<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>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:17:01 +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 "Mozilla Thunderbolt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They could start getting some of that goodwill back by not paying their CEO a multi-million dollar salary and opening donations to actually help fund Firefox.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:29:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47794705</link><dc:creator>techjamie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47794705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47794705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by techjamie in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm surprised at how few comments there are about just how creepy this is. Going to a university is not implied consent for random people to throw up searchable websites with your name and face, let alone allowing random, anonymous other people to attach anything they want to it in a comment section.<p>I get it he was copying <i>The Social Network</i>, but just because it's been done before doesn't make it better now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:27:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665715</link><dc:creator>techjamie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by techjamie in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI music is generally not going to be copyrightable unless they can show genuine human creativity was involved. So if a song is 100% AI, you could just go around performing it or straight up selling copies yourself and there's nothing* they could do about it. Though I do wonder if a human writes the lyrics, but AI generates all the music parts, if it becomes sufficiently human for copyright. Because the lyrics at that point would be actual creativity.<p>* I am not a lawyer, and this won't stop them from possibly trying to sue you or even winning depending on the situation. Or trying to prove there is human ingenuity involved. Do at your own peril.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:33:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664120</link><dc:creator>techjamie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by techjamie in "H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kinda happens everywhere. "I'll send it to you as an MP4" versus "I'll send it to you as an h264+aac"</p>
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<p>I highly recommend using the "Not interested" button on anything you don't want to see. It's actually pretty effective at pruning unwanted things from your recommendations. If I get anything political or slop related, it gets the not interested button.<p>I also have a second channel for language learning where I used it to prune out any videos in English. It's not perfect and recommends a few still, but they get more rare as time passes.</p>
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<p>This was something Louis Rossman suggested at one point. Small claims courts don't typically allow lawyers and require a direct representative. And small claims courts are fairly cheap financially and judicially to file in.<p>I wager such an attack would be very costly since they'd likely be ordered to pay the court cost of around $100 per case if they left it to default. But if they didn't, they now need to take an employee from somewhere to represent them instead of doing their actual job, which is also costly. So getting even 100 people to do this simultaneously could cost upwards of $10,000 to the target company.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:48:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614450</link><dc:creator>techjamie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by techjamie in "Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A tale older than the use of GLP-1. People do X to lose weight, they hit a target weight, declare victory and continue the habits that got them in trouble in the first place. You can go a little bit heavier on the meals and loosen the exercise if you desire, but you still have to keep yourself within maintenance threshold or the weight comes back.<p>GLP-1 masks the problem and people don't realize their actions aren't ideal once the mask is removed.</p>
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<p>> Combined with cryptographic signatures for humans<p>What happens when the human gives an agent access to said signature? Then you fall back on traditional anti-bot techniques and you're right back where you started.</p>
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<p>Because they pay API costs to send the search to SerpApi. I forget exactly what the cost was for them per-search and I'm having little luck finding it, but I know they've published that cost before and I know it's more than a whole cent. By comparison, running a good but not top-tier model to answer the same question might run a small fraction of a cent. Cheaper than a follow up query by the user.</p>
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<p>> Similar monoculture of global thought is happening in all fields.<p>Thereby removing yet more interesting things to see in the world through the spread of hyper-optimized inoffensive blandness. In the same way that restaurants are slowly turning into the same set of grey boxes with little of note distinguishing each.</p>
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<p>Yup, see how long it lasts when companies in California can't install anything on their servers because they get Rejected for Legal Reasons responses to their package requests.<p>Because the "store" never confirmed that Cloudflare is 18.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:36:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243513</link><dc:creator>techjamie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by techjamie in "I Used Claude to File My Taxes for Free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did something similar with OpenClaw (using claude) and my SO's old work. They were going to deduct money off her final check without written consent, after she quit, and were also late on paying her at all. I told OpenClaw the basic situation, and I told it to research applicable laws and cite it's sources.<p>Once I verified what it found was good, I had it write a demand letter specifying all the statutes that were being violated, and what remedies we would be entitled to if we had to chase it up.<p>She got a phone call within an hour of delivery saying her pay is being sent to payroll with every penny intact.<p>Also: I don't give openclaw access to any of my personal info, I literally just tell it to research stuff for me and take advantage of it's ability to store stuff in files.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:03:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239710</link><dc:creator>techjamie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by techjamie in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My girlfriend migrated to Claude from Gemini and she's not techie at all. She says she likes the answers Claude gives a lot more in general because Gemini is too dramatic. Claude is definitely beyond the tech sphere.</p>
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<p>Incel doesn't usually pertain to <i>every</i> virgin male out there. It's typically with a connotation for a certain type of male. Usually the more narcissistic sort that blame their own failings on women and take it out misogynistically.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:39:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208221</link><dc:creator>techjamie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by techjamie in "Tell HN: 3 months ago we feared AI was useless. Now we fear it will take our job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> [...] the same people claim that AI is both a bubble but also fear job losses from AI. But also think that the billionaires get rich out of this. How all of these things can happen together, I don't know.<p>One can believe the thing is a bubble, while also acknowledging the existential fear that if it isn't, then it might come and basically ruin your life. It's a balancing scale, and one side is weighted much more heavily than the other. Plus, as we've already seen, some executives are really jumping on the bandwagon and using AI as an excuse for massive layoffs, and finding a job in the current market unless you're particularly valuable is difficult.<p>So in that last case, AI can be a useless bubble that takes your job anyway because of trigger-happy CEOs.</p>
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<p>Ironically we live in a time that, overall, is probably better for artists than the world any of those guys grew up in. People have always valued art but not the artists, and many artists through history, including the famous ones, died broke with their works only posthumously attaining value.<p>These days, through commissions, art is a much more viable profession than it ever was.</p>
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<p>Burger King already was doing this at their drive thru to check if employees were saying keywords like "you rule" and determining the customer's mood. Also saving a recording of the interaction for who knows how long. BobDaHacker got into their system with an auth bypass and exposed it[1]. It's very draconian.<p>[1] <a href="https://archive.is/fMYQp" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/fMYQp</a> (BK DMCA'd the original article offline[2])<p>[2] <a href="https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/" rel="nofollow">https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/</a></p>
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<p>The ironic part really is that the average middle management job is probably among the more simple jobs you can automate away with AI at scale. Tell it your metrics, your targets, and other relevant info, and it can feed directions down to employees at scale.</p>
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<p>I understand not restarting from a stop unprompted. There are simply too many situations on the road where automatically moving from a stop may be undesirable in case the driver isn't paying attention. Stop signs, four way stops, yield situations, probably more. Safer overall to make it an intentioned action by the driver.</p>
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<p>My SO did IF and strict calorie counting for around 2 weeks to a momth, and it drastically reduced their appetite to something more akin to a normal level. Now, they can barely finish a large meal at McDonald's without leftovers.<p>They've cut quite a bit of weight since then and mostly have just focused on keeping their appetite low, and eating healthier more fibrous meals in general.</p>
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