Hacker News: Lapra

New comment by Lapra in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

Lapra — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:37:35 +0000

I'm fairly certain there would be no Classic WoW without private servers to show Blizzard there was a demand. They seemed embarrassed about the entire concept.

Same with emulation, really; had that not been developed, I doubt Nintendo would care about their back catalogue.

New comment by Lapra in "Trust Signals as Sparklines for Hacker News"

Lapra — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:45:53 +0000

The problem with having a public trust score is that it'll be gamed by bad actors A/B testing their bots surely.

New comment by Lapra in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

Lapra — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:33:10 +0000

In a world where this is useful, you aren't going to be spending your precious battery on running an LLM...

New comment by Lapra in "Nvidia DLSS 5 Delivers AI-Powered Breakthrough in Visual Fidelity for Games"

Lapra — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:18:51 +0000

Horrific. Completely ruins the art direction.

New comment by Lapra in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

Lapra — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:52:32 +0000

Frankly the other cofounders are just as bad as Thiel but don't draw the headlines quite as much.

"Yesterday, Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale agreed with an X post suggesting communists in the Western hemisphere should be blown up. “Exactly,” he wrote. “What did you think founding Palantir was supposed to be about?”" - https://responsiblestatecraft.org/defense-companies-maduro/

"“We support warfare and we are proud of it,” Karp stated bluntly during the conversation with German media outlet Heise.de." - https://zetbit.tech/news/209/pentagon-backing-palantir-ceo-k...

"In a CNBC interview Thursday, Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp opined that AI will undermine the influence of “highly educated, often female voters” and empower working class men instead. And anyone who doesn’t realize this political reality, he added, belongs in an “insane asylum.”" - https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceo-palantir-ai...

New comment by Lapra in "Welcome to the Eternal September of open source"

Lapra — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:37:58 +0000

AI is the final season of embrace, extend, extinguish. It's why Microsoft are so enthusiastic about it.

New comment by Lapra in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

Lapra — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:50:24 +0000

> Americans can delete Italy.

Boy, Americans really do have an overinflated sense of their power.

New comment by Lapra in "Ubisoft Says AI Generated Anno Art 'Slipped Through'"

Lapra — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:51:09 +0000

So their "fix" was to have an artist do a quick paint-over to remove the most egregious artifacts. Is that... actually any better? Just hire artists to make the damn paintings in the first place.

New comment by Lapra in "Steam Machine"

Lapra — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:47:09 +0000

Steam is a service that's been running for >20 years and somehow hasn't been enshittified (although, I suppose when it first appeared it was seen as enshittification). It's worth celebrating, to be honest.

New comment by Lapra in "Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen"

Lapra — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:18:33 +0000

I'll counter your cherrypick with my own:

Dr. Olivia Guest, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science

Dr. Abeba Birhane, Assistant Professor of AI

Prof. Iris van Rooij, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett, Director of Computer Science Dept., Professor of Computer Science (AI, Software Engineering)

Dr. Alex Hanna, Director of Research, DAIR

Roel Dobbe, Assistant Professor of Public Interest AI and Algorithmic Systems

Dr. Mark Blokpoel, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science

Dr. Dan McQuillan, Senior Lecturer in Critical AI

Dr. Ronald de Haan, Assistant professor of Artificial Intelligence

Joost Vossers, PhD Candidate on Artificial Intelligence

Dr Esther Mondragón, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence

Prof Eduardo Alonso, Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Andrea E. Martin, Research Group Leader, Language and Computation in Neural System

Dr. ir. Gabriel Bucur, Assistant Professor in Statistical Machine Learning and Explainable AI for Health

Prof. M. Dingemanse, Professor of Language and Communication & cofounder, EU Open Source AI Index

All of these people definitely stand to very much directly benefit from AI hype.

New comment by Lapra in "I Let AI Vote for Me in the Nix SC Election"

Lapra — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:31:55 +0000

I'm sorry, what? If you're a voting member, then yes I //do// expect you to read all the candidate statements. That's the least you can do to be actually informed about your decision. The laziness on display - even being bragged about here - is astonishing. If you don't have the time to be informed about your decision, then there's always the other option - not voting.

New comment by Lapra in "Affinity Studio now free"

Lapra — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:10:31 +0000

I just want to buy a product and not have it constantly upsell me. Like what Affinity was before. Please.

New comment by Lapra in "Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits"

Lapra — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:24:56 +0000

They are a porn company now, after all.

New comment by Lapra in "1 Trillion Web Pages Archived"

Lapra — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:51:09 +0000

This would destroy the goodwill that they've built up as a public good. People generally don't mind you archiving their content, but if you're selling access to that data, they aren't going to stand for it.

New comment by Lapra in "Germicidal UV could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water"

Lapra — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:46:21 +0000

I recently read the book "Invisible Friends," and in it, among other things, the author does go on to explain that it's theorised that many skin infections come from a lack of biodiversity in a persons' skin microbiome, because the "good" or neutral microbes compete with the "bad" for resources. Supposedly people who share a house together often have similar gut microbiomes, too.

So yeah, I don't know. I think you have a point here.

New comment by Lapra in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

Lapra — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:17:48 +0000

Even $5k/year seems insane to me for hosting what is essentially an IRC channel...

New comment by Lapra in "The obstacles to scaling up humanoids"

Lapra — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:11:31 +0000

Humanoid robots are probably never coming. The fact is - flesh and blood humans pay for their own upkeep. Wear-and-tear, particularly on a heavy lifting robot, would probably be their biggest cost and might always outweigh the cost savings.

New comment by Lapra in "HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media"

Lapra — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:11:03 +0000

Context for non-UK readers: the HMRC is the UK government's tax collection branch, roughly equivalent to the IRS in the USA.

HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media

Lapra — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:06:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjyedz202ko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44882334

Points: 10

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New comment by Lapra in "Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics with Linux Support"

Lapra — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:12:31 +0000

Unlabelled graphs are infuriating. Are the charts average framerate? Mean framerate? Maximum framerate?