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New comment by kcyb in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

kcyb — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:01:34 +0000

As an arch user, I would always skim the PKGBUILD file of AUR packages to see if they install the software they claim to install from official sources and if there's something obviously fishy.

New comment by kcyb in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

kcyb — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:25:20 +0000

It's quite common historically. The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato looks at this phenomenon of companies privatizing the benefits of publicly funded research and, she argues, not giving enough in return

New comment by kcyb in "Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appliance shop"

kcyb — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:48:01 +0000

Switzerland is a diverse society with lots of immigration and it is also a high-trust society

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

kcyb — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://henryfarrell.net/large-ai-models-are-cultural-and-social-technologies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375614

Points: 2

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Games for Novation Launchpad Mini grid controller

kcyb — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:17:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/fbarbe00/novation-mini-arcade

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39055699

Points: 2

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New comment by kcyb in "12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed"

kcyb — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 06:19:12 +0000

I think you might appreciate the book The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [1]. They dive into the archaeological record and argue precisely that: that the common story of how civilization developed is very wrong, and that complex societies existed before the rise of agriculture, longer than is usually assumed. These findings at Göbekli Tepe appear very much in line with their theory.

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