Hacker News: sneak

New comment by sneak in "Claude Fable 5"

sneak — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:22:45 +0000

I want everyone in the world to be able to perform unlimited cutting edge research on any topic at the maximum thinking level, instantly.

The reason we are not being attacked is not lack of technology access.

New comment by sneak in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

sneak — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:55:12 +0000

> I want more companies to not get exemptions and thus not offer law-breaking products. I LIKE that the government is saying, "fix it or don't bring it here" and Apple just has to live with it.

The idea that there is such a thing as "law-breaking products" when consumers ACTIVELY CHOOSE TO SPEND THEIR MONEY ON THEM is insane to me. This is authoritarian nonsense.

It is not the state's place to tell people what they should or should not be allowed to buy.

New comment by sneak in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

sneak — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:31:31 +0000

A lack of a license also does not grant you permission to modify it.

Source available software is not open source, and attempts to redefine it as such are ridiculous. This apologism for proprietary software (hypocritical proprietary software, at that) doesn’t benefit anyone.

New comment by sneak in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

sneak — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:44:45 +0000

I believe this is called “eventual consistency”.

New comment by sneak in "The best relationships are all-encompassing."

sneak — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:19:11 +0000

> We met at a used book store, her checking out my massive Ayn Rand purchase and disclosing with a soft smile, "Atlas Shrugged was my favorite book when I was 14 and I re-read it every 2 years since."

I can’t tell if this is satire, and I’m worried that it isn’t. I say that as someone who also doesn’t hate that book.

New comment by sneak in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

sneak — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:17:31 +0000

No. Shareware does not provide you with a license that allows modification.

New comment by sneak in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

sneak — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:57:00 +0000

Just because you can see the source code does not make it open source. Shareware software is proprietary software.

Open source means free software, which is a license that allows unrestricted use of the source code. Shareware isn’t free (as in speech OR as in beer) software.

The definition of OSS is well defined, and isn’t my definition. This is why there is a term called “OSI-approved license”.

New comment by sneak in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

sneak — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:03:24 +0000

It’s fortunate that you can’t properly spell basic medical terms so that nobody will mistake this for professional advice from a knowledgeable source.

New comment by sneak in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

sneak — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:54:51 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network

The medial frontoparietal network (M-FPN) may be the equivalent of this cron job that prompts thinking to kick off. IANANeuroscientist.

New comment by sneak in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

sneak — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:52:37 +0000

> Some years ago it was briefly popular to play games with your phone’s predictive-text feature; you would type an initial phrase and then repeatedly choose the middle option of the three words suggested by your phone, and the resulting sentence was often hilarious. It would be possible to interact with a contemporary LLM this way, and the resulting sentences would be perfectly sensible, but you probably wouldn’t feel like you were talking with someone. Yet that’s essentially what an LLM-based chatbot is, except that there’s no need to manually choose the middle option when it’s the chatbot’s turn to talk. It’s still a predictive-text game, but when the process is streamlined this way, the game becomes so engaging that some people find it addictive.

This hasn’t been true for ages. Just because this guy wrote Arrival doesn’t mean he knows anything else.

When will this stupid meme die?

We need a term for someone who thinks they are well informed on a topic (and perhaps may be, compared to the general public) but still don’t know what the fuck they are talking about when compared to even a competent non-expert in the field.

New comment by sneak in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

sneak — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:45:08 +0000

If you accept cryptocurrency you don’t need to do any of this, and not even deal with PayPal (who WILL rob you without a second thought, as has been well documented on the internet for MULTIPLE decades at this point).

New comment by sneak in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

sneak — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:44:48 +0000

The design philosophy says you should be able to repair your own tools, but this is closed source proprietary software.

Cute page, but does not walk the walk.

New comment by sneak in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

sneak — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:49:48 +0000

It’s not a fake, it is made by HP. Also, it has value as a calculator, not just nostalgic sentimental value. It works just as well as the original.

I own one because a while ago I bought, one by one, iconic world changing calculators to collect. I like having physical history. This re-release seems like a very nice bookend to that collection.

New comment by sneak in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

sneak — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:32:19 +0000

It’s interesting to me that “gives all my private correspondence to federal police without a warrant or judicial oversight” isn’t enough to get people to quit gmail, but “offers to write my email replies for me” is.

Adults shouldn’t use gmail. I think less of people who do.

New comment by sneak in "Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler"

sneak — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:54:58 +0000

> I also do not want my future work to be exploited for naught in commercial purposes.

Other people using your code to enrich their lives or businesses doesn't exploit you in any way, as it doesn't cost you a thing. This is irrational.

New comment by sneak in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

sneak — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:33:43 +0000

It says right in the TOS that it's licensed, not sold. Then the button says "Buy". It's intentionally misleading and contradictory.

New comment by sneak in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

sneak — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:54:18 +0000

Would you be interested in collaborating on a selfhosted CMS to aid in publishing a video series on one’s own site with syndication to rss and other platforms like youtube? I have been close to scratching this itch for most of a year.

New comment by sneak in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

sneak — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:35:22 +0000

If you want other people to carry it further, release your work as free software.

New comment by sneak in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

sneak — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:53:26 +0000

$40M is a trivial amount of money to everyone involved in this matter. It’s only a few hundred 1kg bars.

New comment by sneak in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

sneak — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:51:58 +0000

1kg gold bars are tiny.