Hacker News: woadwarrior01

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer"

woadwarrior01 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:30:13 +0000

The irony is thick. The dev is paying Anthropic $200 a month, but $100 a year for code-signing is extortion.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer"

woadwarrior01 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:26:12 +0000

Code signing and sandboxing exists for a very good reasons (security and privacy) and it's easy enough to ship a sandboxed app.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:49:49 +0000

The README has plenty of Claude-isms too.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:06:18 +0000

I think the most charitable explanation for this is that it's because polarizing content (aka ragebait) gets views/plays, which the ranking algorithms directly optimize for.

Also, this isn't a new phenomenon. If you're interested, I'd recommend reading Shoshana Zuboff's 2018 book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

woadwarrior01 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:46:21 +0000

Kimi is the closest Chinese equivalent of Anthropic.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party"

woadwarrior01 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:12:38 +0000

The hackers must be German (Datenschutz). :)

I think they could've redacted using a small model like OpenAI's privacy-filter model instead of rewriting.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages"

woadwarrior01 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:56:09 +0000

"avoid success at all costs"

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

woadwarrior01 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:18:44 +0000

I hadn't heard of the CA before and had to look it up. They're a publicly listed company in India. Markets will price this in.

https://www.nseindia.com/get-quote/equity/EMUDHRA/eMudhra-Li...

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

woadwarrior01 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:04:42 +0000

Perhaps share QR codes with links. :)

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs"

woadwarrior01 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:48:45 +0000

People have been astroturfing sites like Wikipedia, Reddit etc, well before LLMs were a thing.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs"

woadwarrior01 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:45:50 +0000

> As a human, this is fantastic.

s/human/unscrupulous marketer/

Bad for humans in general, good for hucksters and con artists. Net negative for humanity.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs"

woadwarrior01 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:43:43 +0000

IMO, it's similar to what's happening with code. People have been shipping sloppy code and fake news forever. It's just that the cost of doing these things has fallen off a cliff.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

woadwarrior01 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:54:34 +0000

Lobbying is corruption with a layer of indirection.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:15:42 +0000

Did you mean grifts?

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:37:38 +0000

If a life is only worth $20m, by their own calculus: saving > 50k lives is worth more than Anthropic. Tobacco causes ~8m deaths a year, so banning tobacco (easy intervention) should be worth ~160 Anthropic sized labs. :D

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw)"

woadwarrior01 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:11:51 +0000

I'm the dev behind the Private LLM app, which was the first on-device LLM app on the App Store. Don't download it yet. I'm currently finalizing a brand new v2 rewrite which can run models that the copycat app (locally) cannot run, like Bonsai 2 27B, Gemma 4 12B etc.

https://x.com/private_llm/status/2101769928252473488

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

woadwarrior01 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:04:21 +0000

This! We went to a pediatric dentist with my kid on Monday, with a referral from another dentist, both private. After small talk, their first proper question was: "Do you have insurance?". Before I could respond, my wife responded affirmatively. Insurance here in Ireland means private insurance. After an x-ray, we were presented with a menu of treatment options ranging from around €2k to €5k.

Later I requested the clinic to share the x-ray with me and consulted with another pediatric dentist from another EU country. His assessment was completely different, and recommended very minimal intervention.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand"

woadwarrior01 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:08:00 +0000

The intro video looks very well done. How did you go about making it?

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"

woadwarrior01 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:36:27 +0000

There's nothing wrong with them wanting to capture some economic value, but the way they're monetizing it is a slippery slope of incentives.

OTOH, I trust the benchmarks from Apolinario's HF space that you've linked to.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Has AI tells"

woadwarrior01 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:31:06 +0000

Interesting! I tried it with unordered Markdown lists (both nested and single-level) and I couldn't reproduce it. Would you mind sharing a small repro? In some ways I guess the brittleness is to be expected since IIUC, it uses regexes under the hood.