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New comment by roywiggins in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

roywiggins — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:14:07 +0000

They could have defended the small claims cases against them in that case?

New comment by roywiggins in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

roywiggins — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:10:44 +0000

It happens, eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

New comment by roywiggins in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials"

roywiggins — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:34:01 +0000

Their first study allegedly resulted in "44% were below the cut-off for mild ASD"- ie, practically cured, from a diagnostic point of view.

New comment by roywiggins in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials"

roywiggins — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:32:16 +0000

imho part of the communication problem is that a 6 year reduction actually is large, but it doesn't sound large. Smoking takes about 10 years off your life, and it's deadly in a very mechanical and understood way.

New comment by roywiggins in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

roywiggins — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:23:30 +0000

No, that appears to be the implication of this study, which frankly seems like such a large effect that I'm pretty skeptical! I'd say "where's the control group" except the claimed effect is so large that you kind of don't need one, if it's real:

> Prior to the study, 83% of participants had "severe" autism. Two years later, only 17% were rated as severe, 39% as mild or moderate, and incredibly, 44% were below the cut-off for mild ASD.

Emphasis mine. If you are below the cutoff for mild ASD you wouldn't be diagnosed at all.

New comment by roywiggins in "Geography is four-dimensional"

roywiggins — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:07:15 +0000

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

New comment by roywiggins in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

roywiggins — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:47:07 +0000

Not soon, now. The new reCAPTCHA on desktop shows you a QR code for you to scan with your Google-approved phone to prove you have one.

New comment by roywiggins in "'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level"

roywiggins — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:17:56 +0000

They can just sell to Aquaman.

New comment by roywiggins in "I am worried about Bun"

roywiggins — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:29:40 +0000

> That is textbook enshittification.

Technically, no, not textbook enshittification. Enshittification was originally meant to refer to companies squeezing two-sided markets, not products just getting kinda worse.

New comment by roywiggins in "AI's economics don't make sense"

roywiggins — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:08:17 +0000

not nearly as many words as Ed Zitron at least

New comment by roywiggins in "CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production"

roywiggins — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:20:52 +0000

It's all fine until OpenClaw decides to start prompt injecting the judge

New comment by roywiggins in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

roywiggins — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:12:41 +0000

It could be a stylistic choice, except it's rapidly become an extremely popular one for some reason. It's also the default Claude style. So, take what you will from that. Either someone is writing exactly like Claude on purpose, or they just asked Claude to write something, but either way I'm entirely oversaturated on it. At this point I don't think "Claude", I just start skimming and then close the tab.

New comment by roywiggins in "Ask HN: What makes it so hard to keep LLMs online?"

roywiggins — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:58:27 +0000

It's the em-dashes from a green account.

New comment by roywiggins in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

roywiggins — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:42:32 +0000

Meta spent 100 billion dollars on VR, what's a Zuckerbot or two?

New comment by roywiggins in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

roywiggins — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:35:00 +0000

I said that people who already know don't think about it. That's not something you can solve by educating them more. When I'm sharing a photo, I am going to think about what I can see in the photo as a data risk, not the invisible stuff that I might intellectually have heard about. It's just not going to come to mind.

People who know about phishing get got by phishing attacks, too. How well has however many years of "cyber awareness training" gone?

New comment by roywiggins in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

roywiggins — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:01:06 +0000

You don't have to be irrational to not know things.

New comment by roywiggins in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

roywiggins — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:58:49 +0000

Even people who know it, don't think about it and don't connect it with the potential consequences of uploading a picture to a website. And why would they? It's not visible, there's no warning, it's just not something that's going to be top of mind.

New comment by roywiggins in "Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks"

roywiggins — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:25:52 +0000

yeah I don't hate LLM docs if they're labeled as such. but if someone wants me to use their code or read their README.md they are going to have to make it sound like a human cared about writing it, and right now Claude can't do that

New comment by roywiggins in "Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks"

roywiggins — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:24:29 +0000

If they're that hard to prompt maybe it's easier just to write the blog posts yourself.

New comment by roywiggins in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

roywiggins — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:29:47 +0000

They could write a post demonstrating that you can do that and surface the same bugs in the same codebases.

It would be way more informative than this one, which didn't do that.