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New comment by dwnw in "Peter Gutmann – Why Quantum Cryptanalysis Is Bollocks [video]"

dwnw — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:55:36 +0000

DJB is a bit off his rocker and biased by selling the solution to a problem which does not exist. Reads more like a ransom note than a "good counter".

New comment by dwnw in "You are the scariest monster in the woods"

dwnw — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:31:41 +0000

"to the monsters we're the the monsters" station eleven

New comment by dwnw in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

dwnw — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:18:43 +0000

your comment somehow feels more emotionally charged and low effort than the original. here, let's continue that...

New comment by dwnw in "Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor"

dwnw — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:27:29 +0000

it is amazing at what passes for an academic paper these days

New comment by dwnw in "Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor"

dwnw — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:25 +0000

which is totally out of touch with the reality of making use of the extra qubits they just slapped on the chip to get a high number

New comment by dwnw in "GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable"

dwnw — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:00:02 +0000

If they don't like where you are going and they go a simpler way, I don't think they will feel left behind at all. More like dodged a pitfall.

How is this lazy again? I thought we are supposed to use the AI to be lazy.

New comment by dwnw in "Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:15:59 +0000

Nope, totally fine with me. I'll just assume you see the error of your ways.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42762755#42789029

New comment by dwnw in "Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:23:05 +0000

You can make the weak argument all you want, it is still a weak argument. I get it, you think there is no such thing as an original thought therefore mass scale plagiarism (even for profit) is all cool and fine, like a technical loophole or something. Just like the music AI will create, the end result will be that nobody will want to listen to you.

Good for you. Enjoy your AI generated art. By yourself. You've missed the whole point of art.

New comment by dwnw in "Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 03:36:03 +0000

I've seen this on SoundCloud, but that was a while ago.

New comment by dwnw in "Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 03:21:36 +0000

Yes, lyrics are usually part of a traditional notation "score". Of course, Ableton is too hip to provide traditional notation with a score editor, but quite a few other popular DAWs do, including Logic:

https://support.apple.com/guide/logicpro/add-lyrics-to-a-sco...

New comment by dwnw in "Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:53:01 +0000

Art is about the human experience of the artist reflected in the art. LLMs have no human experience. They just try to statistically trick you into thinking they made art through mass plagiarism of art. It's an illusion, and also rather boring/lame/uncool.

You can do it, sure. But you'll probably also start to wonder why nobody really wants to listen to it, and you can count me out before I do.

New comment by dwnw in "Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:30:03 +0000

Sure. With rock & roll, the pencil is sometimes not large enough to rage against the machine properly and a heftier implement is necessary.

New comment by dwnw in "Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:08:54 +0000

Hardware is better at this: notebook, pencil, baseball bat.

"AI art" is plagiarism and not an art at all.

New comment by dwnw in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:54:18 +0000

So you are sorry and take it back? Should probably delete your comments rather than striking them out, as the guidelines say.

I live, work, and posted this from Texas, BTW...

Also it takes up more than one line on my screen. So, not a "one-liner" either. If you think it is, please follow the rules consistently and enforce them by deleting all comments on the site containing one sentence or even paragraph. My comment was a pretty long sentence (136 chars) and wouldn't come close to fitting in the 50 characters of a Git "one-liner".

Otherwise, people will just assume all the comments are filtered through your unpredictable and unfairly biased eye. And like I said (and you didn't answer), this kind of thing is no longer in fashion, right?

None of this is "borderline". I did nothing wrong and you publicly shamed me. Think before you start flamewars on HN. Bad mod.

New comment by dwnw in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:42:49 +0000

Nope. Any crypto you can break with a real, physical, non-imaginary quantum computer, you can break faster with classical. Get over it. Shor's don't run yet and probably never will.

You are misdirecting and you know it. I don't even need to discredit that paper. Other people have done it for me already.

New comment by dwnw in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:38:18 +0000

By your own admission, Ikea eliminated 0 jobs and you gave no number for Meta.

New comment by dwnw in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

dwnw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:13:04 +0000

Not guilty. No sarcasm intended, of course. If your guidelines are so broad to include this, you should work on them, and in turn, yourself.

Governor says our power grid is the best in the universe. Why don't you believe us?

Stop breaking your own rules.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Let's not ruin HN with overmoderation. This kind of thing is no longer in fashion, right?

New comment by dwnw in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

dwnw — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:59:42 +0000

Not sure about that.

New comment by dwnw in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

dwnw — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:59:15 +0000

At peak hype?

New comment by dwnw in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

dwnw — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:58:19 +0000

Who can break crypto with quantum computing? That is total speculation.