Hacker News: ls612

New comment by ls612 in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

ls612 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:02:03 +0000

Regardless of your political beliefs I would hope you could agree that using arable land for solar power is dumb. Denmark is almost entirely arable land and relatively small to boot so they should be using more compact power sources.

New comment by ls612 in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

ls612 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:03:45 +0000

It’s the same problem people have with Google. If they ban you for some AI hallucinated reason you have no recourse other than going viral on Hacker News.

New comment by ls612 in "CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised"

ls612 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:58:41 +0000

I mean this is by design? It makes pirates more likely to get malware, and thus normal people more likely to pay for MS products rather than pirate? You may think its immoral but the incentives line up.

New comment by ls612 in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

ls612 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:56:09 +0000

Also controversially, it isn't clear to me that perfect totalitarianism (what he calls solutions 3 and 4) is a preferable outcome to devastation.

New comment by ls612 in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

ls612 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:42:28 +0000

While I'm definitely concerned that AI is a massive driver of centralization of power, at least in theory being able to do far more things in the space of "things physics admits to be possible" is massively wealth enhancing. That is literally how we have gotten from the pre-industrial world to today.

New comment by ls612 in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

ls612 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:35:45 +0000

I had Opus 4.6 start analyzing the binary structure of a parquet file because it was confused about the python environment it was developing in and couldn't use normal methods for whatever reason. It successfully decoded the schema and wrote working code afterwards lol.

New comment by ls612 in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"

ls612 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:41:21 +0000

Yeah I get that, what I am really asking is that I know in my field, I can quickly get a vibe as to whether certain new work is good or not so good, and where any bugaboos are likely to be. For those who know PQC like I know economics, do they believe at this point that the algorithms have been analyzed successfully to a level comparable to DH or RSA? Or is this really gonna be a rush job under the gun because we have no choice?

New comment by ls612 in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"

ls612 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:26:56 +0000

Was that the only thing wrong with it? The 90s was definitely before my time but I was under the impression reading about it that there were also fundamental flaws with DES which lead to the competition which ultimately produced AES.

New comment by ls612 in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"

ls612 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:09:32 +0000

Didn't one of the PQC candidates get found to have a fatal classical vulnerability? Are we confident we won't find any future oopsies like that with the current PQC candidates?

New comment by ls612 in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"

ls612 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:08:03 +0000

People were willing to explicitly explain why it was inadequate rather than keep it secret. That is the difference.

New comment by ls612 in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"

ls612 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:05:56 +0000

The secrecy around this is precisely the opposite of what we saw in the 90s when it started to become clear DES needed to go. Yet another sign that the global powers are preparing for war.

New comment by ls612 in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

ls612 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:40:21 +0000

Is this also true for other TPM/snitching/DRM chips out there? IE will every existing device eventually become jailbreakable in the future or will we unfortunately not even get that benefit from all this?

New comment by ls612 in "Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice"

ls612 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:25:40 +0000

You will own nothing and you will be happy. Or else.

New comment by ls612 in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

ls612 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:01:51 +0000

Claude Code is IMO the benchmark today. For all of the various contexts I’ve used it in it has mostly oneshot the tasks I’ve given it and is very user friendly for someone who is not a professional software engineer. To the extent it fails I can usually figure out quickly why and correct it at a high level.

US Site Blocking Legislation Could Be Attached to Omnibus Bill – TorrentFreak

ls612 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:59:39 +0000

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-lawmakers-work-on-unified-site-blocking-bill-to-counter-online-piracy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654330

Points: 11

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New comment by ls612 in "US forces locate and evacuate downed airman in Iran"

ls612 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:40:02 +0000

Black Hawk Down but with a happy ending.

New comment by ls612 in "Economists Once Dismissed the A.I. Job Threat, but Not Anymore"

ls612 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:22:17 +0000

One of the most robust findings in labor economics is that in the long run capital and labor are complements, not substitutes. What this means is that over time, as capital productivity has increased, demand for both capital and labor has increased, rather than demand for labor falling while demand for capital increased. I'm skeptical that AI will be different than all of the previous inventions of the industrial era in this regard.

New comment by ls612 in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

ls612 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:42:05 +0000

Apollo put a lot more burden on the Service Module than Artemis plans to put on the Orion. Apollo put the CSM/LM into a low lunar orbit while Artemis plans to put Orion into a high lunar orbit and make the Starship carry a lot more delta-V to land from a much higher velocity (and then accelerate back up to that velocity when coming back).

On top of that there weren’t really solar panels in the 1960s so the Service Module had to carry tons of chemicals to produce electricity, as well as extra fuel for all of that weight. As a result it was massively overbuilt compared to anything we’d try today and even so had to take an expedited flight path to the moon of 3 days in order to conserve operational lifetime. Artemis does not have nearly as severe constraints on either the Orion or the future Starship and so can afford to take a more fuel efficient 5 day coast up to the Moon and make the design tradeoffs on Orion that that entails.

New comment by ls612 in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

ls612 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:16:15 +0000

Even in the 1960s with 1960s technology they made better broadcast video of the Apollo launches than this.

New comment by ls612 in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

ls612 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:14:00 +0000

NASA has been well treated by both parties in general, with their budget rising faster than inflation most years. This administration also appointed Isaacman to be the NASA administrator which I think is a 10/10 choice for that job.