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New comment by Create in "Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed"

Create — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 08:40:41 +0000

> shall inform Stalin about it at an opportune time

Stalin was fully aware well before Potsdam, Kurchatov was already working on it for years.

New comment by Create in "I don't understand quantum physics (2018)"

Create — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:45:13 +0000

https://gitlab.com/mirtitles/tarasov-qm

https://gitlab.com/users/mirtitles/projects

New comment by Create in "Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?"

Create — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:36:35 +0000

Sony SRF-39FP has a transparent case, designed to thwart contraband concealment. The radio often appears on the commissary lists of U.S. federal prisons, hence the "FP" suffix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRF-39 Sony D-FJ003FP, Sony WM-FX193FP, SONY SRF-M35FP

New comment by Create in "Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality"

Create — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:06:01 +0000

"The primary antagonist for freedom of thought in the beginning of our struggle was the Universal Catholic Church, an institution directed at the control of thought in the European world, based around weekly surveillance of the conduct and thoughts of every human being, based around the censorship of all reading material and in the end based upon the ability to predict and to punish unorthodox thought.

The tools available for thought control in early modern Europe were poor even by 20th century standards, but they worked. And for hundreds of years, the struggle primarily centered around that increasingly important first mass manufactured article in Western culture: the book. Whether you could print them, possess them, traffic in them, read them, teach from them without the permission or control of an entity empowered to punish thought.

By the end of the 17th century censorship of written material in Europe had begun to break down first in the Netherlands then in the UK then afterwards in waves throughout the European world and the book became an article of subversive commerce and began eating away at the control of thought.

By the late 18th century that struggle for the freedom of reading had begun to attack the substance of Christianity itself and the European world trembled on the brink of the first great revolution of the mind. It spoke of “liberté, égalité, fraternité”, but actually it meant freedom to think differently." -- https://archive.org/details/EbenMoglenRepublica2012

New comment by Create in "Making Startups Powerful"

Create — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:47:09 +0000

"cyberspace is a mostly a silent place. in its silence it shows itself to be an expression of the mass. one might question the idea of silence in a place where millions of user-ids parade around like angels of light, looking to see whom they might, so to speak, consume. the silence is nonetheless present and it is most present, paradoxically at the moment that the user-id speaks. when the user-id posts to a board, it does so while dwelling within an illusion that no one is present. language in cyberspace is a frozen landscape.

i have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and i did so myself until, at last, i began to see that i had commodified myself. commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money-value. in the nineteenth century, commodities were made in factories, which karl marx called “the means of production.” capitalists were people who owned the means of production, and the commodities were made by workers who were mostly exploited. i created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation that owned the board i was posting to, and that commodity was being sold to other commodity/consumer entities as entertainment. that means that i sold my soul like a tennis shoe and i derived no profit from the sale of my soul. people who post frequently on boards appear to know that they are factory equipment and tennis shoes, and sometimes trade sends and email about how their contributions are not appreciated by management."

-- https://web.archive.org/web/20260615024403/https://alphavill...

New comment by Create in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

Create — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:11:56 +0000

The Corporation examines and criticizes corporate business practices. The film's assessment is demonstrated using the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV. Robert D. Hare, a University of British Columbia psychology professor and FBI consultant, compares the profile of the contemporary profitable business corporation to that of a clinically diagnosed psychopath. The Corporation attempts to compare the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave with what it claims are the DSM-IV's symptoms of psychopathy, e.g., the callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, the reckless disregard for the safety of others, the deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film)

New comment by Create in "AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link"

Create — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:40:23 +0000

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).

New comment by Create in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

Create — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:43:14 +0000

...hoping a Google Gemma agent can handle those Google Forms and Google Drive for you too!

New comment by Create in "Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

Create — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:17:51 +0000

"possibly build tools to take a chunk of writing and try to remove your fingerprint from it, i.e, protect anonymity,"

The standard procedure to do this, is to chain translations to other languages and back. The message remains, but the wording will pick up some noise. --Dec 30, 2008.

New comment by Create in "Prompt Injection as Role Confusion"

Create — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:00:27 +0000

Attention heads: this is the 60s calling. Cap'n Crunch wants his Bo'sun whistle back for SS5 in-band prompting.

