Hacker News: owlboy

New comment by owlboy in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

owlboy — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:09:38 +0000

Federated logins appear to now be broken for the campus I’m affiliated with. So more action is needed.

New comment by owlboy in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

owlboy — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:29:48 +0000

I’m not surprised. Canvas kind of sucks. And their development is slow. And they are poor at communicating during mundane events.

New comment by owlboy in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

owlboy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:32:51 +0000

I don’t think they were actually asking for your research.

New comment by owlboy in "'Cognitive Surrender' Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains"

owlboy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:36:06 +0000

“Step right up, We’re doing a new training run, and offering positive brand sentiment to the 1000 highest bidders.”

New comment by owlboy in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

owlboy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:55:15 +0000

Do you automate your takeout so the DB is relatively fresh?

New comment by owlboy in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

owlboy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:53:37 +0000

I desperately want someone to interview someone at YouTube and directly ask about this bullshit and get them to say it’s all in the name of increasing watch time at all costs.

New comment by owlboy in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

owlboy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:49:25 +0000

They see those hovers as attention. And they likely calculate how long you linger. The lingering tells them a lot when you are infinite scrolling on other platforms.

They would love to have full on eye tracking. So the next best thing is a cursor. (Even though I’d agreed with anyone who says it’s a poor signal.)

New comment by owlboy in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"

owlboy — Tue, 20 May 2025 23:50:26 +0000

Data for the non creative work isn’t as easy to, uh, “obtain” from others without their consent.

New comment by owlboy in "Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought"

owlboy — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:10:31 +0000

Well, they could at least always say something like “…vaccine, but not like you are thinking. You, like billions of other people, have a misguided and frankly incomplete understanding of the word. …”

New comment by owlboy in "Louis Rossmann given three YouTube community guideline strikes"

owlboy — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:27:40 +0000

Does this include modification of online games where that is against the TOS of the game?

New comment by owlboy in "Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password"

owlboy — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:06:50 +0000

I’ve seen that and the FB one in recent months.

New comment by owlboy in "Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password"

owlboy — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:06:13 +0000

I just assumed someone was going through a database of known FB accounts and triggering the reset looking for people who accept.

It is strange that they appear to be able to avoid being blocked for bulk/frequent requests though. Seems like a big flaw.

New comment by owlboy in "Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems"

owlboy — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 22:18:25 +0000

It's 10 mins since you posted this. And now this comment is the top result on Google search.

New comment by owlboy in "AirTag Teardown Part One: Yeah, This Tracks"

owlboy — Sun, 02 May 2021 18:29:15 +0000

Can you elaborate?

New comment by owlboy in "The Secret Life of Components: Springs [video]"

owlboy — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 06:16:07 +0000

His new videos have been fantastic.

New comment by owlboy in "Chrome OS source code"

owlboy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:36:19 +0000

Prolly not a lot.

New comment by owlboy in "Chrome OS source code"

owlboy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:09:16 +0000

Any builds out there yet for me to throw into Virtual Box?