Hacker News: shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shapenamerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:58:08 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "AI is Taking Water from the Desert"]]>I enjoy the implication that these massive cities we've built in the scorching desert that don't have any water of their own aren't to blame in the slightest. Like it's impossible to build server infra anywhere else than one of the hottest places on the continent.

]]>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 19:12:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39583436shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39583436https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39583436<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "AI Regurgitating Propaganda"]]>We're 4 levels deep on a comment specifically about gemini, good try with the dramatic subject change though. You tried to argue that intentionally injecting what you believe to be righteous bias into an LLM is a superior moral position than not doing so and I disagree. Your outrage about Palestinian children doesn't convince me otherwise.

]]>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:31:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570366shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570366https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570366<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "AI Regurgitating Propaganda"]]>I like how you've painted "telling the truth" as some scummy moral failing.

]]>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:28:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563358shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563358https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563358<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Gemini and Google's Culture"]]>The very obvious patterns we're seeing are not patterns at all! Oh right, brilliant lol.

]]>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:19:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39518519shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39518519https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39518519<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"]]>Ya it's hard to be sure that when people express disdain and/or hatred of "white" people that they are or aren't including arabs. /rolleyes

]]>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:38:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473633shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473633https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473633<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster"]]>I'm a human and I don't have the slightest idea what you're asking for.

]]>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:21:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473425shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473425<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster"]]>After running a bunch of models on my own PC (a pretty good one), I have to say by FAR the best results for coding has been with Deepseek models. However, I just spent 20 minutes playing with this Phind 70B model and it's totally nailing the questions I'm asking it. Pretty impressed.

]]>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:45:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472060shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472060https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472060<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Why Don't We Teach People How to Parent?"]]>"if you can't afford to raise a child and some other additional costs that are unrelated, like a dog, then you can't afford a child". Oh ok that makes perfect sense, thanks for holding the snide, lol

]]>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:47:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232544shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232544https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232544<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Do Elephants Have Souls?"]]>interesting, do all dogs go to heaven?

]]>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:26:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132794shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132794https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132794<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "The Miele Dialog: cook a fish in ice without melting the ice"]]>Cool, but if I want raw fish I'll just not put it in the oven I think.

]]>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:50:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051378shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051378https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051378<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Cancer Alley"]]>It seems like lowest effort submission possible to me. It's not really related to tech news at all. There's no recent news or changes. The op didn't post anything about why they found it interesting. The conversation happening here is sparse and not interesting. Aside from the fact that I've had comments downvoted for "being low effort" in the past. People can find anything interesting but not everything is a good submission to HN.

]]>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:49:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034700shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034700https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034700<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Cancer Alley"]]>linking random wiki articles with 0 context is extremely common and seemingly accepted on HN. Always confused me as well but /shrug.

]]>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:49:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39032518shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39032518https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39032518<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Patriot Missile Software Problem"]]>Ya if only we could be peaceful like ants!

]]>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 06:26:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38863758shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38863758https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38863758<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached"]]>Tech savvy and privacy-conscious enough to use TOR, but not enough of either of those things to both use a service like 23andMe, and not use password keeper or just be aware that reusing passwords is dangerous. What a strange intersection of users.

]]>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:45:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38860349shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38860349https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38860349<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Send Me to Heaven"]]>Wikipedia is more obnoxious with the begging every time I look at it.

]]>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:36:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686343shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686343https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686343<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox"]]>Firefox https://streamable.com/5omhv0

Maybe I'm an idiot but I literally can't navigate your website lol.

]]>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:09:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634886shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634886https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634886<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox"]]>I've been looking at options, and while mega seems good they also seem to happily hand over your data to authorities, which means it's not really encrypted, or might as well not be.

I've seen skiff shilled a few times here and on the twitter thread but the website is too annoying for me lol.

Currently thinking I'm going to mess with filen.io tonight. It has a linux client and is e2e encrypted. Still looking and open to suggestions though.

]]>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:55:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634715shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634715https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634715<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox"]]>I would like to check it out but I'm physically unable to select any product from the product drop down list... Not the most confidence inspiring thing I've seen.

]]>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:03:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633422shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633422https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633422<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox"]]>Just checked my account and this option was on. Turned it off but it's completely unacceptable that it was on in the first place. If anyone has any good alternatives please let me know. Preferably encrypted options.

]]>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:50:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633265shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633265https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633265<![CDATA[New comment by shapenamer in "Scholars who study the Middle East are afraid to speak out"]]>"I deliberately suppressed this discussion and any claims of the discussion being suppressed are the reason I suppressed it and are also conspiracy theories and not real, even though I did suppress it."

ya uh... ok

]]>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:33:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593200shapenamerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593200https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593200