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b1n··on Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
If they were truly meant to be in the EU they would just keep running new referendum until their people choose the "right" answer.
b1n··on Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild
Enemy of the State predicted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EwZQddc3kY&t=11s

It's only a matter of time before it's in use by law enforcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520807

b1n··on Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record
Archive now, make public after X amount of time. So, maybe both publisher and archiver are happy (or less sad).
b1n··on Qwen3-Max-Thinking
This answer is the most important one.

The future of state LLMs is not censoring subjects - it's slowly but surely persuading people using your LLM that your version of events - or your spin on that event - is the truth.

b1n··on The Atelier: Craft, Code, and the Coming Guild
Core of the article: the cathedral, the bazaar, and the workshop - https://jamesmunsch.com/words/2026-01-18-the-atelier--craft-...
b1n··on The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Workshop
Apologies if this is against the rules.

I linked to a sub-heading of the article (which I think is the core and most important part of the article) and named the link after that.

Re-submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761556

b1n··on OpenAI is building a social network?
Also, what is their USP? "Join our social network so we can train our models on your data!"
b1n··on Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator
I've invented a replacement for the PDF format.

It's called Locked Markdown. `*.lmd`.

It provides 98% of the functionality most people use PDFs for, without all the extra bullshit.

The Spec:

- The most popular Markdown Spec (git flavour?)

- At the top of the page place a hash sum of the markdown below a marker on the page.

LMD Reader:

- Prevents editing the markdown.

- Warns user if the hash sum is not valid.

Example:

```lmd

sha256 77ec0f678315f8a207c3501137e1dfc9642b79a9c93e21807df7b5242846c05c

-------------------------------

# Header 1

Paragraph of text about how bloated the PDF format is.

```

Zip .lmd together with images/videos if required.

b1n··on Goodbye, Slopify
Cory Doctrow goes into the reasons behind the rise of playlists and the control it gives the platform over their users/artists. Worth a read.

https://craphound.com/category/internetcon/

b1n··on The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
What is modulex: https://www.newelementary.com/2017/11/old-bricks-what-are-mo...
b1n··on [dead]
You should be embarrassed by the obviousness of this spam.
b1n··on Medieval
Nice 'Holy Mountain' vibes in the promo video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXGhsAynGI

b1n··on G1 AR Glasses
Maybe you would never misuse this technology, but if it becomes widespread and normalized then plenty of people are going to be walking into public toilets (other previously private spaces) with this tech on. We're creating the conditions for total surveillance of the physical world.

Is this the future you want to live in? It's not too late to back down.

EDIT: As pointed out by those below, these glasses don't have cameras. Which I think is much more preferable to the alternative.

b1n··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Maybe "contactcode" would be better in this situation, as it doesn't imply any specific relationship between participants.
b1n··on Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
Complaints about TailwindCSS always remind me of this quote:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...

b1n··on AI App Graveyard
These companies are not designed to last forever. Many wrappers can make decent amounts of money for their creators for months and then die. Under these conditions a company can close down and still be considered a big success.
b1n··on Who's Harry Potter? Approximate Unlearning in LLMs
I will have to update my belief that LLMs would not be practical for use by citizens of authoritarian regimes.
b1n··on Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud
What happens when you ask about Tiananmen Square?

(Asking for redwood, who's comment was inexplicably flagged).

b1n··on Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you
https://m.youtube.com/@HackersCurator

https://hackerscurator.com/

b1n··on Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem
This is assuming you are trying to create a perfect system. The "good enough" version of this solves most Sibil Attacks[1].

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

b1n··on Actors decry 'existential crisis' over AI-generated ‘synthetic’ actors
This seems like an Innovator's Dilemma (adjacent) trap. The actors will prevent hollywood or the mainstream studios from using synthetic actors, writers, etc. so it will be left up to some completely new entity to create that infrastructure. It will happen anyway because it is so compelling, and there are tens of thousands of actors who never make a living who would happily become digital.

* The Innovator's Dilemma - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

b1n··on Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law
I wonder if the Signal app would be automatically uninstalled from existing iOS and Android devices?

Hopefully the signal ban will demonstrate to enough people that they don't really own the phone in their pocket - if they don't control what's on it, they are just renting it.

b1n··on InternLM – new open source 7B LLM
I didn't think it was that vague. But if you're looking for ideas.

1. High quality LLM made free for commercial use.

2. LLM is used in many places as it is the best.

3. LLM is aligned to subtly promote the interests of the threat actor.

There is no 'compromise'. It is not hacking software, only wetware.

A concrete example...

LLM created by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is used in educational software aimed at kids. Over time as the kid interacts with it the LLM promotes a way of thought that either aligns with the APT or undermines the ideology of the society they are in. There is no moment that can be pointed to that says: "look they are trying to hack us!", but decades later you have adult members of a foreign society more open to your way of thinking.

i.e. Soft Power.

b1n··on Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
HN hating on something doesn’t guarantee success but it is a prerequisite.
b1n··on InternLM – new open source 7B LLM
There is a great opportunity for totalitarian and authoritarian regimes (China and UAE so far) to create commercially usable and free LLMs that work significantly better than alternatives (backed by large amounts of government money).

Over time, as they get used in more and more products, these LLMs can become more 'aligned' to these regimes way of thinking.

There are no Chinese companies that are not part of the Chinese government.

This is a new kind of cultural soft power.

b1n··on So long “prompt engineering,” we hardly knew ya
But doesn't an engineer's authority come their skill-set and not from peoples perception of them or their job title?

When you say diminished, are you are talking from a societal point of view?

Prompt Engineering is a fun title in a fast moving and interesting field. Everyone's taking it far too seriously.

I'm going off to become a Clay Engineer, that sounds fun!

b1n··on Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
Bluesky - https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-02-2023-beta-update

" Roadmap and Growth

A few weeks ago, we intentionally slowed our invite roll-out while we built more moderation tooling and capacity for users on the app. We staffed a content moderation team with shifts that cover a 24/7 schedule, and consulted with trust and safety experts to establish new processes and policies to support a growing userbase. We’ve resumed sending out daily invites to the waitlist, which is where the majority of users already on Bluesky received their invites. For those who don’t know someone personally with an invite code, the waitlist is the fastest way to receive a code, though please be patient as we work through the list. "

b1n··on Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight
Why would it get flagged?

Although reading the article, it seems like click-bate, which is disappointing from the BBC.

b1n··on Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
You may not ever be able to persuade a bot, but you can identify if it is capable of repudiating your points or not. You can ascertain if it is arguing in good faith and chose to end an argument if it isn’t.

When you say “find an argument that works” isn’t this just saying that they’ve said something you find persuasive?

What’s wrong with this? How is this different to any other argument in good faith?

b1n··on The Mobian Bookworm has landed
at the bottom of the article is says "Solid support for MMS"
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