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China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

VWWHFSfQ — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:22:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-considers-tighter-export-controls-ai-models-chips-ft-reports-2026-07-21/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059043

Points: 1

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AMD to launch next generation of AI infrastructure to challenge Nvidia

VWWHFSfQ — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:01:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-expected-launch-next-generation-ai-infrastructure-challenge-nvidia-2026-07-23/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020887

Points: 2

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Microsoft to fund Mistral's European AI expansion in multibillion-dollar deal

VWWHFSfQ — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:54:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-fund-mistrals-european-ai-expansion-multibillion-dollar-deal-2026-07-21/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49019132

Points: 4

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New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:29:57 +0000

> given the leeway the government gave that predatory website.

They are only blocking it because the French gambling mafia/authority is not getting their cut. They do not care in any way at all about a "predatory" gambling website.

They just want their share.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again"

VWWHFSfQ — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:13:22 +0000

Sometimes countries can formulate energy policies that accomplish two goals at once.

They can keep taxes on refined petroleum products low in order to not destroy the present economy, while simultaneously fostering a budding renewable energy industry. USA is the second largest producer of renewable energy in the world behind only China. California + Texas by themselves rank 6th in the world.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again"

VWWHFSfQ — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:29:11 +0000

Well the US could just pump their wells and outproduce the entire rest of the world in crude oil and refined products like gasoline if it wanted to. Or if it was forced to.

French regulators order block of Polymarket's website

VWWHFSfQ — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:26:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/07/17/france-blocks-access-to-polymarket_6755581_7.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949208

Points: 5

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New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

VWWHFSfQ — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:31:11 +0000

It's a bad metric, but also Zig didn't migrate all of their issues from GitHub. Run the same count on GitHub and you'll see the full picture

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:11:07 +0000

> There is a reason why ASML's next-generation research photolithography machine is currently being installed and developed in upstate New York, and not somewhere in the Netherlands. The same reason that Cymer is still in San Diego instead of being relocated to Europe.

What is the reason?

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:51:45 +0000

> At 1 million euros per head.

Over 5 years...

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:47:28 +0000

> Europe is in its own set of problems and it is not in the same situation that US used to be after WW2 (only major economy not affected by bombing).

Both Japan and South Korea were equally devastated and yet they managed to build world-class technology industries in the subsequent decades. I think the problems with Europe and the EU are a lot deeper than that.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Espionage Against the European Parliament"

VWWHFSfQ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:28:31 +0000

>> Further validating our finding of targeting, our forensic analysis shows Kouloglou received multiple Apple threat notifications about targeting with mercenary spyware on three occasions: March 2, 2023, August 29, 2023, and April 10, 2024. It is important to note that threat notifications from Apple and other companies are not real-time alerts. They are typically sent to users in batches, often months or more after targeting takes place.

>> Kouloglou reports to us that he did not recall receiving the Apple notifications we observed.

Am I understanding this correctly that Apple sent him notifications that he was being monitored and he ignored them?

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:19:07 +0000

Europe will never have digital sovereignty from the US.

It will take 100 years and an extremely expensive, government-mandated reimplementation of every critical US tech service and company.

No EU country is putting up budget for this, and no private enterprise is going to do it because building a worse version of AWS just so that it is "European" makes no financial sense and would most likely just fail anyway.

Ask HN: Is "fast, cheap, correct – pick two" still true in software development?

VWWHFSfQ — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:06:52 +0000

It seems as llm coding agents become more and more sophisticated and capable, that adage may not be true anymore. It seems increasingly likely that you can have all three.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367619

Points: 2

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New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

VWWHFSfQ — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:05:55 +0000

> before handing the tasks over to the AI agent to continue the recklessness with even more abandon

Which is a funny outcome of this because apparently the AI agent (Claude) tried to talk him out of doing some of the crazy stuff he wanted to do! Not only did he make bad decisions before invoking the AI, he even ignored and overruled the agent when it was flagging problems with the approach.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

VWWHFSfQ — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:12:36 +0000

> prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption

Their end-to-end encryption is pointless because the vast majority of any recipients will just leak the plaintext emails via their own account providers anyway. It only works under very specific circumstances (all parties are using it). I think their marketing overstates what their secure private email actually means.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

VWWHFSfQ — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:10:19 +0000

> China is incredibly nice to live in

I'm sure it's a very nice place to live if you're content to just stay quiet in society and never put a political sign in your yard or even just talk about the wrong thing with your friend in a WeChat.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

VWWHFSfQ — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:44:22 +0000

www was built in Europe but the Internet itself was built in USA! :D

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:17:55 +0000

Ofcom and Clearcast are tasked with enforcing the UK Broadcast Advertising Code (BCAP Code). Which came about from the Communications Act of 2003.

It is 100% government mandated censorship.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:50:03 +0000

Broad censorship has largely become normalized in the UK and EU. It's happening fast and it's terrifying.