New comment by Create in "Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports"

Create — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:16:10 +0000

When LLM reports the bug, is should be used to fix it on the same occasion. Nobody will bother afterwards.

New comment by Create in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

Create — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:44:27 +0000

It's BASIC. LET them GOTO jail (BSD also comes to mind)

(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_licensing_corruption... ) The upside: the EU finally got a prosecutor. And last but not least everybody forgot why the Baby Bells were born.

New comment by Create in "CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering"

Create — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:23:38 +0000

CERN builds almost next to nothing anymore. Half a century ago they really did do RF cavities, cooling, electronics etc. Not anymore. It is either COTS (DELL, Alterra etc.) or chiefly vendor bidding for some custom parts. Much like what NASA (from Rocketdyne, TRW to Boeing and SpaceX) or copycat ESA (Airbus, DLR, BAE's suppliers) does today.

It is a project bureau. Everything is essentially outsourced, leaving a management shell institute to parade for VIPs. Actually they are close to completely forgetting what they already knew in the hard sciences domain.

New comment by Create in "CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering"

Create — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:34:17 +0000

Other news, is that HEP has used FPGAs for L0 triggers (amongst others) for decades. These always had a diverse selection criteria in their algorithms, event filters, suppression, weights etc. And just mentioning, that some custom radhard simple readout silicon from the likes of STM isn't any news either.

And for historians: Delphi people (amongst others) had papers on Higgs selection using (A)NN from LEP data (overfit :) , obviously without the 5 sigma. It was an argument for LHC.

Dear downvoters/shadowbanners: do your homework.

New comment by Create in "CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe"

Create — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:55:27 +0000

You mean string theorists?

New comment by Create in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

Create — Sun, 11 May 2025 07:04:34 +0000

  - OpenStreetMap, MapLibre
  - GMX, ProtonMail, Tutanota
  - Nextcloud, Seafile
  - Collabora, Etherpad, CryptPad
  - Discourse, Flarum
  - LimeSurvey Framaforms
  - Nextcloud, OpenStack, Hetzner, OVHcloud, Wix
  - Keycloak, Gluu, eduID, SAML2, OAUTH
  - Qwant, DuckDuckGo
  - Matomo, Plausible Analytics
  - Firefox, Brave
  - LineageOS, /e/ OS
  - OpenAuto, AGL (Automotive Grade Linux)
  - Open Health, Gadgetbridge
  - Fairphone, Various MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators)
  - Community Fiber Networks, Local ISPs (various)
  - Skyscanner, Kiwi.com, Amadeus
  - LibreTranslate, Apertium, Mistral
  - CB, Swish, Klarna, SumUp, Revolut (UK)
  - EasyMile, Navya, Aurora, Apriv, BMW, Daimler, Renault, Volvo, VW, Oxbotica, Zenuity

New comment by Create in "Show HN: Remote-Controlled IKEA Deathstar Lamp"

Create — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:51:40 +0000

I've got to say, the IKEA PS 2014 lamp is really a Death Star - not just because of its spherical shape, but also because it played a significant role in bankrupting the factory that produced it. According to Wikipedia, the Szarvasi Vas-Fémipari Zrt. factory in Hungary had big plans to expand its production in 2011, including manufacturing high-end design lamps for Western European markets. By 2018, they had invested 2 billion forints in a development project that would make them the exclusive supplier of one of IKEA's lamp families. At its peak, the factory was producing 130,000 coffee makers and 2 million lamps per year. However, it seems that producing the PS 2014 lamp at a price point that was too low to be sustainable ultimately led to the factory's downfall. It's a cautionary tale about the risks of prioritizing low costs over sustainability and fair labor practices. The Death Star lamp may have been a stylish and affordable addition to many homes, but its production came at a significant cost to the workers and community involved.

New comment by Create in "This is what a digital coup looks like"

Create — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:16:10 +0000

Carole Cadwalladr: Six years ago I was sued for libel. This time, I call Silicon Valley collaborators and data rapists. What could possibly go wrong?

This is what a digital coup looks like

Create — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:16:10 +0000

Article URL: https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/speaking-truth-to-tech-gods-i-return

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647164

Points: 26

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New comment by Create in "The two factions of C++"

Create — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:18:45 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20241123183550/https://en.wikipe... https://web.archive.org/web/20241125065641/https://arstechni...

Ars is controversial on YC news. Who knew?