Hacker News: mlinksva

New comment by mlinksva in "Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age"

mlinksva — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:32:49 +0000

The CA amending bill with a carve-out for open source is still active, is not yet law (see https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x... for the changes to current law if the bill passes).

New comment by mlinksva in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

mlinksva — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:33:08 +0000

Including on the dimensions of (1) having a very fast website and (2) not having any paywalls. Feels very good to read.

New comment by mlinksva in "Modernizing Property Tax Assessments in Allegheny County"

mlinksva — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:11:26 +0000

Agreed as does the org putting out the linked paper https://www.prohousingpgh.org/blog/policy-land-value-taxes

And if you read the linked paper, particularly the section "Effects of Reassessments on Split-Rate Taxing Bodies" (split rate being the riff you're referring to), making land value assessments more accurate of course makes land value taxation more appealing.

New comment by mlinksva in "Right to Local Intelligence"

mlinksva — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:11:26 +0000

I can't tell from the site or the linked twitter handles. Their core ask for every state seems to be "Please support clear safe-harbor language for lawful local AI ownership, research, model modification, open-source publication, and local execution" rather than stopping or amending any specific bill/law.

One they _could_ be referring to is the California AI Transparency Act which isn't compatible with open source licensing, see https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/g...

Advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source

mlinksva — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:07:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/github-joins-coalition-advocating-for-fixes-to-california-ai-transparency-act-to-protect-open-source/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649820

Points: 3

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An Open Letter on Transparent AI Cyber Protections

mlinksva — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:34:45 +0000

Article URL: https://freefable.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544523

Points: 6

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Itty Bitty Mosquito Committee

mlinksva — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:17:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ittybittymosquitocommittee.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531494

Points: 3

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New comment by mlinksva in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

mlinksva — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:34:40 +0000

Cool concept, I hope it becomes fully realized, scaled, copied. Created a play prediction question to track that https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/by-eoy-2030-what-wil...

New comment by mlinksva in "Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects"

mlinksva — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:33:34 +0000

Good development, along with the most recent changes to https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

A colleague is hosting a virtual session on these and other similar bills around the world in two days https://maintainermonth.github.com/schedule/2026-05-22-age-a...

Or, now slightly out of date, read https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/w... Added: I had not scrolled far enough on the front page, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214215 is on this blog.

The "Digital Complexity" of Nations

mlinksva — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:44:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/how-researchers-are-using-github-innovation-graph-data-to-reveal-the-digital-complexity-of-nations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066397

Points: 3

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Why age assurance laws matter for developers

mlinksva — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:43:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/why-age-assurance-laws-matter-for-developers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066383

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mlinksva in "Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2"

mlinksva — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:34:30 +0000

Which is approximately all companies because all companies use software and depending on what the researchers look at, 90% to 98% of codebases depend on OSS.

Conclusion: support OSS from general taxation, like the Sovereign Tech Fund in Germany does. It's a public good!

New comment by mlinksva in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

mlinksva — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:49:27 +0000

https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031 https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822239138038382684 "In the end it came down to Swift vs Rust, and Swift is strictly better in OO support and C++ interop."

New comment by mlinksva in "Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox"

mlinksva — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:31:04 +0000

ExoAgent (from your bio/past comments) looks really interesting. Godspeed!

New comment by mlinksva in "The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly"

mlinksva — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:06:20 +0000

I don't know that there are any similaries besides the names -- well maybe something thematic about distributing the future or what looked like it at the time to more programmers -- but the handful of times I've run across Grain (probably all on HN) I'm reminded of Wheat https://web.archive.org/web/20050215032130/http://wheatfarm....

New comment by mlinksva in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

mlinksva — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:13:09 +0000

Do you have a pointer to where LeCun spoke about it? I noticed last October that Dwarkesh mentioned the idea off handedly on his podcast (prompting me to write up https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...) but I wonder if this idea has been around for much longer, or is just so obvious that lots of people are independently coming up with it (parent to this comment being yet another)?

New comment by mlinksva in "Coarse is better"

mlinksva — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:49:42 +0000

Good title!

New comment by mlinksva in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

mlinksva — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:49:37 +0000

Different cutoff but similar question thrown out in https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-on-sutton#:~:text=If%20y... inspiring https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...

New comment by mlinksva in "The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable"

mlinksva — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:07:00 +0000

I've had approximately the same thought, to different but complementary ends "More generally (not covered in this question) perhaps this could also be a fun way to interrogate the tech tree, e.g., what could have been discovered given the data at a given cutoff, how early or late certain advancements came, etc." https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...

Would love to see it!

New comment by mlinksva in "Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents"

mlinksva — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:21:31 +0000

Lots of discussion on the EFF's post on this same topic last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985890

I expect a deluge of critical comments near the Dec 2 deadline. Add yours! :)