Hacker News: blks

New comment by blks in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

blks — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:53:06 +0000

Yet to see, as a few big sweeps he did (with various problems), are still sitting unmerged after 2-3 months, with a dev from another project reviewing them and a hardware lead reviewing the idea.

New comment by blks in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

blks — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:32:35 +0000

My company hired a junior dev that was helping a senior one, then after layoffs and financial issues senior was fired, and junior left to pick mission critical code with a stick and codex.

New comment by blks in "NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart"

blks — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:25:56 +0000

IIRC it had something to do with the type of fuel that was in use. There are aircrafts that reach pretty high temperatures during flight and they usually don’t leak fuel that much on the ground. Do correct me if I’m wrong.

New comment by blks in "NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart"

blks — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:05:19 +0000

Hopefully it won’t be leaking fuel anymore with modern engines

New comment by blks in "It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs"

blks — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:16:13 +0000

People are people, LLMs are a commercial product. IP in question wasn’t not used according to its license, while researchers in general access it within licensing agreement terms.

Here we have a commercial product that is produced using IP against its licensing agreement, contains said IP within it, and can (closely) reproduce this IP.

New comment by blks in "Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented"

blks — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:35:15 +0000

Doesn’t mean we have to eat people or murdering animals. A rare person beats himself up for eating salad, but I promise you majority of people around you have various reservations about murdering and hurting animals and people. Growing up in some cultures and being fed abstract clean pieces of flesh just allows people to compartmentalize.

New comment by blks in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

blks — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:20:40 +0000

We got? We didn’t get anything last time I checked, we are offered to pay rent to access this intelligence, at a discount

New comment by blks in "EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype"

blks — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:12:23 +0000

Do what? Customer searching for a physical book will do print-on-demand or what do you mean? Most customers will go with a cheap and convenient option

New comment by blks in "A note on subscription prices from LWN"

blks — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:39:53 +0000

I’m occasional lwn reader and I had no idea there are subscriptions there!

New comment by blks in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

blks — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:04:20 +0000

Why not? It’s the same as everywhere else, it has men. Just knowing that places like Kiwi Farms exists is enough evidence of good number of garbage people

New comment by blks in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

blks — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:00:06 +0000

Really depends if company has some spyware installed. My work MacBook was just given me as plain new MacBook that I installed everything myself. Personal iCloud, work OneDrive, no corporate spyware

New comment by blks in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

blks — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:05:38 +0000

Don’t be mistaken, climate refugees will be white as well

New comment by blks in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

blks — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:04:00 +0000

I imagine huge fake monoculture forests are partially to blame, besides climate change

New comment by blks in "EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype"

blks — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:02:47 +0000

Removing copyright will benefit parasites and big players more than small artists and businesses. Big businesses won’t have to eg obtain any licensing to publish someone else’s novel or technical book.

New comment by blks in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

blks — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:59:44 +0000

This reads like a very good dramatic catastrophy movie. This is very alarming.

New comment by blks in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

blks — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:57:07 +0000

How much water usually cost in dryer regions of USA?

New comment by blks in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

blks — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:54:53 +0000

Trees don’t grow otherwise in that area? Like if you would stop watering, will they die? Future proof solution could be selling and buying somewhere where climate change won’t hit as hard, eg north, but I guess not everyone can afford that, and cooler regions may not offer sufficient sustenance or infrastructure like schools and jobs.

New comment by blks in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

blks — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:48:32 +0000

Better solution would be migration and building and expanding cities. I have huge doubts current systems will be able to or even consider to tackle catastrophic problems that are 10-20-30 years ahead, huge public investments, forcing capital to share too, drain dry all the oil biz. Instead it will be free for all

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

blks — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:46:21 +0000

Especially when he hires too little people, makes them work 80hrs a week and expect big and fast results

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

blks — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:41:43 +0000

How exactly other websites “gave it all away”? Also examples you list are websites putting some explicit rule eg in their robots.txt or filtering web crawlers. This is all a reaction to existing situation, so Reddit for sure has been scrapped before Reddit realised what was happening.