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New comment by totallygeeky in "Suno and the Myth-Making of Making Music"

totallygeeky — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:39:10 +0000

Another piece from my blog. I have a lot to say about Suno, but I think their view of human creativity is unfortunate and their view on what "music" is is depressingly narrow. It speaks to the larger AI industry and how it sees various fields as things to be optimized until the human is no longer involved. There's much to be gained in slowing things down, re-evaluating, and just sitting with an idea. I hope some part of it resonates with you.

Suno and the Myth-Making of Making Music

totallygeeky — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:36:41 +0000

Article URL: https://illegal.solutions/posts/suno_interview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185255

Points: 2

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New comment by totallygeeky in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

totallygeeky — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:18:19 +0000

Please stop ascribing emotion to code that passably resembles speech.

These things do not think, nor feel, nor dream. We're cratering the world's economy because people can't stop trying to fuck the computer they stuck googly eyes on.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Website streamed live directly from a model"

totallygeeky — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:41:11 +0000

I truly don't understand how people get excited for any of these products. They're comically unreliable, so usage implies you don't know how wrong it is or don't care.

Asked it about how to count, half of the diagram was incomprehensible/wrong. Asked it about cryptocurrency basics, again, the way the information made no sense and several points were vague to the point of being incorrect. Asked it about the seahorse emoji, it made up a shit wholesale. Entirely fabricated page.

This is what we're reshaping the economy and computing world around?

New comment by totallygeeky in "Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers"

totallygeeky — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:39:42 +0000

Definitely my take-away as well. I think the paradox of tolerance is just being understood more as they grow up in these conditions. You have people advocating for eradication of entire populations, some are going to see that as worth stopping at all costs.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

totallygeeky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:35:24 +0000

I like the project! Echoing that I'm seeing issues with anything from GovDeals surfacing in my area, I know there's a couple hundred auctions and only GSA Auctions came up.

Additionally, there's definitely some funkiness when it comes to how it handles current price/bid, I don't know if I saw any that were actually reporting the correct price it was currently at, always was under reported.

Thanks for sharing though, going to keep an eye on this!

New comment by totallygeeky in "Alright, Music Streaming Services Suck. Now What?"

totallygeeky — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:24:59 +0000

This is my blog illegal solutions, today. I wrote up a brief guide on alternatives from the big players in music streaming, for those dissatisfied with where we're at. I tried to cover most major cases, but if there's other considerations you're wondering about, free to ask!

Alright, Music Streaming Services Suck. Now What?

totallygeeky — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:24:59 +0000

Article URL: https://illegal.solutions/posts/streaming_sucks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457738

Points: 3

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New comment by totallygeeky in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

totallygeeky — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:14:02 +0000

For anyone looking for a spotify alternative, please join me in making a better, self-hosted spotify!

1.) Buy music when you can, and when you can't, pirate!

2.) Run Gonic(1)! (or whatever you want, I'm not in charge of what you do at the end of the day, but Gonic is a.) very light, and b.) a subsonic(2) server, so it's compatible with anything that supports that family of services)

2a.) How you run it is up to preference, I have a NAS that runs mine, you can also run it off something like Pikapods(3), a VPS (you know what a VPS is), or off your own desktop/laptop/raspberry pi, who cares.

3.) Download a subsonic compatible player, which is much more open to preferences, but I highly suggest Symfonium(4)

4.) Enjoy music streaming without ads, limits, or artists you don't like!

(1) https://github.com/sentriz/gonic

(2) https://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

(3) https://www.pikapods.com/

(4) https://symfonium.app/

to be clear, i have no relation to any of these products, outside of supporting the development of gonic and donating to symfonium. if anyone is interested I can do a more in depth write up of how I personally manage my stuff, but it's not much more complicated than this, just with a TB+ of music in a folder.

New comment by totallygeeky in "Let's Get Physical"

totallygeeky — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:21:13 +0000

Pentesting seems like a hoot, love to see these stories!

Ask HN: LLM Poisoning Resources

totallygeeky — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:24:35 +0000

I'm sure this will get some pushback, but I was wondering if anyone had resources on how to integrate traps/tar pits into websites, llm prompting via hidden text, pushing bad data to llms and the like.

I have found a few different types of recommended approaches, such as:

- https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypas...

- tHe SpONgeBoB MetHOd

- https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/

I'm looking for more or some guidance on how to combine methods to really create something noxious.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650894

Points: 4

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