Hacker News: xyzal

New comment by xyzal in "X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior""

xyzal — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:49:39 +0000

I use my account only to mock @realDonaldTrump.

Real discussions with friends happen in group chats, without all the crap and noise.

New comment by xyzal in "The AI Layoff Trap"

xyzal — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:38:12 +0000

That is why we need functioning states -- free markets won't save you in such a case. Though I found it is hard to explain especially to U.S. people, who put "regulation" on par with f words :)

New comment by xyzal in "The AI Layoff Trap"

xyzal — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:15:03 +0000

Heh, that would be surely funny :) But most people at least know there is a new permit law and if they are not sure, they are to seek expert guidance. The model is even with explicit notification unable to reflect upon this fact. How it is supposed to be useful then?

New comment by xyzal in "The AI Layoff Trap"

xyzal — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:44:38 +0000

When the mandatory speed limit in my country was reduced from 60km/h to 50km/h in cities, 95 percent of people instantly adapted.

New comment by xyzal in "The AI Layoff Trap"

xyzal — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:37:32 +0000

I use AIs for coding with moderate success, but the more I work with them, the more I am convinced that "intelligence on tap" is a pipe dream, especially in domains where logical thinking in novel (ie not-in-dataset) contexts is required.

Recently, I tasked it to study a new Czech building permit law in conjunction with some waste disposal regulations and the result was just tragic. The model (opus 4.6) just could not stop drawing conclusions from obsolete regulations in its training dataset, even when given the fulltext of the new law. The usual "you are totally right" also applied and its conclusions were most of the time obviously wrong even to a human with cursory knowledge of the subject.

I ended with studying the relevant regulations myself over the weekend.

New comment by xyzal in "The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)"

xyzal — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:01:13 +0000

As a lover or Raft Consensus Algorithm, now I have to watch Mean Girls I guess.

New comment by xyzal in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

xyzal — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:07:15 +0000

'Artist' would be more fitting.

New comment by xyzal in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

xyzal — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:54:32 +0000

Generate hundreds repos of plain old spaghetti code and put it on github. Easiest thing you can do.

New comment by xyzal in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

xyzal — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:41:15 +0000

Exactly. Pick friends that do not behave like dicks.

New comment by xyzal in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

xyzal — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:37:06 +0000

Magical human verification technology is called "your own private forum" in conjunction with "invite your friends"

New comment by xyzal in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

xyzal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:23:16 +0000

Exactly. You disobey robots file => we'll make your crawl gain a net negative.

New comment by xyzal in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

xyzal — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:37:46 +0000

For the lulz

New comment by xyzal in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

xyzal — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:35:23 +0000

One would assume legit spiders obey robots.txt.

New comment by xyzal in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

xyzal — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:33:59 +0000

About two years ago, I made up reference to a nonexistent python library and put code "using" it in just 5 GitHub repos. Several months later the free ChatGPT picked it up. So IMO it works.

New comment by xyzal in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

xyzal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:41:50 +0000

Yup. There should be a disclaimer or a "food tag". The implicit assumption in society is some human had written the text you read.

New comment by xyzal in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

xyzal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:42:42 +0000

The title says for me 'Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.'

No editorializing guys! :)

New comment by xyzal in "LLMs can be exhausting"

xyzal — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:51:37 +0000

10k, really? Are you supposed to understand all that code? This is crazy and a one way street to burnout.

Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)

xyzal — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:53:58 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01914537221108467

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377907

Points: 87

# Comments: 54

New comment by xyzal in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

xyzal — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:21:17 +0000

Two digital wastelands, a match made in heaven.

New comment by xyzal in "Agents that run while I sleep"

xyzal — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:29:04 +0000

I guess I'll just wait a year until a best practice emerges.