Hacker News: julkali

New comment by julkali in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

julkali — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:06:42 +0000

nimby

New comment by julkali in "Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?"

julkali — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:43:49 +0000

New comment by julkali in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

julkali — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:11:39 +0000

i felt that.

New comment by julkali in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

julkali — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:09:29 +0000

because you start internalizing costs

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

julkali — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-base-model

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925406

Points: 59

# Comments: 3

Reticulum Network

julkali — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:00:31 +0000

Article URL: https://reticulum.network/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647013

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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

julkali — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:53:15 +0000

Source?

New comment by julkali in "Are we tired of social media? (2025)"

julkali — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:38:22 +0000

I also tried setting my phone to grayscale, but it takes me significantly longer to do useful things, as some UIs are harder to distinguish without color. Have you found a workaround for this?

New comment by julkali in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

julkali — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:21:43 +0000

Yes, but only 15-20 years later in the extent expected for 2000. The technology wasn't there yet, just like with LLMs.

New comment by julkali in "Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble"

julkali — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:53:33 +0000

https://archive.ph/i0sFU

Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble

julkali — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:53:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/10/recessions-have-become-ultra-rare-that-is-storing-up-trouble

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364568

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Programming built the tower of Babel, AI destroyed it

julkali — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:20:07 +0000

Article URL: https://video.ethz.ch/speakers/d-infk/2025/autumn/251-0100-00L/v/PIzwcVeB3rL

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899789

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by julkali in "America's top companies keep talking about AI – but can't explain the upsides"

julkali — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:19:26 +0000

The issue is that the examples you listed mostly rely on very specific machine learning tools (which are very much relevant and good use of this tech), while the term "AI" in layman terms is usually synonymous for LLMs.

Mentioning the mid-1990s' internet boom is somewhat ironic imo, given what happened next. The question is whether "business models mature" with or without a market crash, given that the vast majority of ML money is provided for LLM efforts.

In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip

julkali — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:28:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/060206.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44912881

Points: 111

# Comments: 71

Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing

julkali — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:16:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44796297

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by julkali in "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives"

julkali — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:48:02 +0000

Do not conflate your own experience with everyone else's.

New comment by julkali in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

julkali — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:49:41 +0000

This kind of legislation has been proposed so many times at EU and national level, and will fail like always, at the lates at the European Court of Justice for violating human rights.

It is not possible to install your own addon in Firefox without Moz's approval

julkali — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:46:49 +0000

I created a small extension for my mom, to extract data from a third-party online web-app that she uses for work.

No-one but her is ever going to use this, but it helps her a lot in her workflow, nevertheless. It's tiny with around 50 lines of code.

Now, as the title says, I found out that in order to install an extension in Release version, you _have_ to sign the extension, i.e. have it reviewed by Mozilla (which in my case is impossible, due to the third-party integration) [1]. In my opinion, it is absolutely crazy that there is no way for her to install the extension on her computer (without switching to Nightly or Developer, which she shouldn't have to), to use this and, frankly, it is very Google-esque for Mozilla to gate-keep their software like this.

I would totally understand if this is required for the extension to be distributed through the Mozilla store, but this is too infringing.

A two year-old post on the matter is being ignored [2].

What are your thoughts on this?

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing [2] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/allow-manually-permanently-installed-unsigned-extensions/idi-p/26583

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435757

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

New comment by julkali in "Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet"

julkali — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:48:13 +0000

That is the silicon valley cryptoscam version.

This concept has been studied already extensively, e.g [1] (in 2000!) by people like Rivest and Chaum, who have actual decade-old competence in that field.

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/pubs/LRSW99.pdf

New comment by julkali in "AI threatens to raid the water reserves of Europe's driest regions"

julkali — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:27:53 +0000

How would "tech companies and data centres" alleviate the situation? Tech companies typically employ highly specialized staff that are often not even local to the community. The result of inviting tech companies to your country can be seen in Ireland (/Dublin).

Data centres are even worse - they need only a handful of staff members while draining incredible amounts of energy and water.

You live in Spain - why not advocate for boosting the energy sector, better grid infrastructure, more renewables, etc.? This would harness a tangible, sustainable strength of your country within the EU and, considering the blackout last month, is definitely something to work on before any tech company or datacentre can settle in Spain ...