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reaperducer · 2026-02-03T22:14:52 1770156892

The barrier to entry decreased, meaning more things will get created

57 Channels and Nothin' On

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_Channels_(And_Nothin%27_On)

reaperducer · 2026-02-03T18:26:42 1770143202

out of curiosity, what do they hope to find in a raid of the french offices, a folder labeled "Grok's CSAM Plan"?

You're not too far off.

There was a good article in the Washington Post yesterday about many many people inside the company raising alarms about the content and its legal risk, but they were blown off by managers chasing engagement metrics. They even made up a whole new metric.

There was also prompts telling the AI to act angry or sexy or other things just to keep users addicted.

reaperducer · 2026-02-03T15:07:25 1770131245

Why is this noteworthy in 2026?

Why are almost every one of your comments since you signed up angry criticism, except for the ones where you demonstrate deep knowledge of the Russian language?

Do they not allow fun things in Russia?

reaperducer · 2026-02-03T11:38:48 1770118728

And district cooling.

When I lived on a chilling grid, my summer AC bill was around $80, while friends whose buildings weren't connected paid $200+.

reaperducer · 2026-02-02T19:49:28 1770061768

Doubtful

Not doubtful at all. He literally laid out the definition of click fraud for you.

As someone who ran ads on web sites as far back as 1995, that has been the term the industry has used forever.

Replying with a dismissive "doubtful" demonstrates that you don't know what you're talking about.

rvnx · 2026-02-03T01:50:54 1770083454

Yes, doubtful it is not fraud, just because you didn’t sign a contract does not prevent it from being fraud.

And it is fine to use the terms click fraud when you conduct artificial clicks with the intent:

Examples:

https://integralads.com/insider/what-is-click-fraud/#:~:text...

One of the top leading company of traffic filtering is literally using these words to describe that.

Other users even 10 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328628

+ sources from court:

> The opinion states: “click fraud” can occur when “either a (natural) person, automated script, or computer program, sometimes referred to as a `bot,’ simulates the click activity of a legitimate user by clicking on the Program Data displayed, but without having an actual interest in its subject matter or content.”

Etc

reaperducer · 2026-02-02T19:45:30 1770061530

It's also illegal in many jurisdictions (e.g. in the US

Never in the history of HN has a [citation] been so [needed].

And from an actual lawyer, not just some rando cosplaying M&A in his mom's basement.

rvnx · 2026-02-03T12:41:50 1770122510

Could be interesting to get your perspective

reaperducer · 2026-02-03T15:01:48 1770130908

I disagree. I'm neither a lawyer nor a legal expert, and I don't pretend to be either on the internet.

reaperducer · 2026-02-02T12:38:30 1770035910

I don't how it was when Apple was a start-up

Then why are you posting? The whole basis of this thread is Apple as a start up.

thisislife2 · 2026-02-02T22:23:30 1770071010

I shared a thought that I felt was relevant to the discussion. Some have upvoted it too. If you didn't find my comment helpful / useful, ignore or downvote or flag it and move on. It just makes for a better community than confronting people on why they post here.

reaperducer · 2026-02-01T18:29:24 1769970564

Man up, Nancy.

reaperducer · 2026-02-01T18:28:29 1769970509

I'm more curious how they knew the cars and drones were cheerful.

reaperducer · 2026-02-01T15:04:02 1769958242

720k? In my day floppy disks had 96K and we liked it!

accrual · 2026-02-01T15:35:07 1769960107

I liked when floppy disks were actually floppy.

gschizas · 2026-02-01T16:22:20 1769962940

3.5" floppies are still floppy. The case may be hard, but the floppy flops.

KellyCriterion · 2026-02-01T17:13:04 1769965984

this was 8.25" back then?

GeorgeTirebiter · 2026-02-01T17:45:05 1769967905

RX-01 DEC / IBM 3740 compatible was 77 tracks, single-sided, 128 bytes per sector and 26 sectors per track. Total 256,256 bytes. FM Modulation. 360 RPM. Disk to drive buffer: 4 µsec per data bit. Track-to-Track Seek: 6 ms. Head Settle Time: 25 ms. Average Access: Approximately 262 ms. 8" diameter diskette

One of these was used to load the microcode into the VAX-11/780 upon boot.

ErroneousBosh · 2026-02-01T18:36:40 1769971000

My old PDP11/73 (now in a museum) had two RX02, never had an RX01. Surprisingly fast! It also had two RL02s and a couple of RD54s in.

Building an RT11 system disk onto an RL02 off another RL02 made the downstairs neighbours complain quite a lot, even though the floor slab in my flat was about 40cm thick concrete. They didn't muck about with these 1960s tower blocks but it was no match for a pair of pint glass sized head actuators and a pair of washing machine motors.