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New comment by volkercraig in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

volkercraig — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:43:10 +0000

Start one. Unions are worker owned. You could also join the IWW.

New comment by volkercraig in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

volkercraig — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:31:39 +0000

I'm not saying you can't compare them, I'm saying it's pointless. LLM's are extremely large scale multivariate regression machines, evaluating it's output within it's own training domain is as pointless as seeing if a ball rolls downhill.

New comment by volkercraig in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

volkercraig — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:47:17 +0000

In that scenario, AI would have to be a public utility, which it is not. Private corporations have no intention to provide services for public good. If they displace a billion jobs, they'll just throw up their hands and go "we're just an Ai company guyz"

New comment by volkercraig in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

volkercraig — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:41:41 +0000

Man, this comment made me think of a Kafkaesque future where two AI lawyers and an AI Judge are stuck in an infinite loop arguing over a case, meanwhile the defendant is running around trying to get anyone in the legal system to recognize that the AI is stuck.

New comment by volkercraig in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

volkercraig — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:37:34 +0000

More than that, the entire structure of the study is pointless. They set up as a question/response and then had humans rate the response. That's literally what LLM's are trained to do, which ultimately is convincing a human to click the "I like this one better" button on it's response.

New comment by volkercraig in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

volkercraig — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:37:54 +0000

> we'll see more specialized math AI resembling StockFish soon

Heuristically weighted directed graphs? Wow amazing I'm sure nobody has done that before.

New comment by volkercraig in "Goodbye to Sora"

volkercraig — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:06:08 +0000

lived experience

New comment by volkercraig in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

volkercraig — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:27:43 +0000

> if i was in her position, i would shrug and hand my boss the 500 pieces of paper.

yeah honestly. If I was in that position I'd probably think it's funny and just stick the whole stack in a folder and laugh about the dumb process.

New comment by volkercraig in "Goodbye to Sora"

volkercraig — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:31:52 +0000

The thing is, LLM's produce better quality one-shots than any of the products that get returned from overseas ultra-budget contractors in India or SEA. I don't know what that means for Western devs, but I can tell you that the fortune 500 I work for is dialing back on contracting and outsourcing because domestic teams can do higher-quality work faster.

New comment by volkercraig in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

volkercraig — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:22:19 +0000

Interestingly that sort of research is actually what I've used Claude/Chatgpt deep research and openclaw for. If I have an idea, I get an agent to go and do some product research for me and see if there is a market, if anyone has tried it, and if there is anyone doing it.

It has unironically saved me a lot of time I would have otherwise spent going down rabbit holes.

Of the models I've found that claude doesn't gas you up as much as GPT, so for stuff like this where the answer can be "no, that's not a good idea" I usually use claude.

New comment by volkercraig in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

volkercraig — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:35:07 +0000

Why are you wondering? Any law that limits the ability of capital owners to extract wealth will be overturned, and not just from AI, that's global in every industry everywhere there are humans.

New comment by volkercraig in "Chuck Norris has died"

volkercraig — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:27:50 +0000

He was 86 years old

New comment by volkercraig in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

volkercraig — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:43:26 +0000

They'll just remove the "Advanced" ability in a few years once they've frog boiled people into jumping through hoops to use their phone the way they want.

New comment by volkercraig in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

volkercraig — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:24:40 +0000

It's not any different from the launch of the FSF. There's a simple solution. If you don't want your lunch eaten by a private equity firm, make sure whatever tool you use is GPL licensed.

New comment by volkercraig in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

volkercraig — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:10:37 +0000

What is it that doctors call growth at any cost? Cancer?

New comment by volkercraig in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

volkercraig — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:48:03 +0000

You buy them from a supplier.

but to answer your question honestly the supplier keeps stock of them by growing them and storing them. The original cells came from donations.

You could always extract some cells from a biopsy as well, but these guys likely just bought them from sigma or whatever the Australian lab-supply monopoly is.

New comment by volkercraig in "Never buy a .online domain"

volkercraig — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:52:51 +0000

I had a .fun domain that I was using to host a small project and they pulled that on me, I just let it expire and killed the project.

New comment by volkercraig in "Never buy a .online domain"

volkercraig — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:51:19 +0000

It would be in Canada, but our "misuse of computer" charge is overly broad and never been well tested.

New comment by volkercraig in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

volkercraig — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:23:12 +0000

It's hardly a subset. Most devs that use it have no idea how it works under the hood. If a large portion of them did, then maybe they'd cut out the "It REALLY IS THINKING!!!" posting

New comment by volkercraig in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

volkercraig — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:11:00 +0000

Ok, and?