Hacker News: Arnt

New comment by Arnt in "Do people prefer stories written by AI?"

Arnt — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:35:07 +0000

This sounds as of AI has wider appeal. Like those bland mass-market beers that nobody likes very much but nobody hates either. Restaurants have those on the menu as a second choice.

While a real, published, author has taste and appeals to some people, not to everyone. Journal editors make sure of that.

New comment by Arnt in "Important MikroTik RouterOS security update"

Arnt — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:40:42 +0000

Answering users on forums looks like a very, very tiring job. Kudos to the companies that keep up the forums.

And... ouch what a bug, too.

New comment by Arnt in "Waymo racked up 8,300 SF parking tickets and nearly $1M in fines"

Arnt — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:59:03 +0000

There might well be a defined test like this one, from a different jurisdiction: 179 seconds is standing, 181 is parking.

New comment by Arnt in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

Arnt — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:06:50 +0000

I assume they want the developers to dogfood the software they work on. Not crazy if so.

Twitter, Bluesky and OnlyFans

Arnt — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:20:36 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/siridahl.com/post/3mshzivspwk22

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475413

Points: 2

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New comment by Arnt in "Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now"

Arnt — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:59:02 +0000

I am Norwegian and have voted by mail within the country. Or maybe I didn't vote by mail. I handed in the envelope with the vote form at the post office, if you want to be precise about it. But if you want to argue that Trump is joining a large club of countries that restrict voting, then I think you ought to look at the substance, not the detail. And the substance is that I handed in the form at the post office.

My father does not go anywhere to vote. He fills in his form at home.

The restrictions are such that people can vote, and that's what matters.

New comment by Arnt in "Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil"

Arnt — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:59:33 +0000

How odd.

Isn't gas typically expensive, and used only for peaks? Yet these people say they want to use it for their base load.

New comment by Arnt in "Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now"

Arnt — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:53:30 +0000

I come from one of the countries on that list, and from a quick glance mine is one of the more restrictive one. Yet I've voted by mail in ~10 elections and the restrictions haven't bothered me, ever, so based on a sample of one the restrictions have no practical effect. They didn't block me from voting, they didn't even inconvenience me.

Do you think Trump's restrictions will have no practical effect, or are intended to have no practical effect?

New comment by Arnt in "No limit to how large a waggled cursor gets in KDE Plasma (2025)"

Arnt — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:15:31 +0000

I love that cursor.

New comment by Arnt in "Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news"

Arnt — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:19:15 +0000

Finding the right people. A small subset of the general audience.

Trying to get your word in front of all eyeballs in the hope of hitting the right ones at the right time is a hopeful strategy, not a well-considered one.

New comment by Arnt in "Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news"

Arnt — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:16:42 +0000

A sovereign nation is just that, sovereign. What it decides isn't an agreement.

You may not want to obey the posted speed limits or pay something the law demands, but that's not about a contract you sign or don't, it's a decision made by a sovereign nation.

Meta will have the option of not posting links to Australian media. But if it does post that, the law applies, and "agreement" is irrelevant.

New comment by Arnt in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

Arnt — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:00:31 +0000

I follow the standards processes, and while I don't see a push to against self-hosting mail, I do see a push to stop storing cleartext passwords. Which is typically what your MUA uses to access those self-hosted mail servers.

New comment by Arnt in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

Arnt — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:56:19 +0000

Friends of mine say that internal reports from their workplaces are often worse.

New comment by Arnt in "Kyiv blows up biggest Wildberries hub in drone attack"

Arnt — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:40:46 +0000

Did you know that during WW1, the front lines moves from far west of Ukraine to the far east, and then back again? This war isn't like that.

And it really isn't. Back then the front moved and it mattered. This isn't like that. Ukraine recently hit about 200 ships, not because the front moved and the ships came into range, but because they'd blown up all the defenses along a 200km-long path from the "front" to the ships, so they had free passage. That "front" means much less than in WW1.

New comment by Arnt in "Kyiv blows up biggest Wildberries hub in drone attack"

Arnt — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:23:59 +0000

It does much more than that. Wildberries had 45% of the logistics and large warehouses. This means that every company that produces something will have parcels coming in from Wildberries every day. The businesses that owned the ~$6B of burnt inventory may go bankrupt, too, adding to the chaos.

New comment by Arnt in "Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter"

Arnt — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:31:18 +0000

Aren't there providers who will run open models for you? If those are profitable, or haven't taken large investments, then it's reasonable to assume that the same thing is profitable for other providers.

New comment by Arnt in "Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter"

Arnt — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:28:54 +0000

There is such a narrative.

Many people have reported that their use would be drastically more expensive with the API. None have (afaict) reported how much the average subscription is used.

New comment by Arnt in "Pay for SF uniformed police and Sheriff deputies is approaching $900k per year"

Arnt — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:31:21 +0000

Wow, $500k overtime for the first one. He will need his health insurance.

New comment by Arnt in "If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?"

Arnt — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:20:39 +0000

But you can give them all to me and I can train my model on them. The restriction on you is not related to your ownership of that days, it's related to the contract you "signed".

Or you can publish them on the web and countless others will do it.

New comment by Arnt in "Doctors are ignoring new federal vaccine recommendations"

Arnt — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:50:26 +0000

That's interesting, which are the many countries of which you have personal knowledge? Name five maybe?

Do these countries have mechanisms to report problems with medications in general, and exceptions for vaccines, or haven't they anything at all?