Hacker News: user_7832

New comment by user_7832 in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

user_7832 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:17:41 +0000

You're giving too much credit to people. The folks who run an LLM council aren't the ones blindly copy pasting things.

There's responsible AI use (which I think you - and I, and many people here) do, and the "I don't care, I've outsourced my brain to OpenAI" type of people.

New comment by user_7832 in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

user_7832 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:45:44 +0000

I'd been saying "there's geopolitical/hidden reasons" for ages. The very first one for me was when Apple did that CSAM stunt. Fortunately the outrage was enough for them to peddle back, but it was such an out-of-left-field thing to do that I struggle to imagine 3 letter agencies weren't involved.

In this case (where Apple has power), my guess would be more along the lines of "Apple's found a lot of vulns and are ready to patch it; agencies offered a concession in exchange (and either arm twisted EU and/or gave them access to the same vulns)".

The funniest thing is there's no reason for any of this to be wrong. Individual parts have been public knowledge for a while, and putting them together doesn't take a lot of logic.

Fun reading, if you haven't read it already:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/apple...

New comment by user_7832 in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

user_7832 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:15:34 +0000

That's a fascinating (if not somewhat disappointing) thing to learn!

To be honest I'm not a Bible scholar, I had asked claude for the full version of "ask and you shall receive" (apparently Mathew 7:7). I guess Claude somehow knew this KJV copyright thing perhaps? Still bizzare nonetheless to learn.

New comment by user_7832 in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

user_7832 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:10:46 +0000

Oh, for sure. I'm well aware about lyrics copyright, or how even google iirc was sued after a company purposely put wrong lyrics and could prove google was scraping it.

I'm not doubting the law.

What I am saying, is, when a user uploads a screenshot of lyrics and goes "hey can you translate this please?", the LLM shouldn't go out of its way to make a hue and cry as if it's being asked on how to rob a bank while murdering baby kittens.

New comment by user_7832 in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

user_7832 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:54:41 +0000

Oh, and if that wasn't enough, I've had Claude refuse to cite the freaking Bible.

The famously copyrighted piece of text that definitely isn't intended to have its word spread.

New comment by user_7832 in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

user_7832 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:53:28 +0000

I've asked claude for a translation of a song with Brazilian Portuguese lyrics, and claude has very helpfully gone out of its way to say that due to legal reasons, it will never share the actual lyrics with me.

It's fun when you want to know what the lyrics are to a song and get treated like a criminal.

New comment by user_7832 in "_for-sale DNS records"

user_7832 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:15:29 +0000

> Especially, if your domain is older than the trademark.

My understanding is that trademarks are about the term being recognised "in common", while a ® is once you pay money to your govt's department for the fancy paper. Hence, if you registered .com and sold said cool named game, you already have a trademark simply because you're the author. (Of course, money for lawyers and proving things in court isn't free, but you have legal grounds to stand on nonetheless.)

New comment by user_7832 in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

user_7832 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:20:15 +0000

It's also an amazing option on the Google app on the iPad.

Yeah sure, let me just shake my freaking massive tablet when I have feedback. What next, shake your 16" MacBook every time you find a bug? You'll have a better chance of quashing a physical bug than a digital bug at that point.

New comment by user_7832 in "Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU"

user_7832 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:57:15 +0000

Tangential/meta: Holy shit, I've never seen a thread where almost half the comments are dead (and LLM written), especially for a post that's (currently) at 86 points and 20 comments (4x ratio is "pretty good quality" post signal generally for me).

New comment by user_7832 in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

user_7832 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:55:06 +0000

One fun fact that I coincidentally happen to know is Agnikul's office is actually very nice/fancy. They've got like an Aperture Science (or portal) theme going on, with white panelling and recessed sci fi style lights.

Oh, and everyone gets a white herman miller chair (or a very good clone).

New comment by user_7832 in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

user_7832 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:15:59 +0000

> This isn't required either. Of course there's an xlcd for that: https://xkcd.com/936/

Oh, I'm well aware (with the concept and comic both). My passwords that I set for myself almost always are like that. It's just that I wasn't sure if OP was aware of it, due to what their site was asking.

New comment by user_7832 in "John C. Dvorak has died"

user_7832 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:06:08 +0000

It was a bad joke, a .py and an apostrophe character reminded me of an SQL injection escape.

...Yeah I don't work in SQL if it wasn't obvious lol

New comment by user_7832 in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

user_7832 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:10:46 +0000

Small feedback: the "create password" requires a symbol too, which Google's password manager by default does not use. I'm fairly sure a double-digit-level alphanumeric jumble is sufficient to be a password (or at least, Google thinks so). Great idea nonetheless!

New comment by user_7832 in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

user_7832 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:05:09 +0000

LLMs fail in such bizzare, obscure methods (to the average observer) at times. Sometimes even simple questions ("who was that x person who was super famous I'm thinking of") type questions fail terribly.

The more vague and non committal and hand-wavey and subjective the field for AI to answer, the better the results (imo).

New comment by user_7832 in "John C. Dvorak has died"

user_7832 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:13:33 +0000

Unfortunately python scripts turn out to be not as vulnerable to character escaping exploits.

Character escape, in this context, of course, refers to the keys themselves flying out of the keyboard, this being a hardware product and all.

New comment by user_7832 in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

user_7832 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:18:05 +0000

That's racist!

(See kids, it is possible to fight memes/racism with memes! And well... yeah, this really is racist.)

New comment by user_7832 in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

user_7832 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:16:57 +0000

If a women has starch masks on her body does that mean she has been pargnet before.?

New comment by user_7832 in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

user_7832 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:04:31 +0000

I'm not sure why some comments here are so pessimistic. I was grinning ear to ear while seeing the video. You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? And the model is at least as free as beer?

To quote the lyrics/meme, we used to pray for times like this. This is what robotics should be used for.

New comment by user_7832 in "Reading Between the Dots: Decoding Hidden Computation Across Filler Tokens"

user_7832 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:14:36 +0000

Tweet: https://x.com/kaleybrauer/status/2078185882926846044

https://xcancel.com/kaleybrauer/status/2078185882926846044

Explanatory image:

https://x.com/kaleybrauer/status/2078185882926846044/photo/1

New comment by user_7832 in "Reading Between the Dots: Decoding Hidden Computation Across Filler Tokens"

user_7832 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:13:19 +0000

(To quote one of the authors)

If you ask a frontier LLM a multi-hop reasoning question, e.g., "Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in (1900 + Mozart's age when he died)?", it usually can't answer correctly immediately (no thinking)

BUT if you ask the same question & append 300 dots, suddenly it can answer? (Because the LLM starts thinking "during" the dots).