Hacker News: thomasingalls

New comment by thomasingalls in "Claude Opus 5 jailbreak with a 3-word prompt"

thomasingalls — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:21:04 +0000

I've seen opus 5 give hallucinated user responses in the middle of a workflow that's supposed to grill a user about their understanding of a topic. Pretty inconvenient to have the model giving out quiz answers as the quiz giver. Other models don't do this. Seems related.

New comment by thomasingalls in "Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B"

thomasingalls — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:21:58 +0000

Do they have to

New comment by thomasingalls in "Backblaze Announces Five-Year Multi-Exabyte Agreement with CoreWeave"

thomasingalls — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:45:14 +0000

Does this mean I'm not going to be able to store stuff for cheap on backblaze anymore?

New comment by thomasingalls in "Tech CEOs are breaking the law"

thomasingalls — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:57:34 +0000

Yeah, labor law is bad. You tell em

New comment by thomasingalls in "Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI"

thomasingalls — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:22:28 +0000

Gross

New comment by thomasingalls in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

thomasingalls — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:28:01 +0000

Yes actually. After zirp ended, cloud costs got materially more expensive for enough enterprises that there was a good year or so of celebrated "we're moving back on-prem" stories on hn, where companies were announcing savings in the several to tens of millions per year.

New comment by thomasingalls in "EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push"

thomasingalls — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:43:36 +0000

what i personally don't like about privacy-preserving age verification is the single subsequent law change that would criminalize individuals for "improperly" doing age verification.

it'd be so easy to do, and would immediately make obsolete any measures taken digitally to preserve privacy

New comment by thomasingalls in "Our principles"

thomasingalls — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:08:33 +0000

The more specific the better

New comment by thomasingalls in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

thomasingalls — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:54:50 +0000

Not having a choice is not the same as consent

New comment by thomasingalls in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

thomasingalls — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:14:03 +0000

Are you kidding right now? Have you seen what's happening with ICE in the US? EU countries are just one effective social media campaign cycle away from the same policies. "It can't happen here" is foolish thinking.

New comment by thomasingalls in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

thomasingalls — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:12:03 +0000

Just because the government is not out to get you at this exact moment doesn't mean that a future government won't be. Surveillance capacity seems to be a one way ratchet.

New comment by thomasingalls in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

thomasingalls — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:09:53 +0000

Europe needs a private European identity provider. Until this happens, Europe will remain a technological vassal state of the US.

These are expensive products, you need depth of expertise and experience to create a system that could compete with the likes of gmail and Microsoft and ... so it's not a wonder that this hasn't happened yet. But pretending like this can be a public service is foolish (too high stakes ~~if~~ when it gets hacked), and pretending like existing providers that offer identity and email are sufficient is equally foolish. Google and ms and apple etc all offer the basics for free, and this is necessary for mass adoption. It will be an expensive project. But necessary, if the eu wants strategic autonomy.

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Oh and requiring a us based account is not even the most egregious part of this proposal, ffs

New comment by thomasingalls in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

thomasingalls — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:28:04 +0000

Need a proper mobile os alternative

New comment by thomasingalls in "Show HN: We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA"

thomasingalls — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:02:41 +0000

Oh my god, what are we doing

New comment by thomasingalls in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

thomasingalls — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:15:23 +0000

Touch this grass to prove you're not a robot

New comment by thomasingalls in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

thomasingalls — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:07:25 +0000

let's try to keep to credible sources here eh

New comment by thomasingalls in "Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice"

thomasingalls — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:50:58 +0000

"can the bot army push average opinion x% in this innocuous topic?" it could very easily be a/b testing a propaganda system.

New comment by thomasingalls in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

thomasingalls — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:22:24 +0000

I'm not convinced that this whole discussion section isn't astroturf... some real out there opinions popping up in here

New comment by thomasingalls in "MIT's new fine-tuning method lets LLMs learn new skills without losing old ones"

thomasingalls — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:11:02 +0000

https://arxiv.org/html/2601.19897v1

Direct link to the paper for those who don't want to wade through the ads

New comment by thomasingalls in "Dental hygiene key to predicting mortality, Japanese researchers find"

thomasingalls — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:07:35 +0000

Bad teeth also harbor bacteria that have been shown to exacerbate cardiovascular disease, at the very least. Not saying this article is claiming that as a casual mechanism, but diseased teeth are known to cause other systems to also become diseased.