Hacker News: nusl

New comment by nusl in "Don't just paste the AI at me"

nusl — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:33:16 +0000

https://not-an-llm.bearblog.dev/meat-based-llm-proxies/

New comment by nusl in "Grafana Labs internal source code accessed"

nusl — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:53:25 +0000

Quite funny how they phrase this.

"We recently discovered.." then later "..The attacker attempted to blackmail us"

So, I'd wager they had no idea of the breach until the attacker tried to blackmail them.

New comment by nusl in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

nusl — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:55:31 +0000

The demo product on the 'site looks really shoddy. Untidied-up 3D printing for $65?

New comment by nusl in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

nusl — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:57:06 +0000

VPNs aren't anonymous, no, despite people pretending they are. Nonetheless, the findings in this report do highlight some things that make user identification easier than you'd expect it to be.

I'd not throw the report out just due to what you argue here. These findings are valid nonetheless.

New comment by nusl in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

nusl — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:50:43 +0000

The price doesn't seem bad, though this case smells of some sort of greater internal shift that's, at least for me, indicative the Bitwarden is being turned into a profit-machine-at-any-cost rather than providing a good service for money.

This new CEO is a massive red flag. Literally nothing about anything relevant to the product or industry, though he's apparently good at private equity and selling orgs.

Probably worth jumping ship now before it mutates into another shitty corporate org, except this one is keeping your passwords.

New comment by nusl in "Humanity is self-deprecating"

nusl — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:48:23 +0000

Seniors aren't layoff-proof, yeah, or anyone really.

I think the point I made in the article is more aimed at AI advancing into being able to do the jobs that people currently say they won't/can't do.

When ChatGPT appeared, not long ago, people said that it wouldn't be able to code well because it lacks the reasoning ability. Well, here we are.

Humanity is self-deprecating

nusl — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:21:23 +0000

Article URL: https://not-an-llm.bearblog.dev/humanity-is-self-deprecating/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069474

Points: 5

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New comment by nusl in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

nusl — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:25:56 +0000

Changed back or not, this demonstrates that they're either willing to make sweeping changes like this that hurt a massive number of users, or that they're incompetent to the point of not realising the impact of the first change. They'd have had to just blindly make the change, since the original PR was approved and merged within the same minute by the original author (no additional eyes, at least that we can see), or ignore user complaints and make it anyway. Both cases demonstrate terrible stewardship of VSCode.

New comment by nusl in "I did no work for a year and no one noticed"

nusl — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:51:43 +0000

This seems like a very stupid thing to put on the open Internet attached to your name

New comment by nusl in "America's Geothermal Breakthrough"

nusl — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:10:51 +0000

So it basically says nothing useful other than try to generate hype and make them look good.

New comment by nusl in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

nusl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:50:56 +0000

Blizzard has become a greedy and insidious org. I genuinely dislike the way they do business and implement systems to keep players playing their games as chores rather than for fun. They charge huge money for trivial things, and their support is entirely useless.

New comment by nusl in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

nusl — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:19:56 +0000

You write awfully similar to the way LLMs do. I can't tell if it's just your writing style or not

New comment by nusl in "Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely"

nusl — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:50:37 +0000

Hacker News is turning into every other platform over time it seems. More and more folks just see a headline and comment rather than understand that headlines are designed to mislead you for clicks.

These requirements make sense. They're additional verification steps in place for people trying to publish games for very young users.

New comment by nusl in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

nusl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:52:50 +0000

This seems like a useful reference when asking AI to create content for you, despite the irony

New comment by nusl in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

nusl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:52:43 +0000

This article is kinda bogwater. Repeating the same points, writing as if it were LinkedIn, pretending to be technically competent while obviously not. Over and over and over, reiterating the same points but ultimately getting nowhere.

Changing requirements ad-hoc throughout the article, picking and choosing ideal matches rather than objective ones, etc. basically trying to make the data fit the problem by force.

Author, over time, gets more desperate to be "the one that found Satoshi" and loses the plot entirely.

I mean, what the hell is this bullshit?

""" Adam Back: I did a lot of talking though for somebody, I mean … I mean, I’m not saying I’m good with words but I sure did a lot of yakking on these lists actually.

To my ears, it sounded like he was saying that for someone who preferred code over words, he sure had written a lot of words. Implicit in that was an acknowledgment that he had been the one who wrote the quote. In other words, for a few seconds, Mr. Back had let the mask fall and turned into Satoshi. """

New comment by nusl in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

nusl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:59:53 +0000

Seems to be becoming more common, even for folks that are otherwise quite pleasant to deal with. Perhaps social and workplace pressures causes people to opt for it, much like LinkedIn is a cesspool of bullshit

New comment by nusl in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

nusl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:38:40 +0000

https://not-an-llm.bearblog.dev/meat-based-llm-proxies/

New comment by nusl in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

nusl — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:42:07 +0000

I'm not a Single-Wombat Entity if that's what you're accusing me of. I do, in-fact, have multiple wombats making up my person.

New comment by nusl in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

nusl — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:39:22 +0000

Log entry: Tried building a wall out of hard drives, but Gate walked around them and kept coming. Walls of information ineffective. I've forgotten my name, so I suspect this may be my final entry.

New comment by nusl in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

nusl — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:32:25 +0000

> "the DEAN threatened to kick me out"

So when did the clickbait title apply? The author is honestly, from this article, quite a horrible person.