Hacker News: elashri

Final run for the current LHC accelerator (but more to come)

elashri — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nikhef.nl/en/news/final-run-for-the-current-lhc-accelerator-but-more-to-come/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524968

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by elashri in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

elashri — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:12:03 +0000

If you have a resources of a nuclear weapons program. You can afford to fine tune or train a domain specific model to act on your encyclopedia.

New comment by elashri in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

elashri — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:27:43 +0000

I still don't know why all these concern about nuclear weapons with LLMs. It is not that if an entity (A country) wants to develop a nuclear weapons that the resources they need for such a program and huge infrastructure and scientific enterprise would need an LLM to teach them anything. Knowing how to develop one is not a closed secret but getting in secret is impossible without the whole world knowing.

So I wouldn't be able to develop a nuclear weapons with the resources of drug cartal (as an example) using Claude in secret.

New comment by elashri in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

elashri — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:45:05 +0000

Ctrl + shift + R would solve your second problem at all times.

And I don't think your first point is quantified correctly and I am sure there is no data to back it up. But I understand the appeal of trying to quantify your personal experience.

New comment by elashri in "Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager"

elashri — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:03:04 +0000

I was just commenting based on the cliche that Italians are everywhere at CERN. So you will always hear Italian language.

New comment by elashri in "Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager"

elashri — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:31:21 +0000

I would say "Italian" :)

LHCb experiment observes long-sought new particle with double charm

elashri — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:08:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nikhef.nl/en/news/lhcb-experiment-observes-long-sought-new-particle-with-double-charm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404669

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by elashri in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

elashri — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:31:42 +0000

Where did you get that the number of federally funded graduate students is 3.1 million?

Note that many will have industry, international or self funded (for MS it is less common to have funding). The 9B figure for maintaining the F35 you just said is very close to the entire annual budget of the NSF. Which is the main funding source of most of non medical research.

Also we are not talking about military budget, just the F35 maintenance program here.

New comment by elashri in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

elashri — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:07:35 +0000

The problem is that it doesn't even respect this choice. My native language is not English and most of the videos in this languages will be auto transcript to English. Even the last time I changed both the language and country and YouTube still managed to auto transcript to English.

The solution is a simple toggle to turn it off, not pushing it to our throat.

New comment by elashri in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

elashri — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:07:04 +0000

Now I started to worry about their clients openness to work with valultwarden. They also said in the past they will not change the behavior to not accept third party servers. But who knows now.

New comment by elashri in "MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students"

elashri — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:07:21 +0000

It is mainly because of federal funding cuts that departments accept fewer students as written in the actual text. But I might add that the changes of immigration and the changes in foreign policy might played a rule. There are no mention of AI at all.

New comment by elashri in "I was asked to install malware during a fake interview"

elashri — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:29:52 +0000

> become a technical advisor for their web3 project

That by itself should have been the first red flag. I also heard a lot of these stories recently. I think this might be one of the good use cases of GitHub Codespaces.

New comment by elashri in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

elashri — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:39:43 +0000

> Can we just go back to ads and normalize blocking people who ad-block?

Nope, two problems

1- Ads is privacy issue not only convenience issue. Targeted ads should not normalized.

2- Companies figures out that even paying doesn't means you don't get ads. You probably are bigger target with more disposable income than average in such case.