Hacker News: skarz

New comment by skarz in "Picard 3.0"

skarz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:25:31 +0000

Man, I could be wrong, but I would venture to guess that the number of people using this has decreased massively. In my teens and 20s I remember religiously scanning my entire MP3 collection through Picard and also gleefully scanning disc IDs into the database. Haven't used MusicBrainz in over ten years at this point.

New comment by skarz in "Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat"

skarz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:17:49 +0000

What is that page? It looks like a "tweet" on The Verge which just links to the actual story.

New comment by skarz in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

skarz — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:26:44 +0000

Except books are already destroyed in physical form every single day. My local library has a section near the front for free and/or extremely cheap books ($1) they are desperately trying to get rid of. My impression is that if they are untaken/unsold they will end up in a dumpster.

[Edit] Here's an article from 2003 talking about how Random House destroyed up to 25,000 books a day: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/mar/19/fiction.stephe...

New comment by skarz in "GPT-6 Astra"

skarz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:13:43 +0000

Is that hyperbole or do you know of a specific "AI website" that uses 100% of your CPU?

New comment by skarz in ".name Termination"

skarz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:02:34 +0000

Thank you for the clarification. Not sure if it was the author's intent but they made it sound like .name will cease to exist.

New comment by skarz in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

skarz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:35:31 +0000

Perhaps, but there are certainly now catchphrases and words that can indicate it was written with AI i.e. load-bearing, idempotent, etc. Style and structure are in and of themselves, a fingerprint.

New comment by skarz in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

skarz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:40:47 +0000

Does YouTube in Safari play in background/with the screen off?

New comment by skarz in "Fastpotify"

skarz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:17:30 +0000

But can my daughter, who has a Managed Account, use this?

New comment by skarz in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

skarz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:11:14 +0000

For that, there's ProTube[1]. On the surface it behaves like YouTube Premium, under the hood it's just the mobile version of YouTube bundled into an iOS app. I have no idea why ads aren't served, I analyzed the network requests with Fiddler Everywhere and saw nothing nefarious.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/protube-block-ads-on-video/id6...

New comment by skarz in "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

skarz — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:08:54 +0000

do we really need breaking news about qwen posted every single day?

New comment by skarz in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

skarz — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:06:54 +0000

to be honest, having to walk inside to use the bathroom or refill your cup of coffee seems like a nice way to stand up and get the blood flowing again + breathe some fresh air.

New comment by skarz in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

skarz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:35:19 +0000

What was the question?

New comment by skarz in "Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity"

skarz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:17:57 +0000

All of my childhood friends who bragged about being good at GH/RB only ever bragged about being good at the _games_. Never ran in to someone trying to pass it off as being able to play the guitar.

New comment by skarz in "Fable 5 is Back"

skarz — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:09:02 +0000

Are we comparing nuclear energy to an LLM?

New comment by skarz in "Bring back crappy forums"

skarz — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:45:37 +0000

If I recall correctly most forum software such as phpBB and vBulletin had an option where you could toggle between viewing a thread in nested BBS/Usenet style or the newer linear view.

New comment by skarz in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

skarz — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:46:42 +0000

Put your site behind Cloudflare, enable Bot Fight. Done.

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

skarz — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:05:41 +0000

Similar, but it was a very realistic looking photo of a woman in lingerie taking a selfie in a car.

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

skarz — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:02:18 +0000

I have used ChatGPT to generate HUNDREDS of photos and I have never once had it bring back violent or sexual content. It does, however, routinely reject certain requests due to me trying to incorporate copyrighted characters. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by skarz in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

skarz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:24:26 +0000

Why does their website seem like a clone of Anthropic's?

New comment by skarz in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

skarz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:03:40 +0000

Every time I get in my car the Apple Music app prompts me to resubscribe with a full screen popup. Usually it tries 2-3 times before it stops.