Hacker News: prophesi

New comment by prophesi in "Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE"

prophesi — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:04:13 +0000

Not an exhaustive list, but the site has a Showcase page[0]. The readme[1] also has a link to their Discord server along with their forum.

[0] https://strudel.cc/intro/showcase/

[1] https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel

[2] https://club.tidalcycles.org/

New comment by prophesi in "Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does"

prophesi — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:26:38 +0000

Thankfully the case was taken to the Hamilton County Municipal Court, which I imagine was a much fairer trail than he would've received at Lockland's Mayor Court. He was cleared of all charges[0].

[0] https://local12.com/news/local/man-cleared-charges-spray-pai...

New comment by prophesi in "Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users"

prophesi — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:55:51 +0000

Unless it was in a previous iteration of the submission's title, I don't see Linux mentioned anywhere.

New comment by prophesi in "AI slop is killing online communities"

prophesi — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:33:11 +0000

When it comes to slow forum content, I think it's a fool's errand to try to determine if someone is using AI for their responses. Any of the tell-tale signs of AI are easily skirted by mentioning in their prompt to not do so. It goes back to how you can't sanitize human language which has been an issue with LLM's from the beginning.

Encouraging a culture of not using AI works to an extent, but I also tire of threads claiming the parent post is AI. There isn't a sure-fire way to know one way or another.

New comment by prophesi in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

prophesi — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:21:30 +0000

I think HN needs a refresher on responsible disclosure, and that even vulnerability scanners engage in this practice for obvious reasons in that it benefits both parties. One party gains exposure, and the other gets exposure and their bug squashed without the bug wrecking havoc while they try to squash it.

New comment by prophesi in "Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists"

prophesi — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:26:51 +0000

I'd agree with that to an extent. The USA is in a corporatocracy, so I'd argue it's the private corporate entities lobbying for the government to utilize their private surveillance. In general I try not to grant conspiratorial competency which could be better explained by the exchange of money.

New comment by prophesi in "Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists"

prophesi — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:13:39 +0000

The government is a third-party as well. Leveraging Flock to skirt privacy laws is two sides of the same coin; commercial entities are doing this too.

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

prophesi — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:19:06 +0000

Yet wanting an extension recommendation by an online user you don't know to install code you can't verify with access to data on the youtube domain is fine.

New comment by prophesi in "Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists"

prophesi — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:25:42 +0000

Whether or not Flock employees are child predators or not, the crux of the issue lies in the third parties Flock allows access to these cameras. For a link to their actual blog post where they make this comment: https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/understanding-flocks-testin...

(The terrorist allegations are from an interview December of last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357850 )

New comment by prophesi in "NIST gives up enriching most CVEs"

prophesi — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:09:04 +0000

Assuming this is in reference to the great Veritasium video[0] going over what these reference materials are used for and why they're so expensive.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQyYGezS7c

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.