Hacker News: oidar

New comment by oidar in "Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I"

oidar — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:46:30 +0000

Kagi can turn off AI if setup to do so.

New comment by oidar in "Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News"

oidar — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 02:23:16 +0000

add an AI section that is filtered out of technology and you'd have yourself a nice way to browse HN.

New comment by oidar in "Simple circuits can create complex behaviors"

oidar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:21:01 +0000

I thought I did read. Could you point out the thing I missed? It seems that priorities of Tilden's laws are very much a contrast to asimovs. But I've been wrong before. Help me understand what I missed. Thanks!

New comment by oidar in "Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books recommended on HN"

oidar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:28:51 +0000

I'd love to see a books and youtube thing for metafilter too. It has a similarly good recommendation history for me.

New comment by oidar in "With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines"

oidar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:28:19 +0000

> Both numbers are true

I'm going strangle somebody.

New comment by oidar in "Simple circuits can create complex behaviors"

oidar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:55:43 +0000

He has an interesting take on the laws of robotics:

1 - A robot must protect its existence at all costs.

2 - A robot must obtain and maintain access to its own power source.

3 - A robot must continually search for better power sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_robotics#Tilden's_laws

New comment by oidar in "AI text watermarking and quality loss"

oidar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:33:36 +0000

"X is the useful part" I hate this claudism. But a good thing about recognizing these is that you can pretty much skip any youtuber that uses any claudish phrasing. But it's damn near everyone now a days using claude to write their scripts.

New comment by oidar in "Simple circuits can create complex behaviors"

oidar — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:43:26 +0000

Reminds me of BIO bugs from when I was a kid

http://solarbotics.net/BIOBugs/default.htm

New comment by oidar in "Get Ready for Touch on Mac"

oidar — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:15:05 +0000

That's true. Usually apple is more consistent with UX. I wonder what advantages they saw to voice over touch style of interaction.

New comment by oidar in "Get Ready for Touch on Mac"

oidar — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 01:14:08 +0000

This is how it works with voice over on ios devices, and it’s pretty natural after you use it for awhile.

New comment by oidar in "America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?"

oidar — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:54:03 +0000

I haven't investigated it much, but I imagine that LLMs have made it easier for japanese culture products to release products in English language. Is industry in Japan taking advantage of nearly free translation for it's print products?

New comment by oidar in "No Source Code? No Problem"

oidar — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:04:51 +0000

Did you implement bank sync for you quickbooks replacement?

New comment by oidar in "Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers"

oidar — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:16:22 +0000

Gainesville?

Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name

oidar — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:11:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/amanda-smith-opened-a-cashapp-in-her-name-she-faces-years-in-prison-cashapp-fraud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194833

Points: 666

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New comment by oidar in "Tiny Little Office"

oidar — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:56:21 +0000

After exploring it a bit more, I also found that there is no way to load a document that you ask the app to save to your browser IndexDB.

New comment by oidar in "Why We're Banning AI"

oidar — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:55:02 +0000

> I get all my news now from Gemini.

Wow. I think it's easy to replace search engines with LLMs (it basically has for me), but I never considered that "News" with a capital N - would be replaced by an LLM. Do you just ask it for news directly, or do you have it collate different sources?

New comment by oidar in "Tiny Little Office"

oidar — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:57:53 +0000

My disagreement is about the usage of the word, not about whether marketers or politicians have used it for other purposes. Sure, using “democratize” to mean “make broadly accessible” has bleached its political force, but that sense has been attested since the late 1700s to the present. Prescriptively, you can argue it shouldn’t be used that way. Descriptively, it has been, for a long time.

New comment by oidar in "Tiny Little Office"

oidar — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:09:17 +0000

Historically wrong. https://www.etymonline.com/word/democratize

> We teach the population at the cheapest possible rate; and the aim all the democratization (if we may use the word) of literature proposes to itself in this country, is to store the minds of the many, of the anonymous multitude, with a large portion of valuable, because practically useful, facts. [Meliora, vol. ii, no. 6, 1860]

New comment by oidar in "Tiny Little Office"

oidar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:50:47 +0000

Is there no way to open saved documents? Like it won't open a .csv, .txt or .ics file for example?

New comment by oidar in "Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP"

oidar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:07:18 +0000

nobody is downloading this w/o a video showing how it works friend.