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New comment by ailef in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

ailef — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:52:03 +0000

He didn't imply it's morally dubious, I just read it as "people have more pressing matters to direct their attention to than this".

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

ailef — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 09:33:37 +0000

Notice the hypocrisy of the "explosions reported" title instead of "US bombs Venezuela".

New comment by ailef in "Ask HN: What are some comfy/stress-free jobs a SWE can do? (LCOL country)"

ailef — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:17:06 +0000

Not paying rent is kind of a problem for most people.

New comment by ailef in "Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding"

ailef — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:25:20 +0000

> We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss

Spring Boot is definitely opinionated (this is taken from their home page). Maybe not as much as RoR, but saying it isn't at all sounds very strange to me, having worked with it for a few years too...

New comment by ailef in "The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas"

ailef — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:39:27 +0000

To me it seems out of step with US foreign policy.

New comment by ailef in "Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy"

ailef — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:12:15 +0000

The difference is you need a lot of training data to do that. Instead, now you can just tweak a system prompt and adapt it to whatever new policy you want to implement.

New comment by ailef in "Best place for small remote gigs?"

ailef — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:13:57 +0000

Isn't it "hustle"? But since it's a hassle to hustle it kinda makes sense too.

New comment by ailef in "Ask HN: Thoughts on an AI agent that must make money to stay alive?"

ailef — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:56:48 +0000

Prophetic bitcointalk thread from 2011:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53855.0

New comment by ailef in "Tell HN: Sites are bluffing with their cookie pop-ups"

ailef — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 07:48:36 +0000

The cookies are for showing you targeted advertising. They are not related to the functioning of the website (except the necessary cookies).

New comment by ailef in "Ask HN: Is LLMs.txt a REAL thing now?"

ailef — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:06:44 +0000

filetype:txt should do the trick!

New comment by ailef in "It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life"

ailef — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:50:37 +0000

> The assessment that the US is more likely to invade another country than china is not ridiculous anymore

When was it ever?

New comment by ailef in "WikiTok"

ailef — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:41:41 +0000

I've built something similar a few years ago, combining Wikipedia content and open domain pictures/videos to create long form videos automatically. Uploaded a bunch on YouTube as well. Wrote a blog post in case anyone is interested: http://ailef.tech/2020/04/29/turn-any-wikipedia-article-into...

New comment by ailef in "U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions"

ailef — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:23:50 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

New comment by ailef in "Ask HN: LLM agent to firewall vulnerable FOSS libs?"

ailef — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:44:37 +0000

How would an LLM agent "block these security bugs at runtime" exactly?

New comment by ailef in "School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules"

ailef — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:48:16 +0000

And your colleagues really spent a few days trying to figure this out?

New comment by ailef in "Ask HN: Kotlin SpringBoot vs. Python Django for Min Viable Product"

ailef — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:48:39 +0000

Thanks! I think the Django one allows more stuff like e.g. layout customization. I haven't used it extensively so it was more of an assumption honestly! It's been around a long time and I just spent a couple months on my project instead.

New comment by ailef in "Ask HN: Kotlin SpringBoot vs. Python Django for Min Viable Product"

ailef — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:26:03 +0000

For the admin part, check out http://snapadmin.dev

It's my open source project which provides similar functionality, although not nearly as complete (and as well maintained) as the Django alternative.

New comment by ailef in "LLMs for structured input validation"

ailef — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:17:22 +0000

What would be the advantage of using an LLM here? As opposed to parsing/validating the input using any other technique (of it's a well defined format, where you have e.g. a grammar).

Ask HN: Should we start a discussion about the DSA?

ailef — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:21:57 +0000

Under the Digital Services Act platforms are forced to comply with removal requests for content which is deemed in violation of the regulation.

According to the "DSA Transparency Database"[1], approximately 1.2 million pieces of content are removed daily (at least in terms of their visibility inside the EU) because they fall into the category of "Illegal or harmful speech", the reason being "online services are being misused by manipulative algorithmic systems to amplify the spread of disinformation"[2].

Ironically, algorithms are heavily used to perform automated decision-making on the type of content that is being removed. Platforms are subject to heavy fines for not complying (so it's better to remove more stuff than otherwise), and there's no transparency in the process.

What's the content that is actually removed? A couple of people I occasionally watch on YouTube have had their content removed and/or their channel demonetized under the DSA for completely fine content (expressing opinions contrary to the current EU politics), and this is really worrying. Is there any way to get qualitative data about the removals instead of just aggregated? Is there any organization that is working on this?

Anyone else sharing my worries here?

[1] https://transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu/dashboard

[2] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act-package

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41235201

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Creating a 2D physics engine from scratch in JavaScript

ailef — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 15:50:08 +0000

Article URL: https://ailef.tech/2022/11/12/creating-a-2d-physics-engine-from-scratch-in-javascript/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41210296

Points: 2

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