Hacker News: flawn

New comment by flawn in "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"

flawn — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:41:32 +0000

Look into Peter Thiel, the current administration and how it all ties back to Palantir. No conspirations here, just openly known facts.

New comment by flawn in "Is Europe's AI Darling Mistral Becoming a Consultant?"

flawn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:58:58 +0000

https://archive.ph/iBQcq

Is Europe's AI Darling Mistral Becoming a Consultant?

flawn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:58:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-03-03/europe-s-ai-darling-mistral-looks-more-like-a-consultant-than-a-model-maker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306436

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by flawn in "Predictive History – Professor Jiang"

flawn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:34:30 +0000

What do y'all think of his latest video on the state of the world?

Predictive History – Professor Jiang

flawn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:23:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC11aHtNnc5bEPLI4jf6mnYg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302725

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by flawn in "Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive?"

flawn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:48:04 +0000

AI can build systems based on static assumptions that the orchestrator (you) gives it. But proper engineering (which is what matters economically much more) is the process of the system's assumptions & requirements changing over time to ensure you have a reliable and consistent service - and that's not something that AI excels at (yet).

Game Theory #9: the US-Iran War [video]

flawn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:43:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295667

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by flawn in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

flawn — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:21:12 +0000

To blame in a second order but this is the admin's work overall, they shouldn't have tried to fund their PACs and pocket this money into their family & friends' bank accounts. Just shows how broken the system is.

New comment by flawn in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

flawn — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:30:52 +0000

This answer is the incarnation of capitalismmaxxing. Economically speaking you're correct - but morally definitely not, companies are for the bigger part not the harmed party here.

New comment by flawn in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

flawn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:20:12 +0000

I get that but the core issue is not inconvenience but the fact that also doing that still locks you out of applications that many people call essential (tap2pay, banking, streaming, other various apps relying on Play Integrity).

Google is actively locking down the ecosystem in that regard and it would be amazing having a company that caters to people that are savvy AND would like to still be attested for integrity tests (assuming Google would be OK with that, but as mentioned in another comment unlikely)

New comment by flawn in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

flawn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:26:42 +0000

The problem is that even if you build this yourself, and sign it with your keys, the signature of the builds will not lead to positive hardware attestation. This, as noted by @palata, is required for passing Play Integrity Checks, and in turn is the requirement for using banking, tap2pay & co.

It's really a bummer that Google probably won't certify pre-rooted devices. It would obviously only do harm to them and not fit into the scheme of our big tech companies pushing anti-circumvention laws, but some high-spirited side inside of me still has hope.

New comment by flawn in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

flawn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:13:09 +0000

It would be amazing if GrapheneOS would distribute rooted versions of their OS with locked bootloader

New comment by flawn in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

flawn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:04:39 +0000

What do you mean? You think Hegseth and Anthropic are doing this for PR reasons?

New comment by flawn in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

flawn — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:35:16 +0000

https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-litera...

This is a great writeup on why short-form content is overall a net negative for us with a human brain.

New comment by flawn in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

flawn — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:50:18 +0000

So you're telling me, the landlord of a burning house starts to put out the (smaller) fire next door in a self-less act of virtue?

There is some other incentive here other than supposedly restoring "freedom of speech", don't you agree?

New comment by flawn in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

flawn — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:45:24 +0000

A more lengthy article about his resentment against the government: https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-award-winning-math...

New comment by flawn in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

flawn — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:19:31 +0000

There are enough verifiable actions by Zuckerberg that proxy for some sort of behaviour unaligned with the wellbeing of society/humanity. You don't need to cut out the noise here, if there's even any on e.g. HN

New comment by flawn in "Cache Monet"

flawn — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:22:03 +0000

Just for the legacy of this, I need to make sure this never vanishes

New comment by flawn in "Cache Monet"

flawn — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:18:58 +0000

I discovered this page like back in 2015 and I am grateful to find it on hackernews again, I forgot even its name in the meantime.

New comment by flawn in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

flawn — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:34:44 +0000

Not sure if transhumanism is the only solution to the problems you mentioned - I think it's often problematic because people like Thiel claim to have figured it out, and look for ways to force people into their "contrarian" views, although there is nothing but disregard for any other opinions other than their own.

But you are of course free to believe and enjoy the vision of such a future but this is something that should happen on a collective level. We still live in a (to some extent idealistic) but humanistic society where human rights are common sense.