Hacker News: prophesi

New comment by prophesi in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

prophesi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:33:57 +0000

Yes, there are plenty of them.

I think you heard "vibe-code" and immediately went out of your way to act obtuse, even though I was using it as an example of how simple it is to show these "hidden" filters.

New comment by prophesi in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

prophesi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:50:27 +0000

> You're literally just adding extra parameters to the search request

> Saw more options looking for Firefox extensions than Chrome for this, though that might be expected.

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my comment that it's a very trivial feature. Would you want a lmgtfy link instead?

edit: The irony that this very submission is probably AI generated? There's no link to their source code, and there's a tab titled "AI Generator" for AI generated playlists?

New comment by prophesi in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

prophesi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:40:05 +0000

You could probably vibe-code it if it doesn't exist. You're literally just adding extra parameters to the search request. Hard part is creating the interface for it. Saw more options looking for Firefox extensions than Chrome for this, though that might be expected.

New comment by prophesi in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

prophesi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:21:39 +0000

One of the first things I do on a new device is install an extension to expose these hidden filters, and to hide recommended videos + redirect the homepage to the subscriptions tab.

New comment by prophesi in "A Recipe for Steganogravy"

prophesi — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:37:36 +0000

I first saw this implementation from a Harvard paper back when LLM's were still just a novelty[0]. Glad to see they got their demo site back up. Always thought it was a cool idea.

[0] https://github.com/harvardnlp/NeuralSteganography

New comment by prophesi in "AI companies charge you 60% more based on your language, BPE tokens"

prophesi — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:49:34 +0000

Wait until you hear that most models tend to perform worse for non-English languages.

New comment by prophesi in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

prophesi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:55:15 +0000

For most apps, yes, they won't require the MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY check in the Google Play Integrity API. But if your apps _do_ choose to use that Google Play Integrity API for a strong integrity check, then they won't be able to whitelist GrapheneOS's keys for it to pass. Unless you can convince Google to whitelist them.

Thus it's best if they use Android's hardware attestation API instead, as you can then decide to whitelist GrapheneOS to pass that strong integrity check.

New comment by prophesi in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

prophesi — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:03:21 +0000

I believe GrapheneOS would only be an issue if the Swedish gov decides on using the Google Play Integrity API instead of Android's hardware attestation API (and requiring their apps to whitelist GrapheneOS's keys). So their stance doesn't really change much in terms of how banking apps currently work with GrapheneOS.

New comment by prophesi in "Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice"

prophesi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:42:08 +0000

I liked how this blog[0] describes it. Schizophrenia itself isn't a spectrum, but rather you have varying levels of schizophrenia risk genes. They have positive fitness functions (creativity, cognitive flexibility, linguistic skill) until you cross the threshold to schizophrenia.

[0] https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophrenia-is-the-pri...

New comment by prophesi in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

prophesi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:35:06 +0000

Do they name the service provider of this VPN or how it works? The official announcement is just as sparse on the details.

New comment by prophesi in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

prophesi — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:05:11 +0000

Not OP, but...

> Of course you would have to set a temperature of 0 to prevent abuse from the operator, and also assume that an operator has access to the pre-prompt

Doesn't the fact that LLM's are still non-deterministic with a 0 temperature render all of this moot? And why was I compelled to read a random blog post on the unsolved issue of validating natural language? It's a SQL injection except without a predetermined syntax to validate against, and thus a NP problem we've yet to solve.

New comment by prophesi in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

prophesi — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:26:11 +0000

And what I'm saying is that the people who actually matter are posting here. Because it's a trusted social platform. We want to talk to fellow experts of varied expertise, and I truly appreciate the discussions I have here. Feel free to have discussions of similar value on platforms with smaller, focused communities; I do the same for the tech I know. I do agree bots/astroturfing are prevalent here. But I've had https://news.ycombinator.com as my homepage for ages for a reason, as opposed to literally any other forum. I hope this doesn't become what reddit is now.

Did "hacker news" lose its stallman flavor in favor of venture capital investors? Yes, at the get-go; but that doesn't mean people have sold out their morals. We're all frustrated. We live in a society. At least in the US, you'll just call a representative who's getting paid by lobbyists letting your message fall on deaf ears. But I have seen so many great comments here by people with beautiful minds and good intentions; and sometimes I can even debate with them and get my ass handed to me, because they're much more brilliant than I.

edit: was curious on Luma. Is it basically meetup/radius/partiful/apple invites but for crypto bros?

New comment by prophesi in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

prophesi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:41:56 +0000

> and increasingly, the demographics on HN don't align with those who work in those organizations.

People have been worried about that on HN for years, but I still see the same culture. There do seem to be more bots and astroturfing, but that's a systemic issue with all social media platforms today.

New comment by prophesi in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

prophesi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:36:00 +0000

There are software engineers who directly work for the platforms lobbying for this whom post here.

New comment by prophesi in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

prophesi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:29:42 +0000

> For the record, I don’t care enough about age verification. Whether the law passes or not, I don’t really care.

Sounds like there actually would be some benefit commenting about it on HN.

New comment by prophesi in "Kagi Small Web"

prophesi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:25:21 +0000

It's hard to judge one's personal experience with "personalized" search engines. I have personalized search turned off for Google so Kagi is a much better experience for me. I'd recommend leaning more into their feature to lower/block sites from your results, which with Google would require an extension for a similar but degraded experience.

New comment by prophesi in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

prophesi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:58:36 +0000

It's a blessing when you're in the native Android / React Native / Flutter space.

New comment by prophesi in "To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps"

prophesi — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:03:31 +0000

The intelligent design controversy during the mid 2000's were a fun time. I still have some Flying Spaghetti Monster merch.

New comment by prophesi in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

prophesi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:58:03 +0000

You don't have to get too far into the article to see what's actually doing the heavy lifting[0].

[0] https://github.com/cleak/quasar-saz/blob/master/CLAUDE.md#us...

New comment by prophesi in "Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files"

prophesi — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:00:47 +0000

AFAIK, nation-state LLM's are likely using models that don't need to be abliterated. Why introduce a step that cripples their performance? Do you truly need refusals when trying to figure out zero days? I might need to watch Psycho Pass again.