Hacker News: oytis

New comment by oytis in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

oytis — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:10:35 +0000

History is just full of emotional contradictions I guess. French and Russian revolutions were terrible bloodbaths, smaller violent movements like Luddite one caused deaths and achieved nothing - it would be stupid to approve any of these. But you could also see why this violence happened, and assign an appropriate share of blame to those who held the power to resolve social contradictions in a more equitable way and decided not to do so.

New comment by oytis in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

oytis — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:51:20 +0000

How is one supposed to ensure license compliance while using LLMs which do not (and cannot) attribute sources having contributed to a specific response?

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

oytis — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:16:44 +0000

How many millions were raised to build Git?

New comment by oytis in "Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities"

oytis — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:29:41 +0000

You should either implement over-the-air updates or not connect your device to the network at all.

New comment by oytis in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

oytis — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:31:28 +0000

E.g. in Germany many pedestrians, especially tourists, tend to think that bycicle lanes are fancily-painted sidewalks

New comment by oytis in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

oytis — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:42:09 +0000

That's just in line with their ethics. They also maintain that countries other than the US should not have SOTA AI capabilities.

New comment by oytis in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

oytis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:40:15 +0000

Well, to be honest, those old enough remember when cryptography was considered someting for the military and special services, and considering using encryption would put you under immediate suspicion. Now we can at least argue we need it to protect us from the cyber crime, even if we really have privacy and free speech in mind

New comment by oytis in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

oytis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:10:45 +0000

> surprisingly non-boomer departments, like the Sovereign Tech Fund

The one that has just invested in Scala? In year 2026? There are many good things about Germany, but competence in tech is not one of them.

New comment by oytis in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

oytis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:06:18 +0000

That's right. They also create jobs for police though, and now German police is doing theirs

New comment by oytis in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

oytis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:23:40 +0000

Running a ransomware gang is immoral. Catching someone running a ransomware gang is good. If publishing their name helps catch them, it's also good. Not sure where do you see the gap between legality and morality in this case

New comment by oytis in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

oytis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:40:22 +0000

Because Switzerland is a tiny country that holds wealth extracted from whole wolrd's economies and that's just not replicatable even by the US?

New comment by oytis in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

oytis — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:40:43 +0000

Oh dear, web 3.0, blockchain. Do we get our sovereign monkey NFT too?

New comment by oytis in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

oytis — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:56:18 +0000

Oh, no, now I actually lost part of my progress. Apparently has something to do with multiple tabs open.

New comment by oytis in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

oytis — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:54:20 +0000

What's wrong with verifiable credentials? It's an important thing to have it seems? Your passport or a bank card are verifiable credentials, or at least are designed to be.

New comment by oytis in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

oytis — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:05:16 +0000

What do you mean "shifting to smartphone"? It's not a natural process - it's a technical decision to shift them to the smartphone, and a really bad one. We already have smart cards, they work and do not depend on any corporations, even less foreign corporations.

New comment by oytis in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

oytis — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:40:46 +0000

None yet, will try to remember not to clear cookies :) Sometimes games that don't maintain user accounts let you save progress in a file and restore it later, so that it survives loss of browser state, see e.g. https://microcorruption.com/

Thank you for the game by the way! It's nice to recall my asic classes, and looking forward to GPU specific chapters.

New comment by oytis in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

oytis — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:27:58 +0000

I don't get it. Are mechanisms in our ID cards not strong enough so that we have to rely on the security of the operating system?

New comment by oytis in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

oytis — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:18:18 +0000

Must be missing something - is there a way to save progress?

New comment by oytis in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

oytis — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:03:23 +0000

I might be alone with this, but I don't find it very entertaining.

New comment by oytis in "Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war"

oytis — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:18:06 +0000

How is Iran weakened, in what sense? It suffered economic damage and casualties for sure, but I don't think there is anything it cannot recover from. It's just a pure destructive rage from US side without thinking of any long-term strategic results.