Hacker News: flipbrad

New comment by flipbrad in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

flipbrad — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:40:47 +0000

Deepseek v4 Flash and OpenAi GPT 5.6 Luna are on their free plan, which is fab. I'm not sure more is needed, for web searching.

New comment by flipbrad in "Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone"

flipbrad — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:07:12 +0000

People don't fire their chimneys or have garden bonfires much any more, either.

New comment by flipbrad in "Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline"

flipbrad — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:24:05 +0000

For context: https://x.com/XBR/status/2088341967864320507?s=20

New comment by flipbrad in "Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport"

flipbrad — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:00:05 +0000

I wonder what the failure mode for something like this is (e.g. in bad weather, after a power cut, a car catches fire, etc). Nobody in the country with keys, cars parked so close together you probably couldn't get in anyway... could be interesting!

New comment by flipbrad in "Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs"

flipbrad — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:30:10 +0000

How long until this is handled like human hiring (business case, budget, performance reviews, layoffs)?

New comment by flipbrad in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

flipbrad — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:35:25 +0000

The point perhaps is that these things enable discrimination based on extremely gross grained and defective criteria - in some ways the least relevant parts of your identity.

Panasonic launches CO₂ air-to-water heat pump with CoP of 6.1

flipbrad — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:12:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/06/29/panasonic-launches-co%e2%82%82-air-to-water-heat-pump-with-coefficient-of-performance-of-6-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743651

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New comment by flipbrad in "Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it"

flipbrad — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:34:44 +0000

Should have used a GDPR takedown instead of copyright: in the EU, Google doesn't tell you the identity of the requester, what qas allegedly infringing, or even the affected URl, and there's no ability to challenge. Great stuff. (/s)

New comment by flipbrad in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

flipbrad — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:44:29 +0000

https://avpassociation.com/ and a few key individual crusaders.

New comment by flipbrad in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

flipbrad — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:56:36 +0000

Donate to his ballroom project, perhaps? Pay for tokens with his crypto coin?

New comment by flipbrad in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

flipbrad — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:14:25 +0000

"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism"

New comment by flipbrad in "Never Give Them Your Face"

flipbrad — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:07:01 +0000

This is what the EU has: https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act...

New comment by flipbrad in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

flipbrad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:21:43 +0000

Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack

New comment by flipbrad in "Waymo Safety Impact"

flipbrad — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:30:27 +0000

Isn't the correct answer to this, lobbying for higher speed limits? Rather than chastizing obedience to current rules.

New comment by flipbrad in "LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley)"

flipbrad — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:07:42 +0000

N00b question from me, perhaps, but how easy is it to mount and run Lidar on aerial drones?

New comment by flipbrad in "ChatGPT Health"

flipbrad — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:43:21 +0000

"we built foundational protections (...) including (...) training our models not to retain personal information from user chats"

Can someone please ELI5 - why is this a training issue, rather than basic design? How does one "train" for this?

New comment by flipbrad in "My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions"

flipbrad — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:16:42 +0000

Something so grim should be accompanied by its citation, just so we can check it's not a windup

New comment by flipbrad in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

flipbrad — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:06:56 +0000

This perhaps isn't the lind of lethality the DoD has in mind.

New comment by flipbrad in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

flipbrad — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:41:34 +0000

Hacker News is social media, isn't it?

New comment by flipbrad in "AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]"

flipbrad — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:01:54 +0000

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