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New comment by emsign in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

emsign — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:17:45 +0000

That's exactly why I have been hoarding physical media for years now. I knew they would be buying them up, besides the usual dumpster fire they would end up in when people throw them away. CDs, DVDs, BluRays, books, vinyl, everything. And as they are physical they are not prone to retro-editing. Just like in 1984.

Luckily I don't live in NYC where book hoarders are being evicted because of "fire hazard". Just like in Fahrenheit 451.

New comment by emsign in "Nvidia weighs $250B backstop for OpenAI's Ohio data center lease"

emsign — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:09:03 +0000

Looking at Russia it's fascinating to see how relatively cheap waves of drones can destroy billions of dollars worth in a single day at Wildberries, destabilizing the entire Russian economy.

This data center will cost 500bn and is a pretty big target, ok it's not as flammable as cardboard and plastics. But it's so much bigger, sure you can knock it offline easily and you don't even need Starlink, inertia based navigation to locate it and simple machine vision to find the most vulnerable parts will do.

Some Chinese weather balloons as drone mother ships could easily visit it every single day. I guess they should also invest in midrange drone and ballistic missile defense that doesn't need replenishing for weeks. But hey, I'm just an idiot with an opinion. lmao

New comment by emsign in "Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer"

emsign — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:25:35 +0000

Firefox is definitely choppy for me renderingwise. I use Vivaldi which is Chromium based and the only choppiness comes from the friction of my sweaty wrist on the gamepad. If I hover my wrist and only let it basically rest on the mouse itself, tracking becomes smooth. Changing my hand motion and stance is definitely part of the training process to become a better player.

New comment by emsign in "Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer"

emsign — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:19:57 +0000

It's called "Open"Aim. Where is the source code then?

New comment by emsign in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

emsign — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:10:32 +0000

Endangered? This is great news! It's one of the things that make social media a drug.

New comment by emsign in "EU will seek to limit children's access to social media"

emsign — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:44:12 +0000

Because Meta lobbyied massively for this version of the law. So they keep their addictive apps as they are.

New comment by emsign in "Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance"

emsign — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:52:33 +0000

I think they also use planes with state of the art optics and cameras in other major US cities, especially before certain events, to go back in time later. If a crime happens they can trace back cars and suspects in the video archive. And I guess they might also do number plate recognition by default, to get even quicker results.

New comment by emsign in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

emsign — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:11:28 +0000

Peak demand

New comment by emsign in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"

emsign — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:54:07 +0000

Who would have thought that the hardware I own didn't go down in value for the first time in my life but almost doubled in value.

New comment by emsign in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"

emsign — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:23:32 +0000

LLMs are all about corporate piracy it's just hidden in plain sight.

New comment by emsign in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

emsign — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:01:12 +0000

Not to sound too alarming. But

Security holes in networking equipment

Affects not just the compromised devices.

New comment by emsign in "Right to Local Intelligence"

emsign — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:49:31 +0000

Now the investors try to hold the bubble together by regulatory capture. They must really fear the worst. A bailout is going to cost their puppet in the White House even the last supporters in his base.

New comment by emsign in "Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data"

emsign — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:32:52 +0000

Why not make selling any personal data illegal in the entire country?

New comment by emsign in "Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI'"

emsign — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:41:01 +0000

Good on him. He saved his dignity.

New comment by emsign in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

emsign — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:38:43 +0000

Great news for Spain. I hope more European countries wake up to what's going on.

New comment by emsign in "Nvidia offers startup customers chance to swap compute power for revenue share"

emsign — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:46:19 +0000

I knew it! Nvidia wants access to our hardware to lease it out for arbitrage profit. You shall own nothing even if you've payed for it. I've read the signs.

New comment by emsign in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

emsign — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:22:47 +0000

Your IP if you visit websites that identify you as anti-racist or non-white. Then give that IP to a racist government like in the US.

Trump denoted Antifa as terrorists for example.

New comment by emsign in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"

emsign — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:15:29 +0000

Excess AI capacity? Huh? Wait a minute does that mean they've built more data centers than there's demand for? Oh! How did that happen? Well, I'm a complete idiot, a layman, not even a developer, what do I know about economics and technology...

New comment by emsign in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"

emsign — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:15:06 +0000

YES! The EU rocks!

New comment by emsign in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

emsign — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:49:07 +0000

> why can't you trust a racist with your privacy?

Isn't it obvious? They might use that data against you. Even asking such a naive question raises an eyebrow.