Hacker News: Jtarii

New comment by Jtarii in "Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil"

Jtarii — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:28:19 +0000

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

New comment by Jtarii in "UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence"

Jtarii — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:46:05 +0000

>The UK genuinely has become the most scary country of all western democracies to me

Do you not count the US as a western democracy?

New comment by Jtarii in "UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence"

Jtarii — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:35:01 +0000

The president of the US literally attempted a coup, then was found liable for rape, and then got re-elected, then threatened to invade the European Union, then kidnapped the President of Venezuela, then invaded Iran.

How in the fuck is the UK "scarier" than the US. What is this obsession with the UK that americans have?

New comment by Jtarii in "UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence"

Jtarii — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:30:47 +0000

Literally every police force in the world will be using AI to help solve crimes.

New comment by Jtarii in "UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence"

Jtarii — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:28:09 +0000

I believe it means evidence stored as digital data that was translated with AI, which then led to arrests. I don't think the crime gang was translating e-books illegally.

New comment by Jtarii in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

Jtarii — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:51:52 +0000

Parody films do not compete with the actual films they are parodying. It's not a good comparison.

New comment by Jtarii in "A Perceptron in Age of Empires II"

Jtarii — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:58:23 +0000

>Does your fridge play the banjo? Doesn't make sense does it?

A fridge isn't capable of creating things.

New comment by Jtarii in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

Jtarii — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:29:36 +0000

New comment by Jtarii in "Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets"

Jtarii — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:17:27 +0000

Mass hysteria

New comment by Jtarii in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

Jtarii — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:42:52 +0000

>You aren't learning anything. Learning involves doing.

You can have it write a program that generates drills for you.

I wanted to become better at reading sheet music so I generated a sheet music reading program. You can have it generate maths drills, then ask questions about it if you get stuck or whatever. If you genuinely want to get better at something then AI will help you learn it faster. Obviously its going to hamper more people's cognitive ability that it will enhance but that is a separate problem.

New comment by Jtarii in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

Jtarii — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:59:13 +0000

Absolutely, a good hacker could likely get into your bank with your name alone.

New comment by Jtarii in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

Jtarii — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:44:58 +0000

Oh no, he wasn't loyal to the soulless trillion dollar mega corp :( what a terrible person

New comment by Jtarii in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

Jtarii — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:02:05 +0000

>The public is always against new technology that makes jobs obsolete.

What backlash was there to the computer?

New comment by Jtarii in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

Jtarii — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:53:23 +0000

Yeah, I'm sure the public will totally 180 on AI as soon as the newest model release rolls out lmfao

New comment by Jtarii in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

Jtarii — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:48:33 +0000

Slavery is currently wildly unpopular in the US. Does that mean that the public is therefore wrong and slavery will be making a comeback soon?

New comment by Jtarii in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

Jtarii — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:42:51 +0000

>Why? I don't get it

Because articles make no money?

New comment by Jtarii in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Jtarii — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:21:45 +0000

Twitter was a "success" for musk sure, it was also a catastrophic failure for the rest of western civilisation.

Musk has been coasting on his successes from 10+ years ago. He has nothing good to offer anyone in 2026.

New comment by Jtarii in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Jtarii — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:59:47 +0000

Not even Elon is delusional enough to truly believe a mars colony is a remote possibility.

New comment by Jtarii in "An interview with an Apple emoji designer"

Jtarii — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:32:22 +0000

Gotta love websites that hijack basic browser functions, in this case forcing smooth scroll on.

New comment by Jtarii in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

Jtarii — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:17 +0000

A poor example considering Musk is responsible for a substantial increase in hunger in Africa recently.