<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: washadjeffmad</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=washadjeffmad</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:34:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=washadjeffmad" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Allegations of sexual harassment and rape at Bay Area AI party houses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ha, yeah, pro-AI interests have lost some velocity so they're pissing in the pool a bit. Keep focus on oppositional interests while they figure out how to rally. Just vomit threads, nothing of substance.<p>Stories about lurid sex deviants and socialists threats always poll well, and 'computer nerd sex party' is the new cherry flavor titillating bored suburbanites.<p>They also did a hit on Bernie Sanders on X for his "no artificial super-intelligence" bill, if you saw that, spun as "crazy old socialist scared of computers wants to take away your LLMs".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:36:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866555</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "The Copilot+ PC brand is dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps try pronouncing it "Copy lot", in honor of how they were planning to harvest their training data by recording customers' screens.<p>Facetiously, of course.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859677</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859677</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”<p>He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”<p>“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”<p>In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.<p>“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.<p>From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.<p>“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.<p>Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:40:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822247</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Certainly not forgetting wattage. A 5090 is 575W. The M5 Ultra Studio is 480W.<p>nvidia-smi -pl 450 for like a 4% reduction in throughput. I tend to set it around 350W because it's a comfortable temperature blowing on my legs under the desk without warming my office in the summer.<p>I put together this system two years ago, so it's a little out of date, but it only cost $3000 for the same performance and capability as an Ultra. I don't think I would spend $7000 to save 100W, though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:17:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790243</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790243</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author didn't get invited to any parties in high school, and now they're concern-mongering Yud and Buds over some nerd bacchanals. That doesn't scale well.<p>The big question is, who's competing to sell us our salvation this time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:41:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766537</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Went through the same last month. I had to both buy a new phone and still have my old one repaired to be able to authenticate to set up the new one.<p>I was a CyanogenMod user before switching to Pixel, and that experience was a monumental shove towards moving to Graphene.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:23:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752771</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Lucasart's Afterlife"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I played it summer of 2005, the same year I binged Douglas Adams' complete non-HHG works (including 'Last Chance to See' on CD-ROM and the interactive fiction game, 'Bureaucracy').<p>Afterlife is wonderfully fun and satisfying to experience to completion for the first time, and what it might lack in replayability it more than makes up for with humor and design.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:13:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738621</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Footnote on page 3.<p>>Total parameter count governs storage: at FP4, MIXTRAL-8X7B fits within 24 GB GDDR6 (Quadro RTX 6000), and GPT-OSS-120B fits within
128 GB unified memory (Apple M4 Max).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:06:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729132</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The HN title has been editorialized... and techno-oligarchs really, really hate Sanders.<p>The bill isn't about using LLMs to merge your pull requests, it's about discouraging people or companies who might be working on their own private Manhattan Projects from intentionally trying to create the impact equivalent of nuclear weapons, or "Artificial Superintelligence".<p>We're getting closer than not to an A(S)I arms race. Sanders has lived his entire life in that, and I've been smelling it for a while, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:27:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670914</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Back in the 90s when the web was non-commercial and fun, I added a "Don't Click Me" link that loaded a 'browser test' page (after a series of "are you really really sure?" dialogs) that exploited every historical browser bug I could find. Infinite popups, inescapable dialogs, ActiveX quirks, various hangs and crashes, the works.<p>If it didn't crash your computer, it eventually displayed a single popup that said "Congrats on not using Internet Explorer!". I wish I still had the hate emails.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:47:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652972</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Real photos of young girls were in nudify-app ads on Facebook, Instagram"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recall YouTube was hijacked to show multi-hour ads during the pandemic. These are imperfect systems that can be abused at any scale.<p>They identified them after the fact and appear to have disclosed that. This is what they needed to do to be able to be held accountable and to do better detecting them in the future.<p>I block ads and ad services at the device and network level and don't use any Meta services (outside of facebookresearch models), so while I'm fortunate not to have been able to be served any of these, it's also kind of unfortunate that I'm in a relatively rare category to know to report them and how.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:56:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618320</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Real photos of young girls were in nudify-app ads on Facebook, Instagram"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is one of those topics that gets radioactive quickly, so I'm trying to parse this comment under the recent ruling by a judge that certain obscene products of generative AI are protected under the First Amendment.<p>"We now live in an age where GenAI [generative AI] models can render images depicting the abuse of virtual children that are virtually indistinguishable from those depicting the abuse of actual children. This case illuminates how this evolving technology complicates the lines drawn by the Supreme Court in Stanley, Osborne, and Free Speech Coalition. Indeed, in Free Speech Coalition, the Supreme Court addressed the scope of First Amendment protections for virtual CSAM, but that was nearly twenty-five years ago, and the image-generation technology available today was likely unimaginable back then. Given the relentless advancement in artificial intelligence models, we have some concerns about the lines these cases draw, but we are not free to redraw them ourselves."<p><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/judge-ai-child-sex-abuse-ruling/" rel="nofollow">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/judge-ai-child-sex-abuse-r...</a><p>Despite the source images not being CSAM, the products of nudify services may be CSAM but not child pornography. Because nudifying minors involves generation of material intended to depict real people who cannot give consent on computers outside the home, I'd consider them not to be protected speech.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:06:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617828</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We shouldn't need to, but the wifi PCB module in LG OLED TVs is typically attached by a ribbon cable that can be easily disconnected.<p>The Magic Remote can also be replaced with dumb IR model without a microphone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:03:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616193</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Modern TVs are designed to work with PCs and consoles, they just also happen to have tuners. "Smart" features are mostly a distraction from actual panel capabilities.<p>Monitor choices also tend charge a premium for equivalent size and quality while lacking some of the features, or introducing other issues. See LG gaming monitors silently installing adware on connection:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956688">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956688</a><p>My LG OLED C2 also has a great utility to manage deep service-level configurations. Makes it easy to professionally customize without having to fuss with the menus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:59:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599793</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/234445" rel="nofollow">https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/2...</a><p>See Section 3</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:53:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496295</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "The elementary school pickup incident and the road ahead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine them, at the end of every response, reading it aloud to their bored children while whispering 'masterstoke' with a pleased chuckle to themself over and over.<p>We all deal with our shame differently, don't we.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:45:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493182</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Flock is a ThinThread / Trailblazer level domestic surveillance tool. How did we handle those as a nation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:22:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49488985</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49488985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49488985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I immediately forwarded 3.3 to a colleague (AD of Research). We have a blanket policy document at the institutional level to establish a framework for baselines, but it's absent of any practicable guidance outside of a general approval process and expectations for academic honesty.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:48:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469450</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been comparing against TextGen and llama.cpp while I port to LocalAI and have been surprised by what's happening over the API, even with the defaults and jinja. It's been a fair reminder not to eschew familiarizing myself with the repos.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:54:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404999</link><dc:creator>washadjeffmad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by washadjeffmad in "AI is less likely to launch a nuclear strike when it reasons in Japanese"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True. In the West, nuclear radiation creates super heroes, while in Japan, it produces devastating kaiju.<p>I wonder what accounts for the difference?</p>
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