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New comment by fkdk in "New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds"

fkdk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:38:29 +0000

You can't unsubscribe from this because it is not a normal service, but a racket. By definition: a service that creates its own demand.

New comment by fkdk in "Last Statements"

fkdk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:53:34 +0000

I advise having a read through Sapolskys book "Determined" to get another perspective

Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

fkdk — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 06:16:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nestle-widens-french-infant-formula-recall-new-batch-guigoz-2026-02-04

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46921749

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New comment by fkdk in "Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models"

fkdk — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:03:42 +0000

What would "abuse" of an LLM look like? Saying something mean to it? Shutting it off?

New comment by fkdk in "Founding is a snowball"

fkdk — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:28:03 +0000

Seeing a borderline hustle culture article illustrated with AI slop in the style of Bill Watterson, who famously opposed commercial exploitation of his work, is deeply saddening.

New comment by fkdk in "Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden"

fkdk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:20:25 +0000

Is this some sort of joke/reference I'm not getting?

New comment by fkdk in "US administration to require app, social media, possibly DNA for travelers"

fkdk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:08:14 +0000

> im lucky i've made pro Trump comments

Once implemented, such regulation will stay even if trump leaves. When the democrats take over again, this will be used against you.

New comment by fkdk in "Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults"

fkdk — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:50:17 +0000

I agree that they will never get the gold back, but is it really more likely that the US hands over that sum in cash?

New comment by fkdk in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

fkdk — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:24:49 +0000

"Why d'you think the net was born? Porn, Porn, Porn"

New comment by fkdk in "Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley"

fkdk — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:16:12 +0000

"fuck you i got mine" a true american indeed

New comment by fkdk in "VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV"

fkdk — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:15:54 +0000

Maybe not the answer you are looking for, but rumor has it that engineers at VW were well aware of points like those you raise. However the CEO at that time, Herbert Diess, outspoken admirer of Musk/Tesla, pushed for touch interfaces anyways.

New comment by fkdk in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

fkdk — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:09:33 +0000

Interesting thought. In the end, this is an ethical question: How much pressure is justified to put on the general population for supporting their leaders?

My feeling is that your perspective, likely shared by people like Bomber Harris or Netanyahu, does not match most peoples intuition nowadays.

New comment by fkdk in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

fkdk — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:53:14 +0000

historically german railway had a track record of treating people like cattle, but one would expect that not even institutional culture changes would take that long

New comment by fkdk in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

fkdk — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:19:04 +0000

Maybe the authors are overly careful. Maybe avoiding to publish aspects of their work gives an edge over academic competitors. Maybe both.

In my experience "data available upon request" doesn't always mean what you'd think it does.

New comment by fkdk in "Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds"

fkdk — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:16:13 +0000

Including women would have been a legal nonstarter.

The german constitution restricts drafting to men[0] and would have to be changed before such a law could even be considered.

Before you ask, yes, the constitution also says that men and women need to be treated equally[1]

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_12a.html

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_3.html

New comment by fkdk in "Why Fears of a Trillion-Dollar AI Bubble Are Growing"

fkdk — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:42:10 +0000

im not convinced that real estate will profit from the upcoming economic downturn. There's a reason people call it the "everything bubble"

New comment by fkdk in "Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master"

fkdk — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:21:08 +0000

I have seen dozens of hours spent on debugging issues associated with this switch. One has to wonder how much manpower went into it globally.

Is there some quantitative evidence that this made the world a better place?