Readit Newsnerder92 commented on The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986) phrack.org/issues/7/3... · Posted by u/OuterVale
I love this. This manifesto is what got me into tech. Thank you for sharing
Is this lmgtfy of the AI era?
nerder92 commented on I built a tool to check if Trump AI video comments were bots github.com/nerder/comment... · Posted by u/nerder92
When Trump’s video about the Kirk assassination (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yCu21pL73s) went viral, I noticed a wave of replies aggressively insisting the video was not AI-generated. I could feel those replies were mostly by bots as I've checked manually few accounts and most of them followed weirdly the same patter:
1. Created in 2013
2. Have between 7 and 10 subs
3. Have between 2 and 3 video playlist
4. Account bio extremely generic
• Downloads all YouTube comments + replies
• Runs sentiment analysis on each
• Detects bot-like behavior using heuristics + LLMs
I didn't went as far as trying to understand where these accounts are coming from, but my main goal was to confirm whether this was real coordination.
I'm not expert in data nor in python (I've mostly vibe-coded it). I’d love to get some help from folks how might be interested on these topic.
nerder92 commented on Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100 bbc.com/news/articles/cd0... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Related, perhaps?
The secret to living to 110? Bad record-keeping, says Ig Nobel Prize winner.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/12/25/lifestyle/lifes...
This should come from this paper I guess: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3
nerder92 commented on Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100 bbc.com/news/articles/cd0... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Okinawa, Japan is famously one of the world's five "blue zones" and much ink has been expended on figuring out why. Bitter gourd or certain types of seaweed, perhaps?
What's less often discussed is that it's also Japan's poorest prefecture to this day, with spotty record keeping since it was effectively a Japanese colony (it was previously the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was annexed by Japan in 1879). Vast slabs of the main island were razed to the ground during the WW2 Battle of Okinawa and much of the civilian population simply starved to death.
I remember a paper from last year in which they are suggesting that basically Blue Zones are made just by a combination of clerical error and pension fraud: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3
nerder92 commented on Trump video is 100% AI Generated youtube.com/watch?v=2yCu2... · Posted by u/nerder92
I mean...if there is anybody who cannot pass an AI video for a real one is Trump.
His weaving and rambling and incapability to stay on course during a speech is notorious to everybody at this point
Agreed, but why they are they even doing it tho? Also it seems to be pretty advanced video generation compared to what I've seen around.