<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: lp4v4n</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lp4v4n</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:37:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lp4v4n" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lp4v4n in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly it's not surprising that AI provided answers that were flagged less often as "pedagogically harmful" if we take in account that somehow LLMs create an "average" of all knowledge they ingested.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:01:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381614</link><dc:creator>lp4v4n</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lp4v4n in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the battle linux vs windows showcases how, in the long run, free software tends to win. In 50+ years, windows will be a footnote in the history of technology, in 100+ years, linux will still be going strong as a multi-generational human endeavor started by a young nerd in the early 90's.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:56:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150960</link><dc:creator>lp4v4n</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lp4v4n in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't agree with this. Addictive, unless we're talking about a chemical substance or something like that, is a subjective thing. At some point, books, movies, comics, etc, etc might have been considered addictive.<p>Social networks in general should be banned for underage people, that's the thing. And the social network itself should be liable for verifying the age its users, like a nightclub is liable for people who enter it. No bullshit operating system age verification, that's, trust me, totally intended to protect kids and not to spy on you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:51:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107538</link><dc:creator>lp4v4n</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lp4v4n in "Houses are for living, not for speculation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What kind of speculation exists over energy, water and space? I'm really curious to know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:41:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107430</link><dc:creator>lp4v4n</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lp4v4n in "Mythical Man Month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious to check how faster AAA games will hit the market in the next years compared to the pre-LLM era. Or how much of the aging COBOL code base out there will disappear in the next decade.<p>When concrete things like that start to happen, then I will start to believe in the 10x claim.</p>
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<p>As true as "It's free and always will be".</p>
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<p>When a company hires for an entry level public facing position, they always mean a young individual with a welcoming smile instead of a bald middle aged man who has been unemployed for two years. That's something that everybody knows and even the most progressive HR department, overtly or tacitly, will try to enforce. Society is full of small hidden prejudices that people don't really see as harmful.</p>
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<p>Global warming doesn't exist.<p>If it does, it's not that bad.<p>If it gets bad, it's not a big deal in reality.<p>If it becomes a big deal, it was not humanity's fault.<p>And if it was humanity's fault, at least the planet was saved from a global dictatorship run by scientists.</p>
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<p>>I am not trying to be snarky; I used to think that intelligence was intrinsically tied to or perhaps identical with language<p>I learned a long time ago that this wasn’t the case.<p>I can speak several languages, and many times when I remember something and want to search for it on Google or any other AI engine, I can’t recall which language I originally read it in.<p>So whatever mechanism the brain uses to store information, it’s certainly language‑agnostic. There are also many moments when you fully grasp a concept but forget the words to describe it, yet the concept itself remains clear in your mind.</p>
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<p>It's very hard to think they wouldn't do something harmful to children again if the economic incentives aligned. For corporations it's just so easy to say sorry, and in the worst case they know an irrelevant fine will be placed in order not "to destroy the business".</p>
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<p>Society is getting materialistic and cynical to toxic levels as the standards of living and the perspective of future further deteriorate.<p>People feel overworked, tired and out of money.<p>This general malaise spills on almost every type of social interaction, including friendships unfortunately.</p>
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<p>A few years ago, the "tinfoil hat crowd" had this absurd claim that Ghislaine Maxwell was a reddit powermod:<p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-suggests-ghislaine-maxwell-is-a-powerful-redditor/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-sugges...</a><p>The article above is from 2020, and later the FBI itself used the user maxwellhill as evidence in Ghislaine's investigation:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qsf6y6/reddit_post_by_user_maxwellhill_used_as_fbi/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qsf6y6/reddit_pos...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:27:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394898</link><dc:creator>lp4v4n</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lp4v4n in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But my point is: have we really reached a technological level where we can use neurons like replaceable car parts? That video seems to suggest yes, but I’m still skeptical.<p>My impression is that this company is offering a product that’s still beyond our technological capabilities, much like the cold‑fusion startups that pop up from time to time.</p>
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<p>Maybe I wasn’t explicit about this point, but I’m not only talking about understanding the biological processes behind a neuron. I’m also talking about our ability to manipulate them in something like an industrial process, combining them with hardware in a controlled way and achieving reliable results.<p>Cells have a metabolism, right? They need to be fed and require a specific environment to survive. They age and can die, and they can be attacked by other microorganisms. Are all of these problems solved and applicable on an industrial scale? I had no idea.<p>Why aren’t we fixing people’s retinas and paraplegia if we can manipulate neurons with that level of precision?</p>
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<p>It’s the first time I’ve heard about this company, and of course I haven’t taken the time to check how real their product is, but honestly, for me it’s very difficult to believe we currently have the technology to correctly integrate a living neuron into a chip, let alone compute anything meaningful with it.<p>From what I’ve read elsewhere, our understanding of neurons is still very basic, and we need a lot more fundamental research before reaching results like these. We still don’t even properly know how migraines work, nor can we cure paraplegia, yet somehow we supposedly have the capacity to grow second brains and program them on top of that.</p>
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<p>>The median salary for a urologist in the United States is approximately $590,000 per year as of March 2026. Most urologists earn between $550,000 and $630,000 annually.<p>This guy really thinks doctors make 120k/year.</p>
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<p>>1. As President Eisenhower said in his farewell address in 1961 [1], every dollar spent on the military-industrial complex is a dollar not spent on schools or houses or hospitals or bridges;<p>This humanist view unfortunately doesn’t hold anymore in the modern world. Boomers will be happy as long as not a single dollar is spent on housing, so that their own homes can appreciate in value. Republicans would rather burn money than spend it on houses, hospitals, or bridges that might benefit immigrants or “other people” more than themselves.<p>I used an American political party only as a reference, but the same phenomenon can be seen in many countries around the world. Society has become incredibly cynical and has regressed a lot in terms of humanity.</p>
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<p>>Block said Thursday it’s laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount. The stock skyrocketed more than 24% in extended trading.<p>Society provides support to this kind of decision, it's obvious why it happens.<p>And nobody really believes this whole "we got too efficient" so now we don't need 40% of our company anymore.</p>
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<p>What about "It's free and always will be"?</p>
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<p>As you said, it's impossible to determine how many of the current layoffs are caused by AI, they probably also have a lot to do with the broader economic downturn. But you’re still missing the point, if companies truly have a black box that can produce cheap, high‑quality code as the GP put it, why don't they just fire 95% of their developers and keep only a small core of AI orchestrators?</p>
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