Hacker News: harambae

New comment by harambae in "Are we sleepwalking into World War III?"

harambae — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:09:56 +0000

I’m genuinely not smart enough to understand the implication from that article, can you help me to understand?

New comment by harambae in "Gemini 4 Argon"

harambae — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:59:04 +0000

I think it's more 420 or 4:20 (marijuana reference) than 4/20 (Hitler's birthday).

Although given it's Musk, others may disagree.

California Boat Dwellers Fear the Worst: Life on Land

harambae — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:19:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/us/california-anchor-outs-boats.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075310

Points: 3

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Trump approves tiny 'cars of the near future'

harambae — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:37:38 +0000

Article URL: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5635349-donald-trump-approves-tiny-cars/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039840

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Researchers find Apple Pay, Visa contactless hack

harambae — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:45:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58719891

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707461

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Iran says it captured US submarine drone in Strait of Hormuz

harambae — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:12:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-it-captured-us-submarine-drone-strait-hormuz-2026-09-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619949

Points: 36

# Comments: 22

Disconnect your LG television from the internet, now

harambae — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:00:48 +0000

Article URL: https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/07/disconnect-your-lg-television-from-the-internet-now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604537

Points: 112

# Comments: 2

New comment by harambae in "We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer"

harambae — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:03:12 +0000

It's mostly (not entirely, but mostly) finding security issues in old human-written code. It'll eventually start running out of those.

From that standpoint, it's not a crazy setup security-wise. Maybe still crazy for development.

New comment by harambae in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

harambae — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:04:25 +0000

> Rich white man's paradise

The majority of new billionaires are either Chinese or Indian [0] so at some point you’ll need to update your race-based hatred (if you feel passionately about it) to remain accurate

[0] https://www.hurun.net/en-us/info/detail?num=FTJ5PSSPOWOF

AI mines 500 years of Spanish colonial records to find hidden wrecks, lost cargo

harambae — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:25:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-company-hiring-a-literal-pirate-to-salvage-sunken-treasure-found-by-artificial-intelligence-pays-up-to-usd500k-a-year-mining-80-million-pages-of-spanish-colonial-records-to-find-undiscovered-wrecks-and-lost-cargo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356812

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight

harambae — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:03:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/13/chatbots-are-doing-work-congress-with-little-oversight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292408

Points: 5

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Scientists find 200k barrels of radioactive waste in the ocean

harambae — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:39:23 +0000

Article URL: https://geekspin.co/scientists-find-200000-barrels-of-radioactive-waste/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260859

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by harambae in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

harambae — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:26:43 +0000

Skill issue.

New comment by harambae in "U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems"

harambae — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:35:33 +0000

>And with the reckless/wanton damage the US is doing to civilian infrastructure in Iran, I think the only sane position is to brace for something much worse, inevitably.

We should have critical infrastructure secured whether or not Iran gets super mega big mad.

It's like when the guy taunted the tiger at the SF zoo and then it turned out the tiger could make it over the wall if it was sufficiently pissed off. Not the way to design any of this.

The pope's prayer app has been leaking its users' info for months

harambae — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://san.com/cc/the-popes-prayer-app-has-been-leaking-its-users-info-for-months/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040159

Points: 1

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4,500 Google Employees Sign Petition Demanding Layoff Protections

harambae — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:42:19 +0000

Article URL: https://abc7news.com/post/4500-google-employees-sign-petition-demanding-layoff-protections/19522280/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952984

Points: 6

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New comment by harambae in "At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic"

harambae — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:22:22 +0000

AI/ML can make the pauses, intonation, and context pronunciation (it is "bass" the fish or the guitar?) more natural/correct I'm sure.

Now whether you actually WANT your AI voice to sound completely indistinguishable from a human voice is another story. I personally wish it would remain differentiable forever, but there's no real way to enforce that.

George Lucas says rejecting AI is like rejecting cars in favour of horses

harambae — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:07:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/george-lucas-says-rejecting-ai-is-like-rejecting-cars-in-favour-of-horses-theres-nothing-you-can-do-about-it-its-the-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916503

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Amazon Studios Won't Release Movie It Made That Makes Tech Billionaires Look Bad

harambae — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:32:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/06/19/jeff-bezoss-amazon-studios-wont-release-movie-it-made-about-sam-altman-and-chatgpt-that-makes-all-the-tech-billionaires-look-bad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600364

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

San Andreas fault reaches highest stress level in 1k years

harambae — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:44:25 +0000

Article URL: https://mauinow.com/2026/06/15/san-andreas-fault-reaches-highest-stress-level-in-1000-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549895

Points: 9

# Comments: 0