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New comment by galactus in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

galactus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:23:41 +0000

the speed at which depletion happened was probably not the same

New comment by galactus in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

galactus — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:42:00 +0000

lets see... what country in the region actually has nuclear weapons? Could it be the same country that is conducting genocide in Gaza, displacing hundreds of thousands in Lebanon, and allowing settlers to do pogroms in the west bank?

New comment by galactus in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

galactus — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:39:08 +0000

history? people with moral integrity?

New comment by galactus in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

galactus — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:38:33 +0000

you keep your own moral integrity

New comment by galactus in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

galactus — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:37:34 +0000

Have you heard what people like Ben-Gvir say?

New comment by galactus in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

galactus — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:25:03 +0000

I think that if you start an unjustified war of agression against a country and you kill 150 children, you should be held responsible

New comment by galactus in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

galactus — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:10:51 +0000

I think reducing what LLMs do to « typing » is misleading. If it was just typing, you could simply use speech-to-text. But LLMs do far more than that, they shape the code itself. And I think we lose something when we delegate that work to LLMs

New comment by galactus in "I was right about ATProto key management"

galactus — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:10:28 +0000

ActivityPub supports a less compelling user experience for many people: you only have a partial view of the network (you won’t see all the replies to the posts of people you follow on other servers), no global search, etc

New comment by galactus in "A Social Filesystem"

galactus — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:30:08 +0000

In the ATProto architecture, this function is handled by the AppView, which monitors the full network and produces the corresponding aggregates.

New comment by galactus in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

galactus — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:17:55 +0000

Israel an the US are a single entity when it comes to security matters in the middle east. It was already the de facto regional power.

New comment by galactus in "Are we decentralized yet?"

galactus — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:26:43 +0000

absolutely. it’s even in the design paper, when they discuss the AppView the authors say it’s “less decentralized than alternatives” and yet you can’t say that without bsky fans getting mad.

New comment by galactus in "Are we decentralized yet?"

galactus — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:20:40 +0000

there are already independent relays running. a full relay (which is open source software) costs around 30 USD per month to operate

A walk through building serverless ATProto applications on Cloudflare

galactus — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:25:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-atproto/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44690472

Points: 13

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New comment by galactus in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

galactus — Mon, 26 May 2025 01:04:18 +0000

When you state that "European social safety nets are pretty damn generous" it seems to imply that someone else, rather than the Europeans themselves, is being generous and footing the bill.

New comment by galactus in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

galactus — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:52:04 +0000

“ Meanwhile you could transfer $25k in crypto to Dubai”

Thats a use case 99.99999999999999999% of humanity does not care at all about.

New comment by galactus in "Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity"

galactus — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:11:28 +0000

He is probably more of a menace now than before tho

New comment by galactus in "ATProto Isn't What You Think"

galactus — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:17:40 +0000

“In reality, I don't see much appetite for using someone else's distributed key-value JSON schema design. The value add isn't clear enough.”

the value is that you’d start with an already existing full network of users

New comment by galactus in "Are DOGE's Claims of Social Security Payments to 150-Year-Olds Way Off Base?"

galactus — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:04:03 +0000

The “fail whale” was a thing years before Elon’s acquisition.

New comment by galactus in "It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor"

galactus — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:28:24 +0000

Do you believe that language should remain unchanged, or that it should evolve only for reasons beyond conscious intention?

New comment by galactus in "Why Canada Should Join the EU"

galactus — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:54:39 +0000

As an immigrant in Canada, I have observed a relentless increase in anti-immigration discourse. While there are valid critiques of current immigration policies, the conversation too often carries a racist undertone.