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New comment by andrepd in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

andrepd — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:31:40 +0000

Hard not to argue in what metric? The US has Flock cameras spreading like the plague, if we're going purely based on vibes. And the Snowden disclosures about how they spy on their own citizens on a massive scale is over a decade old at this point.

Plus, a city covered in CCTV could theoretically be freer than one with much less coverage, if those cameras are recording to encrypted storage and accessible only with a judicial warrant, and the others are a lawless free for all with private and public operators hoovering up all the data.

New comment by andrepd in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

andrepd — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:11:33 +0000

breadth, depth and nuance

If ever there were three adjectives which do NOT apply to generative AI...

New comment by andrepd in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

andrepd — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:10:19 +0000

The conclusion you should draw from this is therefore "GDP is a shit metric for measuring anything and even worse as a target".

New comment by andrepd in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

andrepd — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:16:20 +0000

In what sense are movies a "luxury market" and in what sense have they not been "commoditised" (as per your definition) for 100 years...? Seriously, your answer to a conversation about an economy that squeezes the middle-class and serves more and more the ultra-wealthy is "but netflix"? Uninteresting conversation.

New comment by andrepd in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

andrepd — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:22:51 +0000

It's silly to say that "Europe" has substantially different working hours for the majority of the population, compared to the US. Grindset hustle sigma influencers are an outlier of course.

New comment by andrepd in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

andrepd — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:04:00 +0000

One would think that self-proclaimed "conservatives" would like to conserve the natural world... Long gone are the days of Teddy Roosevelt that's for sure.

New comment by andrepd in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

andrepd — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:01:56 +0000

Nuclear reactors are a notoriously clean and safe method of electricity generation.

New comment by andrepd in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

andrepd — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:11:10 +0000

In other words: everything to do with economics is worse and everything to do with the inexorable march of progress is better. Yeah sorry but no shit. Technology has progressed since grandpa's day.

"TVs are better and cheaper" is not a useful counterpoint when discussing the economy of the 2020s.

New comment by andrepd in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

andrepd — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:05:39 +0000

Never get high on your own supply, says the dope peddler.

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

andrepd — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:00:50 +0000

Article URL: https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213319

Points: 6

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New comment by andrepd in "Online Friends Are Real Friends"

andrepd — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:43:52 +0000

What do you mean snap feature? Can you explain?

New comment by andrepd in "Kelly Criterion Simulator"

andrepd — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:33:01 +0000

On a casino? Play good poker and go for a low rake. Playing the house is always negative EV, by definition.

New comment by andrepd in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

andrepd — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:11:23 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts, but how is this is anyway relevant to the issue at hand? I'm sad that this is the top comment...

New comment by andrepd in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

andrepd — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:19:32 +0000

Rare or not, destroying books is in itself a morally repugnant act. I don't know man, it's not so long ago we used to view nazi book burnings as an archetype of evil. Today companies are offering book-burning-as-a-service and it hardly causes a stir.

Bearded German man was right.

New comment by andrepd in "German Peasants' War"

andrepd — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:20:26 +0000

> Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

Romans 13. Is it any surprise that such a religion has consistently, throughout the centuries, been on the side of the rich and powerful, of the lords and emperors, the reactionaries of all stripes?

New comment by andrepd in "Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site"

andrepd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:25:41 +0000

Yes, I'm very annoyed that I cannot look at historical data (even from the past couple of days) in weather websites!

New comment by andrepd in "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"

andrepd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:21:29 +0000

Jesus, what a bizarrely aggressive response.

New comment by andrepd in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"

andrepd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:19:17 +0000

I'm shocked, astonished even, that enterprises on which trillions of dollars are being poured would consider cheating on marketing benchmarks.

New comment by andrepd in "A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)"

andrepd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:40:02 +0000

The first "scenario" starts with this description

> By 2026, when a human with a customer service inquiry has to deal with another human instead of a robot, they get upset and ask to speak to a machine instead.

It's genuinely astonishing how out of touch some people are!

New comment by andrepd in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

andrepd — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:29:53 +0000

> there has never been something so powerful it's kept me up past 3 AM every single night working beyond every fiber of my body telling me to sleep. I feel empowered as if I command an army. And there are millions of us

Yelling "slop" at a clothes-folding robot is stupid, but reading this kind of shit makes me want to embody Ted Kaczynszky and go live in the woods.