Hacker News: antman

New comment by antman in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

antman — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:22:07 +0000

I recently visited the facility near Angor Wat Cambodia. Its a facility with a lot of promotional matetial and have greatbway of presentong themselves. I had a demo presentation with a rat doing demining so some observations: The rats are big. The idea is that they smell mines and are more useful than dogs since they are less than 5kg which detonates the mines. They are also better than human since they can smell old mines that are under soil or plants after so many decades. Unfortunate that is very labor intensive since there are two people escorting each rat and handle it with tethers.

For those reasons their effectiveness is limited.

A few km up the same road is the Cambodian Landmine Museum that has a couple of demo gardens where one can spectacularly fail find Lamdimes Found like 10 amd they were like one hundred, 2 right next to me…. Unfortunately that place which is run by a person called Aki Ra although having done a lot more work gets less financing.

New comment by antman in "Ask HN: Did anyone else get logged out from HN today?"

antman — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:01:06 +0000

Yes

New comment by antman in "Guilty Displeasures"

antman — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:55:08 +0000

There are two such mechanisms proposed. Ambivalence theory that says you can both like and dislike something at the same time e.g. smoking. Cognitive dissonance is that you like as you are supposed to like according to your teachings and and upbringing which might not be fully in sync your real neural response e.g. liking famous people when they might be crap.

New comment by antman in "A DuckDB-based metabase alternative"

antman — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:44:24 +0000

Will it expose a visual query builder as metabase?

New comment by antman in "Chinese Peptides Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World"

antman — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:45:15 +0000

https://archive.is/20260206064340/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

New comment by antman in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

antman — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:27:06 +0000

10$ per month early access? I would prefer a one off price for an offline mode

New comment by antman in "The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)"

antman — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 06:49:06 +0000

They are helping society not the system. They might fight the system. There is no ignoring, thats supporting the system. There is no silence, the system can produce fake intellectuals. There is no hiding, the system must pursue the individuals because its the ideas that need dying. The intellectuals are pursued even after death.

New comment by antman in "On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]"

antman — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:18:40 +0000

I will agree but rephrase, they were not incapable limiting supply of housing or chinese imports or international information channels is the model. Artificial barriers, ethical redefinitions, rag pulling, tollboothing have been the way to divide and conquer to channel the decaying international and domestic market share to political affiliates. Most political , maga, lgbt, policing, race etc issues are highlighted and disproportionately promoted to noise out discourse about money. If money and safety is considered as a key factor of historical actions and current events, then countries grievances are eastbti explain. When I hear for the other side the media to claim “they went crazy”, “they are barbarian subhumans” I know I am being manipulated.

China's Zhipu Unveils New AI Model Trained on Huawei's Chips

antman — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:42:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-14/china-s-zhipu-unveils-new-ai-model-trained-on-huawei-s-chips

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628511

Points: 4

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New comment by antman in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

antman — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:21:17 +0000

Voice typing is a cool feature, have you considered whisper wasm instead of OpenAI api?

New comment by antman in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

antman — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:15:05 +0000

That is absolutely great! Using it now to plan a trip.

Could we also add text annotations? Also the delete button could delete just the last shape or a selected shape so as not to start over?

Chinese Chipmakers Race to IPOs

antman — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:01:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/chinese-chipmakers-race-ipo-after-back-back-listings-surge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353143

Points: 1

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New comment by antman in "Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud"

antman — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:39:30 +0000

Given it was revealed that CIA specifically targeted 200million deals and above, it was political naivety amounting ti gross negligence on behalf of Airbus executives that it took them 10 years. Same for many other large organisations and countries, unbelieveable.

Why did it have to be Trump to make them take action?

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-france-wikileaks-economy/...

New comment by antman in "Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car"

antman — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:27:12 +0000

The protocol is known, creating a tag that rotates IDs every hour should be trivial.

New comment by antman in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

antman — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:39:38 +0000

Many open source are not core business but supporting layers of overall organisations getting free PRs. Others are pet projects that tried to do too many things and overextended themselves for little additional value failing any sort of sustainability logic. Others had a larger range of features required than the original dev was aware of.

New comment by antman in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

antman — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:32:36 +0000

SeaweedFS with S3 API? Differentiates itself with claims of ease of use and small files optimization

New comment by antman in "We're learning more about what Vitamin D does"

antman — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:43:57 +0000

The trick is to put sunscreen on the most exposed areas of the body face and upper surfaces, the rest through one layer of clothing e.g. tshirt for enough for vitamin D. It only needs 30mins to one hour exposure arms and legs per week

New comment by antman in "Why I'm Betting Against the AGI Hype"

antman — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:26:53 +0000

The hype is that there is a meaningful AGI discussion that affects today’s decision making. Valuations mirror the sentiment that current llm AI will decrease costs by limiting white collar jobs and perhaps bring in a few new revenue streams taking advantage stale unstructured information. Other academic and self aggrandising discussions on the advent of AGI do exist, but even cold fusion might arrive earlier.

New comment by antman in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

antman — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:00:49 +0000

Obviously the resgnation is the cheapest way to layoffs, so shy not make it seven days?

New comment by antman in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

antman — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:06:48 +0000

Memory prices have always been a racket. In the good old days news of a memory factory burning periodically raised the memory prices. Nowadays price fixing cartels don’t need something so elaborate.