<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: transcriptase</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=transcriptase</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:14:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=transcriptase" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>We believe that the user experience comes first<p>I’ll believe that when YouTube gives me the ability to block certain channels versus “not interested” and “don’t recommend channel” buttons that do absolutely nothing close to what I want.<p>Or a thousand other things, but that one in particular has been top of mind recently.</p>
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<p>For the uninformed what’s the deal with scribd?</p>
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<p>I have no idea if it’s still true but it used to be the case that you had 3 choices with a Wordpress install and even a couple plugins:<p>1) Have a part time job updating it and plugins, making sure you weren’t introducing vulns at every step<p>2) Leave it as is and hope that no vulns are discovered for your particular version or plugin versions<p>3) Have things auto-update and pray that your plugins don't get sold or compromised and backdoor your site</p>
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<p>Indeed. The GSA with 10k employees is going to fall apart without the 40k unused winzip licences DOGE so cruelly took away from them in their senseless spree of madness.</p>
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<p>Yeah but at least a dozen Microsoft employees went on a seemingly scripted blitz on X about how they’re ready to start listening to feedback and…<p>* checks notes *<p>Only have copilot shoehorned into most things instead of everything. And some shit about windows developers which isn’t exactly going to fix the glaring issues with the OS itself.</p>
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<p>Vancouver did the same thing. Now remaining parking is just filled with luxury vehicles with MSRPs that indicate you could charge $100 an hour and they wouldn’t care.<p>Nice of the wealthy politicians to get the riffraff off the road so the guy driving a Brabus G-Wagon, Rolls, or 911 Turbo can commute and park in peace. The poors can sit on packed busses with methheads.</p>
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<p>It does.</p>
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<p>“Canada is doing just fine”<p>Found the federal govt employee or boomer who bought real estate in the 90s</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:58:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393427</link><dc:creator>transcriptase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>7500 books a day… what percentage are AI slop? Half the non-fiction and children’s books I see are clearly just free tier ChatGPT with poorly generated AI imagery.</p>
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<p>Would a PhD student incorporate something into their model that flipped their results from agreeing to disagreeing with the premise that has not only practically become a religion, but forms the foundation for more and more funding flowing into their field each year?<p>Would they really want to risk being basically excommunicated from their area of research for daring to provide ammo to “climate change deniers”?</p>
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<p>“The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.”</p>
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<p>Sam must not be aware of what happened to any business or foreign nation/leader considered outwardly friendly to the first Trump administration when the democrats regained control in 2020.</p>
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<p>Now go find a mirror and read your post out loud to yourself, slowly.</p>
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<p>ChatGPT was brutal for it a couple years ago. You could tell when it would go into “lazy mode” during peak usage periods.<p>Suddenly instead of writing the code you asked for it would give some generic bullet points telling you to find a library to do what you asked for and read the documentation.</p>
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<p>It’s comical that Microsoft inserted Copilot buttons throughout all of their productivity suite, and none of them are able to do the bare minimum that you would hope for.<p>“Oh cool, copilot is in excel! I’m going to ask it a question about the data in the spreadsheet that it’s literally appearing beside natively in-app, or for help with a formula!”<p>“Wait what, it’s saying it can’t see anything or read from the currently displayed worksheet? Why is it inside the application then? Why would I want an outdated version of ChatGPT with no useful context or ability to read/do anything inside all my Office applications?”</p>
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<p>Mentioning AI in an earnings call means fuck all when what they’re actually referring to is toggling on the permissions for borderline useless copilot features across their enterprise 365 deployments or being convinced to buy some tool that’s actually just a wrapper around API calls to a cheap/outdated OpenAI model with a hidden system prompt.<p>Yeah, if your Fortune 500 workplace is claiming to be leveraging AI because it has a few dozen relatively tech illiterate employees using it to write their em dash/emoji riddled emails about wellness sessions and teams invites for trivia events… there’s not going to be a noticeable uptick in productivity.<p>The real productivity comes from tooling that no sufficiently risk adverse pubco IS department is going to let their employees use, because when all of their incentives point to saying no to installing anything ever, the idea of giving the permissions required for agentic AI to do anything useful is a non-starter.</p>
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<p>That was symbolic. Europe hasn’t produced anything except regulations, the fumes of mismanaged luxury brands, and cured meats for nearly 30 years. Nobody on either side was actually impacted.</p>
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<p>Exactly. You make it more attractive to do business with someone domestically by increasing the cost of doing business with nations that subsidize their exports or undercut your companies with slave labour or lax environmental regulations. Over the long term, domestic capacity either grows or emerges to take advantage of business models that were unprofitable due to impossibly cheap imports before.</p>
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<p>How what vanished? The concerted effort to censor it on social media and dismiss it everywhere else as a hoax? 51 individuals in the “intelligence community” put their names to a letter saying it was Russian disinformation, which was used as evidence that it should be suppressed.<p>If you don’t realize now that you were lied to even though it’s trivial to confirm now that all the institutions that lied to you have since quietly issued retractions, corrections, or since wrote that they were misled…<p>Russia had 0 involvement. The laptop and all the controversial material and evidence of corruption on it were legitimate. Wanting to believe otherwise is doing yourself a disservice, even if it means conceding that those you disagree with aren’t always lying.</p>
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<p>Yes if there’s anything Trump has been known for since the 80s it’s his sterling positive reputation and putting others in the spotlight.<p>C’mon… there’s no reason to hallucinate information like ChatGPT circa 2022.</p>
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