Hacker News: alightsoul

New comment by alightsoul in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

alightsoul — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:26:42 +0000

So you don't know, if you did you would elaborate, it's not hard to type, hardly it can be counted as work

New comment by alightsoul in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

alightsoul — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:26:19 +0000

We need IPv6 desperately for fault tolerance

New comment by alightsoul in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

alightsoul — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:13:28 +0000

It's also easier to understand. For the internet to be fault tolerant you have to get rid of CDNs and assume everyone needs the same thing. That's more expensive than a centralized "internet" which relies on CDNs and fiber paths exclusive to the regions with most demand. Everything has been optimized for throughput for what is determined to be important, not rare fault tolerance

New comment by alightsoul in "K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models"

alightsoul — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:29:38 +0000

It can also be used to sidestep copyright like this forum, books and most websites even if the data was not purchased but is a website or book.

Are LLMs what we need to make all data public domain? This way it could be used for that purpose

New comment by alightsoul in "K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models"

alightsoul — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:28:00 +0000

Crypto bros took the idea with some blockchain shit and no one takes it seriously anymore so it died

New comment by alightsoul in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

alightsoul — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:12:47 +0000

The reason why they don't use Bluetooth is because, they don't exist at all. People either die first before receiving the device, or the condition that requires it is rare in that part of the world

New comment by alightsoul in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

alightsoul — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:54:19 +0000

You will need to use your own

New comment by alightsoul in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

alightsoul — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:52:54 +0000

In a third world country which are the most affected by this, Pacemakers are very rare and if you have one chances are you live in a rich area where you don't live with neighbors who do that. People die before they ever get a chance at having a pacemaker and the very conditions that require it are very rare in those areas in the first place

New comment by alightsoul in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

alightsoul — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:50:39 +0000

This is such a first world problem. The speakers the post refers to are probably in a third world country where no medical equipment uses Bluetooth so jamming it poses no danger.

New comment by alightsoul in "The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers"

alightsoul — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:21:40 +0000

It doesn't say meta or thinking machines were asked. Does that mean asking them is futile, even though they are American labs?

New comment by alightsoul in "Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)"

alightsoul — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:34:22 +0000

There were other players, china included, but it wasn't relevant until LLMs became profitable? China is being singled out as usual because it's the antithesis of the us

New comment by alightsoul in "Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)"

alightsoul — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:09:16 +0000

Oh it's the typical china race thing, we can't let the antithesis of the us be better than the us etc. American exceptionalism

New comment by alightsoul in "Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)"

alightsoul — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:11:40 +0000

why are chinese models a consideration at all?

New comment by alightsoul in "The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now"

alightsoul — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:09:41 +0000

And even worse, if you're addicted to soda, it is cheaper than bottled water, what if you don't have tap water?

New comment by alightsoul in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

alightsoul — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:30:32 +0000

Yes, because they want to avoid trade secret lawsuits is what I understand? Computer generated output including code is in the public domain according to the us copyright office, so licensing and authorship are only relevant due to trade secrets is what I understand

New comment by alightsoul in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

alightsoul — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:49:39 +0000

To a company ownership is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether it contains trade secrets and that is often only proven if an employee worked at their company before

New comment by alightsoul in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

alightsoul — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:15:43 +0000

They already are? When an American company does it no one cares but when a Chinese company does it, it's shamed publicly in America as a distillation attack?

New comment by alightsoul in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

alightsoul — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:29:52 +0000

Where I live there are no signs for events

New comment by alightsoul in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

alightsoul — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:09:38 +0000

Ai models are not piracy, because you never had to pay for them and simply seeding them and downloading them does not break their licenses

New comment by alightsoul in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

alightsoul — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:33:00 +0000

They will just download them from modelscope