Hacker News: elbci

New comment by elbci in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

elbci — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:54:20 +0000

maybe it's not too late to find out that US was always like this and the fairy tale our parents listened on CIA's RadioFreeEurope was just - a fairy tale for gullible grown-ups ;)

New comment by elbci in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

elbci — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:37:23 +0000

ha ha fair enough - but he does mention there's a culture of isolation and cu-throat competition at the school so, maybe it's just a reaction to that

New comment by elbci in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

elbci — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:32:37 +0000

rare here: well written and insightful, I would take this course. I'm curious about why he penalized chatbot mistakes more, at first glance sounds like just discouraging their use but the hole setup indicates genuine desire to let it be a possibility. In my mind the rule should be "same penalty and extra super cookies for catching chatbot mistakes"

New comment by elbci in "Bank of England 'must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens'"

elbci — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:38:54 +0000

LOL

if little green AIlens come and get blamed for the financial crisis, I'm sold 100% on Capricorn One (1978)

New comment by elbci in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

elbci — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:09:11 +0000

... urgently needed now ;)

New comment by elbci in "American Closed Source vs. Chinese Open Source: A False Dichotomy"

elbci — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:07:11 +0000

Take a look at that sea of kids taking the GaoKao to get into Beijing univ and you know the software stack is lost already, it's now only about the fabs (hence the Greenland?).

New comment by elbci in "The average 50-something American is now worth $1.4M"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:57:39 +0000

you are behind the guy with $1M and ahead of the homeless bum with 10 stolen bucks. The elephant in the room is that all three of you are indistinguishably close to each-other when compared to Bezos/Musk/Koch etc ;)

New comment by elbci in "Why sandboxing coding agents is harder than you think"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:51:23 +0000

"I'm increasingly of the opinion that we need to reimagine the operating system itself..."

yeap!

New comment by elbci in "The average 50-something American is now worth $1.4M"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:47:04 +0000

and the average $1.4M is now worth a not yet fully paid mortgage and 2 cars on operational leasing..

New comment by elbci in "Our collective obsession with boredom: Interview with a boredom lab researcher"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:29:20 +0000

"boredom lab researcher"? Well...

I remember as it was yesterday, many years ago I saw on National Geographic a NGO lady flown thousands of miles to Africa to sit on a boulder and explain (I imagine - the Tv was on mute) the intricacies of her trade. Lower left on the screen there was her name and her job title: "Human Lion Conflict Specialist"

New comment by elbci in "Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech?"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:07:12 +0000

separation of concerns -> division of labor (hint: there's always a power imbalance even if it's hidden under reification)

New comment by elbci in "Ask HN: "Unfortunately, humanity's future is in the hands of [redacted]""

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:38:01 +0000

Ha ha Thanks! Now I'll just get back to "[redacted] movies" since it still doesn't make much sense to me, unfortunately humanity's future is doomed regardless of what you place under [redacted] - it's not a question of bad Musk vs St. Steve Jobs

New comment by elbci in "Why Young Danes Are Still Having Sex"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:42:38 +0000

peak anticlimax title ;)

New comment by elbci in "Science journals retract 500 papers a month"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:12:13 +0000

50000 published - 500 retracted = 45000 slop noise to bury the 2 lonely actually novel ideas

New comment by elbci in "Ask HN: "Unfortunately, humanity's future is in the hands of [redacted]""

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:07:03 +0000

Given my search history I'm guaranteed to get porn if I search for "[redacted]" so, a little help here pls, what is redacted supposed to mean?

New comment by elbci in "We used to celebrate science and innovation (2025)"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:41:23 +0000

> "Or take this depiction of a workshop, by a French painter, 1888. The room is clean and well-lit, the machines are human-scale. The master and the apprentice are intent on their work; one can imagine a paternal affection between them"

Yeah, sure, because Charles Dickens was a russian bot, there were no exploited children toiling naked and hungry - it was well-lit paternal affection, suuure.. I wonder why people don't trust our publish-or-perish papers anymore..

New comment by elbci in "European alternatives to tech brands: Add yours"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:21:29 +0000

"Alterantives" - LOL!!

New comment by elbci in "Statement from the Nobel Foundation"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:18:34 +0000

Again: some people buy a Rolex from the factory, like Kissinger and Obama, others buy it from ebay - it is still a yellow overpriced trinket.

New comment by elbci in "EU readies €93B tariffs in retaliation for Trump's Greenland threat"

elbci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:05:25 +0000

The "Oohhh...I get it now... F_ck!" will be epic. At some point they will rediscover that insight from 1917 explaining that money are not backed by gold or oil or even leaving your computer overnight - money are backed by guns! Why is this green paper money and this pink one that I like better is not? / Because my big gun say so!

New comment by elbci in "Sino-Soviet Split"

elbci — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:01:55 +0000

greatest f_ck up in the XX century by far, maybe of all times since the techno-feudalism - regardless if it's Trump or woke flavored - might prove impossible to overthrow.