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skylerwiernik

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About skylerwiernik

Founder Cyberonics skyler.cc skylerwiernik@gmail.com

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    Comment #48011293

    This is extremely interesting how fast this happened. Either AI use surged massively in the last quarter, or this is a very sneaky move by Anthropic. Looking at my own stats, I don…

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    Comment #47866787

    Interesting. What causes this? Could it have to do with the type of person to keep a gun in a safe (has kids, is more cautious in general, etc) or have studies shown that this mino…

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    Comment #47180981

    The quotes from those articles (short passages?) are > He recalls meeting President Trump at an AI and energy summit in Pennsylvania, "where he and I had a good conversation about …

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    Comment #46022714

    > this feature is very technically complex, and totally useless Now, to break your confidentiality, Signal would have to have a relatively complex system setup for trying to match …

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    Comment #45331760

    Not public, but some of the factors are listed here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (q2)

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    Comment #44778895

    > In 2023, Microsoft's Bing chatbot famously adopted an alter-ego called "Sydney,” which declared love for users and made threats of blackmail. More recently, xAI’s Grok chatbot wo…

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    Comment #44498892

    Here's the paper that they wrote: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20639 It's notable that this was an intern project.

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    Comment #44129522

    I wonder if this could be abused by purchasing 2+ refundable tickets, and then canceling all but 1.

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    Show HN: Kiwii – Query ChatGPT, Perplexity, and more from your URL bar

    I found myself often using Google just because it was the easiest to get to, even when there were better tools available, so I built Kiwii. There's no install or extension, just a …

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    Comment #44053598

    https://archive.ph/uSXx2

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    Comment #43921010

    I imagine that they'd get blocked by CORS

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    Comment #43909372

    Do you find this to be worse than googlebot somehow?

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    Comment #43815365

    Someone already thought of this and uploaded all of the contents of the box to a website! You can find it at wikipedia.com

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    Comment #43744602

    Great video on how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvvVSTlbqEI

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    Comment #43712583

    I bought my first domain from GoDaddy in high school. I remember them having the slowest dns portal in the world, and having to call support at least once about something they scre…

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    Comment #43168973

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250225043633/https://www.nytim...

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    Comment #43168949

    I don't believe that that's a legal filing. DigiCert never filed anything with the courts. That's just a letter to Sectigo threatening to sue.

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    Comment #43093820

    Looks cool! Super minor note -- your footer still says (c) 2024

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    Comment #43084267

    I imagine humans are just as likely if not more likely to do this.

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    Ask HN: What intelligent forums exist outside of HN?

    Twitter has long been declining, and Reddit has recently seemed to get much worse for me. Blind is just for bragging about your salary and making insensitive comments about race an…

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    Comment #42968730

    This is clearly undisclosed promotion for vetto.app. alexd127's only other account activity is on this thread [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901553 ] for the exact same b…

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    Comment #42936535

    Cool idea, but just watching your demo it looks like it doesn’t work. Is there any change in the video? The lip movements certainly don’t look synchronized, and audio often continu…

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    Ask HN: What were some of the biggest mistakes you made when you were young?

    I'm graduating this May and considering many things that could be huge mistakes (both personally, and career wise). If I'm going to fuck everything up, I'd at least like to do it i…