Hacker News: poisonfountain

New comment by poisonfountain in "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts"

poisonfountain — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:05:36 +0000

This isn't exactly a case of lack of regulation but IP rights/arrangements expiring. The world needs less IP protection laws, not more.

New comment by poisonfountain in "Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year"

poisonfountain — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:41:30 +0000

It is, but about AI CAPEX.

New comment by poisonfountain in "CSSQuake"

poisonfountain — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:59:08 +0000

This engine is not optimised for performance. It's using CSS, after all.

New comment by poisonfountain in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

poisonfountain — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:43:27 +0000

Once you get to the Advanced/Expert words onwards it's too easy to guess the correct answer: it's usually the longest option. And once you notice this pattern it's impossible to try to guess fairly.

Starmer to announce social media curfew and chatbot ban for teenagers

poisonfountain — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:57:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/social-media-ban-keir-starmer-qcmskxc5z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527826

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by poisonfountain in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

poisonfountain — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:39:15 +0000

Don't want to sound rude, but if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell to you.

This is a naive justification and Dario & Sam et al are smart people and they know it is.

The ends don't justify the means. OpenAI was meant to be a nonprofit, now they're subverting it. Anthropic is a PBC looking at a trillion dollar IPO. Dario and Sam don't even hold hands in front of world leaders[1] (look how childish).

Do you *really* think those guys are doing something that's not for the sake of their egos and pockets? The bridge is still available.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/openai-sam-altman-anthropic-...

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

poisonfountain — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:49:29 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260607163135/https://human-in-...

https://archive.is/i55Th

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434312

Points: 1151

# Comments: 1074

New comment by poisonfountain in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

poisonfountain — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:48:13 +0000

It is probably both.

New comment by poisonfountain in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

poisonfountain — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:39:51 +0000

Cloudflare is trying to push for that, but every time it's mentioned people complain (because they hate Cloudflare for making them wait 2s for a captcha) and nobody proposes an alternative solution. I don't think this is going to happen, unfortunately, and the internet will get silo-ed into oblivion.

Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

poisonfountain — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:30:52 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mm2ivguvq22x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172419

Points: 79

# Comments: 61

New comment by poisonfountain in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

poisonfountain — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:08:49 +0000

I disagree but it wasn't me who downvoted, just so you know.

New comment by poisonfountain in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

poisonfountain — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:07:52 +0000

Ok, but you job is clearly not a good sample for a "job most mortals work on".

New comment by poisonfountain in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

poisonfountain — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:37:24 +0000

You're downplaying the AI lobby here. They're eating down copyright laws, something that seemed impossible just a couple of years ago. Screwing privacy laws is just the next step.

Also, we are seeing a cultural shift around that as well. Now people bring "AI notetakers" to Zoom calls without even asking for your permission. People are already acting like privacy laws don't exist anymore, it's going to be even easier for the AI lobby to take it down now. Just like piracy normalized copyright infringement, opening the path to the current rulings around "fair training".

New comment by poisonfountain in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

poisonfountain — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:58:25 +0000

>I think the rest of us should rest easy knowing that LLM's can't (and maybe were never meant to) tackle the tacit-knowledge-filled, human-system-centric, ambiguously-defined-problem-space jobs most mortals work

I don't believe that anymore, to be honest. Models are starting to get good at ambiguity. Claude Code now asks me when something is ambiguous. Soon, all meetings will be recorded, transcribed and stored in a well-indexed place for the agents to search when faced with ambiguity (free startup idea here!). If they can ask you now, they'll be able to search for the answers themselves once that's possible. In fact, they already do it now if you have a well-documented Notion/Confluence, it's just that nobody has.

It's probably harder to RL for "identify ambiguity" than RL'ing for performance algorithms, sure, but it's not impossible and it's in the works. It's just a matter of time now.

New comment by poisonfountain in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

poisonfountain — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:48:31 +0000

We should be fighting back. So far I have been using Poison Fountain[1] on many of my websites to feed LLM scrapers with gibberish. The effectiveness is backed by a study from Anthropic that showed that a small batch of bad samples can corrupt whole models[2].

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Poison Fountain or its creators, just found it useful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926485

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison