Hacker News: telotortium

" We care deeply about your privacy and respect customer choice"

telotortium — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:13:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/spacexai/status/2076692402442846289

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899613

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by telotortium in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

telotortium — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:24:44 +0000

What did he scrub? Looks like an account with posts to me

New comment by telotortium in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

telotortium — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:56:31 +0000

> Every mile of road is an operating expense.

Has, not is. Clearly you didn’t take Intro to Object-Oriented Programming in CS.

New comment by telotortium in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

telotortium — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:31:37 +0000

Important to note that `~` SSH commands work only right after you press Enter - it doesn’t trigger everywhere you press `~`.

Also EnableEscapeCommandline fortunately only affects `~C` - the all-important `~.` to kill a hung SSH session still works with it disabled.

New comment by telotortium in "Iroh 1.0"

telotortium — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:08:48 +0000

Headscale exists, not sure what the difference is in practice.

Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting

telotortium — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:45:36 +0000

Article URL: https://gwern.net/llm-catapult

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430282

Points: 50

# Comments: 16

New comment by telotortium in "Top AI CEOs Call for Law Protecting Against Biological Weapons"

telotortium — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:21:26 +0000

The actual ask (from https://screendna.org):

> we call on legislators to make screening of orders for synthetic nucleic acids — and the equipment needed to make them — mandatory

I’m guessing that the analogy would be to legislation that requires screening buyers of chemicals that could be precursor to regulated or illegal drugs.

New comment by telotortium in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

telotortium — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:43:23 +0000

If you only need to keep Office around to occasionally edit a file while preserving formatting, there’s now another option in 2026 - get a coding agent to do it for you. I’ve had Codex make substantial edits to financial model spreadsheets a few times, and it knows enough about how to modify office XML files to do that work correctly. Occasionally Excel didn’t like some of the files at first, but the view-only version of Office for Mac works well enough to allow Codex to discover and fix any incompatibility. Between agents and LibreOffice, no need for Office anymore.

Adding Reflection to C

telotortium — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:55:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.davidpriver.com/adding-reflection-to-C.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309858

Points: 15

# Comments: 5

New comment by telotortium in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

telotortium — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:10:00 +0000

I mean, did you check the IPs and make sure they’re from OpenAI? Obviously a fly-by-night AI company is going to set their User Agent to be from a big player.

The (Fake) Long Decline of Fertility

telotortium — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:30:58 +0000

Article URL: https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/the-fake-long-decline-of-fertility

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194661

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by telotortium in "The Aperiodic Table"

telotortium — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:48:52 +0000

I care more if AI was used to churn out a bunch of slop writing, mostly because of the lack of an authorial voice, which causes most of the writing to suck. Code is different - I have never cared about how much or how little effort went into a coding project, unless the point is supposed to be a puzzle - so I literally don’t care if people use AI for their projects, only if the idea behind the demo is cool.

Journey to King Edward VIII Falls, Tallest Waterfall in Guyana

telotortium — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:54:53 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/bronzebust/status/2056038216994529329

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172073

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by telotortium in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

telotortium — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:02:12 +0000

There have been arguments that the wealth tax proposal has loopholes that would allow it to be extended to much lower levels of wealth without a further amendment. More importantly, if that’s the way the state’s politics are trending, it might be worth it to leave and come back if the threat goes away.

Who knows, maybe one of the band members invested in a successful startup, or is an LP for a VC that did. That’s not unheard of for the entertainment industry. Most people wouldn’t have pegged Ashton Kutcher as an investing genius, but he has been highly successful.

New comment by telotortium in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

telotortium — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:34:50 +0000

They just sold the rights to the recordings though, as the article states.

New comment by telotortium in "Gemini API File Search is now multimodal"

telotortium — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:43:36 +0000

Ironically, they probably could if they used Codex or Claude Code. Those harnesses and models are good enough to do that these days (since late last year, and getting better since then). However, it seems that DeepMind and no one else at Google has access to either of these.

New comment by telotortium in "Where the goblins came from"

telotortium — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:18:19 +0000

> However if my memory got reset every hour, I certainly might tell the same story or use the same metaphor over and over.

All people repeat the same stories and phraseology to some extent, and some people are as bad or worse than LLM chat bots in their predictability. I wonder if the latter have weak long-term memory on the scale of months to years, even if they remember things well from decades ago.

New comment by telotortium in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

telotortium — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:09:11 +0000

Nah, the good LLMs can generally web search and read documentation well enough that the fact that pre-training isn’t up to the minute is not a serious concern. Badly-documented projects are more of a concern, but they weren’t likely to get much pre-AI usage either.

Nicholas Pardini on real inflation vs. CPI and financial repression [video]

telotortium — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:13:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZEj88sQp4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828566

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by telotortium in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

telotortium — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:41:34 +0000

Denial of service isn’t worth that much generally, I think - you can’t use it to directly steal data or to install a payload for later exploitation. There are usually generic ways to mitigate denial of service as well - IP blocking and the like.