans are deciding when the new model is good enough for release.

New comment by not2b in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

not2b — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:35:38 +0000

Agreed. I used to review lots of submissions for IEEE and similar conferences, and didn't consider it my job to verify every reference. No one did, unless the use of the reference triggered an "I can't believe it said that" reaction. Of course, back then, there wasn't a giant plagiarism machine known to fabricate references, so if tools can find fake references easily the tools should be used.