Hacker News: Alex2037

New comment by Alex2037 in "90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet"

Alex2037 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:01:12 +0000

America and Israel have more than enough money. you can sit this one out, lol.

New comment by Alex2037 in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

Alex2037 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:37:14 +0000

that's exactly what I meant.

New comment by Alex2037 in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

Alex2037 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:50:00 +0000

>And all comments critical of the current regime are getting downvoted on HN.

there's always r/politics

New comment by Alex2037 in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

Alex2037 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:32:27 +0000

their employment and business opportunities depend on the hype, so they will continue to 'think' that (on xitter) despite the current SOTA of transformers-based models being <100% smarter than >3 year old GPT4, and no revolutionary new architecture in sight.

New comment by Alex2037 in "The future of autonomous warfare is unfolding in Europe"

Alex2037 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:08:03 +0000

>“The Russians are knocking on the door,” says Sven Weizenegger, the head of the German military’s Cyber Innovation Hub. Strategists and policymakers are counting on increasingly automated battlefield gadgetry to keep them from bursting through.

ze Russians spent the last year capturing 0.8% of Ukraine, Sven.

New comment by Alex2037 in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

Alex2037 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:56:54 +0000

wow, this is by far the most random "orange man bad" I ever saw.

New comment by Alex2037 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

Alex2037 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:34:24 +0000

>activism and loud complaining

I'm not sure why would you want to remind the world about that episode. those men lied, stalked, harassed, and threatened a lot of people to get that perfectly legal website exposed to very illegal DDoS attacks.

New comment by Alex2037 in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

Alex2037 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:15:50 +0000

yeah. Americans are one media campaign away from having to argue for their right to possess fully semiautomatic general purpose computers with high capacity peripherals. Europeans and the rest of the collective West won't even get such courtesy, their young global leaders don't need to justify their actions to the unwashed masses.

all they really need to do is to make the Internet inaccessible from any device except the castrated thin clients that our computers are doomed to be replaced with. and that can be done trivially.

New comment by Alex2037 in "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"

Alex2037 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:14:58 +0000

it doesn't need to be. are video games a net win for society? is porn?

New comment by Alex2037 in "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"

Alex2037 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:04:57 +0000

who gets to decide which technology must be banned? the same people who decide which books must be burned?

New comment by Alex2037 in "Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?"

Alex2037 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:43:25 +0000

because 90% of people raving about 1000% productivity boost from LLMs are students and junior-level programmers, whose productivity was nonexistent in the first place. for programmers with 5+ years of experience with the tools they're using, LLMs are a 10-20% boost, at most, and I'm saying that as a very AI-positive individual.

New comment by Alex2037 in "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"

Alex2037 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:03:17 +0000

are you under the impression that this is the first such tool? it's not. it's not even the hundredth. this Pandora's box has been opened a long time ago.

New comment by Alex2037 in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

Alex2037 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:30:45 +0000

they don't even have affordable housing in the country all those tarriffed materials and equipment come from.

New comment by Alex2037 in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

Alex2037 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:41:41 +0000

>and he's being honest

oh, come the fuck on. it's "AI made us do it" drivel that companies began to justify layoffs with in 2023 (!!!).

Tailwind is just another FOTM frontend thing. I saw dozens of them come, gain some popularity, then abruptly disappear once the marketing budget ran out.

New comment by Alex2037 in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

Alex2037 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:39:38 +0000

>Persistent high blood sugar is diabetes; it isn't dietary.

how is it not dietary if consuming most carbs spikes your blood sugar for hours, which, with three meals + snacks + starbucks slurry, means elevated blood sugar 20+ hours a day?

New comment by Alex2037 in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

Alex2037 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:28:57 +0000

>That industry can lobby for and basically "purchase" scientific outcomes that affect health standards should be a defcon 1 red alert.

why? the state does not need you to live past your retirement age. in fact, it's preferable if you don't.

New comment by Alex2037 in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

Alex2037 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:16:52 +0000

it's not just sugar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index#Grouping

all simple carbs are the devil, but we can't possibly feed billions of people actually healthy food - organic vegetables, nuts, and animal products, so come drink your corn syrup.

New comment by Alex2037 in "A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time"

Alex2037 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:30:23 +0000

>we should read other people's articles

sure, and reading a LLM summary allows one to decide whether the full article is worth reading or not.

New comment by Alex2037 in "Creating a bespoke data diode for air‑gapped networks"

Alex2037 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:27:36 +0000

both of these require the isolated machine to be heavily compromised to begin with.

there are a lot of such extremely hypothetical attacks no one should take seriously. you might as well worry about sensitive data being exfiltrated from your unshielded optical nerve,

New comment by Alex2037 in "Creating a bespoke data diode for air‑gapped networks"

Alex2037 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:43:11 +0000

yes, but if your adversary is capable of exploiting a one-way diode to RCE, you might as well just give up.