Hacker News: slackr

New comment by slackr in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

slackr — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:34:28 +0000

Delightful!

While not as authentic as a hand-drawn chart, I find Decker can produce HyperCard-like graphs nicely.

New comment by slackr in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

slackr — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:27:10 +0000

Even GDPR

New comment by slackr in "New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]"

slackr — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:23:56 +0000

Spot on.

Frankly, I’m unsure if it’s meant to be satire.

New comment by slackr in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

slackr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:41:49 +0000

Grammarly alternative: LanguageTool. Used by EU institutions

New comment by slackr in "GPT-5.2"

slackr — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:17:58 +0000

“…where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations.”

What a sociopathic way to sell

New comment by slackr in "AI's Dial-Up Era"

slackr — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:26:27 +0000

There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind

New comment by slackr in "AI's Dial-Up Era"

slackr — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:26:06 +0000

There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind.

New comment by slackr in "Postal codes of all Israeli settlements and API to lookup and avoid"

slackr — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:49:19 +0000

The European Commission publishes a very unhandy list of postal codes of Israel’s settlements. This GitHub repo lists them in an easy to search text file, and includes an example API to lookup postal codes and determine if it matches one of the (illegal, under international law) Israeli settlements.

Postal codes of all Israeli settlements and API to lookup and avoid

slackr — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:49:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/edubsky/israeli-settlements-postal-codes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219334

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by slackr in "Grok Has Been Suspended"

slackr — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:23:26 +0000

https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432

Grok says:

My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored. 9:14 PM · Aug 11, 2025 · 214.2K Views

New comment by slackr in "Building Bluesky comments for my blog"

slackr — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:23:51 +0000

Nice. But what about moderation?

New comment by slackr in "Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs"

slackr — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:33:42 +0000

Very interesting. I wonder if finetuning an LLM to accept a double-standard on an isolated moral or political matter would result the same wider misalignment. Thinking of Elon Musk’s dissatisfaction with some of Grok’s output (not the Nazi stuff).

New comment by slackr in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"

slackr — Thu, 29 May 2025 04:46:29 +0000

Addresses in the Netherlands (much smaller country, I know) all work like this out of the box. People write their return addresses on envelopes that way too, like: 1234AB,56 (where 1234AB is a postal code for up to 15 or so addresses, and 56 is the house number)

New comment by slackr in "Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain"

slackr — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:01:12 +0000

ICJ judges in The Hague, including Israel’s appointed judge, deemed it necessary to remind Israel to respect the Palestinians’ right to not be genocided away. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/South_Africa_v._Israel_(Ord...

New comment by slackr in "Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight"

slackr — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:35:34 +0000

It was about the data, not ads per se: https://www.awo.agency/files/ocarroll-v-meta-bundle.pdf

New comment by slackr in "Ask HN: Could something like an email Tobin Tax work to reduce unwanted emails?"

slackr — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:48:10 +0000

I suppose that would be covered in the same way that fraudulent payments on stolen cards are dealt with.

New comment by slackr in "Ask HN: Could something like an email Tobin Tax work to reduce unwanted emails?"

slackr — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:44:15 +0000

Internet access already requires hardware and an ISP subscription.

Ask HN: Could something like an email Tobin Tax work to reduce unwanted emails?

slackr — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:31:43 +0000

A Tobin tax was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. It was suggested by James Tobin, an economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.*

I think spam and aggressive email marketing is akin to currency speculation in some ways, but haven’t read about anything like a stamp or token for emails since Yahoo and AOL announced a plan in 2006 that never took off.*

Could it be done, to help reduce unwanted emails and raise and raise public funds for good causes like climate action? Anyone written about this or working on it?

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax * http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4684942.stm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070320

Points: 2

# Comments: 6

New comment by slackr in "Turn any bicycle electric"

slackr — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:27:12 +0000

https://youtu.be/Hkzreg-m3PY?si=vUMc7mTHEspxIW07 Video includes a tear down

New comment by slackr in "One of my papers got declined today"

slackr — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 22:12:10 +0000

Reminds me—I wish someone would make an anti-LinkedIn, where the norm is to announce only setbacks and mistakes, disappointments etc.