Hacker News: wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wilgHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:17:30 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "No Sloptober"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:31:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809709wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809709https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809709<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "No Sloptober"]]>Obviously I was referring to the post I was commenting on as a low effort anti AI post.

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:17:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809008wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809008https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809008<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "No Sloptober"]]>I'm getting tired of the constant stream of low-effort anti AI posts. ("Metaslop" if you will.)

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:25:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808323wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808323https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808323<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"]]>Golf consumes more water than ALL datacenters on earth.

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:34:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615693wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615693https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615693<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"]]>lmao what

]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:21:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581708wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581708https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581708<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"]]>Seems like it was worth $1000 to the researcher in question.

]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:40:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571884wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571884https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571884<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "GPT-6 Astra"]]>did they say it's agi? does anyone agree what that means?

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:55:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557677wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557677https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557677<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "US gov sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material"]]>My position is it's totally coherent to say that "training" is analogous to "reading" and inference is not analogous to "redistributing rips" and that it's a reasonable position for fair use law to operate that way. I think this benefits society.

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:04:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556961wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556961https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556961<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "GPT-6 Astra"]]>These are not mutually exclusive ideas

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:59:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556891wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556891https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556891<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "GPT-6 Astra"]]>did they?

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:58:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556876wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556876https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556876<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "GPT-6 Astra"]]>are we really having to explain to you from first principles in 2026 what things AI can do?

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:56:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556860wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556860<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "US gov sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material"]]>I don't understand your point.

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:59:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554015wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554015https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554015<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "US gov sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material"]]>I think it makes sense to say training on material you legally acquired is fair use. Copyright, quite famously, doesn't protect ideas. Nobody really needs or wants AI models to reproduce verbatim copies of books or images or whatever, and they try not to do this anyway, and just because you could maybe make an image or whatever with a copyrighted character design or something, normal intellectual property law already restricts you from selling it etc. Seems fine.

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:54:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545755wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545755https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545755<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident"]]>"This fact remains true" - you have not stated any sort of fact.

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:47:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544612wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544612https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544612<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business"]]>It is in fact true that the Trump administration is corrupt on a significantly different level than any prior administration. It is harmful to paper over this.

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:46:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544596wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544596https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544596<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "Salad Theory"]]>I think there's a big problem with including an "untossed salad" in bounds. This is asking for trouble. Is an unbaked cake a cake? Obviously not. "Unbaked" is describing how it DIFFERS from a cake.

An untossed salad is an object which is like a salad, but that is not tossed. This means a salad must be tossed.

]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:41:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533058wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533058https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533058<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"]]>Presumably this is for ChatGPT Work? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-...

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:25:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529065wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529065https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529065<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"]]>Money has to do with whether you can make the game. Games are regularly funded by many non-profit options such as co-ops or grants, etc. Developers are free to make games however they want.

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:01:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526442wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526442https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526442<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”"]]>We don't have to relearn the concept, we just have a bunch of dumb idiots who we have to fight off every couple years and we often lose because a critical segment of people cannot remember what happened last time, don't understand anything, or are evil.

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:56:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485223wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485223https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485223<![CDATA[New comment by wilg in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]>Nope, it's worse than that, the democracy actually works and the voters are just dumb.

]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:25:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438415wilghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438415https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438415