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Ask HN: Google's chilling effects on expressing democratic dissent

terabytest — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:36:00 +0000

I want to email EU representatives via fightchatcontrol.eu, but I can only do it by sending bulk email from my personal Google account. I'm worried my account could get flagged, or worse, banned, and I'd lose access to my entire digital life.

Is this worry warranted? What do others do about it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822631

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by terabytest in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

terabytest — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:09:38 +0000

As a EU citizen I’m at a loss for what to do about this. I feel that they’re going against any average citizen’s interest. What can we do to make them stop?

New comment by terabytest in "Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new"

terabytest — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:59:33 +0000

We truly are reaching the end times when an article criticizing the use of LLM is in itself pure AI slop.

New comment by terabytest in "Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]"

terabytest — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:59:23 +0000

You’re suggesting flooding the lungs in order to get a scan?

New comment by terabytest in "How information theory saved my word game"

terabytest — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:33:16 +0000

I have the feeling that this article was hurt rather than helped by being written using LLMs. It was really hard to follow, and even though I read it hoping to learn something new, I left feeling more confused than when I started. The feeling while reading was that the prose was trying to hold my hand but had absolutely no empathy for the build up of my understanding over the article. It’s a bit like when, as a child, you’d do homework with your parent and the parent would start saying “don’t you see how it’s obvious that 25/5=5” with no further explanation and a building tone of frustration.

New comment by terabytest in "Printing Gaussian Splats"

terabytest — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:40:02 +0000

What is the 3d printing technique being used here? I can’t intuitively recognize it.

New comment by terabytest in "Iroh 1.0"

terabytest — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:20:13 +0000

Cool! But I'm curious why nobody's gone and published a complete app for multiple platforms? Seems like an obvious next step.

New comment by terabytest in "Iroh 1.0"

terabytest — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:11:21 +0000

Are there any good end-user apps that are supported on a broad set of platforms and use Iroh to support file transfers between e.g. Windows and iOS seamlessly?

New comment by terabytest in "Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models"

terabytest — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:42:17 +0000

I recommend revisiting this comment when you have a son or daughter.

New comment by terabytest in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

terabytest — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:36:22 +0000

Where do you get the money from while the lawsuit is ongoing?

New comment by terabytest in "The Ask"

terabytest — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:18:31 +0000

The atrocious writing style makes it at least obvious this wasn’t written by AI. Silver linings.

New comment by terabytest in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

terabytest — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:01:10 +0000

Wispr Flow is a masterclass in STT. Apple's solution feels like it's from the last century in comparison. Same applies with Apple's TTS when you have ElevenLabs and OpenAI running laps around it. All I need is for my iPhone to do those things natively at the same quality level (because in Apple's walled garden that's the only way to get them usable everywhere).

Ask HN: Is Anthropic doing too much vibe coding?

terabytest — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:38:25 +0000

The Claude app and Claude Code have been an unusable and buggy mess for me lately, has anyone else been experiencing this? Most of my messages get swallowed after sending them or the responses get interrupted or dropped. Sometimes entire conversations disappear from the sidebar only to reappear later. I’ve learnt that when a message appears not to have gone through or have errored midway, it often comes back with a valid response if I wait a bit and then restart the app.

I wonder if it has anything to do with Anthropic eagerly embracing vibe coding.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126435

Points: 9

# Comments: 12

New comment by terabytest in "Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic"

terabytest — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:21:08 +0000

If you can, please take a look at the discussion I started on the repo. https://github.com/saffron-health/libretto/discussions/227#d...

I haven’t used libretto myself yet but I’m excited about having this kind of tool at my disposal as it’s been a need in the past.

New comment by terabytest in "First bikebell against noise-canceling headphones"

terabytest — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:19:02 +0000

Are they selling this anywhere or is it just a marketing gimmick?

New comment by terabytest in "Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic"

terabytest — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:11:37 +0000

Looks awesome, but I wonder if its functionality could be exposed to existing CLIs such as Claude Code instead of having to run it through its own CLI, mainly because I don't want to spend on credits when I've already got a CC subscription.

EDIT: To clarify, I realize there are skill files that can be used with Claude directly, but the snapshot analysis model seems to require a key. Any way to route that effort through Claude Code itself, such as for example exporting the raw snapshot to a file and instructing Claude Code to use a built-in subagent instead?

New comment by terabytest in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

terabytest — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:35:03 +0000

Why did you choose this plan in place of a fixed price plan?

New comment by terabytest in "Moltbook: A Post-Mortem Analysis of the Reality We Ignored"

terabytest — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:15:07 +0000

How is this on the front page? This reads like pure AI slop. It feels like an insult to the reader.

OP: if you thought you had something useful to say, why didn’t you write it in your own words. There’s no useful content I can discern while reading this post.

BMW Commits to Subscriptions Even After Heated Seat Debacle

terabytest — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmw-commits-to-subscriptions-even-after-heated-seat-debacle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897544

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by terabytest in "Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents"

terabytest — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:50:07 +0000

> FastRender may not be a production-ready browser, but it represents over a million lines of Rust code, written in a few weeks, that can already render real web pages to a usable degree

I feel that we continue to miss the forest for the trees. Writing (or generating) a million lines of code in Rust should not count as an achievement in and of itself. What matters is whether those lines build, function as expected (especially in edge cases) and perform decently. As far as I can tell, AI has not been demonstrated to be useful yet at those three things.