Hacker News: 34679

New comment by 34679 in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

34679 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:56:20 +0000

There's a small chance this could be signalling a pivot, or at least posturing for a possible future pivot. If they see the mega-datacenter market drying up or slowing down, they may opt for a future in hardware targeted to the individual or smaller teams. In other words, as soon as the VC money for centralized AI dries up, they start selling hardware that doesn't require VC-levels of money to buy.

New comment by 34679 in "IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE"

34679 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:09:29 +0000

Right click -> Open image in new tab -> zoom in

If you haven't already.

There is now over 2,100 hours of video evidence on Archive Genocide

34679 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:56:48 +0000

Article URL: https://archivegenocide.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408493

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by 34679 in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

34679 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:50:52 +0000

Amendment 4:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Amendment 5:

"..nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

New comment by 34679 in "Photo of eclipse by Xiaomi 17 Ultra"

34679 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:48:02 +0000

Serious question: What happens when every consumer phone has this "feature"? If a citizen records someone committing a crime, will that video still be considered admissible in court? Or will the state only regard its own systems as infallible?

New comment by 34679 in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

34679 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:11:28 +0000

US EVs were also heavily subsidized, but they were all built using Chinese parts.

New comment by 34679 in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

34679 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:06:48 +0000

1. Personal Computers are personal. Inviting an outside observer into one is no different than inviting one into the bathroom. What I do in there is my business.

2. Friction. This is likely MS's attempt to slow-walk Windows into a subscription service. If nobody resisted, that walk wouldn't be slow.

New comment by 34679 in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

34679 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:12:27 +0000

If you're looking for a backpack, I can't recommend Osprey enough. They are still a independent US company with a lifetime warranty they actually stand by. I had to call their customer service just last week after I ordered the wrong size bag. I was connected to an actual human immediately, and he sent me a prepaid return label, even though it was my fault and I was fully expecting to pay for return shipping myself. I own several of their bags and have never had a single issue with any of them.

New comment by 34679 in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

34679 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:02:13 +0000

The same thing it was designed to do and has always done: create unimaginable sums of money out of thin air that it loans to the government, with interest.

New comment by 34679 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

34679 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:15:12 +0000

You can just click on your username in the upper right and change "showdead" from "no" to "yes".

New comment by 34679 in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

34679 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:48:05 +0000

It won't find the correct answer. Garbage in, garbage out.

New comment by 34679 in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

34679 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:55:28 +0000

I can't shake the feeling that the RAM shortage was intentionally created to serve as a sort of artificial moat by slowing or outright preventing the adoption of open weight models. Altman is playing with hundreds of billions of other people's dollars, trying to protect (in his mind) a multi-trillion dollar company. If he could spend a few billion to shut down access to the hardware people need to run competitor's products, why wouldn't he?

New comment by 34679 in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

34679 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:51:55 +0000

"Reviewed 15 sources."

Maybe it should've reviewed 20.

New comment by 34679 in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

34679 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:01:45 +0000

They're probably looking at DDR4.

New comment by 34679 in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

34679 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:41:31 +0000

In my late teens, I worked as a bill collector. If I suspected an account owner was deceased, I'd call the Social Security Administration and ask them if they had a certificate of death on file. If they didn't, they'd tell me they couldn't comment. If they did, they'd say so, because dead people don't have a right to privacy.

New comment by 34679 in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

34679 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:39:53 +0000

Everyone has easy access right now. Everyone had easier access before the TikTok deal. That's the wrong direction for a free country and it's particularly alarming because the deal was forced by the government.

New comment by 34679 in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

34679 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:49:34 +0000

You should see what Google has done with the latest version of the Phone app. You used to be able to click on contacts and that would show you.. your contacts. Now it shows recent calls with a search bar for contacts. Say I want to call a friend named Dave. As soon as I start typing, search results begin populating, but none of the names it offers start with "D", they just contain "D" somewhere. It could be the middle of a last name. And I can't figure out why they'd fuck this up. There are no ads to be injected into my attempts to find a contact, so I have to wonder if this is just the beginning of a push to ruin every convenience so users will turn to Gemini for everything.

The Memory-Transfer Episode

34679 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:18:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/06/memory-transfer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680712

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 34679 in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

34679 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:10:48 +0000

Apple picks [ad company's] [ai ad server] to power Siri.

New comment by 34679 in "Companies Have Made $1M as ICE Bounty Hunters"

34679 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:57:43 +0000

Payment information and license plate scans are combined with biometric data to build profiles on every individual. It doesn't matter what shade your skin color is.