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New comment by m_rpn in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

m_rpn — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:27:35 +0000

An expert on crisps maybe XD? i'm not really sure about your last point on investing in frauds, i guess they only care if and when the fraud gets exposed, they might purposely choose to do exactly that given the right conditions though, it is a completely perverted and deranged system at this point.

New comment by m_rpn in "How to get better at guitar"

m_rpn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:59:20 +0000

How have i never heard about this, will definitely give a try. What about a DAW integrated transcription tool, as a VST maybe, is it too niche? This is something i always wanted and never really found in the capacity i needed, essentially doing what soundslice does both track per track and also having the full score, most tools available try to convert to midi via usual methods or do some mumbo-jumbo AI to write the score. Since 90% of recording musicians time is spent on a DAW and sometimes having everything in the box streamlines the work a lot.

New comment by m_rpn in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

m_rpn — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:54:34 +0000

Make it 7, there's also the Sentinel datalake or whatever now!

New comment by m_rpn in "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click"

m_rpn — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:11:58 +0000

Rent, university taxes and all the other taxes are still due, i'm from the EU too and education is definitely not "free", freer than somewhere else for sure.

New comment by m_rpn in "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click"

m_rpn — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:09:22 +0000

Usability, UI, that's not the point, my question is just how is it possible that an esteemed academic professional doesn't understand that touching anything that deals with "data" on a service like ChatGPT could possibly result in consequences? And how is it possible that we have started to justify every careless and sloppy behaviour ever? Better not justify sloppiness.

New comment by m_rpn in "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click"

m_rpn — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:23:54 +0000

First rule of the world: "if you don't understand the implications, don't do it".

How much are we willing to justify every wrong behaviour possible?

New comment by m_rpn in "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click"

m_rpn — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:20:44 +0000

It seems you are desperately trying to make a strawman without any sensible argument, i don't personally think it is "snarky" to call things as they are, plain and simple, you, as supposed expert and professional academic, post a blog on Nature crying that "ai stole my homework", it's only natural you get the ridicule you deserve, it's the bare minimum, he should be investigated by the institution he works for.

A reasonable amount of AI use is certainly acceptable, where "reasonable" depends on the situation, for any academic related job this amount should be close to zero, and no material produced by any student/grad/researcher/professor should be fed to third party LLM models without explicit consent, otherwise what even is the point? Regurgitating slop is not academic work.

New comment by m_rpn in "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click"

m_rpn — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:27:18 +0000

The issue is not backup, the issue is that he is publicly and nonchalantly admitting that most of his work for the past years was ai-based, which might or might not constitute fraud given his professional position. Imagine being a student paying thousands over thousands expecting an expert human led instruction just to get this, imagine being a fellow researcher and suddenly being in a situation of not being able to trust this guy's current and past work.

The worst thing is all the people looking at this behaviour as normal and totally acceptable, this is where ai-sloppiness is taking us guys. I hope it's just the ai bros talking in the comments, otherwise we are screwed.

New comment by m_rpn in "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click"

m_rpn — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:21:17 +0000

The shame is not that he was so imbecile to not have appropriate backups, it is that he is basically defrauding his students, his colleagues, and the academic community by nonchalantly admitting that a big portion of his work was ai-based. Did his students consent to have their homework and exams fed to ai? Are his colleagues happy to know that probably most of the data in their co-authored studies where probably spat out by ai? Do you people understand the situation?

New comment by m_rpn in "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click"

m_rpn — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:17:28 +0000

The author is an absolute and utter embarrassment for all the good academic professionals out there, and he is also literally admitting to defrauding his students of their precious money, which they thought was going to human-led instruction, he's also put all of his colleagues in an very dodgy position right now. It is preposterous that we are even arguing about it, it is the sign of how much AI-sloppiness is permeating our lives, it is crazy to think that you can be entitled to give years of work to a chatbot without even caring and then write an article like this "uh oh, ai eat my homework".

New comment by m_rpn in "Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space, orbital data centers"

m_rpn — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:55:37 +0000

They've run out of terrestrial snake oil to sell so they now need interstellar snake oil.

New comment by m_rpn in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

m_rpn — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:42:38 +0000

It's really not obvious to calculate the output of any employee even with years of data, way harder for a software engineer or any other job with that many facets. If you've found a proven and reliable way evaluate someone in the first 2 weeks you just solved one of the biggest HR problems ever.

New comment by m_rpn in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

m_rpn — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:40:52 +0000

Rent should not be more than 1/3 of your income but to get an income you usually need to be in a place where rents are more than 1/3 of such income.

New comment by m_rpn in "How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry"

m_rpn — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:17:41 +0000

The Brits don't produce anything anymore except money laundering in the City of London (where i work btw) and some cattle, so you should expect that kind of biased narrative from them. We in Italy are among the best and most profitable in the high-tech mechanical manufacturing industry, but we also have the worst paid engineers and technicians of the western world. The Italian Miracle.

New comment by m_rpn in "The Case That A.I. Is Thinking"

m_rpn — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:03:30 +0000

easily top 10 best HN comment ever.

New comment by m_rpn in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

m_rpn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:37:24 +0000

salutes from a WestLondonCoder

New comment by m_rpn in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

m_rpn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:06:34 +0000

The first is Android.

New comment by m_rpn in "Inside Amazon's engineering culture: Lessons from their senior principals"

m_rpn — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:42:19 +0000

I'll explain you how it works: upper management needs urgent spend cuts in the next 3-6-12 months to get bonus -> upper management lays off N thousands people in order to reach goal and get bonus.

New comment by m_rpn in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

m_rpn — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:35:11 +0000

Every year is the YOLD!

New comment by m_rpn in "Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)"

m_rpn — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:40:36 +0000

Not thanks to Java or OOP, but despite it. You can thank my colleagues fighting Java in the bank each day.