Hacker News: portaouflop

New comment by portaouflop in "Laptops with Stickers"

portaouflop — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:00:45 +0000

Giving up just ensures that your voice and values certainly won’t be heard. But I guess it’s comfortable enough for you still so there is little reason to get active. Soon it won’t be so comfortable anymore also for you, by then it will be too late to speak up.

It’s laughable that you think nothing has changed in the last 50 years politically. Not so recently they were still putting people to death by the hundreds of thousands in my country and I’m sure as shit not gonna let it happen again, even if it’s a bit cringe for you to witness resistance to facism

New comment by portaouflop in "Laptops with Stickers"

portaouflop — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:34:55 +0000

Your brain should be smooth and round like a polished marble

New comment by portaouflop in "Laptops with Stickers"

portaouflop — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:33:54 +0000

Political messaging is good and important especially nowadays

New comment by portaouflop in "Laptops with Stickers"

portaouflop — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:32:17 +0000

Keep it going! I did that to my Facebook pfp (they also have stickers) - after a few years it became this abstract, glitchy work of art. I don’t use fb anymore but still remember that fondly

New comment by portaouflop in "Laptops with Stickers"

portaouflop — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:27:28 +0000

I wouldn’t wanna be caught on the US border with some of these!

Crazy that this is one of the first things that came to my mind

New comment by portaouflop in "Collaboration sucks"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:54:30 +0000

I think it’s one of the best marketing websites for a SaaS I know, if not the best. Taste is clearly subjective

New comment by portaouflop in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:05:48 +0000

If it just were that simple. The reality is that this is a very slippery slope and you won’t get a support contract just like that with a “tight leash”

New comment by portaouflop in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:03:17 +0000

Wouldn’t that only affect new versions and current versions are still licensed under the old license ?

New comment by portaouflop in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:14:17 +0000

I’m not saying it’s not possible to get this information elsewhere - but it’s impossible to prevent ChatGPT from telling you how to do illegal stuff; something that the model explicitly should not be able to according to its makers

New comment by portaouflop in "Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:56:57 +0000

Looking at the quality of most “contributions” - “hey I added a bunch of unnecessary ai slob to your readme” - oh god please no

New comment by portaouflop in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:23:25 +0000

You can modify the output but the underlying model is always susceptible to jail breaks. A method I tried a couple months ago to reliably get it to explain to me how to cook meth step by step still works. I’m not gonna share it, you just have to take my word on this.

New comment by portaouflop in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:21:52 +0000

Damn I didn’t even consider the second part…

New comment by portaouflop in "AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:18:04 +0000

It’s a propaganda and psyop operation on HN if you ask me. This stuff is laughably bad and I wonder who would actually use it for real work beyond a “huh this is cool” at first glance.

HN is super susceptible to propaganda in the AI age unfortunately; I think at this point a lot of the comments and posts on here are from bots as well

New comment by portaouflop in "AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:14:41 +0000

It’s very bad. So bad that you need to filter it out of search results; but it’s being pushed hard on HN, I wonder if there is some concerted bot action that influences this

New comment by portaouflop in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

portaouflop — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:11:12 +0000

It would be so hilarious if GEMA was actually useful for once and not a detriment to society and artists in general.

However of course OpenAI will ignore this and at worst nothing will change and at best they get a slap on the wrist and a fine and continue scraping.

You can’t take that stuff out of the models at this point anyway.

New comment by portaouflop in "Startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics"

portaouflop — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:48:18 +0000

Incidentally there is another thread where just this is being discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867125

Not sure if it can help in your case but definitely interesting.

New comment by portaouflop in "Startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics"

portaouflop — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:59:51 +0000

I agree on circumcision but you made it out that all kinds of mutilation are perfectly acceptable. But that one should definitely be banned, idk why (no -Jewish) Americans are so obsessed with it.

> There are plenty of unknowable things about life.

I agree but I know that I’m going to die someday.

As for where genetic engineering can lead I recommend the book “All Tomorrows”.

In any case i broadly agree with you - however there should still be guardrails and until we can safely and reliably manipulate the genetics of “less complex” animals we shouldn’t experiment with humans.

However you can probably do it if you really want! There are lots of countries that have less guardrails in place - but I would assume you don’t want to take the risk when it’s comes to your own life/offspring or am I wrong?

Take some trajectory-changing bets yourself and then I’ll believe that what you are saying is not just posturing

New comment by portaouflop in "Startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics"

portaouflop — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:11:04 +0000

People aren’t allowed to mutilate babies what the hell are you going on about?

Genetic tampering can lead to all kinds of unknowable nightmares.

New comment by portaouflop in "ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation"

portaouflop — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:50:38 +0000

What is the big conspiracy that Suchir was allegedly killed for?

Everyone knows that OpenAi blatantly violated copyright during training but no one really cares

New comment by portaouflop in "Email verification protocol"

portaouflop — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:47:28 +0000

Is it reinventing OIDC or what is the benefit of this?

No way in hell I’m gonna learn another of these nightmarish protocols unless this is somehow much much better.