Hacker News: cynicalsecurity

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions?"

cynicalsecurity — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:23:30 +0000

We want safety! -> Cyber doesn't work for you, but works for criminals -> Oopsie, our servers are hacked, data stolen -> We are sad, we want no guardrails -> No guardrails, robot hits a baby doll, sad again! -> We want guardrails!

What kind of schizophrenia is this?

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

cynicalsecurity — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:48:38 +0000

Meanwhile pirates don't see any ads. Make this make sense.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms"

cynicalsecurity — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:03:30 +0000

> Deepanshu Mehndiratta, Alok Srivastava, Vibhor Dhingra, Ankit Srivastava

It's not AI that is going to replace you, folks. Btw is it a coincide or has Uber become a family business now?

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "When Google Cuts Off Access: Poland and the World"

cynicalsecurity — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:28:11 +0000

It doesn't read as AI generated at all, it's got distinct Polish style. It could have been AI-reviewed, judging by the ugly Oxford commas.

Moral of the story is not simply "don't use free accounts". His account was not free, he had a paid Google Workspace. The moral of the story Google and other big American corporations are absolutely unaccountable in Europe. We should stop using their services and switch to our European sovereign service providers. Big American corporations can block even business accounts as they please and ignore European laws and courts.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

cynicalsecurity — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:40:59 +0000

Europeans don't realise how close war is to their homes. Russia won't stop unless it's stopped.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

cynicalsecurity — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:03:13 +0000

> Why This Matters

Move on.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"

cynicalsecurity — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:27:05 +0000

It's just a harassment lawsuit. Amazon is going to lose, but they hope they could bully another company into what they want from them.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Who gets to define the rules for AI?"

cynicalsecurity — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:07:06 +0000

> Chinese and EU labs

China simply steals from the US.

EU is in a lethargic state of sleep.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "We must pace the frontier"

cynicalsecurity — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:15:10 +0000

Their whole "we want safe and regulated AI" spiel feels woke. China doesn't regulate. Open weight frontier models almost exclusively come from China. Yes, stolen from the West, but China is in control of the frontier open weight AI models now. Woke = broke.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm"

cynicalsecurity — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:58:19 +0000

Because looking at pictures is the same as smoking cigarettes.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)"

cynicalsecurity — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:40:33 +0000

You spoke to my heart, comrade! Already sending Microsoft my resignation letter so I can join you on skid row fighting against the evil capitalist empire!

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

cynicalsecurity — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:24:16 +0000

> (One at a time!)

That's unexpected.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Show HN: Syq – copy files between machines fast (better than rsync)"

cynicalsecurity — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:16:18 +0000

I'm eager to replace battle-tested rsync with a new half-baked tool that no one uses for a tiny speed improvement. I'm also going to enable automatic updates of that tool too.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire"

cynicalsecurity — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:50:36 +0000

It did not.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Version control second coming"

cynicalsecurity — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:56:14 +0000

Not worth reading.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

cynicalsecurity — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:19:55 +0000

That's because there were no idea behind it in the first place. It was an ambitious overpromising project that hasn't delivered almost anything they promised. They didn't have any story or interesting gameplay in mind too. Pity.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "John Margolies' photographs of roadside America"

cynicalsecurity — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:44:15 +0000

Do you mean modernism? You most likely mean modernism. Yes, it sucks.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "How I feel about AI"

cynicalsecurity — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:42:42 +0000

> (I used Mistral as reviewer here. I typed every word myself.)

What an irony. This is absolutely hilarious.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

cynicalsecurity — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:30:07 +0000

> nextcloud: slow and unreliable, and more enterprise-targeted now

What a load of bull.

New comment by cynicalsecurity in "The Real Luxuries In Life"

cynicalsecurity — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:57:51 +0000

These are rhetorical tricks. Mate I see what you mean, but honestly, the article was just the usual useless old man's talk. I'm glad he is posting on the internet, but it was a useless post.

Jobs will be a luxury soon, if they aren't already. Sure, dead-end jobs aren't a luxury, but they're basically life support - or rather to say existence support.

I live in a country with single-payer healthcare, which some Americans dream so much. If I don't have a job, I'm pretty much screwed - I won't have health insurance. I'm glad I'm healthy, not stupid and not lazy, but single-payer doesn't help that much with life luxuries as you think. To have a place to sleep and not have to worry you need a job - and unless you inherited that place you'll have to work hard for years without the luxuries the old chap talks about anyway. Those are just old man's useless ramblings. I'm sorry, but they are.