Hacker News: karp773

New comment by karp773 in "Germany Power Grid Sabotage: Launch Devices Found Near Weisweiler Plant"

karp773 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:53:48 +0000

A useful idiot, what they call them in Russia. Obviusly, not implying any links to this terrorsist attack.

New comment by karp773 in "Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia"

karp773 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:40:46 +0000

Without knowing who you are your comment has no value. On whoee behalf are you posting? Where are you from? China?

New comment by karp773 in "US DOE to Convert Uranium Enrichment Facility into Data Center Campus"

karp773 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:07:36 +0000

Are these people idiots? There are no other freaking land in KY? Also make top AI researchers work there. What could go wrong?

New comment by karp773 in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

karp773 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:46:30 +0000

> Moonshot AI, one of the Chinese startups included in the study, recently unveiled Kimi K3—one of the strongest open models to date—and publicly released its model weights through Hugging Face today.

...today? (emphasis is mine) And the author was so excited that decided to write up a paper and submit it to Science all in one day? Yeah, right. That's all you need to know who is moonshooting behind this paper.

New comment by karp773 in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

karp773 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:03:04 +0000

I also do not believe that this is primarily aimed at ptotecting children. I think the goal is to counteract the bot-farms that spread disinformation, instigate violence, and so on. Which Russia, by the way, pioneered and scaled up to make a material difference in elections in the West. It is a real problem for which no effective solution has been found.

New comment by karp773 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

karp773 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:51:12 +0000

Would you mind sharing your opinion on what is behind these latest restrictions on Fable and Mythos?

New comment by karp773 in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

karp773 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:28:01 +0000

It will probably be an attempt to sneak SpaceX into S&P500 through the Tesla backdoor. Someone needs those 401k monies.

New comment by karp773 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

karp773 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:18:03 +0000

It's not about structured/unstructured play at all. Basketball and hockey teams in the very same USA are world class.

It's about in which sports in the country the pro clubs pay top money. It's that simple. It sets up the incentives for families, and everything else follows.

99.99% of the kids who play in the street have a lot of fun but will never make it anywhere near pro sports.

New comment by karp773 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

karp773 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:53:55 +0000

If you have a choice (an offer) to be a pro player at 18, it means you had already given up on school by 12 or younger.

New comment by karp773 in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

karp773 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:34:47 +0000

Right. That"s why Epstein wired millions of dollars to Russia, had a Russian bodyguard, gave away his estate to some Belorussian woman, and so on. Obviously, Mossad at work here!

New comment by karp773 in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

karp773 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:38:16 +0000

Despite the budget, that is clearly one thing where Israel has fallen behind its adversaries.

New comment by karp773 in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

karp773 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:23:37 +0000

I do not think that is correct. For example, Excalibur [1] relies on GPS and proved to be quite inefficient in Ukraine. Russia figured out how to jam them in a few months.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur

New comment by karp773 in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

karp773 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:49:13 +0000

What's the urgency to bend the rules? It is not like SpaceX is banned for good. It will be included as soon as it meets the requirements.

New comment by karp773 in "S&P Global keeps fast index entry rules unchanged as SpaceX listing looms"

karp773 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:14:09 +0000

Kudos and respect to the S&P people!

New comment by karp773 in "Gold replaces US Treasuries as top reserve asset, ECB says"

karp773 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:16:07 +0000

Gold is back in vogue. Look at the White House, for example. All gold and glitter. Of course, others are trying to immitate the style, hence the demand for gold.

New comment by karp773 in "Craig Venter has died"

karp773 — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:49:37 +0000

I read his autobiography. Besides the genome work, which undoutedly was of historical importance, one thing that impressed me the most, was how he slept on the surgery table in the opersting room after cleaning blood from it in Vietnam. Somehow it was safer than in the barracks. I was like wow, this guy definitely knew how to think outside the box!

New comment by karp773 in "How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]"

karp773 — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:08:03 +0000

I did not read this book but I read another one by Mallaby about hedge fund managers. It was pretty biased to the point that I did not recognize one of the managers I knew about (Michael Steinhardt). The guy who himself confessed in a lot of his past shady stuff in his 2001 book. Mallaby's book from 2010 did not bring up any of that shady stuff. It was like reading about a totally different person.

Of course, I am not trying to prove moral equivalency between Steinhardt and Hassabis. But it is worth keeping this in mind when reading something by Mallaby. Do not expect completeness or impartiality.

New comment by karp773 in "Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?"

karp773 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:21:33 +0000

"You are absolutely right! This is a very deep, professional level insight. Yes, I have blown up your account but we can try more of my investment ideas. What would you like to do next?" /s

New comment by karp773 in "U.S. fighter jet shot down in Iran, search underway for crew"

karp773 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:06:02 +0000

I just looked it up. Those are turboprop (slower) but have a high ceiling of 50k feet. So Iran did have something better than stingers left. Maybe they just got lucky this time.

New comment by karp773 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

karp773 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:41:59 +0000

Maybe it was friendly fire but I did not see that in the news yet.