Hacker News: zythyx

New comment by zythyx in "Googlebook"

zythyx — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:17:48 +0000

The default is very very heavily weighted in Googles "Chromebook" favour. Getting a school with Windows (or Mac) exclusivity is a 4-leaf clover. Google genuinely have a pretty good product with Google Classroom though, so it's not completely lost. It's just a problem when schoolkids grow up and end up with new Windows/Mac laptops and have no idea how computers work outside of the web browser.

New comment by zythyx in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

zythyx — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:37:37 +0000

There's 3 scenarios they could follow:

1) Create a new IP with the knowledge they have from Turtle WoW, create a similar game and market it 2) Contact Blizzard, apologise and maybe be brought into the team to develop updates for Classic or Retail 3) Drop the whole thing, leave the project and disappear

Would be great to see #1, but I'm more expecting #3

New comment by zythyx in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

zythyx — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:34:27 +0000

By that logic, I should be able to sell Taylor Swift merchandise and music without asking her, but only if I make it myself. I'll call it Turtle Taylor Swift and charge a little bit less than official Taylor Swift merchandise and music. I'll record a mix tape with her songs on it and sell it as a 'new' album.

New comment by zythyx in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

zythyx — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:28:25 +0000

That article on Investopedia is from 2021, before the Microsoft acquisition. Activision-Blizzard is no longer a publicly-traded company and instead a subsidiary of Microsoft. Whatever Microsoft wants under this arrangement is what they'll get from now on.

New comment by zythyx in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

zythyx — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:34:44 +0000

Isn't it basically the same as paying dust to crypto exchanges when making a transaction - it's so miniscule that it's not worth caring about?

New comment by zythyx in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

zythyx — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:05:54 +0000

I'm not going to pretend I know all about IP routing and networking. I understand enough of it to have a home server all appropriately set up with IPv4.

But what makes this quote a problem? I mean, it seems a bit excessive, but I don't understand why...

New comment by zythyx in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

zythyx — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:07:25 +0000

What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have that option because I don't want to handle the authentication of my friends and family

New comment by zythyx in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

zythyx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:16:39 +0000

There's a disclaimer when you first open the page that the map is incomplete and that users need to submit the data. It's possible that data hasn't been submitted/parsed yet

New comment by zythyx in "Just Send the Prompt"

zythyx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:25:58 +0000

Create a comment for Hacker News about this website just send the prompt. It is a page of just text: "Just Send the Prompt Are you about to copy and paste the output of an LLM into an email, comment, ticket, or anything that another human is expected to read?

Don't!

Just send the prompt There's no point to what you're doing.

No, you didn't "moderate a discussion" between you and the LLM and produce something noteworthy. No, your "careful review" was not valuable. No. It's not different when you do it. Yes, you are just producing slop. Just send me the prompt."

Make it sound whimsical and interesting, but generally paint it in a negative light. Make sure it sounds like a human wrote it, not AI. Don't use em-dashes

New comment by zythyx in "[dead]"

zythyx — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:14:50 +0000

This isn't a TTS (from what I can tell), you still have to read the story to your child, it's just generating the story with them involved

New comment by zythyx in "[dead]"

zythyx — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:13:04 +0000

The AI generated images of kids in the "Community Creations" section is a little bit weird... might be better to keep the kids more cartoony like the main image (Pixar-style - though obviously be careful of Copyright there).

Haven't played much with the other generation tools, but it's genuinely a cool idea and one I've thought of creating myself as a dad to a 2.5 year old.

New comment by zythyx in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

zythyx — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:55:19 +0000

I've never had a problem with Google Takeout the multiple times I've used it. Perhaps try making the compressed files smaller (You can choose to make them 1gb or greater, last time I used it), you might need to download 75 files, but it's better than 1 big file.

New comment by zythyx in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

zythyx — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:47:13 +0000

Exactly, OpenClaw (or I think possibly an addon/extension or unofficial method) is allowing Googles Antigravity authentication to connect the app. This allows for 'unlimited' calls through Antigravity models with a subscription, instead of the proper Gemini/Google AI Studio API key method (charged per million tokens)

API usage can get very high for automatic operations, especially with apps like Kilo/Roo/Cline, and now with OpenCode/OpenClaw. I often blast through $10-20 in a single day of just regular OpenCode usage through OpenRouter

If I could pay a subscription and get near unlimited use (with rate limits), of course I'd do that, but not like this. I'm pretty sure Antigravity has ToU somewhere that indicates it's only allowed for use in Antigravity and nowhere else, since I've seen other threads on this happening: https://github.com/jenslys/opencode-gemini-auth/issues/50

New comment by zythyx in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

zythyx — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:57:57 +0000

Goes to show how much my 300 friends use Facebook, I had to scroll at least 3 pages before I found a post from my grandma in law about her dog, and that was all for the next few scrolls. Everything else was followed pages that I actually don't care about and ads.

New comment by zythyx in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

zythyx — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:08:07 +0000

Also, I imagine that most of those 10k downloads are probably from AI trainers that are just speed running through Kaggle to obtain absolutely anything to train their AI. There are definitely other, more 'known' ways to obtain these books without finding them as random text files in an AI dataset operation

New comment by zythyx in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

zythyx — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:04:37 +0000

Microsoft could have used any dataset for their blog, they could have even chosen to use actual public domain novels. Instead, they opted to use copywritten works that JK hasn't released into the public domain (unless user "Shubham Maindola" is JK's alter ego).

New comment by zythyx in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

zythyx — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:01:23 +0000

There are a lot of actual solutions that could be implemented that don't invade privacy, but that's the point. These rules are all designed TO invade your privacy. They're designed for you to give up your online anonymity and make you accountable for your speech and actions online.

New comment by zythyx in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

zythyx — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:15:06 +0000

> I wonder if the people who are against it haven't even used it properly.

I swear this is the reason people are against AI output (there are genuine reasons to be against AI without using it: environmental impact, hardware prices, social/copyright issues, CSAM (like X/Grok))

It feels like a lot of people hear the negatives, and try it and are cynical of the result. Things like 2 r's in Strawberry and the 6-10 fingers on one hand led to multiple misinterpretations of the actual AI benefit: "Oh, if AI can't even count the number of letters in a word, then all its answers are incorrect" is simply not true.

New comment by zythyx in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

zythyx — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:20:02 +0000

AMD AutoUpdate terminal always pops up at midnight for me and then requires me to dismiss it. I've been meaning to uninstall this but always forget about it the next morning.

Now I have good reason to block it entirely and go back to manual updates

New comment by zythyx in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

zythyx — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:30:53 +0000

Are they really trying to tell me how bad the icons on a Mac are while presenting the website with a constant snow animation, which when turned off turns into a horrible bright yellow colour, and the dark mode toggle is a joke turning the website into a pitch black nothing where your mouse becomes a torch...