Hacker News: samlinnfer

New comment by samlinnfer in "Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes"

samlinnfer — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:07:58 +0000

Ah but is the model's belief of the statements 1. complete, 2. consistent, 3. decidable?

New comment by samlinnfer in "Jacobian Conjecture for Baby"

samlinnfer — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:38:46 +0000

It got more and more AI towards the end.

New comment by samlinnfer in "What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?"

samlinnfer — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:06:29 +0000

Claude slopped html page.

New comment by samlinnfer in "How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner"

samlinnfer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:08:40 +0000

North Korean has won, once they had nukes and ICBMs they became untouchable.

New comment by samlinnfer in "A glitch in February of the year 0"

samlinnfer — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:07:52 +0000

They're just using astronomical year numbering.

New comment by samlinnfer in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

samlinnfer — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:44:34 +0000

It may be harmful to someone if shared and sent with malicious intent, but more damage has been done with pens, keyboard and words. Start banning pens that let people write hurtful things next. Ban Photoshop after because someone can get hurt with a manipulated image.

New comment by samlinnfer in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

samlinnfer — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:40:52 +0000

It's being extended breathlessly into an moral issue. User asked for gory images, got gory images. Will someone please think of the non-existent women who could be hurt by this?

New comment by samlinnfer in "Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them"

samlinnfer — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:17:04 +0000

Anthropic is just the whipping boy. It keeps everyone else in line.

New comment by samlinnfer in "U.S. science is in chaos"

samlinnfer — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:47:20 +0000

I wonder who makes assumptions that these differences are marginal and refuse or deny any studies that conclude otherwise. The left version of climate change if you will.

New comment by samlinnfer in "Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix"

samlinnfer — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:04:39 +0000

The Unix philosophy is not emotional.

New comment by samlinnfer in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

samlinnfer — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:53:18 +0000

Just say you saw blood in your stool. You can also google some of the symptoms and say you have some of the more ambiguous ones.

New comment by samlinnfer in "Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU"

samlinnfer — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:58:43 +0000

Sorry it's still not clear what he means? When a CPU is "broken", is it already failing or is it "broken" in the sense it will fail?

For example:

Does he mean all existing 13th/14th gen CPUs (prior to Intel's discovery of the vmin issue) are broken in the sense that they are susceptible to damage and can only be replaced.

Does he mean that the microcode updates, applied by Intel to existing CPUs that are susceptible to damage, will only slow degradation and the CPUs will eventually fail and can only be replaced.

Is he saying the 13th/14th gen CPUs which have already sustained damage, cannot be fixed by microcode updates.

New comment by samlinnfer in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

samlinnfer — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:40:19 +0000

And that's still a better solution than telling them to be traumatized by fake depictions that never even happened, or allowing advocates to use this as a wedge to put more restriction on speech. At least the 2A supporters have the balls to say "from my cold dead hands", who is there stand for 1A?

New comment by samlinnfer in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

samlinnfer — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:29:39 +0000

Do you have an issue with male teenagers generating deepfakes of their female friends in their minds? What if they drew them? What if they photoshopped them? What if they had an AI make them? I suppose if I used such an uncharitable reading of your comment I would ask you're some kind of puritan supporter of thoughtcrime. Am I getting this wrong?

Being curious about other people's bodies is part of the human experience. Sharing unwanted graphic depictions of them, is not the most mature act, but doesn't rise to the level extreme punishment as advocated by the GP.

New comment by samlinnfer in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

samlinnfer — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:30:10 +0000

It used to be that if you wanted to see people naked you’d just use your imagination. If you really wanted you’d draw or use photoshop, but both actually required skill. AI made it too easy. Teenagers wanting to see each other naked is normal and part of the human experience.

I don’t agree with the nanny state approach. America is already too obsessed with violence being ok and any kind of sex/nudity being completely evil. I don’t have an actual answer but having a moral panic over it is not the solution.

New comment by samlinnfer in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

samlinnfer — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:50:43 +0000

It's one of the classic blunders: never get involved in a land war in asia.

New comment by samlinnfer in "Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit"

samlinnfer — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:01 +0000

While the sample exploit does not breakout of the container, with memory corruption everything is still on the table, those missing caps can be added back, no new privs can be unset, etc. It just not as straightforward as patching su.

New comment by samlinnfer in "US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support"

samlinnfer — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:59:06 +0000

Looks like China is just ahead of the curve where you can't buy a plane ticket or book a train if you owe debts.

New comment by samlinnfer in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

samlinnfer — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:20:39 +0000

Surely it just means more people working, resulting in more load, resulting in more outages?

New comment by samlinnfer in "GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"

samlinnfer — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:31:48 +0000

>China bad, Israel good

They're just aligning themselves with US foreign policy.