Hacker News: dainank

New comment by dainank in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"

dainank — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:27:27 +0000

Mistral AI and the Luxembourgish government also have a strategic partnership: https://gouvernement.lu/en/gouvernement/stephanie-obertin/ac...

New comment by dainank in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

dainank — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:22:53 +0000

I believe nature is all there is. If we could replicate a human brain several times, and make each 'human brain' receive the exact same input data (sounds, sights, smells e.t.c.) from the moment they 'exist' until the end of their lifetime, I truly think that each of these brains will make precisely the same decisions (and each of these 'brains' would think they were conscious and in control of their lives).

In my eyes, consciousness is simply a natural phenomenon that can be explained but we just lack the understanding at this moment. Time and time again we have made this mistake of assuming there is something supernatural about the things we cannot comprehend and only a few centuries later it is completely understood scientifically. I think consciousness will be a similar case but will take more time.

New comment by dainank in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

dainank — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:40:59 +0000

> eBay bought it in 2005 for 2.6 billion dollars. Nobody really understood why eBay wanted it. Then Microsoft bought it from eBay in 2011 for 8.5 billion dollars.

Isn't that the reason eBay bought it? It seems a speculative acquisition on the basis that Skype might become even more valuable later and they were right!

New comment by dainank in "Sudo for Windows (2024)"

dainank — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:58:33 +0000

Maybe `wudo`? Windows Sudo!

New comment by dainank in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

dainank — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:39:41 +0000

Indeed. The bigger problem is also that consistently the most played games are multiplayer competitive titles with anti-cheat software that is only written for Windows (and sometimes MacOS). I suppose this issue will solve itself, once enough people start playing on Linux. Then developers will be forced to support that too in order to not lose too much of their player base, but we are still a far cry from this threshold.

New comment by dainank in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

dainank — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:36:12 +0000

You are overthinking it. It is neither a strategy nor keystroke saving (although technically with shift its 4 keystrokes as opposed to 5 for Linux and quite a few saved for Windows). I just typed that without thinking probably because it looks better and reads a bit easier (subjectively).

New comment by dainank in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

dainank — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:03:08 +0000

I think for people who are browsing this site, it will certainly be easier than expected. For the average person, most likely not.

New comment by dainank in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

dainank — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:01:14 +0000

I think there is a lot of talk (and this is good), but very little action. Market share is still incredibly low for LNX. I believe only a small subset of people actually attempt the jump from WIN to LNX (since most just want to play their games and run their programs without hassle) and then quickly realize that its tougher than they anticipated and swiftly return to WIN.

New comment by dainank in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

dainank — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:24:42 +0000

I think it is also interesting to realize that we have had a huge population boom since the last 50 years or so, thus currently, the entire world population alive makes up roughly 8% of the entire population of the world since the existence of Homo Sapiens. In summary, if you were to be randomly born as a human, you would most likely be born in the latter centuries, rather than the early ones, since the sheer amount being born recently than many years ago is so much more.

https://www.sifrun.com/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-ea...

New comment by dainank in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

dainank — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:44:21 +0000

In my experience, I am only connected with people I have worked with at some point, while taking the effort to mark posts as 'not interested' whenever it felt like ai-crap or boring enterprise slop. The few times I now browse the site, I see the odd interesting article that a college has liked and I barely ever see the pathetic stuff. The experience is fine haha. I think the algorithm just alters to what kind of person you are, thus in my case, the app mainly recommends similar things to what I find here on HackerNews.