Hacker News: Yizahi

New comment by Yizahi in "Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose"

Yizahi — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:06:43 +0000

You are in a violation of GDPR because you don't show "allow all" and "decline all" buttons equally. I won't look up the exact regulation quote, but it is somewhere there.

Also, why do you need to store personal information of the users in the first place? A SAAS operator can handle user payments just fine without any extra data stored to require an additional consent, because storing payment status doesn't require it by law.

New comment by Yizahi in "Gemini 4 Argon"

Yizahi — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:28:43 +0000

If I'm learning a human language I can do it in many different ways. But the key distinction would be, if for example I'm using only books to study by myself, or using only some recorded course on the internet - it would be called self-study. But if for example I will go to a class teaching that language, or to a private teacher, or to summer camp, or join online platform pairing students teachers etc. then neither of those will count as self-study.

New comment by Yizahi in "Gemini 4 Argon"

Yizahi — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:27:46 +0000

Same for me, 3.6 in Gemini Chat, and 3.8 available same day as it was announced in AI Studio using the same account.

New comment by Yizahi in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

Yizahi — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:22:13 +0000

When thieves are getting robbed by better thieves, I can only smirk and cheer for both sides. My only pity is that they both won't ever end up in jail.

New comment by Yizahi in "Gemini 4 Argon"

Yizahi — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:19:19 +0000

The letter S stands for "Self" and word "using" is for sure not a superset of the word "self". Basically LLMs are assisting someone who does improving of said LLM, while RSI is a carpal... ahem, RSI is "self" improvement, meaning no intemediary in a human form. PS: it's also not recursive but iterative improvement, even if it ever happens.

New comment by Yizahi in "Gemini 4 Argon"

Yizahi — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:12:23 +0000

Lagging by what metric exactly? Is Toyota lagging behind McLaren? (company vs company)

New comment by Yizahi in "Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?"

Yizahi — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:41:13 +0000

Crypto-token fans are overwhelmingly supporting conservatives in all countries across the globe and especially in USA, because the whole basis of their "business" is hinged on ignoring laws and getting a pass by the conservative admin. Zhao just plain bribed Trump with 2 billion dollars to go free after being jailed by the Dem administration, lol. Talk about support :) .

New comment by Yizahi in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

Yizahi — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:25:41 +0000

I forgot about Terra's model existence and after Astra release I was temporarily confused about Astra and what's that do, because I had an idea that maybe it was about observed size, so Astra should be the smallest maybe?

Honestly, the old boring business lingo of adding Pro and Max suffixes would have been clearer for both companies.

Also, cyclops is assuredly bigger than minotaur in almost any reference. And what's "ettin"?

New comment by Yizahi in "Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny"

Yizahi — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:55:30 +0000

Author fails at both basic understading of logical thinking, by confusing select anecdotal experiences plus some scarily big epithets on top, like "the number of trains is also so numerous!"(c), instead of correctly talking about percentage of delays per time or number of passengers or trains. And then he fails to do a basic internet search to educate himself about the actual historical statistics about all European rails, where DB looks very bad. Bad article.

New comment by Yizahi in "Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?"

Yizahi — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:50:01 +0000

A program can't "act accidentally". If I will write a fully fledged automatic site "hacking" program, which can for example scan for unpatched vulnerabilities and and upload some malicious code if found a positive match, but then add a random number generator in the end, so that a random will decide if the breach will happen or not, I can't claim that my program "accidentally" hacks sites. No, it would do so deliberately still. Just like like deploying uncontained AI is a deliberate action.

A business plan is not a human right, you know. If I have a nice good idea to make money, but on random it may veer into illegal sometimes, I'm not entitled to just claim innocence because all other times it works in the legal just fine.

Just because uncontained AIs work in the legal most of the time, doesn't excuse people running these programs from when they veer into illegal.

New comment by Yizahi in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

Yizahi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:14:03 +0000

And I think we have pretty decent examples of all kinds of initiatives where governments (or corporations) promise not abuse something which clearly can be abused, and then proceed to do just that. In the age of "cheques and bank balances" and continuous degradation of parliamentarism and judicial systems in multiple developed countries, I don't have much hope for "if the abuse will happen, we will fix it afterwards" promises. Rather, I expect it to be immediately normalized and then made worse. Yesterday we (IT) were talking how government can abuse information requests. Today we have government just sifting through almost everything unencrypted in real-time with zero shame. Tomorrow we will lose E2EE in most big countries and no one would "fix that" or roll back (it's already slowly happening in UK for example).

New comment by Yizahi in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

Yizahi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:25:15 +0000

eIDAS 2.0 is 2 years old. An intentional dark pattern to confuse people.

New comment by Yizahi in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

Yizahi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:24:57 +0000

It's a mechanism to legally force web browser vendors to install government issues root certificates (which they already did btw). And EU pinky-promises that not a single independent EU member won't use them to do MITM attacks on their political opposition and journalists. Like Orban 2.0 or Fico won't use Hungarian or Slovak root cert for nefarious purposes, no-no-no. It's only to protect the children, see, and definitely not to help murder journalists investigating drug smuggling cover-up. :)

New comment by Yizahi in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

Yizahi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:23:42 +0000

The same Dutch who voted on the eAIDS... ahem, sorry, eIDAS and ADDW car spyware? I'm not particularly excited about our new benevolent OS.

New comment by Yizahi in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

Yizahi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:32:26 +0000

I remembered an Emacs skit :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

New comment by Yizahi in "AI has no intent and no motivation"

Yizahi — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:11:00 +0000

> they make decisions

Do they? I mean, after thinking about it for some time, I've realized that I can't prove it either way, neither for humans nor for programs. So it's interesting to hear why do you think they can make them? And what is even a "decision" in that case and what is not a "decision" and why?

New comment by Yizahi in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

Yizahi — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:23:15 +0000

It is one of the "interesting things to look at" if one is switching between apps and files regularly. It's not just an app launcher with icons (though in some environments it is and that's their UX failure). It shows important variable info, like file or directory names per program, sometimes status of the action inside app (connected/disconnected or action completion percentage etc.). Clock is useful too, as are notification badges. Taskbar is for work, not just to take space.

New comment by Yizahi in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

Yizahi — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:20:52 +0000

Well, smartphone was more for an example. My main point was to highlight the absurdity of the summarily dismissing a PC GUI by the top poster. CLI is great, sure, but it's not a means to the end for me at least.

In rare cases, even the "CLI native" tasks are easier to do in GUI, like for example sifting through a really big log dumps with long lines, or configuring a really long configuration file, or editing a giant nested JSON.

New comment by Yizahi in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

Yizahi — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:31:03 +0000

I suspect that is a huge factor, indeed. I often see people using bad mice, with uncomfortable shape, bad buttons, bad sensitivity plus often acceleration enabled. Then on top of that, people are putting mouse in some weird locations, like a narrow slit shelf, or far away from the keyboard (because they have a bad sensitivity configured in part). Or even no mouse and just use trackpad (even the superb one like in Macbooks). Of course GUI would feel clunky that way.

New comment by Yizahi in "OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says"

Yizahi — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:54:01 +0000

But you see, they never asked a humanoid robot to rob the jewelry store. They just drove robot right next to the store doors, dumped a tools box with hydraulic cutters and diamond saw next to it and instructed an autonomous robot to collect a million dollars until the morning. But they didn't instruct the robot to "rob" the shop specifically, nonono, your Honor. They are honest blokes and never intended to breach the law, it was the robot's intention, see. :)