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thih9··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
I wonder if MS is going to start hiring for more remote (global) roles as a result.
thih9··on Orkut.com
Technically Google never acquired Orkut (they owned it from the start).
thih9··on Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5
I have exactly zero proof and half tongue in cheek, but “Frontier models were trained on decompiled copyrighted binaries” wouldn’t be the strangest 2026 AI headline.
thih9··on Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5
My phone got uncomfortably hot after a few minutes.
thih9··on Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5
It was fair use. /s

I’m poking fun at copyright abuse that is part of LLMs - perhaps that decompiled source was already in the training set, who knows at this point.

thih9··on Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
“Scenes” look like some roundabout attempt at dithering - not what I expected.

The rest is also very maximalist and ornamental. I like them as animations but wouldn’t like them as part of UI or TUI.

thih9··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
IANAL but there should be an amount of negligence after which you become a bad actor. I think OpenAI crossed that several times over.
thih9··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI being bad actor would not have been a problem if OpenAI suffered relevant consequences, like everyone else would have in that scenario. Or at least this is how I understood this.
thih9··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Current defense seems to be that "the cartoonists are using it themselves" and the case is ongoing, at lest based on Disney vs Midjourney[1]. Which means a slap on the wrist at the moment I suppose. It's also absurd.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-univer...

thih9··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
I wish the article's original title was: "OpenAI is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons", and followed with relevant legal consequences.
thih9··on OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
I think that's the point, they're not good at making LLMs, they're good at selling LLMs, especially at loss.

Edit: "at cost" -> "at loss"

thih9··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
In any case this is proof that law and negative PR can influence tech companies, including frontier AI providers.

Then again, I wish this worked in a way that would give users more privacy and agency, instead of less.

thih9··on Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS
Unless you are referencing some existing non vibe coded app, complaints the project being vibe coded may be just too generic at this point.

A hand coded electron project would have a discussion about electron vs native. Relevant in general but off topic in the context of this particular app.

thih9··on Our AI Midwife
I only worry that this may be short term. With no acknowledgement of the larger problem future AI medical gains may skew towards misoginistic or otherwise user hostile, as long as it's profitable.

At the same time, while I disagree that users are powerless, I can see that dealing with the larger problem is very much tiresome.

thih9··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
>They can’t copyright stolen artifacts from other countries

While the museum may have some looted items anyway, I thought this is about Rodin's art, i.e. items from Rodin's own collection and studio, or perhaps casts made by the museum. Discussion about looted items seems off topic.

thih9··on Our AI Midwife
I’m not saying that there is no gain here, I’m pointing out that the gain is relatively small and consists of escaping the problem.

It’s possible to both: celebrate the small victory and acknowledge that the larger problem still exists and affects the majority.

thih9··on Our AI Midwife
> the doctors start saying things like, “Have you considered using a surrogate?” and, “Sure, the last 5 embryo transfers failed, but what if we try a 6th and cross our fingers really hard?”

To be fair, this level of reasoning is on par with free tier chatgpt.

To me this story is less about a triumph of AI and more about a failure of the healthcare system.

thih9··on We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
Who said it’s for humans?

I’m tempted to ask an agent to submit an entry for me.

thih9··on Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
This is the best part of it; kids are also why he started in the first place. And his son is present during the recording. He may have built this alone but sharing it is a family project.
thih9··on Apple Pass Designer
Wouldn’t you still need the app to claim promotions and coupons?
thih9··on Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter
That's the point, nobody knows how this could get worse and they're going to find out.
thih9··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
I'd like the model provider and harness provider to not be the same company.

This gives more power to the consumer and ensures they can freely switch the components according to their needs. AI market is already full of power imbalance and anti competitive potential, no reason to increase that even more.

thih9··on CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development
I’m surprised how few of them support dark mode.

IMHO today dark mode support is part of reasonable defaults.

thih9··on America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"
No it doesn’t it’s an easter egg and a reference to a text that appears in Minecraft.
thih9··on Claude Says
This is pre-AI speak. Post-AI assumes we all maintain multiple concurrent chats and use that to search for information. “Claude says” becomes the new “I googled this”.

I started writing this as satire and I don’t like how realistic this gets.

I still don’t like it, if only because the power imbalance seems somehow worse than with Google.

thih9··on America.gov
> Bottom line: The United States is not in a Congress-declared war with Iran. Whether remaining military activity counts as “hostilities” is disputed among official sources.
thih9··on Dots: Always-on agents
> The magic of dots is when they bring you work done the way you would do it, sometimes before you even think to ask.

I like my work! That’s why I do it. I don’t want some third party to replicate my skills.

I know this ship has mostly sailed and my point is not about turning it back.

I just wonder where are other approaches to AI, in particular: tools focusing on skill enhancement.

thih9··on DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
> The more data a company has, the more personalized the ad can be.

Cue me looking pensively at my Apple Watch, happily collecting my biometrics for about a decade now.

I’ll look at cheap dumb watches and see how difficult it is to switch back.

thih9··on Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
Article says "The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975", but this may not be an accurate comparison:

> Until 1985, the survey included only married households.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDB_Needham_Life_Style_Surveys

thih9··on Tank Body Problem
Thanks for sharing and nicely done, I enjoyed it.

Feature request: no shake effect after victory.

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