Hacker News: Arubis

New comment by Arubis in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

Arubis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:00:19 +0000

Oof. "Price per perp" is so perfectly aligned with LinkedIn writing style I'm surprised I hadn't seen it already.

New comment by Arubis in "US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance"

Arubis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:56:20 +0000

I don't disagree, hence the chicken-and-egg problem.

New comment by Arubis in "US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance"

Arubis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:57:03 +0000

The French have more of a social safety net, which enables extended protests. I understand the irony in stating this (well then, USian, get off your ass and demand a social safety net), but the chicken-and-egg problem is real. This is setting aside cultural mores and biases; for an example thereof, see sibling comment.

New comment by Arubis in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

Arubis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:16:14 +0000

This is how I’m going to read all references to AI safety going forward. Brilliant.

New comment by Arubis in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

Arubis — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:08:58 +0000

Pi and OpenCode are Claude Code-alikes. Hermes and *claw try to be somewhat more autonomous.

New comment by Arubis in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

Arubis — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:09:26 +0000

For a somewhat hybrid approach here, have a look at https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities — the idea is to be used during “productive work” (so it’s not purely learning-oriented as with your repo here), and to interject as you work to ensure that you learn related concepts as you go.

New comment by Arubis in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

Arubis — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:36:00 +0000

Oh yes. Very much so. And ideally without thinking or actively having to choose—hence the get-on-the-index-funds angle.

New comment by Arubis in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

Arubis — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:17:46 +0000

Strictly speaking, the big A.I. companies _want_ the public to own half of them. Passively. In index ETFs in their 401(k)s and other retirement portfolios. That way the get all the money without any of the actual influence.

New comment by Arubis in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

Arubis — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:52:11 +0000

I gather most of the ethos behind Anthropic is "we don't want to work with Sam".

New comment by Arubis in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

Arubis — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:50:58 +0000

If you're looking for a no-AI vibe from your browser, you probably won't get it from Brave. Zen might be a better fit.

If you're just trying new browsers to see what's out there and clean, I've really liked Orion.

New comment by Arubis in "Dav2d"

Arubis — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:32:05 +0000

Da5id could potentially work as a Snow Crash reference.

New comment by Arubis in "Last.fm is now independent"

Arubis — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:35:18 +0000

The Pandora algorithm -- and Pandora's positioning -- is truly a product of its time. You'll want to look into the Music Genome Project (whose very name dates it; the Human Genome Project finished in 2003), but equally influential was the big labels' stranglehold on legal music distribution. When Pandora started and for years of profitability, they had no deals with major record labels, instead promoting small indie artists on the basis of their recommendation engine. If they were going to survive, that engine had to be _excellent_.

New comment by Arubis in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200"

Arubis — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:11:09 +0000

Doesn't need to be general semicondustor manufacturing. Just RAM will do it. And that would spell the end for Micron and maybe Hynix. Samsung is sufficiently diversified.

That's the whole list.

New comment by Arubis in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

Arubis — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:15:33 +0000

True, though if you're gonna get bent out of shape about overintellectualizing something, "reading books" is probably gonna be a tough sell.

New comment by Arubis in "Last.fm is now independent"

Arubis — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:35:34 +0000

That's because the recommendation engine that Last.fm used back in the day was made the incredibly expensive way: the entire corpus was hand-tagged and cross-linked by humans atop an enormous CDDB. Last.fm, Audioscrobbler, and MusicBrainz (the association engine) were all linked together.

New comment by Arubis in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

Arubis — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:48:54 +0000

By all means go for it! I’m averaging 250 karma per annum; if I were going to put effort into that it would’ve already happened by now

New comment by Arubis in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

Arubis — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:39:07 +0000

I am a simple man. I see Terry Pratchett on HN and I share Venkat Rao’s lovely essay at https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules.

New comment by Arubis in "CISA tries to contain data leak"

Arubis — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:32:52 +0000

If I had a dollar for each secret I’ve committed to a public repo, I could probably buy a couple of sandwiches. I’m not smarter and my opsec probably isn’t any better than most old devs, but I also don’t have a treasure trove of government secrets on disk and—crucially!—_I would make different decisions if did_.

The nuance here: when I’ve slipped and committed secrets, it’s typically a relative nothing burger: most common case is API keys to some third-party service. I’ve worked across a bunch of regulated industries and, within those, not caused a breach—because being in that space you know to be more careful, and because the companies in those spaces (wisely!) tend to support good security practices, more so than the industry average.

New comment by Arubis in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

Arubis — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:44:21 +0000

In a sane, fair, and (crucially) long-term stable system, persons given privilege and authority over others are subject to a higher standard for their own behavior. The long-running US trend of the inverse (additional legal protections for positions of authority) is incredibly destructive. This is a moral and values judgment, yes, but it's not just that -- it communicates to the population at large that they should find their own solutions rather than using the established system.

More succinctly, down this path lie guillotines.

New comment by Arubis in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

Arubis — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:21 +0000

I stand corrected! Apologies.