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>On tweet hate-speech it hits the model's ceiling

This sounds like a sus endeavor to redline your LLM with, could you elaborate ?

I was thinking of where we could go from here --

it would be a nice touch for the prosecution to throw a bed sheet over their head and yell "BOOOOOOOO! I'm the ghost of [victim]! He killed me , your honor!" pointed finger

This can still be done programmatically without any kind of confirmation from aws-cli, bringing this back to, an API can (and probably should be able to) take certain destructive operations that someone’s blocked from doing in a UI, such as in your example.

My s3 buckets are backed up with Nakivo (and immutable for 7 days) just in case, and that’s just to protect me from myself and my s3 provider either failing or deciding they don’t want to do business with me anymore for some arbitrary reason. I’m not even turning an LLM loose on it.

It’s a little shitposty but i had fun.

I, too, hate it when people discuss hacking on my Claude News homepage.

it was doing the same to me in 26.2 , to the point where I’d pause and reveal any passwords it just generated then copy and paste them into a note before proceeding.

Not sure if it’s fixed in 26.4 because I don’t trust their updates anymore every one just makes the phone worse or deploys some new oppressive age app or identity verification scheme to lick another nation-states jackboots.

Of course they’re my own opinions, that’s why they’re downvoted so hard.
Oh boy a docker container from a new account that logs into all my bank accounts and then accesses them from my own IP, where do i sign up /s
Xitter was kind of doing the same thing: I can’t see anything my mom posts, but I definitely have to see everything Elon’s mom does.
Re:Refuse to let your doctor record you on Friday April 24, 2026 @12:48PM (#47892719)
the two places they come in handy:

1) in the event you find yourself partially or totally disabled but the records don’t really make a good case for it and your provider has a dismissive attitude about filling out additional documentation to substantiate what they failed to in your records.

You’re not necessarily going to get approved for FMLA, STD, LTD, SS etc based on a diagnosis or test results alone. They will nitpick over say, heart failure, as if that’s magically and spontaneously going to go away. If you’re telling your provider that you’re limited by things like oh I don’t know, “I’m only awake for 2-4 hours before I need to sleep again” or “some days I just can’t do it and sleep 20 hours” but it’s not in your chart… expect denials and clarifications and a huge burden on you to prove why it’s limiting.

2) continuity of care, so you don’t end up explaining everything from the top to a specialist or having them run all these tests and procedures from square one — when there’s months long backlogs , and we already did all this and you need treatment - but - there wasn’t much to work with in your referring chart.

You might not appreciate the “intrusion” if you’re healthy and just worried about your privacy.

If/When things go south and you find yourself fighting these entities for a year or two or three while they nitpick and delay and deny and drag their feet , you’ll be glad an “AI” kept up meticulous records because this is phenomenally stressful and an endless burden on you when they don’t.

So, their AI slop can vomit out all this extra info on why insurance companies should pay them or why your condition is in fact disabling, and now their AI slop can comb through it looking for all that. Because they will try to avoid paying or approving any kind of leave or benefits if it’s not there

And god forbid you hand them a form where they’re being asked to explain themselves. 50/50 on them being eager to help out or rolling their eyes and saying something really nasty about the imposition. And then even when they do that, they almost never file a copy in your chart so your chart STILL doesn’t substantiate your claims. I’m all for an “ai” doing the progress notes in a case where the facility or provider can’t be fucked to do so.

Happily that’s not true of my current provider, who just, does that anyway (?) But I’ve been around enough to know they’re an exception. Even when providers are on your side and mean well, and want to bend over backwards to help you in any way they can — and I want to just acknowledge that’s the situation I’m in today — honestly , sometimes they just forget some of the details when they do their notes.

That’s why some places make the provider do it in real time while they’re talking to you, so they didn’t forget something relevant thirty minutes later. The other side of the coin here may be that some providers find that distracting or off putting to be typing away like a stenographer while they’re examining you…

I think it would be fair to say this can all be tedious and a burden for both patients and providers. There’s just a world of difference between a provider who wants to do this to provide excellency in care, and a provider who wants to do this because they resent it and think it’s beneath them.

Re:Ubuntu 26.04 on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:25AM (#47885934)
its in the daily builds. I haven't tried it yet.

not sure if this confirms the impression you have there... I wasn't like this until a couple of headless VPS'es (on Arm8) got through the upgrade from 18.x -> 20.x -> 22.x and then crashed out over -> 24.x for a still unknown reason. now I'm just afraid .. or I should say reluctant ..to repeat that whole fiasco.

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/daily-live/current/

Senators and Congresspersons don’t like competition >8(
>Phone companies aren’t going to hire a bunch of specialized workers to comply with legal orders instantly instead of soon enough. And there surely needs to be a ticket made and such… it’s not like CS reps have that info.

Not really, a letter or a subpoena would do it.

I used to sit over the cubicle wall with one of two (?) guys processing them for at&t.

Both had “real jobs” Like as Cisco guys , but would drop that and prioritize anything they got.

