Hacker News: voidUpdate

New comment by voidUpdate in "Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD"

voidUpdate — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:15:15 +0000

Looks like it's just dithered pixel art. The JS in the page isn't obfuscated, and I'm not an expert but it looks like the image is being dynamically generated, and then there's a bayer dithering with some extra random jitter

New comment by voidUpdate in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

voidUpdate — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:23:33 +0000

No, and that's not what bluesky is doing

New comment by voidUpdate in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

voidUpdate — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:46:53 +0000

They don't respond to it. It simply says "this button is part of sensitive content", and the OS itself hides the sensitive content, revealing the image below it

New comment by voidUpdate in "A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'"

voidUpdate — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:10:27 +0000

"practically finished and ready to go" is a bit of an overstatement. They made some holes in the ground, and did preliminary research and manufacturing, but it was heavily mismanaged and fantastically over budget, so congress killed it

New comment by voidUpdate in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

voidUpdate — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:57:19 +0000

That's what bluesky is doing in this case. It is showing the button on an area that is "invisible to screenshots", and the butterfly is behind it, so it shows through when a screenshot is taken

New comment by voidUpdate in "The Median Voter Is a Maoist"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:42:20 +0000

Well, the fact that the article says they cannot help pay

New comment by voidUpdate in "Why is this 15 year old still in Morocco and not in some big company?"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:55:10 +0000

Generally, you don't employ children

New comment by voidUpdate in "The Median Voter Is a Maoist"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:31:13 +0000

> "because the things they scapegoat – on the Left, the billionaires, on the Right, foreigners – cannot pay for more than a pittance of what they want done"

Why can't billionaires help pay for it?

New comment by voidUpdate in "Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:03:36 +0000

They're not trying to make the watermark undetectable, that would defeat the point of a watermark. They're making it detectable, but not make the text obviously watermarked

New comment by voidUpdate in "GIMP Development Update"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:14:35 +0000

> "Nothing is aligned"

The first two items in each row are aligned, and each item is aligned to one of two columns

> "Buttons are touching"

The only buttons that are touching are the + and - buttons which are part of the number input, as they are one connected part, and the units dropdown which is also part of the number selection in one item

New comment by voidUpdate in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:49:52 +0000

Have you compared pre- and post-watermarked text to make that assertion? And I'm not sure how writing your own text if you care deeply about the word choice is handicapping the technology?

New comment by voidUpdate in "Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:40:43 +0000

I'll be interested to see if people can actually pick out which text is watermarked and which isn't once they introduce it. It won't switch "bananas" to "airplanes". It'll switch "I really enjoy eating bananas" to "I love eating bananas" or similar

New comment by voidUpdate in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:27:37 +0000

LLMs do a whole lot more than writing your thoughts down. They write extra text. If you just want a pen and paper, use Notepad. Or better, a pen and paper

New comment by voidUpdate in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:07:03 +0000

> "The exact words we choose when writing matter."

Then write your own damn text if you care about the exact wording so much

New comment by voidUpdate in "Design 3D-printable parts by talking"

voidUpdate — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:02:05 +0000

> "It asks for the real dimension instead of inventing one."

Shortly after

> "Make an adapter that connects my shop vac hose to the dust port on my table saw" > "Done: Ø57.6 → Ø35.0 · 74 mm"

is interesting. When did it ask for the dimensions?

New comment by voidUpdate in "I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10"

voidUpdate — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:27:05 +0000

They don't: "skips the model entirely if the page is empty, parked, or a bot-challenge wall"

New comment by voidUpdate in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

voidUpdate — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:58:46 +0000

If your lab meat is running away, something has gone very wrong

New comment by voidUpdate in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

voidUpdate — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:26:35 +0000

Some people still use ipv4

New comment by voidUpdate in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

voidUpdate — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:24:23 +0000

It still started in russia though, even if nobody was there to see it

New comment by voidUpdate in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

voidUpdate — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:48:22 +0000

If you pan to the right, it shows that it actually starts in a bit of russia