Hacker News: urbnspacecowboy

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall"

urbnspacecowboy — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:44:32 +0000

Think about how "simple" it is for this someone to rip off artwork, and then think about how "simple" it is for this someone to rip off you.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well"

urbnspacecowboy — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:54:32 +0000

> Now the games industry will try it again for real

Will? It's already happening:

* Amazon Luna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Luna

* Nvidia GeForce Now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_Now

* Xbox Cloud Gaming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Cloud_Gaming

We keep having to learn this same lesson.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court"

urbnspacecowboy — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:39:36 +0000

Yes, and then children grow up and realize that how "other people" act on "other people's opinions" has real direct and indirect effects on their lives.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude"

urbnspacecowboy — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:24:36 +0000

> Anthropic states that these rules may be modified for “contracts with certain governmental customers … if, in Anthropic’s judgment, the contractual use restrictions and applicable safeguards are adequate to mitigate the potential harms.” The company has previously contracted with the US military.

So, you're still not safe from the spooks, but the spooks are safe from you. Thanks Anthropic!

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps"

urbnspacecowboy — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:49:02 +0000

Good question! I've looked into this a bit myself and I think the best overall match is Akzidenz-Grotesk Condensed, albeit not exact: https://www.myfonts.com/products/condensed-regular-akzidenz-...

The G is different (look at the lower right corner), the 0 (zero) has a slash which looks custom, and the Q is very different (it looks like a letter O with a piece of another O added for the tail).

And yes, since it's the standard comment about fonts, this is a commercial font that costs an arm and a leg.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "MiMo v2.6"

urbnspacecowboy — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:05:58 +0000

This "no, Virginia, they aren't pelicanmaxxing" article is what broodbucket is probably thinking of: https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html

In any case, pelicanmaxxing comments without any further proof or evidence probably fall under the "Please don't post shallow dismissals" guideline.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Measure internet censorship"

urbnspacecowboy — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:17:28 +0000

> old Twitter decided to censor a NYPost article

Again, which article, about what subject?

howunfortunate didn't answer, just deflected:

> Are there NYPost articles you feel people should be prevented from DMing? Or posting, for that matter?

qerghnui's reply was flagged to death:

> Why do you refuse to answer the question?

> The story you are referring to involved the New York Post or its affiliates breaking in to Hunter Biden's laptop (a felony) and publishing his personal correspondence, complete with unredacted phone numbers and email addresses. This violated Twitter's policies against doxxing and dissemination of hacked materials. Characterizing this as censorship is misleading; the story contained no newsworthy information and its publication violated longstanding Twitter policy. It's hard to imagine Twitter functioning without such a policy. I don't see any reason the New York Post should get away with violating it just because it claims to be a newspaper.

> The Wall Street Journal, a Murdoch rag like the Post and hardly known for its liberal bias, declined to publish this information, which is why it wound up in the disreputable Post instead. Respectable journalists have ethical standards. Act like thugs, get treated like thugs.

> P.S. Twitter is free to make whatever editorial decisions it pleases. Trying to make them publish something they don't want to publish is compelled speech. Compelling speech in the name of freedom of speech is hypocritical.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Qwen Image 2.1"

urbnspacecowboy — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:49:50 +0000

> I'm willing to bet a nonzero amount of its training material is GPL

Image data?

> GPL licensed instead and use it however the fuck I want

GPL is not a "use it however the fuck I want" license. Maybe you're thinking of the WTFPL?

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Measure internet censorship"

urbnspacecowboy — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:33:00 +0000

> old Twitter decided to censor a NYPost article

Which article, about what subject?

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

urbnspacecowboy — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:43:42 +0000

If someone discovered AGI for real, they're going to broadcast it in a lot more places than one social media network. The AI revolution will not be tweeted.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

urbnspacecowboy — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:09:23 +0000

Experts in my field don't use Xitter, they use arXiv. Experts in my hobby don't use Xitter, they use forums and databases.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly"

urbnspacecowboy — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:27:59 +0000

This is inordinately harsh, though I agree with wanting to just play the original Amiga game. It's available at the following link from all the way at the bottom of the article: https://bithunch.itch.io/babylonian-twins

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks"

urbnspacecowboy — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:13:34 +0000

N.B. quickarxiv.org just redirects to alphaxiv.org, so the following (i.e. change "ar" to "alpha") works just as well:

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.29530

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

urbnspacecowboy — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:37:52 +0000

Obvious follow-ups: How does the A/B test choose between A and B, and how can it be manipulated into choosing A instead of B (or vice versa)? It's software, it has to be deterministic at some level.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "TwitterWebViewer also no longer in operation, following a request from X Corp"

urbnspacecowboy — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:46:09 +0000

Not good enough. Creating an account still leads to the "Your account was suspended for reasons, now you gotta dox yourself" dance. See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442907

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Nebula Sans"

urbnspacecowboy — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:00:50 +0000

> Hacker News gets mad... And then they...

Goomba fallacy strikes again! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Nebula Sans"

urbnspacecowboy — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:22:44 +0000

(2025)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591225

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

urbnspacecowboy — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:26:26 +0000

Is Xitter still doing the "Your account was suspended for reasons, now you gotta dox yourself" dance? (EDIT: Yes, according to debazel's reply) That'd be a reason why "You could make an X account" isn't a reasonable suggestion.

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

urbnspacecowboy — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:11:16 +0000

> The law determines that public space can't be used for any sexual activity.

Follow-up question: Does an enclosed stall count as "public space"?

New comment by urbnspacecowboy in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

urbnspacecowboy — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:58:09 +0000

And then some incriminating photo is made with your forged signature. "Not like that, not like that!"