Hacker News: pixelmelt

New comment by pixelmelt in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

pixelmelt — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:52:10 +0000

It has about the same problems with finding content that the www has, its just in the earlier stages

New comment by pixelmelt in "Chipotlai Max"

pixelmelt — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:11:24 +0000

Reminds me of this story https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

New comment by pixelmelt in "Click (2016)"

pixelmelt — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:12:53 +0000

Try blackbox, its a puzzle game that will have you messing with device settings to beat levels

New comment by pixelmelt in "LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models"

pixelmelt — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:35:10 +0000

Its already happening, some of my friends have (seemingly) inherited LLM verbal tics, specifically overuse of the word "highlight."

New comment by pixelmelt in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

pixelmelt — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:31:51 +0000

Im in the community reverse engineering web CAPTCHAs, it's because they are too easy to reverse engineer with Claude now.

I've seen multiple people break botguard (the obfuscation used by recapcha) within the last year when before it was considered a huge technical envour.

Devices like phones don't have this issue since Google owns the client attestation end to end and can fingerprint you without the risk of receiving spoofed values.

New comment by pixelmelt in "Grok 4.3"

pixelmelt — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:56:46 +0000

I've been working on my own misaligned model and grok is definitely different enough with a syspronpt compared to all the other frontier models that I've considered using it to generate synthetic training data, however it leans really heavy into LLMisms which makes it not really worth it. Tangentially I also really like the idea of llms as librarians they are trying out with grokapedia.

New comment by pixelmelt in "Cursor Camp"

pixelmelt — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:57:37 +0000

There was an old game called cursors.io which was the same concept but collaboratively traversing a maze where you would sometimes have to leave other players behind to reach the next level

New comment by pixelmelt in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

pixelmelt — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:30:20 +0000

I opened this thread expecting a bunch of "kids these days..." posts, kind of surprised not to see any. People have been raising themselves up by putting down other generations since the very first I assume, the temptation towards the fallacy of composition is too irresistible.

New comment by pixelmelt in "The Last Quiet Thing"

pixelmelt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:25:21 +0000

I liked this, reminds me of some other discussion on recycling/global warming etc being pushed as the comsumers fault

New comment by pixelmelt in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

pixelmelt — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:05:45 +0000

I've been getting into making and breaking these antibots recently and it's funny to me how the person who wrote this post gave so much attention to what LinkedIn was doing and left the other antibots on the page as a footnote. They grab way more, they just don't let you see it. I haven't reversed PX or Recap yet but the antibot on twitch and Nike similarly checks if you have any of these 53 apps installed (when loaded on a WebKit browser) https://pastebin.com/raw/KACvjpTK

New comment by pixelmelt in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

pixelmelt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:03:02 +0000

And so did everyone else, making it... Dead? If you've got some good alternative communities then do tell!

The Webs Digital Locks Have Never Had a Stronger Opponent

pixelmelt — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:32:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/the-webs-digital-locks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577254

Points: 7

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New comment by pixelmelt in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

pixelmelt — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:17:44 +0000

I've already been doing this haha, got Claude to install VR mods into a game that most certainly should not have been working with VR mods on linux

New comment by pixelmelt in "Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records"

pixelmelt — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:04:35 +0000

It sounds weird because Claude wrote it

New comment by pixelmelt in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

pixelmelt — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:45:47 +0000

Some of the more recent versions of it had memory leaks so you couldn't just leave it on in the background

New comment by pixelmelt in "Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers"

pixelmelt — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:47:23 +0000

As one of said generation, I would chalk it up to instant communication creating innumerable shallow remote relationships that significantly replace time spent with others in person.

New comment by pixelmelt in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

pixelmelt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:54:12 +0000

maybe not overrun by spam, but the amount of bots I see on popular subs is definitely not 0

New comment by pixelmelt in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

pixelmelt — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:35:11 +0000

I found a new one in claude recently with "Fair enough, ..."

New comment by pixelmelt in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

pixelmelt — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:48:26 +0000

Wow this is big, what's the best device/remote stack to use it with?

New comment by pixelmelt in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

pixelmelt — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:32:19 +0000

Hoarding/archiving/collecting is quite fun. I don't think it's a stretch to say he likely read more then the average person, and from his own collection too!