<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: techjamie</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=techjamie</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:25:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=techjamie" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by techjamie in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Ad pipeline is malware at this point.<p>Always has been.<p>Occasionally my girlfriend will comment on something she saw in an ad, even buy things off them. Thing is though that ad platforms don't seem to be doing anything meaningful to stop bad actors.<p>So really, clicking any ad and interacting with it amounts to placing your trust in a total stranger with the only criteria being they paid a little bit of money for you to see them. To which you will then download their software, give them your credit card, or whatever the end goal is.<p>It's far easier to assume anything in an advertisement is a scam and block them accordingly.</p>
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<p>> I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe this. There is definitely negligence<p>They could 100% be civilly liable, but this doesn't constitute criminality. If I leave my car in neutral and run out into a gas station because I really have to pee, and it rolls and strikes another car, my insurance is gonna have to pay up to fix the other person's car.<p>But that doesn't mean the cops are gonna throw cuffs on me for criminal mischief unless there's compelling evidence that I intentionally left my car in neutral with the intent of it hitting this other car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:55:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182956</link><dc:creator>techjamie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182956</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by techjamie in "The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would say in EA's case, boycotting them did have some level of effectiveness. They didn't stop being shitty altogether, but they did come out with a couple strong singleplayer experiences that doesn't overwhelmingly stink of overt monetization, and it seemed like they put at least some attempt into turning their reputation around (though they still put out plenty of monetization slop, particularly their sports games)<p>But they messed around for too long, and I don't foresee their reputation ever seriously recovering. Especially now that they have a 55B investment/purchase to make up for now, they'll probably be even more egregious.</p>
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<p>LLMs are fantastic for helping with Nix stuff. Particularly the error logs, because Nix errors are atrocious to read. Being able to throw the error at an LLM and have it get to the point of what I need to fix is nice.<p>I've also had it build me a nix flake for a piece of software that wasn't in the repo and save me a ton of effort running it.<p>If it can solve Nix issues that well, given how relatively obscure Nix is, I don't think it'll struggle with most topics. Though the entire Nix repo being written in Nix and on GitHub might give it a huge boost in training visibility. It's not like other Linux topics aren't also very well represented though.</p>
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<p>This logic fails on a couple levels. One, bike lanes are often not wide enough to support another car anyway. Two, Braess's paradox[1] is an effect that's been noticed for as long as we've had cars that adding a lane to a roadway will often show no improvement, and perhaps even add detriment, to a local traffic system.<p>So I guess it's a common sense solution if you don't understand the first thing about roadway design?<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox</a></p>
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<p>A silver lining is that at least a lot of these AI generated malware and phishing scams are easy to disrupt with mild white hat skills. Often the people behind them lack the knowledge on how to prevent themselves from being disrupted by said white hats.<p>The most laughable I've seen was a scam that put a captcha on the frontend to stop me from flooding their free email system on the backend and rate limit them. However, the captcha was clientside only, so I didn't even notice until I looked to see if they rotated emails, but also the captcha was a textbox with the code set as the placeholder.<p>Truly the pinnacle of vibecoding a scam.</p>
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<p>In theory you could change the steam command line fpr each game and have them launch in bubblewrap. Though I'm not sure how well that would play with graphics drivers. It might be friendly with AMD, but my experience is that NVIDIA is a pain to have play nice with containers.</p>
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<p>There actually are skyrim "MMO" and roleplay servers. I've not tried it, but it comes up on my YouTube homepage a lot. So I initially assumed it was that.</p>
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<p>AI Dungeon played like a text adventure game and ran off GPT-2, later GPT-3 fine-tunes. That might be what you're thinking of.</p>
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<p>How would it even be stopped if you could ban it? It's not like you're banning just one company. Anyone with the resources can still obtain and run the models. Sure, big models like Kimi K3 will be less accessible until a foreign version of Openrouter with no incentive to listen to US law begins offering it. Or they offer it and obfuscate what model it actually is behind codenames.<p>It wouldn't surprise me if that kind of problem is partially why weights are open. Because you can't meaningfully stomp them out completely.</p>
