Hacker News: drawfloat

New comment by drawfloat in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

drawfloat — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:07:24 +0000

I'm not sure if surveillance is on a par in the UK anymore. ANPR (police run license plate recognition system that scoops up all plates that pass) was a big point of contention during 90s and 00s, but even that has been superseded by Flock (private collection, no major legal safeguards, AI based constant review rather than human review etc).

New comment by drawfloat in "Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX at end of second quarter"

drawfloat — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:01:41 +0000

Honest question, because I am not sure: could they become a gaming GPU company again in a quarter? Or have they restructured manufacturing away from them to produce data centre GPUs?

New comment by drawfloat in "People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age"

drawfloat — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:42:01 +0000

You’re credulous about the concept of someone working part time?

New comment by drawfloat in "Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom"

drawfloat — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:05:52 +0000

It’s beyond naive to think this falling apart will not hit the jobs and finances of ordinary people who never touched ai investment.

New comment by drawfloat in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

drawfloat — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:10:28 +0000

Probably should be telling the design team to actually use the colours that are approved then.

New comment by drawfloat in "Please stop the AI confidence theater"

drawfloat — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:07:38 +0000

Why does your username contain “APU”?

New comment by drawfloat in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

drawfloat — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:22:00 +0000

Didn't we just have a round of people being fired and arrested in the US for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk?

New comment by drawfloat in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

drawfloat — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:54:36 +0000

...yes on the last? Might be in a minority on that one.

New comment by drawfloat in "The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents"

drawfloat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:59:39 +0000

I don’t have kids, but I live in society.

New comment by drawfloat in "Can you see three trees?"

drawfloat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:54:55 +0000

City of London != London, the city

The City is indeed pretty non green

New comment by drawfloat in "The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents"

drawfloat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:40:00 +0000

“ But the social media ban does not stop there. The provision also requires internet service providers to limit the time kids spend online, and has rules about who can contact them online. These extreme rules will take decisions about using technology away from families and put them in the hands of government regulators. “

I’m not sure that “there are rules on who can contact children online” is “extreme” for anyone outside of hyper libertarian circles.

The EFF needs to start engaging with actual real world, because it’s intransigence on the issues being caused by unfettered internet usage mean it is unable to prevent bad solutions being proposed.

New comment by drawfloat in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

drawfloat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:59:50 +0000

Honestly it might not be the worst thing. Facebook et al were way too entrenched in European society before the geopolitical negatives became apparent. Getting cut off now, regardless of whether it comes back tomorrow, will encourage not being overly reliant on one country’s LLM providers.

New comment by drawfloat in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

drawfloat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:00:20 +0000

We’re talking about Europe. The context of this entire article is Europe.

New comment by drawfloat in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

drawfloat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:46:05 +0000

In America. That is not true for all other countries.

And in even more countries it is legal to film, but it's not legal to send that footage back to Meta's servers for use in LLM training.

New comment by drawfloat in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

drawfloat — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:41:47 +0000

No they got away with it through a combination of lax pharmaceutical laws, and because they were rich and connected to the officials who should have investigated them.

They're also almost universally regarded as having committed evil acts at this point, so who cares why they got away with it?

New comment by drawfloat in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

drawfloat — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:16:50 +0000

We just had years of US model providers arguing it was fine to rip off the world’s cultural output for their own profit, why should their work be treated any different?

New comment by drawfloat in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

drawfloat — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:03:23 +0000

Put the LLM down and talk to humans as a human.

New comment by drawfloat in "What 1,281 agent runs reveal about coding agent failure in large codebases"

drawfloat — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:56:36 +0000

Slop.

New comment by drawfloat in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

drawfloat — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:19:35 +0000

They probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.

New comment by drawfloat in "UK sovereign LLM inference"

drawfloat — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:38:45 +0000

For all its flaws and limitations in practice, you have far greater data privacy in the UK than the US. Largely because it seems you basically have none as a private citizen in the US.

First amendment has nothing to do with it.