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You mispronounced genuinely polite. It is free to be so. Is that not allowed here when someone doesn’t have strong feelings? If you care here about here, you care too much imho, find something that matters to care about.
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You mispronounced genuinely polite. It is free to be so. Is that not allowed here when someone doesn’t have strong feelings? If you care here about here, you care too much imho, find something that matters to care about.
It's not polite to be condescending.
How else would you politely respond to someone who comments only “I know. I despise you”?
See also https://antirez.com/news/150 https://antirez.com/hnstyle?username=pg&threshold=20&action=... Which lets you find the alts of a handle
This is...disquieting. It's one thing to know that it's possible, another thing to know nation states or large megacorps are doing it, but another thing entirely to see such verbose output from free models about, well, me . The first two, I've made peace with (nothing I can do about it anyway). The last one picks quite fiercely at old trauma that really makes me reconsider my socials in general, not just HN. But mayb…
But, the problem is real if it's a nation states or megacorps are doing it. They'll use such tech in an unjustified way, make a misjudgement, and then ask you to explain yourself out of the situation. Yeah, they're definitely going that, because they don't give a damn about it.
You can just ask a chatbot about Hacker News or reddit users based on their username.
6. Slightly dry, understated style
The tone is usually compact, matter-of-fact, and occasionally wry rather than performative. Even their Wuhan taxi-driver remark has that deadpan “I have seen the circus” flavor.
Story time: My first full time job (early 2000s) was working for a firm that did online cybersecurity related investigations for Fortune 500 companies (generally via a 3rd party law firm they had retained). A big part of this was running investigations into people running "pump and dump" stock schemes on Yahoo message boards. We would generally start by scraping all of the posts for a user who had instigated one of t…
Out of curiosity and without meaning it to sound like an accusation, did you write such similar posts by hand or do you use some form of automation for commenting?
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We all know this, but in the past someone probably wasn't going to go through thousands of your comments unless you've really pissed them off. It's worth realising how much lower the activation energy is these days.
You’re right about the speed; but it doesn’t change the outcome. If you don’t want it to be associated with you, you simply can’t put it out there.
Surveillance was always possible but it was expensive because a person or two had to literally watch a suspect. So it was rare in practice and suspects had to be chosen carefully.
Mass surveillance is not new in the sense that surveillance was always possible. What is new is the scope of power it gives to those who can use it.
> This is arguably their defining HN characteristic: they are one of the most vocal, persistent AI optimists on the platform. They claim ~90-95% of their shipped code is AI-generated, report 5-10x productivity gains, and have built a detailed methodology around it — using Playwright for visual verification, static typechecking as a hallucination filter, and e2e test suites as automated validation harnesses Wow, I sou…
I sound like an annoying old people I guess so I think I'm worse. Either way I forgive you. (GPT called me a wiring closet gremlin)
I knew the original!8-)) Hope you aren't him!
Story time: My first full time job (early 2000s) was working for a firm that did online cybersecurity related investigations for Fortune 500 companies (generally via a 3rd party law firm they had retained). A big part of this was running investigations into people running "pump and dump" stock schemes on Yahoo message boards. We would generally start by scraping all of the posts for a user who had instigated one of t…
that's basically why clickstream analytics is so powerful