Hacker News: mdurana

New comment by mdurana in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

mdurana — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:47:19 +0000

Can I ask, just out of curiosity, where the AI lab was?

Probabilistic, Reformative Justice

mdurana — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:50:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dqbhcm6g7CMWvhoid/probabilistic-reformative-justice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336882

Points: 9

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New comment by mdurana in "Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News"

mdurana — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:02:10 +0000

Apollo (the original publisher of this) is a right-conservative outlet and has been involved in a few disinformation scandals before (like during the Mannheim Christmas market attack where they spread a forged police note saying that the suspect was a black man) so I’d take this with a grain of salt.

The article is also pretty clickbaity. Current law says that media paid for by taxes shouldn’t be purposefully buried deep in menus or made hard for an average user to find than private media. It does not mean they have to be ranked above everyone else in search results or algorithmic feeds; search and ranking still have to be non-discriminatory. And now Apollo claims to have seen an internal draft from media regulators on a state level that would expand this to individual posts in algorithmic feeds, that's it. They're blowing it out of proportion. Nobody's talking about "forceful algorithm boost" or changing the ranking or search or stuff like that. Also Apollo won't share this doc so none of their claims can really be verified either way.

New comment by mdurana in "The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki"

mdurana — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:33:09 +0000

There's always a "courtesy of..." under each image board and it seems like it's all books released for each film.

New comment by mdurana in "Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original"

mdurana — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:07:19 +0000

For anybody interested in the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52259619-dominion I would highly recommend. Holland (historian, not the actor) makes a great case about why many of our thoughts nowadays are rooted in Christianity.

Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025

mdurana — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:22:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/politics/americans-predictions-1998-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431242

Points: 3

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