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New comment by aubanel in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

aubanel — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:25:33 +0000

With what would I be coping? I'd much prefer (probably like most people) if AI were not that powerful. The harsh reality, and the stuff of cope, is that it's (too) powerful.

New comment by aubanel in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

aubanel — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:23:35 +0000

This is AI-generated, but people upvote it despite its low quality because it generally rubs in the sense of "AI will lose"

New comment by aubanel in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

aubanel — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:09 +0000

This contrast is a bit sad. When Eric Schmidt told students the truth about the importance that AI will take in the future ("It will touch every profession, every lab..."), students booked him But the takes like "AI is not real/powerful, human intelligence is better", which are basically pleasant myopic lies, are cheered. Cope bias is powerful.

New comment by aubanel in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

aubanel — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:01:39 +0000

> And what was your contribution to those achievements to justify this pride?

Of course personal contribution is a factor of pride, and arguably the most justified one.

But it's far from the only one. - fan clubs - a child marvelling on how strong/cool their parents are - US citizens on 4th of July (I'm not American btw)

All of these contributed ~nothing in the phenomenon; their pride comes from the wonders worked by the group they belong to. One does not need to _earn_ pride.

Think it the other way : if you don't think legitimate for the receivers of wonders to feel pride, think of it from the side of the providers of wonders. Parents who toiled for their children, great statespeople who worked hard to improve their country: they intentionally directed their efforts towards someone (descendants, citizens). I think pride is sort of gratitude of receivers for the fruits of a common group's efforts. And it's completely justified IMO to feel un-earned pride.

New comment by aubanel in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

aubanel — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:44:59 +0000

Looks like the author wants to put on trial all of Railway, Cursor, and even their LLM.

At some point, the responsibility for approving actions made by autoregressive token generations has to belong to the person heading the engineering org... that's you, author.

New comment by aubanel in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

aubanel — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:12:34 +0000

Does jj work well with parallel agents?

The current problem that I often have is that I want to work on several things in parallel through several agents, always forget to do worktrees, then the different branches of work tend to step on each other Does JJ make it simpler?

ProductHunt Botched Our Launch

aubanel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:17:46 +0000

Article URL: https://m-ric.com/blog/how-producthunt-botched-our-launch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768417

Points: 4

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New comment by aubanel in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

aubanel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:05:34 +0000

A fan of niche medieval history might have threatened the pope with an Outrage of Anagni, much cooler reference than Avignon

New comment by aubanel in "France pulls last gold held in US"

aubanel — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:24:10 +0000

That was a cooperation, both sides benefitted. So there's no debt to repay.

New comment by aubanel in "Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026"

aubanel — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:03:23 +0000

I wouldn't be too harsh, scaling x10 YoY is a bit hard on the infra!

New comment by aubanel in "OpenAI's latest repo has Claude as the third top contributor"

aubanel — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:22:08 +0000

This tweet was just reusing an earlier tweet (same image) without attribution : https://x.com/andimarafioti/status/2036107240420032874

Update the link if possible?

New comment by aubanel in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

aubanel — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:19:45 +0000

I think I have one explanation why for a website, exposing an MCP servers AND having captchas can make sense.

- an agent loading the real page is waste for the server, because the data sent is a few megavytes, and you don't have the usual returns of an user seeing your ads

- BUT API requests (or here, MCP) are much lighter, a few dozen kB, so that makes the ROI positive again

At least that's my view : please tell me, anyone, if that reason doesn't make sense!

New comment by aubanel in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

aubanel — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:03:48 +0000

Regulating something they visibly had no clue about, just because they had idle time and paper: Is California trying to speedrun the innovation no man's land of EU?

New comment by aubanel in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

aubanel — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:56:41 +0000

> Comments from newly registered accounts on HN are also more likely to mention AI and LLMs

-> to be fair there must also be a bias of young incoming ppl on HN being more prone to be starting their career on the hot new tech

New comment by aubanel in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

aubanel — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:12:33 +0000

That's a bit harsh! I go to mass every Sunday (in France) and rarely have political stuff. When there, it's most often about abortion or euthanasia (of course in a pro-life (or anti-choice) direction, "you shall not kill")

But dull, empty homilies are (alas) very frequent.

New comment by aubanel in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

aubanel — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:19:22 +0000

FYI: Chinese models, to be approved by the regulator, have to go through a harness of questions, which of course include this Tiananmen one, and have to answer certain things. I think that on top of that, the live versions have "safeguards" to double check if they comply, thus the freezing.

New comment by aubanel in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

aubanel — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:11:47 +0000

"well preserved tools" said the ad -> I bought some, surprisingly expensive for a hammer -> it's a mishap and inform piece of wood -> straight to dump

New comment by aubanel in "Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake"

aubanel — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:50:44 +0000

Yet the carbone intensity of energy production in Germany is among the worst in Europe.

And France (nuclear powered, no particular huge investment in a green transition) beats them easily in both price and carbon.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes

New comment by aubanel in "Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake"

aubanel — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:47:41 +0000

The success of the Energiewende ? Just take a look at average electricity price and carbon footprint in Germany Vs France.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes

New comment by aubanel in "CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)"

aubanel — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:56:40 +0000

I'd advise you take a look at some of Musk's companies: - Tesla is the top seller of EVs in the US, beating century-old companies. - SpaceX has left public institutions like NASA and ESA in the dust despite their vastly bigger budgets - Although it joined late, xAI is now firmly in the top 4 of AI companies worldwide (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI)

What's the common element between these successes?