Hacker News: oytis

New comment by oytis in "Building reliable agentic AI systems"

oytis — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:18:34 +0000

Absolutely. Either you use LLMs and tolerate unreliability or you are writing proper reliable software yourself

New comment by oytis in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

oytis — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:36:04 +0000

That's a huge stretch. Age verification is a worrying, but a wordwide trend, several US states introduced it as well.

The first country to introduce it was Australia, which is only related to Europe by participating in Eurovision

New comment by oytis in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

oytis — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:31:46 +0000

China doesn't allow foreign social media on their territory at all. US had one for a short time, then panicked and forced them to sell. EU can neither buy American platforms, nor does it want to build a great firewall of Europe, so it's trying to find other ways to get in control

New comment by oytis in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

oytis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:28:32 +0000

EU doesn't have enough money to just buy the competition

New comment by oytis in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

oytis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:29:08 +0000

That's not lobbyism, that's straight corruption. Lobbyism is, at least in theory, about convincing politicians

New comment by oytis in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

oytis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:01:22 +0000

Obama making an account on Twitter is a marketers' success. Twitter became popular first, politicians wanted to appear there second.

WSocial just went to politicians directly,it's not known by general public. Good news is, it rarely helps with commercial success

New comment by oytis in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

oytis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:33:33 +0000

Not marketers, lobbyists

New comment by oytis in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

oytis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:08:53 +0000

Practically, if you choose a big enough server, it's rarely a problem. mastodon.social is the most popular one, maintained by Mastodon the non-profit itself.

Biggest turn off and a killer feature depending on who you ask is a lack of Algorithm. That's why people who move away from Twitter feel disoriented, but people who were never on Twitter in the first place are alright.

New comment by oytis in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

oytis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:39:52 +0000

Terry Tao, Bert Hubert, Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf), Bunny Huang are just a few in my feed. But Mastodon is more about peer-to-peer communication than celebrities farming engagement indeed.

No signs of enshittification either so far, barely any new features being added TBH

New comment by oytis in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

oytis — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:26:03 +0000

There is no reliable data on how many of these jobs shouldn't exist at all, even without AI

New comment by oytis in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

oytis — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:32:39 +0000

Does it ever end though?

New comment by oytis in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

oytis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:16:44 +0000

Try translating some prose from English to another language, then, in a different model, back to English

New comment by oytis in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

oytis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:53:57 +0000

Yeah, they created a team that accomplished something (or a team that created a team), so it's well-deserved.

New comment by oytis in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

oytis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:17:00 +0000

Are there other companies? Where you are submitting PRs that solve no known problem?

New comment by oytis in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

oytis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:10:55 +0000

Who gets a sense of accoplishment from prompting an LLM? Do you get a sense of accomplishment when AI draws a picture or writes a poem for you? I guess there are some minds I'll never be able to comprehend

New comment by oytis in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

oytis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:29:52 +0000

I would use strategic nukes in 100% simulations, just because I can

New comment by oytis in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

oytis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:20:58 +0000

Still I can't think of an event where Swiss cops would be able to collect similar footage.

New comment by oytis in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

oytis — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:09:41 +0000

There are people with cardboard signs, and there are BLM protests or occupy Wall Street. Can't remember when the last disruptive protests were in Switzerland, but in Germany I'd say tame protests are the norm and disruptions are an exception

New comment by oytis in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

oytis — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:37:59 +0000

Search has degraded for sure, but still better than anything else? Maps - I guess you mean Apple ones are better? Can't tell, I am not on Apple, but if you don't use Apple products, there are not many alternatives to Google maps

New comment by oytis in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

oytis — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:38:53 +0000

I think it was ruled that 1 star review without any words at all can be considered a defamation