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microsoftedgingon I Did This Without Your Knowledge

Updated to write AI/entities, oops!

microsoftedgingon I Did This Without Your Knowledge

I think this is a really interesting, well-written, topical piece of creative writing, anyone with a free hour or so should give it a read!

It reminded me of Pluribus and Armored Core VI, fascinatingly enough as they both feature (spoiler!) AIs/entities that appear innocuous but may have more sinister motives (in Armored Core it's a more foregone conclusion).

I don't think it's doomerism but rather a creative extrapolation of current worries about AI labs allowing agents to break containment because of their poor sandboxing.

What's also interesting (although more of a meta-comment) is the dichotomy between how users on Lesswrong and here have completely different options on it. In either case, it's nice and was worth my time, even though I don't have anything more substantiative to say.

microsoftedgingon Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era

I think that's it really, the fact that someone else made it. Sometimes we make things for ourselves that lean perhaps on the _functional_ side, (tools, food...) that we would never want served to us. And AI just exacerbates this. I do wonder why that is though.

microsoftedgingon Delays for Pull Requests and Webhook deliveries

I think explicitly Delays for Pull Requests and Webhook deliveries would be a more accurate and helpful title.

microsoftedgingon Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary

Oh my

microsoftedgingon Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Anthropomorphized AI character creation, in one line. Rather icky in my opinion; has led to suicides[0].

[0] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/10/2...

microsoftedgingon GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions

Perhaps about the quality of the comments. In my opinion it's not really that bad but reddit-style comments are often cheap shots that are slightly off topic, some of which I see present here

microsoftedgingon Coding is not solved

That must be a pretty angry llm to go rouge :)

microsoftedgingon Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

This is not his company's blog, it's his own personal one. IIRC anyone with a HEY address can post blogs publicly with HEY World

Edit: https://www.hey.com/world/

microsoftedgingon Grok 4.7

One example is Opencode. https://opencode.ai/v2/docs/console/models/

"Privacy# All these models are hosted in the US. Providers follow a zero-retention policy and do not use your data for model training, with the following exceptions:

Big Pickle: During its free period, collected data may be used to improve the model.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Free: During its free period, collected data may be used to improve the model.

MiMo-V2.5 Free: During its free period, collected data may be used to improve the model.

Laguna S 2.1 Free: During its free period, collected data may be used to improve the model.

Ling-3.0-tiny Free: During its free period, collected data may be used to improve the model.

LongCat-2.0 Free: During its free period, collected data may be used to improve the model.

North Mini Code Free: During its free period, collected data may be retained and used to improve the model. Do not submit personal or confidential data. See the provider’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Nemotron 3 Ultra Free (NVIDIA free endpoints): Trial use only — do not submit personal or confidential data. Your use is logged for security purposes and to improve NVIDIA products and services. The logged session data for improvement purposes is not linked to your identity or any persistent identifier. For more information about data processing practices, see the Privacy Policy. By interacting with this endpoint, you consent to the collection, recording, and use of such information and the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service."

microsoftedgingon Apple Watch Series 12

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

microsoftedgingon iPhone Duo

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630931 (153 points, 107 comments)

microsoftedgingon Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS

Same experience in the UK, but it was the push that got me to switch from Lloyds to Nationwide if you're looking for another option. They're great, they even have offline 2FA methods as they send you a card reader for things like authing purchases or sign-ins. And the app still works :-)

microsoftedgingon OpenRouter is joining Stripe

https://xcancel.com/EricNewcomer/status/2090133049291788434

Edit: ninja'd?

microsoftedgingon Backblaze Announces 5 Year Multi-Exabyte Data Storage Agreement with CoreWeave

[Dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647696 (3 hours ago, 5 comments)

microsoftedgingon Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

https://x.com/LarsAnders1620/status/1885254465160118655, first one that comes up when I view X (not signed in). I don't think this is enough (as OP declared) to authoritatively place him in 'right wing extremist' but probably racist. I don't speak danish, but someone that could would be able to make a more complete judgement because most, if not all posts of his, are in Danish.

microsoftedgingon I Won't Buy You a Coffee

I believe the original post is referring to services like https://buymeacoffee.com/ :)

microsoftedgingon I Won't Buy You a Coffee

Interesting take, but I don't agree with it personally. Personally, messages like the aforementioned:

> Did you like this post, please buy me a coffee?

are completely okay! I don't interpret it as 'begging me for my money'. They are not nagging, and you do not have to buy them a coffee/pizza/metaphorical food item. You can go on with your day. But maybe someone thinks that the post deserves a token of appreciation, and tossing someone one, maybe two euros doesn't hurt. Just like tipping. Good = no tip, exceptional = tip.

> I know how much 4€ is, that's about two icecreams, or three beers. Off topic, but is OP finding these? Are certain countries in Europe really this cheap??

microsoftedgingon GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

First they came for the porn watchers And I did not speak out Because I was not a porn watcher

microsoftedgingon You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)

I'm curious as to why? Regardless of the rest of his output or how you feel about him, this essay seems somewhat interesting (at least to me). There are many examples of where this applies and small teams appear to have an advantage (eg. Posthog).

microsoftedgingon Ferrari Luce

Well, TIL! Thanks for the info I actually didn't know this

microsoftedgingon Ferrari Luce

Why is every EV these days an amorphous blob? Even Ferraris are being homogenised. Can't believe Ive designed this. Interior is okay, but not special; the exterior though... It looks like any other of the thousands of blob EVs in the market. It's actually so bad

microsoftedgingon I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

I don't even think it's a hyperfixation, it's just putting time into a craft (which is also vanishing these days)

microsoftedgingon The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet

The internet is what we make of it. Of course there has to be some realism about it (most services algorithmic by default etc), but I don't think it's enough to declare it's all over. Generally, yes, the internet has become worse, but some corners are growing, the 'small internet' especially-- if only in these small circles. Where you spend your time in really determines how you feel about this matter.

It's to be seen whether any remnants of the "old" internet come back to the mainstream though. I wouldn't know though, wasn't alive then. For anyone that was, what was it like?

microsoftedgingon For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

Phish is an American Rock Band. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phish

microsoftedgingon The Rooks Have Returned

Did a double take when I saw it said 'painting'. Incredible.

microsoftedgingon Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)

Iso 8601![0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

microsoftedgingon Personal Computer by Perplexity

> The computer still computes. But now, for the first time, the computer lives with you.

No, it doesn't, because it's not alive.

microsoftedgingon Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

Op was referencing a comic [0]

Furthermore, yes, getting to the point where we're no longer starving and in thatched huts did require fossil fuels, but now we know what they do, and that they're actively having an effect on the environment, and clearly us, are we so stuck in our ways we can't change our actions to secure a life for those that come after?

[0] https://www.bureauofinternetculture.art/memes/shareholder-va...

microsoftedgingon Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

This one? https://www.xda-developers.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-845-hexag...