Hacker News: ryankrage77

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

ryankrage77 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:40:57 +0000

In my experience, ISPs just 'block' it at the DNS level. Using another DNS provider 'unblocks' everything.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord"

ryankrage77 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:29:23 +0000

fwiw I occasionally like to read back through chat histories from months/years prior. I brings me right back to that time and reminds me of things I thought I'd forgotten. It's like the nostalgia from an old scent.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect"

ryankrage77 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:34:47 +0000

It was 'Square Hammer' by Ghost.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect"

ryankrage77 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:03:38 +0000

Seems to depend on the source audio too. The demo at the top of the page sounded good, but in the demo at the end I tried some rock music that already has a pretty wide stereo image, and it made it sound very 'squished' and like it was coming from inside my head, on top of lots of weird distortion/phase issues.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Tank Body Problem"

ryankrage77 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:06:29 +0000

mechanics are completely and utterly broken.

- moon moves too fast and has too strong of an influence. The aiming line that supposedly shows the path of your projectile is misleading, since by the time the projectile gets there, it's out of date.

- moons speed makes it impossible to put anything in orbit, or slingshot around it (it just throws stuff out into space)

- already said many times, but you can just drive up to the other player and shoot them point blank

did you actually try playing it yourself before posting about it?

New comment by ryankrage77 in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

ryankrage77 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:15:30 +0000

sounds like it's set to skip tangents/self-promotion by default. There should be a setting to leave those alone and only skip actual sponsor segments.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware"

ryankrage77 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:50:34 +0000

'psychosis' might be a strong word, but definitely written or at least heavily edited by an LLM. I would guess Claude's writing style.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

ryankrage77 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:19:50 +0000

I've got Pi-hole and uBlock, use Firefox container tabs to isolate certain sites, and Firefox still reports it blocked over 2800 trackers this month alone. I wonder how many are still getting through.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "English: A vs. An"

ryankrage77 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:25:06 +0000

I didn't get the unicorn thing either, but it's explained better in the longer post (https://www.redblobgames.com/x/2635-a-vs-an/). Unicorn is pronounced starting with a sound like 'you', which starts with a consonant.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

ryankrage77 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:20:52 +0000

It goes even further though, as the dog does have agency. It can choose to run and around chase squirrels with no human intervention.

An LLM on the other hand, is just inert data on disk until a human takes deliberate action to run it and prompt it.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

ryankrage77 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:17:37 +0000

I've been using HackerSmacker for a while to tag AI-related and non-AI-related submissions.

I find, depending on the time of day, 30-50% of submissions are about AI. Also, Users who submit AI-related content tend to also submit non-AI-related content - those I tag for non-AI-related content almost never submit AI-related content.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

ryankrage77 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:21:14 +0000

> My magic wand would be waving it at those humans to force them to suddenly and powerfully experience their version of an overview effect in their lives [...]

I've daydreamed about this too. I want to sit them down in an interview and try and dissect their thought process/morals. I doubt it's possible to succeed.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Show HN: Voronoi Go"

ryankrage77 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:14:05 +0000

Very interesting, but I feel like I'm too dumb to 'get it'. It's not intuitive at all what makes a move good or bad. I lost 5 games against the easy bot, by a lot. I'm OK at othello/reversi and that mentality did not help me at all, probably worked against me. Maybe a section in the tutorial showcasing some good vs bad moves would help.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

ryankrage77 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:12:39 +0000

The stream-of-consciousness in the prompt is much better than the LLMs response. Yes, it's messy and unpolished, maybe even a little hard to parse, but it's so much richer for it. The way it is written lets me follow your thought process, shows that you were getting the words out quickly without much or any editing, and how you were exploring the idea and making it more concrete by giving it written form.

The LLM response has none of that character, it doesn't give me that little sliver of insight into the writer. It strips the idea from the author, making it generic and anonymous. The only thing I can gleam from text edited with an LLM like this (besides the literal meaning of the text), is that the author didn't care enough to express themselves.

Sure, it's more polished, but doing the writing manually is half the point. You have an abstract idea, you refine into something that can be communicated, and in doing so, explore that idea and improve your understanding of it. I've re-written this paragraph a dozen times trying to do exactly that.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC"

ryankrage77 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:06:57 +0000

Is it possible to swing smoothly like the spiderman movies? Every swing seems to slam me into a building immediately, then start actually swinging.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

ryankrage77 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:10:21 +0000

Even if they were the most profitable company on earth, I wouldn't be surprised if they still ran ads. Making money isn't enough, you always have to make more money.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again"

ryankrage77 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:45:23 +0000

> roughly 3 miles, so I spend a gallon of gas every day with 2 round-trips

You get 12mpg?

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

ryankrage77 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:49:05 +0000

When testing speakers, I discovered my room (or house) is resonant around 40Hz. On most other frequencies the speaker was quiet, at 40Hz it felt like the room was shaking. I wonder if the effect of vehicle noise (I'm between a large road and train tracks, and near an airport) is amplified by this, though I've not noticed any impact - then again, it's not as though the vehicles are generating constant sine waves, and I don't have a quieter baseline to compare to.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky"

ryankrage77 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:16:16 +0000

Annoyingly and predictably, reads like AI slop. You can practically guess the prompt goes something along the lines of 'write a press release explaining why this bad idea is a good idea'.

New comment by ryankrage77 in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

ryankrage77 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:03:34 +0000

This can give the attacker the URL of a private video, but they won't be able to access it. It could let them access unlisted videos, but I don't think that's as big a deal.