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New comment by elar_verole in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

elar_verole — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:52:04 +0000

Yes, I love how everyone uses this argument, when what they were saying was among the lines of "GPT-2 would make it too easy to generate spam, deepfakes, content to manipulate opinion..." (not the actual quote but something like that). Turns out it was completely correct if you look at the state of the internet right now.

Obviously, they still overhype and oversell this end of humanity stuff, but this argument regurgitated ad-nauseam is not THAT great of an example when you think about it.

Show HN: Instant macOS space and app switcher

elar_verole — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:06:18 +0000

Hello HN,

I want to share a small wrapper I built around https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708818.

The idea is to allow instant switching between fullscreen apps / desktops, with the ability to register shortcuts to instantly jump to your favorite apps, without animations.

To be clear most of the hard work was done here: https://github.com/jurplel/InstantSpaceSwitcher, this is just a wrapper to build custom shortcuts around this solution, Ala Apptivate.

This is mostly vibe coded, but took me a bit of time to get right and is really useful for my workflow, and I know it's a very common pain point for Mac tech users, so thought I would share.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762718

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New comment by elar_verole in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

elar_verole — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:02:36 +0000

People need heroes. It's like the Keanu Reeves or Musk era, all the ""badass"" stories about this or that soldier / local hero / w/e that are very often overblown and get further and further away from the initial facts every time they resurface. No hate here, just noticing there is a weird visceral need to distill stories to their most essential, good vs evil, and the Tesla v Edison thing embodies this perfectly I think.

New comment by elar_verole in "Agents that run while I sleep"

elar_verole — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:06:11 +0000

Makes sense

New comment by elar_verole in "Agents that run while I sleep"

elar_verole — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:05:46 +0000

Living in Paris, but I exaggerated rent is actually 600€ and it's like the best opportunity one can have. Still, even if I lived in a regular flat with 1000 euros rent, I don't see how 20% additional "rent" money is worth it for side fun projects

New comment by elar_verole in "Agents that run while I sleep"

elar_verole — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:17:58 +0000

I just don't understand where these people get all this money. The answer is often "oh it's just claude max" like man I don't have 200$ MONTHLY lying around ?? That's half my rent

New comment by elar_verole in "Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL"

elar_verole — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:44:48 +0000

It's just the equivalent of that one student restating what the teacher just said with no added value

New comment by elar_verole in "Gogi – An AI-powered terminal assistant with native device-code OAuth"

elar_verole — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:59:41 +0000

Yes this is just for google - probably should add a disclaimer that it might not be allowed for google users. I still think it's a neat idea

New comment by elar_verole in "Gogi – An AI-powered terminal assistant with native device-code OAuth"

elar_verole — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:34 +0000

Hey - imo this is a pretty good idea, but the login you are using is basically spoofing that your app is Gemini CLI to google. As we saw (yesterday I think ?), this can get people's Google accounts banned, so I wouldn't use this / would recommend people against it.

New comment by elar_verole in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

elar_verole — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:28:47 +0000

Sorry to sound rude - but you polluted the context, pointing to the fact you would like A, and then found it annoying it tried to do A ?

New comment by elar_verole in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

elar_verole — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:55:15 +0000

Heavy regulation, harder to anonymize, and overall less person exposed to insider info because you can bet on only a subset of stuff, and not everything that can ever happen. Mind you, I still think these existing financial markets do have a ton of issues of this kind (trump's tariff to manipulate the market is a very recent example), but why add more on top of it ?

New comment by elar_verole in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

elar_verole — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:07:10 +0000

I think you are underappreciating how "manipulation of poly market odds" can be destructive when you are betting on geopolitics. Here this means that every decision is now a conflict of interest, and that doing the unpredictable (politically, economically etc) has a financial incentive for potential insiders. Sounds pretty dangerous to me.

New comment by elar_verole in "Dark Forest Theory and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (2023)"

elar_verole — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:25:33 +0000

Each agent has 3 available actions. Performing an action costs the agent resources. Currently, resources are allocated arbitrarily, based on the agent’s perception of how much such an action might cost in a real environment.

1. Broadcast own position - Cost: 7 resources

2. Private message own position - Cost: 5 resources

3. Kill other agent if their position is known to the killer - Cost: 10 resourcese

Maybe I am misunderstanding, but OF course if the only options an agent have is to kill someone it knows (and it costs resources) or make itself known, the better option in the end of the process is to never be known.