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<p>Much of the internet from the time the training data was initially collected wasn't much different. Consider how much blogspam and listicle SEO/ad optimized content would've been in the training data that is primarily interested in meandering for as long as possible to milk ad views.</p>
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<p>I've used it to help me clean up and reverse malware samples to give the person running it problems. It's very good at taking the obfuscation apart and translating it into something easier to read. I can often get it to completely vibecode string decryption functions for me so I can get what exfils they're using and the like.<p>Doing the same by hand can be really time consuming and difficult depending on how many obfuscation measures are layered on top.</p>
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<p>I have a $20 Claude sub, and the closest I've come to hitting a limit was when I was using it to fight back against some scammers spreading a stealer on discord. I was having Claude decode their webhook strings, and the first time I blew them up with pings to get a job, then just started deleting the hooks from under them when they published new versions.<p>But for standard productivity, I've never come remotely close to hitting a limit.</p>
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<p>I wonder if it's because it got labeled "Mild Violence" whereas the violence in LoZ is considered "Fantasy Violence."<p>Maybe Mild Violence is more commonly applied to more real world violence and therefore scores higher in rating considerations or something. Because that's the only way I can make sense of that labelling.</p>
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<p>In my experience, Kimi just tends to think a lot, with the main thing that takes up a lot of space is it constantly second-guessing itself. I've watched it do paragraph after paragraph of "Wait, actually..." while it stumbled and used a ton of tokens on one small detail of what it was asked to do. Though I also gave GLM 5.2 a task to port some JS code to Python to test it, and in my experience it doesn't second guess as bad as Kimi does, but it really did there. It kept doing web searches and second guessing tons of tiny little things, using $0.25 of API spend in total to port about ~50 lines of JavaScript. It did produce an error the first run, but on second run it gave me a program that ran.<p>I gave Claude Code/Fable the same task and it took significantly less time, but also stumbled on the same error as GLM. I didn't have it fix it though. I was mostly interested in timing differences.<p>I do like open models where I can, but I'm really hoping they get trained to second guess less. Or maybe I just need to prompt them differently. I'm not sure.</p>
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<p>Looking at what movies got away with in the 80s while retaining a rating of "PG" definitely shows we're sliding on what we call acceptable.<p>There are numerous lists online that can be found with a search, but here's one by an IMDB user: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/list/ls020284330/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/list/ls020284330/</a><p>You could get away with some stuff in the 80s and keep PG.</p>
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<p>I suspect it's just random. I tried feeding one of its pawns my Queen and it completely ignored it, choosing to move a knight nearby instead that didn't take the Queen.</p>
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<p>The University of Georgia did a study and came to the conclusion that the Southern accent is fading. Less formally, a word game website did a survey that found the standard New York accent is fadingas well.<p>The Georgia study largely attributed it to migration and people moving more than they used to, with a focus on growing metro areas in the south. Though apparently some younger generations are trying to shed their accents to sound more professional, and the internet is creating a sort of average American accent.<p>Though nobody is worried they'll disappear entirely at the moment that I can find.</p>
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<p>The only way to verify the presence of rabies is to bring in the animal that did the bite. But per the article, they released the responsible bat. Normally what you'd do in this case is the hospital gives you the rabies vaccine anyway just in case, because the alternative is if the animal was rabid, you die.<p>Bats are the most common carriers of rabies, and also you should watch out for any wild animal that's too comfortable getting close to a human. Especially more shy ones like raccoons and such.</p>
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<p>I was in the same boat as a kid. My handwriting is so bad, for the essay portion of the state test we had to take one year, they got an exemption and let me use Notepad to type mine out because they didn't want to risk my grade if the person couldn't read my writing. This was in the mid-2000s.<p>These days I just disclaim to people when I hand them anything handwritten that I'm very aware my writing is terrible, and I will not be offended at all if they have to ask what it says.</p>
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