Hacker News: smitop

New comment by smitop in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

smitop — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:34:31 +0000

Actions runs from external contributors aren't run with Actions secrets; if you are using Actions right (i.e. not using pull_request_target wrong) you don't need to trust external contributors. (eta: iirc the original point of the Actions approval flow was preventing cryptomining spam from abusing free compute)

Canada becomes the first G7 country to approve a generic version of semaglutide

smitop — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:40:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2026/04/canada-becomes-the-first-g7-country-to-approve-a-generic-version-of-semaglutide.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941827

Points: 30

# Comments: 2

LLMs are pretty good at making slideshows now

smitop — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:26:43 +0000

Article URL: https://iter.ca/post/llm-slideshows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894713

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Getting chat-tuned models to act kinda like base models

smitop — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:58:13 +0000

Article URL: https://iter.ca/post/model-baseify/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826670

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Getting chat-tuned models to act kinda like base models

smitop — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:42:40 +0000

Article URL: https://iter.ca/post/model-baseify/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733386

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How the Claude Mythos leak happened

smitop — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:23:21 +0000

Article URL: https://iter.ca/post/claude-cms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633126

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Polymarket isn't trustless

smitop — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://iter.ca/post/polymarket-trust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377672

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by smitop in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

smitop — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:24:35 +0000

There are other stablecoins that aren't scams though, like USDC. I think Stripe would probably either create their own USD stable or partner with Circle.

New comment by smitop in "AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions"

smitop — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:49:42 +0000

> if you fail to mention that something was made by AI as part of a compound work you could end up losing copyright over the whole thing

The source you linked says the opposite of that: "the inclusion of elements of AI-generated content in a larger human-authored work does not affect the copyrightability of the larger human-authored work as a whole"

Open Banking and Payments Competition

smitop — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:44:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/open-banking-and-payments-competition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44895222

Points: 155

# Comments: 92

GPT-5 System Card [pdf]

smitop — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:06:12 +0000

Article URL: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce-ab78-4f06-96eb-49ea29ffb52f/gpt5-system-card-aug7.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827092

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by smitop in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

smitop — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 01:58:27 +0000

YouTube is currently running an A/B test for server-side insertion according to what some other people have posted. I'm not getting SSAI ads so I can't really know much about them though.

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

smitop — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:01:35 +0000

Article URL: https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329712

Points: 991

# Comments: 1322

U.S.-Canada airline bookings are not down 70%

smitop — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:34:03 +0000

Article URL: https://viewfromthewing.com/everyone-saw-the-headline-u-s-canada-airline-bookings-down-70-its-wrong-heres-what-the-real-data-shows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524960

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by smitop in "Why I'm leaving Elm (2020)"

smitop — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:45:16 +0000

Most people searching for "elm" are researching elm trees, not the language - the highest search activity was in May 2010, before Elm existed.

There is no 1875 epoch

smitop — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:05:06 +0000

Article URL: https://iter.ca/post/1875-epoch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072185

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by smitop in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

smitop — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:44:01 +0000

Insurance companies could front the money, in exchange for a premium based on how legitimate the claim seems.

New comment by smitop in "Extracting AI models from mobile apps"

smitop — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 14:55:24 +0000

tflite files can contain a ResizeOp that resizes the image: https://ai.google.dev/edge/api/tflite/java/org/tensorflow/li...

The file is only 7.7kb, so it couldn't contain many weights anyways.

Jailbreaking language models with user roleplay

smitop — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:30:05 +0000

Article URL: https://iter.ca/post/llm-user-roleplay/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41310670

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by smitop in "Electric cars produce twice as much CO₂ as trains, says rail group data"

smitop — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:44:34 +0000

Your math is wrong - it's $4B ÷ 815k residents ÷ $27k = 0.18 used Tesla Model 3s per resident. (you accidentally used 27k as both the price and the population)