Hacker News: ura_yukimitsu

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

ura_yukimitsu — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:46:54 +0000

I obviously don't know about that person's mom, but a lot of hosting platforms and blog providers will do that for you if you don't want to do it yourself.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Berd"

ura_yukimitsu — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:43:37 +0000

I know my office computer isn't very powerful, but holy lag batman! I get between 1 and 10 FPS on that website.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

ura_yukimitsu — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:21:25 +0000

Using the website means the photos are backed up in the cloud which is precisely what they don't want. And in the first place, you shouldn't have to use an ad blocker to turn off something that you should be able to turn off with a setting.

Also huge disagree on websites having better UX than native apps; it may be true more often on PC, and it may also be true on mobile for some apps that are particularly bad, but otherwise I observe the exact opposite of what you're saying.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates"

ura_yukimitsu — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:34:56 +0000

That's a cool idea for a game, but the UX feels quite unintuitive and unpolished to me which discouraged me from playing past the first couple of levels. A few suggestions, if I may:

- You should be able to drag/drop elements from the sidebar onto the canvas

- Wiring shouldn't be a separate tool, and you should be able to drag/drop wires instead of having to click on the two endpoints separately

- You should be able to delete the currently selected gate with the delete key, and the "delete" button in the toolbar should delete the currently selected gate instead of it being a separate tool

- There's not enough contrast between the grid pattern and the background of the canvas

- There seems to be some problems with moving overlapping components

- There's no way to move around the canvas

- The progress doesn't seem to save and there's no way to skip levels

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists"

ura_yukimitsu — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:47:09 +0000

Offloading your own healthcare to a LLM is a thing, forcing that decision onto a child is another altogether. I really hope your child never has serious health issues...

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

ura_yukimitsu — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:07:04 +0000

I'd like to point out the irony of that blog post checking all the boxes of LLM-generated text, and I'm surprised I don't really see anyone talking about it here. Did Tim Ferriss (who's supposed to be an author) use a LLM to write this? If he actually writes like that, perhaps the reason why his sales have gone downhill is that people have noticed they don't need to pay to get the same result.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

ura_yukimitsu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:13:26 +0000

Archived at https://archive.is/DY9F3

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

ura_yukimitsu — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:14:03 +0000

Calling LLMs "bullshit machines" is a reference to a 2024 paper [1] which itself uses the concept of "bullshit" as defined in the essay/book "On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt [2]. The TL;DR is that LLMs are fundamentally bullshit machines because they are only made to generate sentences that sound plausible, but plausible does not always mean true.

[1]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

ura_yukimitsu — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:24:35 +0000

> It was essentially trained by us to be like us, it's partly human

I disagree with that, at best it's a digital skinwalker. I think projecting human intentions and emotions onto a computer program is delusional and dangerous.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

ura_yukimitsu — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:45:30 +0000

Are you seriously equating anti-LLM policies to discrimination against actual people?

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI"

ura_yukimitsu — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:55:20 +0000

You're misrepresenting both what the article says and what I wrote.

The article explicitly mentions that the jobs aren't clearly labeled so they couldn't weigh their options beforehand, that concerns raised by the workers are being dismissed by management, and that several workers have developed mental health problems.

I'm not arguing that these women should be "protected" by taking their jobs away or that they can't make their own choices; of course they're weighing their options and deciding accordingly (the article even mentions that some of them decided to leave). But it's not unreasonable to critique a system where the only choices they have are all horrible in (often more than) one way or another.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI"

ura_yukimitsu — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:51:33 +0000

I really don't think it's fair to minimize someone's struggles just because their situation could be worse. Is only the most miserable person on the planet (by what metric anyway?) allowed to complain about their condition?

I also don't think it's fair to exploit people who are in terrible situations by pushing jobs we don't want onto them, pay them a handful of crumbs, and then say they should be happy with what they get because their neighbor who does another job gets half a handful of crumbs.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI"

ura_yukimitsu — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:15:25 +0000

It's good that you warned them in advance, but I don't think "there are much worse things they could be doing" really is a reason to discard those who are hurt by this as "snowflakes" and the content they're exposed to as "silly and non-threatening." From what you're saying, there's also a big difference between what you were dealing with and what this article is talking about: in your case it was only still images, and only "regular" porn (and I assume they probably had to monitor every image posted if it was "a long time ago" so overall they were not exposed only to that content); in this case they're reviewing videos content including not only porn but also violence and sexual abuse, that was pre-flagged by an AI so with way less rule-abiding content mixed in.