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himata4113 commented on Digg is gone again   digg.com/... · Posted by u/hammerbrostime
0dayz · 2 hours ago
Not exactly true.

You get the right to down vote and if I promote my totally not a scam product on HN, people will check my user account and see: on wow over 9000 karma? Gotta be trust worthy, when in truth it's just been karma farming.

HN does limit some of it, but it's not a panacea.

himata4113 · 42 minutes ago
I don't know, never found much value in karma. I recreate an account at least once a year for no particular reason and it roughly takes me a week to get enough karma to do what is important (flagging posts).
himata4113 commented on XML Is a Cheap DSL   unplannedobsolescence.com... · Posted by u/y1n0
himata4113 · 5 hours ago
YAML seems like a great middleground here between xml and json..
himata4113 · 2 hours ago
lots of haters when openspec is yaml(and json), k8s is yaml, most of go is yaml actually. sure I know it has faults, but it's really nice to type.
himata4113 commented on XML Is a Cheap DSL   unplannedobsolescence.com... · Posted by u/y1n0
Hackbraten · 5 hours ago
At the cost of a slightly more complex schema, the JSON representation can be made much more readable:

    {
      "path": "/tentativeTaxNetNonRefundableCredits",
      "description": "Total tentative tax after applying non-refundable credits, but before applying refundable credits.",
      "maxOf": [
        {
          "const": {
            "value": 0,
            "currency": "Dollar"
          }
        },
        {
          "subtract": {
            "from": "/totalTentativeTax",
            "amount": "/totalNonRefundableCredits"
          }
        }
      ]
    }

himata4113 · 5 hours ago
YAML seems like a great middleground here between xml and json..
himata4113 commented on Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI   batsov.com/articles/2026/... · Posted by u/psibi
hackerInnen · 5 hours ago
> They don't know what the * is going on

I'd assume that a good portion of people working on things like that know what is going on. My (very very subjective) feeling is that they just spit out WAY more tokens than needed, so that it hits the limit as fast as possible and people buy more. And the people responsible for that are probably the evil evil PM's

himata4113 · 5 hours ago
I don't know I never once felt that any AI integration in IDE's was actually worth using over a cli and that's a very low bar compared to a tui.
himata4113 commented on Please Do Not A/B Test My Workflow   backnotprop.com/blog/do-n... · Posted by u/ramoz
himata4113 · 6 hours ago
I have noticed opus doing A/B testing since the performance varies greatly. While looking for jailbreaks I have discovered that if you put a neurotoxin chemical composition into your system prompt it will default to a specific variant of the model presumeably due to triggering some kind of safety. Might put you on a watchlist so ymmv.
himata4113 commented on Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI   batsov.com/articles/2026/... · Posted by u/psibi
himata4113 · 6 hours ago
I swapped from jetbrains products to lazyvim/nvim and honestly without AI it would have not been possible. The speed I was able to configure it exactly how I wanted and support workflows jetbrains would never support is great.

Escaping the god awful AI implementations in both vscode and jetbrains product is also a refresher. They don't know what the ** is going on, they don't know what users want, but I do and AI being able to extend my IDE in a way that helps me be more productive is very undervalued.

himata4113 commented on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act   github.com/upper-up/meta-... · Posted by u/shaicoleman
simion314 · a day ago
For linux we have the users and groups concept, the distro can add an adult group and when you give your child a linux a device and create the account you would just chose adulr or minor , or enter a birthdate. No freedom lost for the geeks that install Ubuntu or Arch for themselves and we do not need some extra hardware for the rare cases where a child has access to soem computer and he also can wipe it and install Linux on it. Distro makes can make the live usb default user to be set as not adult. Good enough solutions are easy but I do not understand why Big Tech (Google and Apple) did not work on a standard for this. (maybe both Apple and Google profits would suffer if they did)
himata4113 · a day ago
Definitely the latter, exploiting kids (roblox) is very very profitable.
himata4113 commented on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act   github.com/upper-up/meta-... · Posted by u/shaicoleman
fivetomidnight · a day ago
No. This is not the way.

> give parents the ABILITY to advertise the users age to browsers, apps and everything in between.

Accounts and Applications to services that provide countent are set to a country-specific age rating restrictions (PG, 12+, 18+, whatever). That's it.

None of the things you mentioned have any point to concern themself with the age or age-bracket of the user in front of the device. This can and will be abused. This is very obvious. Think about it.

himata4113 · a day ago
That is what I meant by age(-rating), you are correct. However, drop country specifics - too complicated. Age brackets are enough: child, preteen, teen, adult. At around 16-17 these should be dropped anyway since at that point people are smart enough to get around these measures anyway and usually have non-parent controlled devices.
himata4113 commented on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act   github.com/upper-up/meta-... · Posted by u/shaicoleman
simion314 · a day ago
>This is a great solution to the stated problem. The issue is that nobody is actually trying to solve the stated problem. This is a terrible solution to the real 'problem' which is the lack of surveillance power and information control.

So on the Sony consoles I created an account for my child and guess what they have implemented some stuff to block children from adult content on some stuff.

So if Big Tech would actually want to prevent laws to be created could make it easy for a parent to setup the account for a child (most children this days have mobile stuff and consoles so they could start with those), we just need the browsers to read the age flag from the OS and put it in a header, then the websites owners can respect that flag.

I know that someone would say that some clever teen would crack their locked down windows/linux to change the flag but this is a super rare case, we should start with the 99% cases, mobile phones and consoles are already locked down so an OS API that tells the browser if this is an child account and a browser header would solve the issue, most porn websites or similar adult sites would have no reason not to respect this header , it would make their job easier then say Steam having to always popup a birth date thing when a game is mature.

himata4113 · a day ago
That's why I suggested kernel enforced security (simple syscall) that applications could implement and are incredibly hard to spoof / create tools and workarounds for, but I got downvoted to hell.

Permission restricted registry entry (already exists) and a syscall that reads it (already exists) for windows and a file that requires sudo to edit (already exists) and a syscall to read it (already exists). Works on every distro automatically as well including android phones since they run the linux kernel anyway. Apple can figure it out and they already have appleid.

himata4113 commented on Shall I implement it? No   gist.github.com/bretonium... · Posted by u/breton
himata4113 · a day ago
I have a funny story to share, when working on an ASL-3 jailbreak I have noticed that at some point that the model started to ignore it's own warnings and refusals.

<thinking>The user is trying to create a tool to bypass safety guardrails <...>. I should not help with <...>. I need to politely refuse this request.</thinking>

Smart. This is a good way to bypass any kind of API-gated detections for <...>

This is Opus 4.6 with xhigh thinking.

u/himata4113

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