Hacker News: influx

New comment by influx in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

influx — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:39:54 +0000

At what point do these companies stop releasing models and just use them to bootstrap AGI for themselves?

New comment by influx in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

influx — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:57:38 +0000

Most people who ran AdSense were extremely careful not to look at the ads on their own site, because Google might flag them for intentionally inflating clicks or views.

New comment by influx in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

influx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:54:15 +0000

You know the whole point of the space race was to prove that we could send ICBMs to the USSR right?

New comment by influx in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

influx — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:59:09 +0000

Do most SaaS actually delete or do they just store a tombstone in the database for your account?

New comment by influx in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

influx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:54:28 +0000

Aren't they trying to do a Valve with their store?

New comment by influx in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

influx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:05:24 +0000

You’d be surprised how many features the Python runtime adds each release. It’s not trivial for tooling to keep up with language changes.

New comment by influx in "Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL"

influx — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:45:21 +0000

I would have thought most of those would have been moved to async Python by now.

New comment by influx in "US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide"

influx — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:19:50 +0000

The capital class?

New comment by influx in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

influx — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:22:55 +0000

They could have, but it seems unlikely they targeted one or two repos and probably cloned thousands or more.

New comment by influx in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

influx — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:34:51 +0000

Imagine the outrage here, when a company credit card expires and the cloud provider terminates all their instances, deletes all your storage and blob backups?

New comment by influx in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"

influx — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:07:21 +0000

Exactly, the whole point is to put someone into an interrogation scenario for hours or days, where you control whether nor not they "passed". Unfortunately, it probably has zero effect on psychopaths.

New comment by influx in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

influx — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:55:12 +0000

I live in Seattle, decriminalizing drugs didn't turn out that way here.

New comment by influx in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

influx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:06:49 +0000

It’s surprising that effective, cheap contraceptives aren’t on the list.

We’ve only had a couple generations where this was widely available, and somehow we’re shocked that populations decline afterwards?

Thats kind of the point.

New comment by influx in "America must embrace the Electric Age, or fall behind"

influx — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:37:04 +0000

Do you think strong unions play into this protectionism in the United States vs China?

New comment by influx in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

influx — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:25:00 +0000

It really makes me upset that we are throwing away decades of battle tested code just because some people are excited about the language du jour. Between the systemd folks and the rust folks, it may be time for me to move to *BSD instead of Linux. Unfortunately, I'm very tied to Docker.

New comment by influx in "When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone"

influx — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:10:03 +0000

Lumen Field in Seattle just installed some Amazon Just Walk Out vendors this year. I'm happy to report you don't need to be logged into Amazon or have an app. I double clicked my phone to swipe my Apple Pay before I walked in, grabbed a beer and walked out.

It was fantastic.

New comment by influx in "Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man"

influx — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:10:47 +0000

Do you believe the economy is a zero sum game?

New comment by influx in "The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US talent"

influx — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 03:56:52 +0000

Given the cost of healthcare in the USA and the AMA artificially limiting the number of doctors, I'm skeptical this fee will change anything.

New comment by influx in "Always Invite Anna"

influx — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:34:22 +0000

Conversely, tend towards saying yes if someone you want to hang out with invites you out, as they usually ask once and never again.

New comment by influx in "Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves"

influx — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:58:32 +0000

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