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zingababba··on If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
It wouldn't kill me I always say pls and thx
zingababba··on Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
Nice, maybe it balances out nicotine. People who don't pair caffeine with nicotine simply have no clue what they are missing ;)
zingababba··on When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?
Likely. I'm convinced 'AI psychosis' is a developmental phase that everyone is subject to. It just gets manifested in character unique ways. I think part of it is the result of an internal struggle AI evokes which leads to a new form of humbling no one is exempt from.

Conciseness itself has always seemed to me a silly concept. My whole life I have not come across a simple definition but many sophists pin their existence on it.

zingababba··on Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
Wisepilled response. The state of hiring is completely broken. I started a new position recently and what they told me the position was like vs what I saw/learned after I started were two completely different things. It's like managers don't even know what their own team does.
zingababba··on Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
Manager spotted.
zingababba··on Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet
I say this all the time, corporate security is 100% a game. Unless you are a part of the small group of people literally working on exploit dev you are feeding the security delusion as a service apparatus. Also, contrary to how things started (phrack, L0pht, zines, etc.) your average corporate security drone is almost universally a dull-witted, uninspired specimen.
zingababba··on Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent
You're absolutely right, we are all being brainwashed in real time. How does this make you feel?
zingababba··on U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
Sama can ID my balls.
zingababba··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
If your company culture fully supports it it's great. Unfortunately because of all the half-assed RTO the employees still remote often feel both resentment from employees that had to RTO and anxiety about being first in line to get cut.
zingababba··on Spending 3 months coding by hand
I see you got downvoted by I agree. I went through a massive valley of despair and turned back to hand crafting only to realize that for me coding was always a means to an end and I really didn't care at all about how I got there. Now I'm having a lot of fun building out all kinds of wonky projects.
zingababba··on 90% of CEOs Say AI Changed Nothing. The Other 10% Have a PR Team
It's interesting to me. I've been reading a lot about sycophancy, psychosis, cognitive surrender, epistemic drift/alienation, system 3 thinking etc. and the conclusion I have inevitably come to is AI is subtly mind fucking a LOT of people with NO exceptions.

Also, to say it changed nothing is humorous, tell that to all the people laid off.

zingababba··on Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me
Going to be interesting to see how much more downward pressure gets placed on OSS projects (as already alluded to) and what the norm response becomes and what that space evolves into.

Also, assuming something like "0day becomes cheap" it will be interesting to see how this drives discovery->exploit timeframes and scope. I would assume since time is precious you would be inclined to go balls out in terms of impact and scope.

zingababba··on AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart
I've been making all my own music lately with suno 5.5. It's pretty sweet, it allows me to explore concepts in a different way. This sucks though. Here's hyperpop version of https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646 -> https://suno.com/song/516c7e52-a03e-490d-ba26-8d9a332eeea7
zingababba··on Young Graduates Face the Grimmest Job Market in Years
Take a look at what is coming out of RSAC right now. All the big boys are starting to lean heavily into things like agentic SOCs, agentic threat Intel, agentic appsec. I've been in appsec for a decade now and honestly I get it, a lot of this bullshit can be broken down into agentic flows pretty easy, it's even more compelling when you have a program with uninspired security leadership (most places)
zingababba··on Elite Overproduction
Yes I see your point exactly.
zingababba··on Elite Overproduction
It's been awhile since I've read Turchin but I'm pretty sure in his own examples elites are indeed employed in prestigious positions. Which is really his whole point, there are only so many prestigious positions. His example using musical chairs has always stuck with me.
zingababba··on Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products
It is bullshit. Stopping nicotine is like 2 days of mild discomfort. Stopping caffeine is absolute hell.
zingababba··on Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns
The future is wastemaxxing
zingababba··on Computer Says No
How is this different than giving a person requirements and asking them to implement something.
zingababba··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
I dunno I gave mine root in a vps and am having it do security research, it's pretty sweet.
zingababba··on How to talk to anyone and why you should
Here's my life hack: Caffeine makes my verbal fluency suck so I enter a self-reinforcing cycle of not wanting to talk to people. Nicotine makes my verbal fluency not suck so I naturally want to talk to people.

Because of this I do nicotine. Is this healthy? Probably not.

zingababba··on U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025
I'm Indian
zingababba··on People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much
I've been hoping for something like a complete collapse of trust in the integrity and usefulness of the internet. Every time I see someone falsely claim AI where there wasn't any or decry the enshittification of (thing) because of AI I smile.

People need to wake up from this digital slumber.

zingababba··on People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much
So ask the students how they feel about AI?
zingababba··on White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying
Not really surprising. Boomers are finally going away. New order brings new way of doing things. 4chan tactics have gone mainstream.
zingababba··on Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
I've fucked myself up so much over the years with supplements. Wish I could go back 30 years and tell myself to just eat real food. B6 toxicity for instance is crippling. That being said these days I just take two things: vit K2 and magnesium.
zingababba··on Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft chase
Why is this on HN lol. You can see this stuff all the time on body cam FOIAs.
zingababba··on TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
LOL

PROMPT:Charles Darwin

Charles DarwinECCEMACY. Sir, — The following case is interesting to me : — I was in London a fortnight, and was much affected with an attack of rheumatism. The first attack of rheumatism was a week before I saw you, and the second when I saw you, and the third when I saw you, and the third in the same time. The second attack of gout, however, was not accompanied by any febrile symptoms, but was accompanied with an increased flow of urine, and with a more copious discharge of urine. The third attack was an hour after I saw you, and was succeeded by a return of a paroxysm of gout, and a more rapid return of the gout. The fourth attack was also accompanied by a fever, but was not always accompanied by any febrile symptoms. The third attack of gout was a fortnight after you had been ill, and the fourth was followed by a paroxysm of gout. The fourth attack was a fortnight after you were attacked, and was accompanied by a sense

zingababba··on Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE
What doesn't? My desire? How can you say my desire does not matter?
zingababba··on Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE
I'm not speculating anything which is why I was asking rofl. You online agitators are a funny bunch.
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