<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: wzdd</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wzdd</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:54:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=wzdd" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or, you know, using the totally-real-picture camera to take a photo of an AI-generated scene?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:36:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422322</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AGI is here and its first task is obviously completing the C64’s game library.<p>Not really. AGI is a game interpreter, like LucasArts’ SCUMM or Infocom’s z machine. Games are shipped as portable code and a machine specific AGI interpreter runs them. Looks like they’re preprocessing the graphics first, though. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Interpreter" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Interpreter</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326223</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wilson didn’t write “sex scene”, she wrote “sex”. In the story there is plenty of implied sex. In the movie there is none. It’s not a major issue in itself, it’s part of a broader point about movie Odysseus being “uncomplicated” versus the story— both morally, and when it comes to passions (sex, food, revenge).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:42:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079858</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in ""Please just use plain English, I don't understand what you're saying.""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It does, but in the same way that LLMs take two paragraphs to make a one-sentence point: by being weirdly specific and also redundant. LLMs don’t have a sense of whimsy in the face of RLHF, so if it’s proposing a solution, the solution is tractable. All implementation plans start with a beachhead.<p>“A good starting point” is almost certainly all it needed to convey and what it should have written.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:01:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071508</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> They don't "blow bubbles" to sleep vertically, they vent gas to regulate their specific gravity. This allows them to sleep vertically<p>When I read this I thought you'd discovered that the whales release the gas in a form other than by blowing bubbles, or that the purpose of doing so was for something other than improved sleep.<p>But no, the whales literally release air through their blowhole in the form of bubbles, and, at least during study you linked, they do this while resting to maintain their vertical orientation. An orientation, the paper theorises, that enables better sleep by not being buffeted by waves.<p>They quite literally blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep.</p>
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<p>My reaction was negative when I read the title (policy!), but the actual outcome was very reasonable. "Hey, can we add $ORIGIN to the VFS layer to support relocatable interpreters?" "You can already do that with binfmt_misc and ebpf, here's an example."<p>Then, later, a couple of patches to make binfmt_misc more ergonomic. Seems like a good outcome.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:38:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990045</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article discusses a technique by which the author achieves high accuracy at detecting AI written text. Unless you have a problem with their experimental method, this is the opposite of tarot card reading.<p>> we are well into undetectable sophistication with today's models<p>The article directly contradicts this, as do you, in your previous paragraph: "Sure you might be able to detect today's tells". The article is literally about a technique that detects today's tells.<p>Your comment is mostly expressing doubt that this technique will work reliably in the future, but it's framed as opposition to the article, which it's not: the article is about detecting today's AI-written text, at which it seems to be quite successful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:47:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944081</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Come on, that video is on another level. "All my friends are turning green" (shot of $1 bills), "she's been living on the highest shelf" (woman standing on Juliet balcony), "they come unstuck" (someone pulling twin pole popsicle apart)<p>For contrast these have "ice cold" (shot of ice cubes), "got chucks on" (shot of shoes), "livin' it up in the city" (shot of city).</p>
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<p>The OP notes that they had to use special phrasing to get their exfil to work, so clearly GitHub was aware of the issue and made an attempt to prevent it.<p>It seems like the proper fix is for GitHub not to allow their agentic workflow to execute in a public repo context if it also has private repo access. Or, to use your phrasing, for GitHub to flag and disallow this easily-detectable and dangerous type of misconfiguration.</p>
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<p>Given the Mandelbrot program is 450k probably not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:42:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807123</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Factual mistake" is a bit harsh, but the missing piece is that there are multiple ways to romanise Japanese; all of them produce "valid Romaji" but only in the particular system being used. Si is how you write し in romaji using the kunrei-shiki romanisation. In the Hepburn romanisation it's shi. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#Differences_among_romanizations" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#Diffe...</a> .</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:41:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625758</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "Renting a sewing machine from the library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oodi is at least equally community / maker space and library, very distinctively and attractively designed, quite new, and in the middle of Helsinki, so there are a lot of non Finnish speakers visiting so there is a large English section.</p>
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<p>It’s a nice engineering approach, but I’m interested in the motivation. Um and ah is distracting in a transcript, where you can naturally pause to take in information; in speech however it can serve as a focusing point to indicate the next part is important. See <a href="https://medium.com/better-humans/dont-worry-about-saying-um-effective-public-speaking-includes-filler-words-e56304416a90" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/better-humans/dont-worry-about-saying-um-...</a> for example. The weirdly obsessive zeal that orgs like Toastmasters have about eliminating them is weird.<p>Disfluencies aren’t necessarily bad even if the word starts with “dis”!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:46:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499693</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  In your analysis you have shown that exactly one of these reasons is anecdotal.<p>This was actually the convincing one for me though. “Did AI increase the rsync bug rate? Dunno, can’t tell yet” seems like a fine conclusion to me. Plenty of people in this thread and previous ones on the topic seem convinced one way or another, so it’s nice to see actual numbers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:54:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424621</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is certainly unkind, when a developer asserts the opposite of what you have assumed about their code, to double down and imply they are lying.</p>
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<p>The code is part of a function called expand item list. It looks like it over allocates memory and uses a bump pointer for internal allocation, only expanding the allocation when necessary. Thus OOB writes to the list would hit the allocated memory.<p>You’re not a bozo but it is helpful to read the code.</p>
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<p>I have one of these and run Debian 13 on it. I love it. Having only two USB ports is annoying and I ended up buying a relatively expensive PD Thunderbolt hub, and there are some compromises that come with the territory (middling battery life, trackpad certainly isn't Macbook-quality). In general, though, it's great and it feels fun in way that I haven't felt about laptops in a long while.<p>As others have noted the company has done some pretty shady things with some of their other products, and I would not really expect a warranty, so this isn't really a recommendation. But my personal experience after ~six months of use has been good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:08:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352835</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Every time someone imagines a country going after Microsoft<p>You don't need to imagine it: the comment you are replying to links to a press release from a Government agency "going after Microsoft". And yet somehow we haven't seen Microsoft stop doing business with the Australian government.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 03:34:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342784</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "Various LLM Smells"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It really depends. If you're cranking out prototypes or testing ideas, it's genuinely great. But if you're familiar with the code it's very easy to spot its (many) mistakes. It's Gell-Mann amnesia.<p>Then again, I just caught Claude writing setTransparent(!opaque == false), opaque being a bool, on a purely vibecoded project. Which was pretty impressive. ("• You're right, that's nonsense.")</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 05:11:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319311</link><dc:creator>wzdd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wzdd in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Cream in his coffee, butter in his soups, all the gristle he could handle.<p>I've noticed Claude is specifically fond of three-element lists consisting of (standard example of class), (standard example of class), (nonstandard example of class). It's interesting because Claude often gets the nonstandard example more or less incorrect -- in this case, because gristle isn't an example of a high-fat-content food.</p>
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