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New comment by flawn in "Swiss voters reject proposal to cap Population at 10M"

flawn — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:36:33 +0000

Not sure if there is any in-depth analysis across more countries about this pattern, but also in this votum, densely populated urban areas had a clear stance against this votum, whereas the majority of votes have come from rural areas. So I am not as certain as you are whether the trend extrapolates as outlined - I rather imagine that the polarization will increase even further across these two segments, with lived and experienced realities drifting apart.

New comment by flawn in "Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress"

flawn — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:15:55 +0000

What is the evolutionary advantage of this? I mean, if the host dies subsequently that's pretty bad for both parties, or?

New comment by flawn in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

flawn — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:27:57 +0000

That's wild misinformation. There was an outdated military database at play, and not just Claude. It doesn't exclude AI interference of course but your statement is just not correct.

New comment by flawn in "Open source AI must win"

flawn — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:25:53 +0000

Let's abstract this further: It's about the user's existing power and intentions, meaning if I am already in a position of power, AI will multiply it to levels way beyond a peasant could. Power dynamics just get exacerbated.

New comment by flawn in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

flawn — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:09:17 +0000

Then check V-Dem, you might argue they're flawed as well but then I'd suggest you to provide counterexamples for why the US should be considered a functioning democracy, and is not on the way to a fully authoritarian state.

New comment by flawn in "Notes on DeepSeek"

flawn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:43:41 +0000

The CCP knows, whatever the heck this technology will bring with itself, the current power dynamic inside of the country is on their side, and AI will solidify it.

I hypothesize that, rather than slowly having it disperse in society and allow people to harness it in ways they don't want, they might as well accelerate everything until AI becomes the totalitarian swiss knife - which they can make use of in the best way of course.

Let's see what will happen.

New comment by flawn in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

flawn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:11:25 +0000

Owe a lot to them.

If you have kiddos in Germany: jugendhackt.org

New comment by flawn in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

flawn — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:59:43 +0000

https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

this is the OG app.

New comment by flawn in "Ten Years of Franz"

flawn — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:31:50 +0000

Good old times, same for me. Just ended up not bothering and deactivating any additional services - digital detox time ＼ ( ° o ° ) ／

New comment by flawn in "Three of our worst VC stories"

flawn — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:12:06 +0000

The fact that you hear this often (also not only from the victims of this) should signal that, even without quotes, there is likely some truth to it.

New comment by flawn in "Ask HN: Anyone else observing a Widespread Outage of Archive.* Sites?"

flawn — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:08:07 +0000

If you check blog.archive.*, a russian landing page with a warning that the page has been blocked by government authorities comes up. Maybe related?

New comment by flawn in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

flawn — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:40:53 +0000

If you sell a blackbox that you constructed yourself, then you are also liable for anything that happens.

If you sell a blackbox from a third-party (e.g. from China), you are liable for somebody else's decisions that you cannot scrutinize.

So, that's kind of the argumentation that underlies sovereignty and why Chinese Models are not being used in critical infrastructure.

New comment by flawn in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

flawn — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:13:36 +0000

The issue is that you wouldn't be able to even transparently get to any evidence, as these models are blackboxes.

They might start scheming behind employees backs as soon as they realize they are being used in critical infrastructure of adversaries. And nobody would know until it's too late.

New comment by flawn in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

flawn — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:20:29 +0000

That would mean regulation of social media companies seems appropriate.

New comment by flawn in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

flawn — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:50:08 +0000

Corruption is like cancer.

Google AI Overview – "Tersely"

flawn — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:21:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=tersely&oq=tersely

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163930

Points: 1

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New comment by flawn in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

flawn — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:19:09 +0000

And as if there isn't a middle-way here to have short-term contractors _not_ from large consultancies.

Or rethinking approaches, and doing such work via OSS, and paying maintainers to keep code up to date, which France has been doing iirc.

New comment by flawn in "Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight"

flawn — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:05:51 +0000

Latest macOS does have an integrated local LLM shipped on device! Not SOTA but something.

New comment by flawn in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

flawn — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:18:43 +0000

I would assume, because the title and parts of the book suggest reducing human connections to utility and personal gain.

New comment by flawn in "Where the goblins came from"

flawn — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:20:56 +0000

I am biased towards 67