Hacker News: randyrand

New comment by randyrand in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

randyrand — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:36:49 +0000

So they added marketing and support on top. Sounds like how you run a business.

New comment by randyrand in "Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme"

randyrand — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:37:53 +0000

Not it’s not. Creating fake accounts and instructing them to listen to music does not generate any money. The actual money generation, the actual fraud, was carried out on his behalf when the platform claimed the listens were real and charged the advertisers for it.

Under the letter of the law, this is just a TOS violation.

New comment by randyrand in "Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme"

randyrand — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:02:09 +0000

In click fraud, it's the platform company defrauding the ads purchasers, by claiming the clicks are legit.

All this guy did was break TOS, and find a broken business model. No fraud. Should have found a lawyer.

New comment by randyrand in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

randyrand — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:00:42 +0000

Whether the data is arriving on a wire, a physical hard drive, DVD, or book, doesn’t really change anything.

It is the role of customs to inspect the physical goods (i.e. physical light) that crosses the border. These are fiber connections the UK themselves chose to install. No one forced these data imports on them.

North korea and China for example have extensive infrastructure to inspect and reject imported data.

New comment by randyrand in "A Journey Through Infertility"

randyrand — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:42:41 +0000

Perhaps it was a sperm donor? There doesn’t necessarily have to be a traditional father.

New comment by randyrand in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

randyrand — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:18:57 +0000

True. That's why I only write assembly. Imagine a piece of software deciding register spill for you! Unhinged!

New comment by randyrand in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"

randyrand — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:27:48 +0000

Couldn't this be summarized as the Sodium Vapor technique but with near-IR? Or do I misunderstand something?

New comment by randyrand in "More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware"

randyrand — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:09:41 +0000

more often than not, you could just buy the same new CPU on the open market and swap it in. It bypasses secure boot, etc.

New comment by randyrand in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

randyrand — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:27:10 +0000

It’s artificial, it’s general, and all things considered it’s pretty damn intelligent.

New comment by randyrand in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

randyrand — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:58:32 +0000

It doesn't matter if it's legitimate. The people that use it don't care. They just find it online and click download. This is the reality.

New comment by randyrand in "Someone needs to go to jail"

randyrand — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:49:17 +0000

> Every associate of Epstein was interested in him for the same reason

Baseless speculation.

New comment by randyrand in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

randyrand — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:07:59 +0000

Indeed, we could start everything +1 hr later I suppose.

New comment by randyrand in "Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity"

randyrand — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:46:52 +0000

> You don’t “train a human.”

In this context, "train" a human makes perfect sense.

New comment by randyrand in "Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked"

randyrand — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:11:27 +0000

All it takes is for one person to recognize her for her name to be known.

New comment by randyrand in "Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked"

randyrand — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:41:03 +0000

From a privacy perspective, doing something voluntarily doesn't negate anything. It's still the bigger privacy issue.

New comment by randyrand in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

randyrand — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:26:55 +0000

Jeeze, save some for the rest of us!

New comment by randyrand in "Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked"

randyrand — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:20:58 +0000

I feel like the bigger issue - from an anonymity perspective - is that she is publicly showing her real face while doing these things, no?

New comment by randyrand in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

randyrand — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:53:19 +0000

It needs to be compatible with iOS apps, not Android.

New comment by randyrand in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

randyrand — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:42:28 +0000

Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V. There. Done!

New comment by randyrand in "Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver"

randyrand — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:19:55 +0000

"Objectively, a reasonable person would not kidnap and ultimately murder a defenseless person because they were scared,” Mr. Scott told the jury.

That doesnt sound objective to me at all.