Hacker News: pajamasam

New comment by pajamasam in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

pajamasam — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:52:37 +0000

Maybe a stolen wallet?

New comment by pajamasam in "Presented by Stripe"

pajamasam — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:33:42 +0000

So much for independent journalism.

New comment by pajamasam in "The Slow Formation of Durable Software"

pajamasam — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:05:07 +0000

I've been wanting to try it. In what way is it finnicky?

New comment by pajamasam in "The Slow Formation of Durable Software"

pajamasam — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:04:32 +0000

It's also all open source and local-first. You can also add your own self-hosted WebDAV server for syncing across clients. Also, it's developed by a nonprofit organization.

New comment by pajamasam in "The darker side of being a doctor"

pajamasam — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:46:17 +0000

If there are more doctors, it would require less of each one's time though.

New comment by pajamasam in "I said no and Apple said yes"

pajamasam — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:12:27 +0000

Don't know when he bought his devices, but Apple Intelligence is not yet 2 years old so it might no even have existed when he bought his Mac.

New comment by pajamasam in "I said no and Apple said yes"

pajamasam — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:10:04 +0000

He did justify it in https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-09-16T05:01Z/

New comment by pajamasam in "The Three AI Pills"

pajamasam — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:47:03 +0000

I think your unpilled and lower tier pills are often disguised anti-pills. Anti-pilled as in AI is morally bad. I count myself as both ASI pilled and anti-pilled.

New comment by pajamasam in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

pajamasam — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:22:09 +0000

I'd be interested in what data they're using in the first place. It looks like their data is behind a paywall.

Also, funny that their page with for "Companies running Cloudflare" says there are only "887 European organisations using Cloudflare."

New comment by pajamasam in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

pajamasam — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:44:09 +0000

None of the most read books of 2026 so far according to Goodreads are significantly older (https://www.goodreads.com/book/most_read?category=all&countr...). Also not the most sold Amazon books: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2026/books

New comment by pajamasam in "Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death"

pajamasam — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:39:13 +0000

It’s how they make money

New comment by pajamasam in "Ask HN: Where else do you spend time on the internet other than HN?"

pajamasam — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:54:35 +0000

longreads.com, my RSS feeds in NetNewsWire, and podcasts mostly

New comment by pajamasam in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services"

pajamasam — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:52:32 +0000

Apparently we can because a lot (most?) of us are still using GitHub even after all their outages recently.

New comment by pajamasam in "Bugtraq is back"

pajamasam — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:23:59 +0000

> anyone saying that’s a sign of LLM use should not be listened to

You don't need to believe me. You can read the studies about its statistically higher occurrence in LLM writing vs human writing (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27006) or you can do the analysis yourself.

Also, no one said you should stop using them. But overusing them, along with emulating some of the other common traits of LLM generated writing, will give people the impression that you didn't bother to write something yourself.

New comment by pajamasam in "Bugtraq is back"

pajamasam — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:18:38 +0000

It contains four emdashes, it overuses the Rule of Three (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...), it has the typical "not X, but Y" sentence, it unduly emphasizes the significance of Buqtrack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...) ("preservation for the ages", really?).

Also, in my experience, LLMs seem to love to say something went "dark" or "silent", to mention a "generation" of people, and to say something "matters". "no corporate filter" also seems like a strange thing to say.

New comment by pajamasam in "Don't be a meat proxy"

pajamasam — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:32:35 +0000

Kagi does something like this: https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

LinkedIn also added a button to report AI slop, but I'm doubtful it would be of much help on LinkedIn since every second post seems to be written by an LLM.

New comment by pajamasam in "Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend"

pajamasam — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:27:12 +0000

From the commits, it looks like it only took OP about 4 hours with Cursor.

New comment by pajamasam in "Telegram Serverless"

pajamasam — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:45:50 +0000

Hmmm no, Meta is making money from businesses using their API.

New comment by pajamasam in "The Cypherpunk Library"

pajamasam — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:49:11 +0000

And a single person's answer to a statistical phenomenon is going to help you how?

New comment by pajamasam in "Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser"

pajamasam — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:25:36 +0000

Interesting idea! A demo video would be great :)