Despite being in the same org and sitting right there and having the same day job, I guess- they kept the pool of people doing this very small so they could minimize leaks or tipping off the subject of an LEO request. It’d be a hard copy and only two or three people laid eyes on it.

They now have web portals for departments to enroll in and expedite all that , upload these documents or initiate requests but around the time I left this was brand new and only had uptake by a few urban departments. That’s the direction they went in, rather than more or specialized personnel

(I’m talking cops and local PDs - Federally these requests usually consist of “oh hi. We’re going to be looking at this data we already collected lol!” )

Overall it can take them longer to whip up a complaint and get a judge to sign off on PC and get warrants than it does to get telcos to respond to them, with carve outs for imminent danger to life or safety.

I’d only ever get to see one whenever someone decided to do something stupid from a Starbucks or hotel (etc) hotspot, which is a different scenario than a wireless sub except in the case where they’re both and authenticated automatically that way.

Re:Kahtooee.com on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @05:46PM (#47869691)
that’s a wasted click and three seconds of my life I’ll never get back.
But I was only following orders!
Re:Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:33PM (#47854179)
Eh, just tell your truth as you know it and don’t get too caught up on what people make of it.

I get to be “entertained” because it’s not my first day on the internet, nor involved in a project or page that’s come with death threats doxing , ddosing, vendettas, vindictiveness, mutually assured destruction and or prolonged public outrage.

Maybe someone wants a broom or has some magical thinking that they’re going to profit off someone’s work. In my case, they stole everything I wrote and went “we don’t need you now.” And oh look, they failed.

That’s just how fucking people are in this society anymore. That part isn’t funny.

So it’s that kind of (unfortunately) knowing chuckle.

If you guys over at GoS insist on putting on a messy public spectacle, fine, but if you’re telling me how to react to it? Get bent lol.

Re:Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:05PM (#47853834)
“I’m not paranoid! Why? What have you heard?!??!????”

(I’m aware I’m interacting with a sock account that only indulges in defenses of GrapheneOS on HN and im being facetious.)

Every once in awhile there’s a group or a project that was just asking to be burned down with everyone inside, I wasn’t there so…

I’m a grapheneOS user and I kind of find the guys public melties entertaining.

>Johnny is shot dead by officers responding to a maniac with a fire axe who broke into an LA hotel and was screaming about space aliens.

I’m pretty sure LAPD is too used to this sort of thing to get spooked by it?

I completely lost my will to live about halfway through this page.
I had no idea who he even was, but as a former user of several Atlassian products , pass me a pitchfork.
“If I suddenly die on you I want you to keep going.”

Oh. Oh. Okay. Its okay when Amazon does it but if I put that in my Grindr profile it’s weird and I’m creepy and I’m not allowed back on there.

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760360

Surprised that one didn’t catch a few more comments.

Re:The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:16PM (#47786592)
I use the double dash.

This gets corrected to an emdash.

I get annoyed and put the double dash back in.

Sometimes swearing a little or grumbling “HEY. I typed what I typed” at it helps a little.

I don’t even know how many times in 20-30+ years I’ve checked some box in system or program preferences begging it to knock that off.

This is the real reason I already loathe and avoid the emdash (nitpicking over a personal stylistic preference I won’t relent on even if I’m wrong) but I can’t be the only one this happens to.

Getting piled on and called “AI” really doesn’t ease my distaste for it, but .. do people.. not write enough to understand that it brute forces its way into human copy as well?

and yes. phone posting on HN. will insert them. to my dismay.

The other one that ticks me off endlessly but I’ve finally said to hell with it and just let it go?

Turning " into “.

(Writer. Not a very good one and I’m not here to steer anyone to that drivel. But at least I’m a human one.)

Re:GitHub Copilot rate limits Pro Users on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:07PM (#47786502)
If anyone missed it: Microsoft recently declared that Copilot was for entertainment purposes only. [0]

They weren’t lying: Schadenfreude is a.. form of entertainment. I’m just not sure if their users are entertained with the product right now.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/copilot-terms-claim-microsofts-ai...

Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @06:29PM (#47786179)
crontab yes, flavors of shell, no.

But I actually did appreciate the one time he handed me a Cisco config that was 90% perfect and took me all of 5 minutes to fix. Sometimes the three of us make a hell of a team.

Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:27PM (#47784782)
>scripting and automation

I cringe at my old boss’s handiwork in Claude and power automate sometimes and go “you know I could just do that in a script and a cron job and it would be completely bullet proof, right?”

Then he just shoots back with, “yeah but now I don’t have to ask you.”

This is my kludge, there are many others like it but this one is mine.

Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't we increase flagging threshold? on Monday April 13, 2026 @07:16AM (#47750442)
My .02 : a minimum account age or score before someone can submit a link or post. Would solve half of the things that are being flagged in the first place.
> People who use terms like ‘fascist regime’ don’t get consideration.

Are they referring to IBM, or?

They don’t like it so much they wrote a gushing press release bragging about it!

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