Hacker News: pavel_lishin

New comment by pavel_lishin in "I sold all my SP500 yesterday morning"

pavel_lishin — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:06:52 +0000

To quote Gremlins 2, "we're advising our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do"

pavel_lishin — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:50:47 +0000

But the Abyss mode looks almost identical to krillion - from the very concept of trying to guess rare answers, to the nautical diving theme, down to the almost-pixel-art style..?

It's incredible to suggest that this wasn't based on either Krillion, or that both games were based on something else.

(To be clear, I'm not accusing you of explicitly lifting the concept - but that's the problem with using AI to generate too much, it'll obviously re-use what it's seen before.)

edit: actually, you say "A large part of the code was written with AI tools, but the artistic direction the concept and every choice design are human-made" - it's just wildly improbable for the two to look and feel so similar.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Major ICQ security hole (1998)"

pavel_lishin — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:13:13 +0000

Hah! I haven't been to a Russian McDonald's in ... certainly over a decade, maybe longer.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Qualcomm Legally Proves Arm Breached Its License, Wins $2"

pavel_lishin — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:09:31 +0000

Finally, a corporation gets to have the same sort of class-action-lawsuit experience that we common folk do!

Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated

pavel_lishin — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:04:06 +0000

Article URL: https://mashable.com/tech/meta-confirms-smart-glasses-recording-without-being-activated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118535

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land"

pavel_lishin — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:03:39 +0000

Some of this isn't exactly "land" - this is a condo in Jersey City that allegedly has a water view.

But this is still very cool.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Major ICQ security hole (1998)"

pavel_lishin — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:00:23 +0000

There are some point of sales systems that use the same sound effect, and every time it's like I'm teleported back to the 90s, sitting in my room with a pepsi, browsing the web and chattin' with friends.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand"

pavel_lishin — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:38:51 +0000

I haven't yet - I just took a quick look, and then had to get back to work :/

And I think the click-to-exclude would be fine!

New comment by pavel_lishin in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

pavel_lishin — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:25:04 +0000

Yes. Browsing without an adblocker is analogous to driving without a seatbelt. Sure, you can do it - but it's a terribly unsafe idea.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand"

pavel_lishin — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:58:45 +0000

If I may offer a suggestion, it would be great if I could exclude trees from the list of suggested plants - it's much easier for me to print wildflowers and things like that, than an actual tree, where I live.

ChatGPT Ads Target Your Phone Number, Email

pavel_lishin — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:53:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-ads-target-your-phone-number-email/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105495

Points: 22

# Comments: 4

DHS Inspector General Finds That TSA Is Not Safeguarding Facial Recognition Data

pavel_lishin — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:28:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/dhs-inspector-general-finds-tsa-not-properly-safeguarding-passenger-facial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105108

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by pavel_lishin in "How the Military Will Hack the Election"

pavel_lishin — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:04:42 +0000

Or have me shot.

How the Military Will Hack the Election

pavel_lishin — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:43:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-the-military-will-hack-the-election

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092847

Points: 169

# Comments: 83

ASCII Porn Predates the Internet but It's Still Everywhere

pavel_lishin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:02:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ascii-pr0n-porn-predates-the-internet-but-its-still-everywhere-rule-34/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075941

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Show HN: How random are you?"

pavel_lishin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:33:47 +0000

Is anyone sufficiently paranoid that their first thought was, "Are you going to train a model on my voice?"

(Yes, I saw the "type the numbers" option.)

Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done

pavel_lishin — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:07:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.avclub.com/epic-games-disney-ai-delay

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062237

Points: 85

# Comments: 79

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges"

pavel_lishin — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:26:41 +0000

Monitoring makes sense, but it feels like it makes no sense at all to allow that kind of remote maintenance without staff on-site to OK and verify it - who could then do the maintenance themselves.

Otherwise, this sort of spoilage could easily happen by accident as well.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety"

pavel_lishin — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:25:40 +0000

Why is it more risky than nuclear weapons, or biological weapons?

New comment by pavel_lishin in "AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety"

pavel_lishin — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:23:32 +0000

> something with the potential to kill all humans

[citation needed]