giantfrog
Re:Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:37AM (#50232033)
Imagine going to a history museum and there’s a sign outside that says “Some of the information here is totally made up”
Re:The Myth of Snow Leopard
on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:51PM (#49161943)
Fair!
Re:The Myth of Snow Leopard
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:15PM (#49148979)
I have great memories of Snow Leopard. It even gave you back a few GB of storage (IIRC) at a time when every GB really counted.
Re:Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and class...
on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:15PM (#49062480)
The Fallout analogy is perfect. Limitation stimulates imagination. I think that’s part of why essentially limitless AI models produce things that are so devoid of it.
An airplane is not something I would personally want to beta test
Re:GLM 5.2 Is Out
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:59PM (#48522721)
Putting aside whether or not I agree with the policy or whether it’s at all reasonable, a policy of restricting access to information because there’s a fear it could be used to create a weapon seems entirely different than restricting access to historical facts because they are unflattering to the government.
Re:GLM 5.2 Is Out
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:58PM (#48522714)
The fact that your username is a racist meme seems relevant to this complaint and how legitimate it is.
Re:A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial
on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:29PM (#48508459)
But on April 21, I received a remarkable email. “Someone has filed an objection against something you wrote,”
No one in their right mind is going to do anything other than ignore and/or delete an email this stupid.
Re:Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI
on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:05AM (#48263884)
I think there might be a difference between “I’m violating copyright law to enjoy a work of art” and “I’m violating copyright law on a global, species-wide scale to create a trillion dollar company and enrich myself.” Maybe you can argue the former is wrong but there’s no way it’s equivalent to the latter.
Re:Google changes its search box
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @01:11AM (#48203351)
If Google changes the internet so that no one visits websites anymore, no one is going to make or maintain websites. And at that point, A) What is left of the internet and B) What is left for Google to summarize via AI?
Re:Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign
on Thursday April 23, 2026 @03:03PM (#47880102)
How the hell are most people supposed to balance the risk of not updating software against the risk of updating software?
Re:The United States needs fewer bus stops
on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @12:19PM (#47154483)
Libertarian publication run by the wealthy suggests course of action that will disproportionately harm the poor, I’m shocked!
Re:Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your comp...
on Saturday February 07, 2026 @07:34AM (#46923356)
This system introduces a fun question: What’s more likely, that you suffer total spontaneous memory loss or your best friends betray you?
Re:Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
on Thursday February 05, 2026 @04:14PM (#46905424)
This is fanfic not science
Re:Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 ca...
on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:43PM (#46888923)
RFK Jr: “Not so fast”
Re:Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features
on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:50PM (#46865259)
Because Firefox users have been clamoring for the ability to turn them off rather than the opposite.
Re:Signal1996.net
on Sunday December 14, 2025 @08:44PM (#46269383)
Cool idea, bad AI slop execution
Re:Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board after release of emails wit...
on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @01:11PM (#45982802)
You can't even be friends with a notorious pedophile and sex trafficker anymore without the woke cancel culture mob coming after you...
Re:We replaced passwords with something worse
on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:42PM (#44820362)
Still seems far, far more likely that the average user will have their account stolen via password theft/reuse than the more complicated scheme the author is describing. Links instead of codes also fixes the issue.
Re:Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums
on Saturday August 02, 2025 @05:11PM (#44771508)
Big loss for the web.
Re:Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in ...
on Sunday July 27, 2025 @02:17PM (#44703319)
This will never, ever, ever stop happening until executives start going bankrupt and/or to jail for negligence. Even then it won’t stop, but it would at least decrease in frequency and severity.
Re:What Will Become of the CIA?
on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:44PM (#44642758)
The author was not only a longtime CIA employee, but staff historian. Not the most trustworthy source here.
Re:How I Use Kagi
on Thursday July 17, 2025 @03:45PM (#44597358)
If you'd told me several years ago I'd be paying $10/month for a search engine, I'd say that's crazy talk. But it genuinely is worth it.
Re:Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant with Data
on Thursday July 03, 2025 @02:31PM (#44457922)
This is a really fun exercise; a rare example of something that's "data-centric" without being soulless.
I think it's fascinating how it illustrates weirdness about how Americans think about and categorize "ethnic" food. For example, the author's analysis of Google data shows Glendale, CA ranks #1 for "Highest prevalence of Mediterranean Restaurants." But I am nearly certain the majority of these, given Glendale's demographics, are in fact Armenian or Persian restaurants. Both Iran and Armenia are of course quite far from the Mediterranean region, but for whatever reason (rice? flat breads? grilled things on a stick?) have gotten lumped in with some Americanized, genericized conception of "the Mediterranean" that's indistinguishable from "the Middle East." I would imagine you'd find the same thing happening on Yelp etc.
Re:Fiber optic drones are changing combat operations
on Monday March 31, 2025 @07:36PM (#43541219)
Which brands?
Re:EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:18PM (#43442098)
I'd argue it's not extreme enough: Use an alphanumeric password or passphrase, as long as you can tolerate, instead of a PIN.
Re:EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:16PM (#43442091)
Right, I'd recommend anyone worried about this to power off their laptop (assuming you've got full disk encryption turned on) and phone before going through security, customs, etc.
Re:EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:14PM (#43442070)
Fun tip: If you have an iPhone, rapidly pressing the power button five times will force your phone to require a password before Face ID will work again. Turning your device off entirely will also necessitate password reentry.
Re:This is no world for an axolotl
on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:39AM (#43408302)
We’re really messing this place up huh
Re:Underrated Soft Skills: Charisma
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:32PM (#43405405)
This reads like a dispatch from an alien who’s spent the past year studying human beings.