Hacker News: mentalgear

New comment by mentalgear in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

mentalgear — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:21:30 +0000

Very interesting - but I also find it important for solutions to state the trade-offs if they provide a novel approach that doesn't have the same requirements as the main contenders. In your case, what are the trade offs for running in user space ?

New comment by mentalgear in "X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior""

mentalgear — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:56:15 +0000

I'm not touching seedy X any more - if there's someone linking to it the 'toXcancel' extension shows me the content while shielding me from Musk's actual sht pit.

New comment by mentalgear in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"

mentalgear — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:25:57 +0000

Indeed Azure & AWS use complexity (e.g. their terrible docs) and convoluted non-standard terminology, approaches and non-interop to keep developers in their platform silo and competitors, who provide the same advantages with better DX and less complexity, away from their money cows.

New comment by mentalgear in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

mentalgear — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:56:17 +0000

Article from 2024: still super impressive in 2024 yet I'd like more recent numbers to see the progress.

New comment by mentalgear in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

mentalgear — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:53:12 +0000

What a great beacon of hope to consider that we are closer than we thought in the clean energy rollout ! I read somewhere, not sure though how it is assessed/how valid it is, that last year 50% world-wide came already from clean power, with countries like the UK around 50% in the middle and others like Spain far ahead.

New comment by mentalgear in "Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks"

mentalgear — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:29:02 +0000

> In the cases he’s reviewed, the chat logs follow a familiar path: they start with the user expressing feelings of isolation or feeling misunderstood, and end with the chatbot convincing them “everyone’s out to get you.”

> “It can take a fairly innocuous thread and then start creating these worlds where it’s pushing the narratives that others are trying to kill the user, there’s a vast conspiracy, and they need to take action,” he said.

> Those narratives have resulted in real-world action, as with Gavalas. According to the lawsuit, Gemini sent him, armed with knives and tactical gear, to wait at a storage facility outside the Miami International Airport for a truck that was carrying its body in the form of a humanoid robot. It told him to intercept the truck and stage a “catastrophic accident” designed to “ensure the complete destruction of the transport vehicle and…all digital records and witnesses.” Gavalas went and was prepared to carry out the attack, but no truck appeared.

Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks

mentalgear — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:29:02 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/lawyer-behind-ai-psychosis-cases-warns-of-mass-casualty-risks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737642

Points: 13

# Comments: 6

New comment by mentalgear in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

mentalgear — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:32:50 +0000

> Time to organize around groups and collectives that we know we can trust

I’ve had the same thoughts, but if you look deeper, it all circles back to what we already had: (open, transparent) public institutions, society, and government by the people. The foundation wasn't the problem; the environment was.

Along the way, social media noise, engagement-optimisation and Kardashian-style "entertainment news" infecting real news made an attention economy where, no matter how scandalous you are, attention can be minted into dollars. That is what polluted our infosphere and lead to the lack of trust.

Now, nobody trusts these previously mentioned public entities any more - sometimes due to state-actor or ad-tech disinformation, and sometimes for good reason like when the poisoned public allowed these 80s-style telemarketer-style political weirdos and their cronies to take over public administration.

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

mentalgear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:57:20 +0000

To paraphrase Microslop's "Embrace, extend ... build a walled garden around."

New comment by mentalgear in "OpenAI's Genius Plan [to Cure Cancer] Can't Possibly Fail [video]"

mentalgear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:18:58 +0000

Even though normally people on here do not prefer videos, this one is based on a scientific essay and comes with the added benefit of being really on point while also being funny - give it a try! Original Essay: https://curecancer.ai/

OpenAI's Genius Plan [to Cure Cancer] Can't Possibly Fail [video]

mentalgear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTxAfFUHkY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721117

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by mentalgear in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

mentalgear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:51:01 +0000

OpenAI has now officially absorbed the Facebook/Zuck's ethos of 'Move fast and break things' no matter if it's society itself .. as long as their share prices "go up".

They even hired former infamous FB staff and have been in the last months employing the same 'engagement' (addictive) product patterns.

New comment by mentalgear in "Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps"

mentalgear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:39:23 +0000

No e2e encryption and no p2p is a deal breaker for me.

New comment by mentalgear in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

mentalgear — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:54:45 +0000

Thank you, looks great!

New comment by mentalgear in "Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B"

mentalgear — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:43:34 +0000

You might be interested in the open-source https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ .

New comment by mentalgear in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

mentalgear — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:41:41 +0000

Also, the executives 'retired' the official 'Don't be evil' slogan some time ago. I guess they didn't want to be limited. Seems fitting to the suits.

New comment by mentalgear in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

mentalgear — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:37:43 +0000

I'm planing on switching over to QubesOS - way more secure (especially considering rogue LLM-agents) and visually not much worse from windows ... maybe even more cohesive.

New comment by mentalgear in "Significant raise of reports"

mentalgear — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:49:58 +0000

There's an anecdote I remember reading somewhere: When an 'embedded systems' engineer was to present a web-based product they were tasked to build, the managers/reviewers were puzzled they couldn't find any bugs. Asked about this, the engineer replied: "I didn't know that was an option".

Definitely a different mindset/toolset is required when it comes to building systems that have to be working autonomously without "quick fixes" from the web.

New comment by mentalgear in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

mentalgear — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:32:13 +0000

Adding to the Q: Any good small open-source model with a high correctness of reading/extracting Tables and/of PDFs with more uncommon layouts.

New comment by mentalgear in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

mentalgear — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:24:17 +0000

This is far higher than I expected: a much needed, remarkably good reason to be cheerful about the future after all !