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New comment by giacomoforte in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

giacomoforte — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:54:28 +0000

Why not buy a used one?

New comment by giacomoforte in "Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?"

giacomoforte — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:01:45 +0000

Programming languages are not just for ergonomics. They are valuable abstractions that help us reason. And they also help LLMs reason in the same manner.

New comment by giacomoforte in "The AI Layoff Trap"

giacomoforte — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:05:50 +0000

You jest, but isn't this the logical conclusion? A sufficiently smart AGI has no need for humanity, at all.

New comment by giacomoforte in "Am I German or Autistic?"

giacomoforte — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:58:52 +0000

Having lived in Germany, the strongest cultural conflict I felt was inflexibility of plans.

The German way is to plan something very meticulously and the to follow through with the plan no matter what.

I am however of the persuasion of not planning too much beforehand especially when the input is lacking. But also to be flexible and reactive during execution.

New comment by giacomoforte in "Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks"

giacomoforte — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:25:58 +0000

This is surely the future. At some point we will eventually have battles fought entirely by pilot(less) drones? And then war becomes purely economical.

New comment by giacomoforte in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

giacomoforte — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:34:37 +0000

There won't be any well off people because the machines will rule. Humanity will become second to its own creation.

There is no future in which a human ruling class will be lording it over superhuman machine intelligence. I mean look at the clowns who run the world today. They won't be able to keep the machines from taking over.

New comment by giacomoforte in "AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran"

giacomoforte — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:26:37 +0000

This AI risk is the same as with Tesla's Autopilot a couple years back...

People believe for some reason that the AI is 99.99% correct and the warning not to trust it too much is just legalese.

New comment by giacomoforte in "The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA"

giacomoforte — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:25:25 +0000

The NHS is a bit like the NRA in the US. Politicians and rich folk would ideally do away with it, but they cannot, so they have to play lip service to gain favour with the public.

So its not propaganda in the way you are thinking of.

New comment by giacomoforte in "UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs"

giacomoforte — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:21:55 +0000

Are there any remaining western countries with strong free speech protections?

UK and Germany weren't ever good in this department but now worst than ever.

US supposedly good but I wouldn't risk it in practice.

Australia I hear is also quite bad.

Canada and NZ I don't know.

I expect Denmark and Sweden to have somewhat weak free speech laws too.

Norway and Finland I expect to be good.

France I expect to be just slightly better than Germany.

Netherlands and Switzerland, I have no idea.

Czech Republic I think has strong protections.

Italy and Spain and Ireland, I heard mixed reports about.

Poland, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal and other unnamed countries I don't know at all.

New comment by giacomoforte in "The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing"

giacomoforte — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:05:23 +0000

The problem is all the AI slop that people are publishing to bolster their CVs.

New comment by giacomoforte in "Greenland Crisis"

giacomoforte — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:54:59 +0000

Americans famously don't respect native peoples and their lands.

New comment by giacomoforte in "EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal"

giacomoforte — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:08:58 +0000

Beef was literally never a staple food in the EU. There's only a few regions were there is enough pasture land for a local operation but even then it was always too expensive to be a staple. Pork has always been the staple meat and we grow enough of that.

New comment by giacomoforte in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

giacomoforte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:40:28 +0000

Every health authority mentions both cholesterol/saturated fat and blood sugar as contributing factors.

New comment by giacomoforte in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

giacomoforte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:36:53 +0000

Pretty much every health authority will tell you that high blood sugar damages blood vessels, thereby enabling the formation of said plagues.

New comment by giacomoforte in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

giacomoforte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:29:06 +0000

Aren't both sugar and saturated fat problemtic, and complementary in contributing to CVD?

New comment by giacomoforte in "Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)"

giacomoforte — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:32:39 +0000

I saw a youtube video of a single mother who job it was to cut out the ice from underneath the ships to create space to do the repairs. Apparently its a very dangerous job because you can easily end up frozen to the river if you're not careful. Must be the same one mentioned in the article.

youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9P3VaMCho

New comment by giacomoforte in "US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover"

giacomoforte — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:27:22 +0000

I love how this is a community that talks about the singularity and transhumanism and all that sci-magick-fi nonsense as if it was going to happen next year, but a real geopolitical threat the likes of which have happened countless times in the last 500 years is considered impossible...

New comment by giacomoforte in "India has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy"

giacomoforte — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:44:57 +0000

So racism?

New comment by giacomoforte in "India has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy"

giacomoforte — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:40:36 +0000

How is Japan 10000x more sophisticated?

New comment by giacomoforte in "India has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy"

giacomoforte — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:34:08 +0000

Nominal GDP is very important for geopolitics.