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Madmallard commented on OpenAI Progress   progress.openai.com... · Posted by u/vinhnx
fariszr · 11 days ago
GPT-5 is legitimately a big jump whe it comes to actually do things you ask it and nothing else. It predictable and matches Claude in tool calls while being cheaper.
Madmallard · 11 days ago
I have consistently had worse performance from GPT-5 in coding tasks than Claude across the board to the point that I don't even use my subscription now.
Madmallard commented on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it   garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/kgwgk
Madmallard · 18 days ago
A friend of mine works in AI professionally. He told me months ago that it is basically just all a scam and hype to garner investment money. He said the technology and paradigm itself will never lend toward AGI or anything like that.

He sent me all these articles geared toward that end as well. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral...https://substack.com/@cattelainf/note/c-135021342https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06177https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-2027-scenario-how-r...https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/25-ai-predictions-for-2025...

Madmallard commented on AI is propping up the US economy   bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko
Madmallard · 21 days ago
What even is this? Are we just lying on the front of hacker news now?

Anyone who is actually in the industry knows that this is the opposite of the truth. There are more layoffs than ever. Yea maybe it's being propped up for the richest of the rich taking advantage of leverage over speculation. Everyone else? It's just getting worse and worse. And that's what actually matters.

Madmallard commented on Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet   theverge.com/analysis/715... · Posted by u/GSSmarin
Madmallard · 23 days ago
I don't really like articles like this propagating it like it's just an inevitable thing that we should just accept.

How about we don't? Where's the hacker news post of a GitHub repo with easy ways to bypass age verification and multiple mirrors and such so that it can't be wiped away. It'd be a new arms race.

Parents should just be responsible for their kids.

Really sick of the enshittification epidemic.

Madmallard commented on AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser   elroy.bot/blog/2025/07/29... · Posted by u/jjfoooo4
Madmallard · a month ago
I guess the AI glazing has infiltrated everywhere
Madmallard commented on I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains    · Posted by u/cesargstn
Madmallard · a month ago
I have tons of projects partly made or finished but small in scope on my personal site:

https://www.mallardgames.com/

Maybe some of them could make money, with more polish and marketing. Who knows! I have never tried.

I just make whatever I feel like.

Madmallard commented on Intel CEO Letter to Employees   morethanmoore.substack.co... · Posted by u/fancy_pantser
Madmallard · a month ago
15% reduction in headcount, 15% increase in foreign headcount INC
Madmallard commented on Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone    · Posted by u/ipsum2
ews · 2 months ago
Moved to firefox and I am glad I did, I want to use a browser that respects my privacy choices
Madmallard · 2 months ago
Apparently no one remembers when Firefox changed their terms of service literally this year to become adversarial toward their own users.

Librewolf is the way to go now.

Madmallard commented on The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering   philschmid.de/context-eng... · Posted by u/robotswantdata
bgwalter · 2 months ago
These discussions increasingly remind me of gamers discussing various strategies in WoW or similar. Purportedly working strategies found by trial and error and discussed in a language that is only intelligible to the in-group (because no one else is interested).

We are entering a new era of gamification of programming, where the power users force their imaginary strategies on innocent people by selling them to the equally clueless and gaming-addicted management.

Madmallard · 2 months ago
There's quite a lot science that goes into WoW strategizing at this point.

People are using their thinking caps and modelling data.

Madmallard commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures   iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
thangalin · 2 months ago
Mostly stolen from elsewhere:

    ! Stop sites from prompting to sign into Google account
    ||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p

    ! Stop annoying reels from littering friend feeds
    www.facebook.com##[aria-label="reel"]:upward(2)

    youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element
    youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element-show

    youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
    youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
    youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
    youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

    ! Don't use the obnoxious new bold font for titles, use the old font instead
    www.youtube.com###title h1 yt-formatted-string:style(font-family: Arial, sans-serif !important; font-weight: 400 !important;)
    www.youtube.com##h3.ytd-playlist-panel-renderer .title .yt-formatted-string:style(font-family: Arial, sans-serif !important; font-weight: 400 !important;)

