Hacker News: int32_64

New comment by int32_64 in "Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances"

int32_64 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:43:44 +0000

The guy that made the 'bunker mode' tweet is an Ethereum guy, the chain that they reorganized when the wrong people lost money in the DAO hack.

What good are strong cryptography primitives for cryptocurrency if your "CEO" can successfully make calls to reorganize the chain?

New comment by int32_64 in "16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade"

int32_64 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:15:51 +0000

Apple should really do a 25th anniversary edition iPod with a scroll wheel, modernized battery, and modernized storage.

Do some nice nostalgia marketing for the zoomers and people that had one back in the day and it would sell like hotcakes.

New comment by int32_64 in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

int32_64 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:03:23 +0000

Did your bot malfunction and post in the wrong thread? "The current admin", this is a thread about the UK lmao.

New comment by int32_64 in "How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?"

int32_64 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:07:53 +0000

We all learned exactly how it would happen in the 1991 documentary Terminator 2, in which the explanation is actually reasonable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxW0yGvWRTk

New comment by int32_64 in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

int32_64 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:17:30 +0000

Whatever the last one you had to install with a CD/DVD was.

New comment by int32_64 in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

int32_64 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:19:25 +0000

I would also like the reference image from the sensor instead of the blown out HDR monstrosity Apple removed the ability to turn off after the iPhone 12.

New comment by int32_64 in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

int32_64 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:12:05 +0000

Are any AI companies using residential proxies to scrape?

New comment by int32_64 in "Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent"

int32_64 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:18:30 +0000

Aaron Swartz was facing up to 35 years for wire fraud and hacking for swiping some JSTOR documents, and the DOJ has done nothing against the AI companies and their IP violating antics.

New comment by int32_64 in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

int32_64 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:24:03 +0000

26GB for an update is pretty steep considering their base macs are still on 256GB SSDs.

New comment by int32_64 in "We must pace the frontier"

int32_64 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:10:39 +0000

Watch the "pause" be so they can do an amended s1 where they project less expenses for training making the business more viable, then on a future big Chinese release they reverse course completely and get the US taxpayer to pump their bags on the IPO calling it a second Manhattan Project. They'll call this masterstroke "The Sloppenheimer".

New comment by int32_64 in "OpenAI considers slowing advanced AI development, Sam Altman tells employees"

int32_64 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:54:13 +0000

When the Chinese model drops that tops a paused Anthropic and OpenAI in all benchmarks how low will their valuations go?

New comment by int32_64 in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

int32_64 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:15:01 +0000

The AI posts are better than the reddit tier politics slop

New comment by int32_64 in "One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire"

int32_64 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:11:42 +0000

The best way to stifle AI growth would be to deprive the labs of capital, and yet these AI safetyists never seem to seriously attack the money side.

It gives away the game entirely, they want regulatory capture and the politicians boosting it want millions in donations from the IPOs, there's big money in this type of AI grifting.

The SEC should heed the AI labs own warnings and forbid any AI lab doing doom marketing from doing an IPO, for safety of course.

New comment by int32_64 in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

int32_64 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:17:05 +0000

Doesn't OpenAI have an active court order forcing them to log everything? Can they even legally offer private conversations?

New comment by int32_64 in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

int32_64 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:09:12 +0000

Could they say they don't retain, but do something "transformative" like use their own AI to summarize and paraphrase user sessions?

New comment by int32_64 in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

int32_64 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:47:47 +0000

It seems like it would be a trivial statistical exercise to find all the nitter instance X accounts and just ban them, it's actually embarrassing they got lawyers involved instead of just doing that if they didn't want nitter to function.

New comment by int32_64 in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

int32_64 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:07:32 +0000

The combination of the already unjailable corporate executive decision making of the US + now "the spooky computer AI did it" is going to break at some point. I expect shortly some hedge fund is going to do some ridiculous spoof bid market manipulation and get off scot-free by just claiming their super crazy AI did it and it was an accident.

New comment by int32_64 in "Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double"

int32_64 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:54:44 +0000

If you aren't reading comics I wouldn't recommend color e-readers yet. The screens are dimmer and have a noticeable filter over them.

New comment by int32_64 in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

int32_64 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:11:35 +0000

old reddit and nitter finished in the span of a month? What an incredible month to be undistracted.

New comment by int32_64 in "How much of HN is AI?"

int32_64 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:52:58 +0000

I'm nostalgic for the new JS framework every day era. Say what you will about that era but people were writing the code by hand, so looking back it all feels "hand-crafted" and quaint. You had to copy paste that express app from a medium.com article instead of prompting an LLM to scaffold a whole project in one second.