Hacker News: wordsarelies

New comment by wordsarelies in "Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors"

wordsarelies — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:09:04 +0000

The us gov should pay for this sort of research to be published... bonus points for binaries.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

wordsarelies — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:08:30 +0000

well... really thank the courts... the creator of the prompt gets to own the output...

New comment by wordsarelies in "Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules"

wordsarelies — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:11:55 +0000

Count to five in your head before answering any good questions.

They get trained to get you to misspeak, and they ask you questions that if you answer them like a normal human you give up rights...

New comment by wordsarelies in "Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules"

wordsarelies — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:06:20 +0000

Duh, they have to destroy it to be indemnified.

Fifth amendment compensation doesn't happen cause the courts are corrupt. No blame no problem.

New comment by wordsarelies in "FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power"

wordsarelies — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:00:40 +0000

37.8 seems low, I suspect the "shipped goods" percentage is higher.

New comment by wordsarelies in "FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power"

wordsarelies — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:58:50 +0000

The measure of these services shouldn't be if you can sell a new product and make money.

It should be that you can sell a cheaper, better version of an Amazon basics product and overtake it.

If there is literally no way to do that... Amazon is clearly a market manipulator.

New comment by wordsarelies in "FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power"

wordsarelies — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:57:04 +0000

It's going to come out that Amazon calls the manufacturers for their basics goods, sends them the leading competing item and has them make it with slightly less expensive components to undercut the cost of the competitor.

It's so blatantly obvious if you've ever done a side by side in things like lamps, backpacks etc and other super simple designs.

New comment by wordsarelies in "TSA Policy on Light Sabers"

wordsarelies — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:38:58 +0000

Truth, the primary impact was the ability to arbitrarily inflate the cost of soft goods dramatically inside the terminal.

It's such a good racket Hudson News...a little news stand company inside a few dozen terminals was able to go public on the NYSE...

The public perception that security is "doing it's job" is non-existent since everyone knows it's at best a jobs program and in practice another group of people measurably stealing travellers things.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus"

wordsarelies — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:22:47 +0000

Haas is still selling parts to Russia for their CNC mills even though they're sanctioned. They do it by selling to a Chinese middleman.

NSO Group probably uses an Indian intermediary (my first guess) and does the same thing.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Frequent and infrequent users of social media respond differently to rewards"

wordsarelies — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:07:42 +0000

Social media removed the corrective elements of previous mechanisms. There's no longer a "trusted party" who helps you when you're in the wrong, there are "enemies" who "dunk on you."

The purpose of broadcasting isn't the same as conversation. People want the result of a positive interaction, but they do that by chasing hundreds of negative ones.

The negative interactions are actually better for the platform as they are (in some studies) almost 10x as effective at driving engagement. So the companies looking for "the most engaging" communities, drive more negative interactions.

The people looking for the most clicks, chase the "dunking" and "counter dunking" interactions, and it becomes at best 90% of the platform, at in reality like 99% of what you see while you're doom scrolling.

Social media is awful, and draws out our worst impulses as a business model.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Kevin Mitnick has died"

wordsarelies — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 05:15:04 +0000

He was childlike in his pranksterism. He never seemed to lose his wonder or his ability to make you feel like a jackass.

The man who could whistle the nuclear codes has passed away. And now maybe I can strike the social engineering village before the sun comes up.

New comment by wordsarelies in "S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’"

wordsarelies — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:08:53 +0000

So it's funny, when they first started rolling these out folks were interested, intrigued even. Folks walking would give them deference, mostly not run in front of them if they saw them, very unlike how they treat regular drivers. But now folks are getting sick of them.

So they were modeling all their behavior and driving around cooperative pedestrians and cars (mostly) now they have to model for an adversarial public.

Good fucking luck.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Commercial interests petition FCC for high power allocation on shortwave"

wordsarelies — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:45:55 +0000

Hft needs to die.

This is the mutant expectation of a company that's very existence hinges on fucking over legitimate human made trades.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?"

wordsarelies — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:58:27 +0000

My old Windows 98SE box on a 200Mhz MMX processor was perfect responsiveness.

We say that today, and remember the best part of the experience... but we do forget, it was all at the mercy of your (maybe if you're lucky) UltraATA/33mhz bus.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

wordsarelies — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 20:04:19 +0000

The latest revelations have started pushing folks to completely removing their content from the platform.

Nuke reddit (only on the edge extension store it looks like) is giving their frontends a workout.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP"

wordsarelies — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:27:28 +0000

Profs using Language models, grammar analysis engines and autoscoring are now mad students have the inversion of their tools too.

This has big "algebra teacher is mad at smartphones" energy.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP"

wordsarelies — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:25:37 +0000

I gave bard your text, asked it to make it appear as though a AI didn't write it, and then gave it back to chatgpt... Neither one can definitely identify if it's written by AI anymore

New comment by wordsarelies in "Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP"

wordsarelies — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:08:25 +0000

So... You trained the model with all the text you could find.

And we trained all those students on all the same text...

And then we run a comparison to identify if they used the same source material...

Aaaand everyone's cheating.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists"

wordsarelies — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:50:27 +0000

They tweeted snapshots of the accounts that were banned last tweets.

New comment by wordsarelies in "Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”"

wordsarelies — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:43:45 +0000

So few people use a privacy codes it just makes it easier to track if he uses it.