Hacker News: bertman

The AI Pascal's Wager

bertman — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:34:37 +0000

Article URL: https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49918395

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Signal registration without a phone number now available in Android beta

bertman — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:51:33 +0000

Article URL: https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-registration-without-a-phone-number-now-available/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725390

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Terence Tao: Protecting math problems from automated solvers

bertman — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:50:31 +0000

Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117204929023813310

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546694

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bertman in "My Friend Aaron"

bertman — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:42:34 +0000

You can read the story in the html source.

New comment by bertman in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"

bertman — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:38:12 +0000

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956153

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

bertman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956153

Points: 88

# Comments: 13

New comment by bertman in "The circus freaks of open source"

bertman — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:28:12 +0000

The author addresses exactly this in the postscript of his article.

Gödel and Turing outlined the limits of AI

bertman — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:54:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/blog/How-Goedel-and-Turing-outlined-the-limits-of-AI-11313804.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381981

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bertman in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"

bertman — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:34:12 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294440

New comment by bertman in "Show HN: I made a one-click Chrome extension to export bookmarks as JSON"

bertman — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:15:39 +0000

I think you misslopped something. The slop you linked actually deletes '404' bookmarks and does not offer JSON export.

Silicon, not oil: Why the U.S. needs the Gulf for AI

bertman — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:37:37 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/pax-silica-qatar-uae/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586136

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Terence Tao: Cleverness versus Intelligence in AI Tools and Humans

bertman — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:20:33 +0000

Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115722360006034040

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46271713

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Tao: Intelligence is too high-dimensional for accurate low-dimensional narrative

bertman — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:00:32 +0000

Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115620261936846090

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46067647

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

bertman — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:12:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898407

Points: 1106

# Comments: 627

New comment by bertman in "Show HN: I built a free VPN that runs directly in Chrome"

bertman — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:59:16 +0000

Your description is not accurate and quite misleading.

>QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser

Like I said: What do you mean with this? You did not build a "VPN" that runs in the browser. Your extension sets up a web proxy.

And worse:

>or log user data.

You're implying you're running some kind of "no log" service which is false.

New comment by bertman in "Show HN: I built a free VPN that runs directly in Chrome"

bertman — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:49:41 +0000

>QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser

What does that even mean? This AI-coded extension uses a Cloudflare worker to generate API keys for the proxy service "webshare.io". It then uses the Chrome proxy API (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/p...) to set up a Webshare proxy server.

>or log user data

Webshare.io log everything they can, as expected (https://www.webshare.io/privacy-policy)