skarz

Are we comparing nuclear energy to an LLM?

If I recall correctly most forum software such as phpBB and vBulletin had an option where you could toggle between viewing a thread in nested BBS/Usenet style or the newer linear view.

Put your site behind Cloudflare, enable Bot Fight. Done.

Similar, but it was a very realistic looking photo of a woman in lingerie taking a selfie in a car.

I have used ChatGPT to generate HUNDREDS of photos and I have never once had it bring back violent or sexual content. It does, however, routinely reject certain requests due to me trying to incorporate copyrighted characters. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why does their website seem like a clone of Anthropic's?

Every time I get in my car the Apple Music app prompts me to resubscribe with a full screen popup. Usually it tries 2-3 times before it stops.

Lately whenever I watch movies my remote stays in my hand so I can boost the volume during dialogue and turn it down during loud action scenes. I've had two different soundbars, one of them quite expensive, and it's an issue on both.

https://archive.ph/HLtIl

ProtonPass

$10k a month on a blog??

Is this real? I examined to their source code and found an exposed TypeScript RPC which indicates the following:

totalMembers: 4954

totalPledged: 5678872

averagePledge: 1146.320549

However the numbers on the website appear to be hardcoded in with very dramatically different numbers.

Anyone remember Google Desktop[1] that had built in search?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop

I do. I treat ChatGPT output the same as Wikipedia content. I find what I am looking for then immediately open the source to confirm. I would never in a million years take ChatGPT output or Wikipedia content and blindly reference it without doing my due diligence.

...were people doing that? Something tells me this is just dismissive whataboutism.

OP is using LastPass still, oof...

I used to do that with blurays when I was uploading releases to TPB.

Well, there you have it. GPT-5 failed a basic explanation lol.

These people are trained to sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day reading mostly garbage and making objective summaries.

You just described the entire Cyber Mission Force, lol.

Try one of these. They have the popup but you can dismiss it.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/JlE5T

https://web.archive.org/web/20250812172455/https://every.to/...

Personally I think having the option to make grok's response public can be helpful, much like a community note. Let's face it, on reddit or Facebook or YouTube the first thing people do now is go straight to the comments for context or feedback. As they say, the real answer is always in the comments.

Amazon has very sophisticated anti-Astroturfing measures.

And yet they won't do anything about sellers who change their listing to a completely different product once it gets to the 4-5 star range. Can't tell you how many times I've been looking at some tool or gadget only to glance at the reviews and see people mentioning socks.

The United States has that, it's called Consumer Reports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports

And not just DDoS protection, but privacy. Cloudflare offers a huge amount of privacy protection which causes huge headaches for IP holders. You can read online about the feedback loop of Cloudflare/OVH for example sending automated notices back and forth. Usually the process is:

1. IP holder representative sends notice to Cloudflare 2. Cloudflare sends automated notice to account manager 3. Cloudflare informs person from step 1 of who actually hosts the site 4. Person from #1 emails web host who is probably a shady company who in turn ignores email 5. Nothing happens

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44045314

I wonder how viable the referral link/referrer code method is? Based on my own YouTube viewing habits it seems like a lot of prominent channels have gone that route. Seems like it could work for the web overall. Ads would no longer have to target via cookies or browsing history because you could just serve links or offer codes related to your site's content.

Yes, "now". According to Google Trends[0] there was little to no search interest in the term until December 2023.

Usage of 'grokked' on HN: 1,147[1]

Usage of 'hacked' on HN: 37,272[2]

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=g...

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

What does it even mean?

Is 'grokked' a common verb now? I had never even heard the word until Musk's AI.

What's the best service or app for tracking data breaches where your username and password are leaked? I'm trying to mitigate some leaks through ProtonPass but it's very frustrating as they simply say "password ****123 was found on the dark web" (they actually redact the full password) so then I manually have to go through my 100+ passwords and look for that particular password.