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New comment by pixel_popping in "Show HN: SecretGate – self-hosted anonymous inbox, E2E encrypted in the browser"

pixel_popping — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:51:50 +0000

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New comment by pixel_popping in "Show HN: Supermodels"

pixel_popping — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:29:54 +0000

What's the actual difference with Openrouter or Eden? They propose all those models I believe.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers hacks"

pixel_popping — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:48:44 +0000

Altman or OpenAI? Weird inaccurate headline, I haven't heard CEOs getting personal fines?

When Apple got hundreds of fines because of illegal behavior, we didn't generally see `Tim Cook`, strange?

New comment by pixel_popping in "Japan officially overhauls permanent residency rules"

pixel_popping — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:13:20 +0000

I hate saying this myself (I'm an immigrant from EU) but the vision that robots will be great enough to actually solve the problem in part is quite realistic imo, very realistically, in 10-20 years, humanoids will be everywhere and probably very competent, even more so than most humans (or at least "young" humans that are inexperienced in a general sense). It's sad, but it's viable.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator"

pixel_popping — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:54:13 +0000

Truthfully, it was an AI slop and I don't even know how Mozilla couldn't see that, it didn't even make sense commercially speaking knowing that close to all competitors were doing better already.

It seemed like the "plan" wasn't even really thought for the next year or two, it was just some sort of experiment which is useless commercially speaking, no one expect "experiments" from major companies like Mozilla, they expect real products that is competitive and works for the years to come.

There is no "experiment" to make anymore, era of MVP is mostly dead since years, only well-thought and durable projects will succeed, getting a few thousand signup doesn't prove anything anymore, it just proves that those customers just weren't aware of the more advanced competition thus will get swallowed anytime soon.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Show HN: Bountyindex.in – Discord bot and watchlist are back in action"

pixel_popping — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:50:06 +0000

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New comment by pixel_popping in "Show HN: Kick me – Live message race"

pixel_popping — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:14:04 +0000

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New comment by pixel_popping in "Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC"

pixel_popping — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:35:42 +0000

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New comment by pixel_popping in "CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American (2017)"

pixel_popping — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:51:31 +0000

I feel that's actually the whole point of the system, to know how humans respond when it's vaguely defined.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill?"

pixel_popping — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:31:25 +0000

Life is in a chatbot now.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Recipe for Disaster v1.0"

pixel_popping — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:27:14 +0000

Popcorn time.

New comment by pixel_popping in "In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches"

pixel_popping — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:26:08 +0000

Why would you code without the help of AI, genuinely asking? You can have quite strict "guardrails" that would maintain code consistency/quality that can be close to guaranteed nowadays.

It's not only about the pace, but also about the quality, most softwares have proven that not getting AI-reviewed is risky in its own, at least in the field of security.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative"

pixel_popping — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:13:59 +0000

They do, ALL those websites are failing or will fail soon enough (I'd love anyone to prove me wrong by sending me a link of a successful company that use that kind of "design" that isn't in the actual vibe-coding business). It all boils down to the lazyness of the dev not wanting to type "the prompt" that will change that UI permanently, and yes it is a single prompt (cascading into a bunch of loops and typical model-zoo auto-adversarial and whatever, but it IS a single prompt).

Yes, this project will very likely die, because of this alone.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it"

pixel_popping — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:04:32 +0000

I doubt much people using Google think that their data would just magically disappear the moment they click a button, to the contrary, I believe most qualified users would know that their data is forever stored, maybe "anonymized" sure (but can still be correlated back).

If some users think this, have they question the Why would they do it? Why would Google lose money that way? ToS is irrelevant when it comes to what's running on their own private infra.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Hi HN"

pixel_popping — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:18:04 +0000

You don't think before posting on HN that you should at least re-read what you post? That's a promotional post, at least make it nice and digestible?

New comment by pixel_popping in "Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die"

pixel_popping — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:16:37 +0000

Why it's not also available in the web running client-side?

New comment by pixel_popping in "Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites"

pixel_popping — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:46:41 +0000

Their take is so dumb, and what about the legal businesses that fund terrorism at scale? Let's ban restaurants?

And no, money from legal incomes is not "more traceable" once it's made into cash and sent away the exact same way as illicit funds. All BS.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Free invoice generator, 100% client-side – no signup, no server storage"

pixel_popping — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:08:32 +0000

Website is dead :/ Why launch like this?

New comment by pixel_popping in "Do the AI Studio test NOW to prove Google doesn't delete chats"

pixel_popping — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:10:43 +0000

Hmm, honestly I would never believe that deleting a conversation actually delete any real data in the DB, let's be real, those companies thrive thanks to data collect and malicious behavior, top companies already are getting serious fines almost on a weekly/monthly basis by breaking the law and their own ToS, why would that be any different?

I would say chances that our prompts aren't used to train new models is close to none, and if we are talking about Google, I would come from the assumption that absolutely anything I type is sent, permanently.

Some people genuinely think that $B companies just don't even know what transit through their platform? Like they would just build a whole chat interface, invest billions but never be even aware of what people type through it? That sounds genuinely absurd in term of analytics, almost no product is ever designed that way.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow"

pixel_popping — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:50:42 +0000

It's not "dead", what kind of crappy binary take is this. It absolutely still work to an extent where making an attacker lose time does slow down attacks, thus increasing security.

You can absolutely make an agent lose its mind thus making it spend more tokens, to an extent where it might not be viable, but in all case, slowing down or making something more expensive is a direct way to increase security, so wasting either token or human time both is useful.

SBO+Real security > Security.