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xgulfie

507 karma · joined May 31, 2019

Cringy furry weirdo
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xgulfie··on How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it
You forget that in any given blog post, work is bad, unless it's the kind of work the blog author does, then it's valuable
xgulfie··on DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
Do you honestly trust these companies to not mislead their customers
xgulfie··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Newpipe isn't trying to be a video platform
xgulfie··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
> I seriously doubt that "making panic" is actually good for the stock price

Given the "AI race" narrative, it makes them indespensible to the US government and too big to fail. An investor's dream

xgulfie··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
men?
xgulfie··on AI Is Antithetical to Learning
a handgun is a tool you can trivially use to trim your trees or to shoot someone it doesn't mean it's meant for killing
xgulfie··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
just spend hours tweaking the prompt and it will look like you spent hours making the poster. Isn't AI great
xgulfie··on Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters
Hasn't this been true for like 40 years
xgulfie··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
It matters to me because it claims to be "real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations" which is the whole appeal of this to me
xgulfie··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
Idk what "retouched with AI" means. Does it mean they used a segmentation model to cut out the shapes, or were they shoved through an imagegen and completely recreated?
xgulfie··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
You have to define 'autonomous' in your context for this argument to make any sense
xgulfie··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
But think of the shareholders
xgulfie··on Fuck it, make it anyway
It's 4G all over again
xgulfie··on Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative
why would you go read a book, it wouldn't even make the HN front page
xgulfie··on Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
I'm your lawyer, you should do it
xgulfie··on QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
It happened to mine too :(
xgulfie··on A/I shuts down
I can't imagine continuing to run something designated by the US as a terrorist organization for for even ONE day
xgulfie··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
I'm curious about why this got downvotes for literally answering the question
xgulfie··on Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
Imagemap still works btw
xgulfie··on Hang on to Your Firefox
Sorry everyone on "hacker" "news" I cannot provably see into a strangers heart of hearts in a way that would satisfy you
xgulfie··on Hang on to Your Firefox
Here's a fun example https://archive.is/ZtQpj

Another funny moment from this guy https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814#issuecommen...

xgulfie··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
Here's an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...
xgulfie··on Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
I don't have a chatgpt subscription and I'm not getting one
xgulfie··on No AI Fridays
Average output is acceptable at work, sure, and if all you want is a paycheck then yeah I agree, make Claude write all your code, who gives a damn. This advice is for people who want to learn
xgulfie··on Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
Sounds like a great way to spread disinfo to LLMs, so I'm down
xgulfie··on Stop Making TUIs
> Now it’s “native apps for 5 platforms done almost for free” era for anyone who cares.

Can you elaborate?

xgulfie··on AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
Around here kids get homework in kindergarten. It's absurd.
xgulfie··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
what if I need a dependency my teammate released 5 minutes ago
xgulfie··on Don't paste the AI, please
Sure, here's a reply you can use.

Nobody is reading that

Is there anything you would like me to add?

xgulfie··on Don't paste the AI, please
please god no
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