    ! Remove branding bugs in the bottom corner
    www.youtube.com##div.iv-branding
    www.youtube.com##.annotation.annotation-type-custom.iv-branding

    ! Disable live video previews on hover
    www.youtube.com##+js(aeld, /^(?:mousemove|pointermove|pointerenter)$/, buttons)

    ! Remove "Scroll for details"
    www.youtube.com##.ytp-button.ytp-fullerscreen-edu-button

    ! Remove "This video contains paid content" warning
    www.youtube.com##.ytp-paid-content-overlay

    ! Remove badges
    www.youtube.com##.ytd-compact-video-renderer.style-scope.badges
    www.youtube.com##ytd-badge-supported-renderer.ytd-video-primary-info-renderer

    ! Remove badges in lists, expand video title to fill that space again
    www.youtube.com##.ytd-badge-supported-renderer.style-scope.badge-style-type-verified.badge
    www.youtube.com###menu > .ytd-compact-video-renderer.style-scope
    www.youtube.com##.ytd-compact-video-renderer.style-scope.metadata:style(padding-right:0!important)

    ! Remove chat
    www.youtube.com###chat

    ! Remove sidebar
    www.youtube.com##ytd-mini-guide-renderer.ytd-app.style-scope
    www.youtube.com##ytd-app[mini-guide-visible] ytd-page-manager.ytd-app:style(margin-left:0px!important)

    ! Remove the shadow over the top of videos
    www.youtube.com##div.ytp-gradient-top
    www.youtube.com##.ytp-chrome-top

    ! Reduce opacity of the shadow over the bottom of videos
    www.youtube.com##div.ytp-gradient-bottom:style(opacity: 55% !important)

    ! Reduce opacity of video length labels
    www.youtube.com##ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer.ytd-thumbnail.style-scope:style(opacity:75% !important)

    ! Remove Next button. I only ever hit this accidentally, losing my place
    ! and my playback buffer >:-[
    www.youtube.com##.ytp-left-controls > .ytp-button.ytp-next-button

    ! Remove Miniplayer button
    www.youtube.com##.ytp-button.ytp-miniplayer-button

    ! Force YouTube to display the complete copyright information in the description
    www.youtube.com###expanded-metadata:style(display:block !important)

    ! Don't load the preview image before the video loads (saves some bandwidth)
    ||i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/*/maxresdefault.webp
    ||i.ytimg.com/vi/*/maxresdefault.jpg

    ! Remove interactions (eg if you never login to YouTube)
    www.youtube.com###like-button
    www.youtube.com###dislike-button
    www.youtube.com###sponsor-button
    www.youtube.com###hover-overlays
    www.youtube.com###subscribe-button
    www.youtube.com###flexible-item-buttons
    www.youtube.com###button-shape
    www.youtube.com###reply-button-end

    ! Remove sidebar items that are only applicable to logged-in users
    www.youtube.com##ytd-guide-section-renderer.ytd-guide-renderer.style-scope:nth-of-type(1)
    www.youtube.com##ytd-guide-section-renderer.ytd-guide-renderer.style-scope:nth-of-type(2)

    ! Remove "Watch Later" and "Add to Queue"
    www.youtube.com###hover-overlays

    ! Remove the "skeleton" shown before the page loads
    www.youtube.com##.skeleton
    www.youtube.com###info-skeleton
    www.youtube.com###meta-skeleton
    www.youtube.com###owner-name
    www.youtube.com##.skeleton-bg-color
    www.youtube.com###home-page-skeleton
    www.youtube.com###masthead-skeleton-icons
    ||www.youtube.com/s/desktop/*/cssbin/www-main-desktop-watch-page-skeleton.css
    ||www.youtube.com/s/desktop/*/cssbin/www-main-desktop-player-skeleton.css

    ! Remove the live previews on the scrubber bar (saves some bandwidth, but
    ! not worth it IMO)
    ||i.ytimg.com/sb/*
    www.youtube.com##div.ytp-tooltip-bg
    www.youtube.com##div.ytp-tooltip-image
    www.youtube.com##div.ytp-tooltip:style(border-radius:0px;!important)*

Madmallard · 2 months ago
Is this something to put in host file? What is this

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