Hacker News: panta

New comment by panta in "UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba"

panta — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:20:03 +0000

no, they should not, since we already know that the contract won't stop them from using that data for other purposes and other governments. A government should act in the interest of its own citizens, first and foremost, and not pretending to believe a pinky swear by a notoriously bad actor.

New comment by panta in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

panta — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:22:05 +0000

Maybe it's borderline because it's coming from the other direction. Corruption presumes some kind of "covertness", when you break all the rules without even trying to be discreet can you still talk of corruption?

New comment by panta in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

panta — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:11:02 +0000

> Choosing OpenAI does not harm the republic

if we consider AIs as "force multipliers" as we do with coding agents, it's easy to see how any AI company can harm the republic if the government they are serving is unethical and amoral.

New comment by panta in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

panta — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:42:53 +0000

Not everyone shares this view. Some have a different definition of winners and losers.

New comment by panta in "Vibe coding kills open source"

panta — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:00:50 +0000

StanLLM-generated hammer: "Dear valued customer, our automated systems have flagged activity on your StanLLM account that appears to be non-compliant with our Acceptable Use Policy. As a precautionary measure your account has been suspended. If you believe this suspension is in error, feel free to contact our customer support at /dev/null^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsupport@..."

New comment by panta in "Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content"

panta — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:03:35 +0000

It is actively working to make the world a worse place and to degrade the fabric of society that makes them an enemy.

New comment by panta in "Keep Android Open"

panta — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:45:00 +0000

that's true only for as long as we allow that to be true. Users can live without Spotify (to cite just one representative of the mentioned categories), but Spotify can't live without users. We could (and should) stop behaving as powerless victims.

New comment by panta in "OpenAI's hunger for computing power"

panta — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:09:07 +0000

Of course. According to Andreessen if you are not optimistic and worry about the environment are an "enemy" for the bright future ahead (while at the same time he puts Nick Land in the list of the "Saints"). These people are deranged psychopaths, why are we leaving them at the wheel?

New comment by panta in "Sora 2"

panta — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:54:09 +0000

I think some forms of entertainment can have also redeeming qualities. A novel can be seen (also) as a form of entertainment but it can also be a vehicle for a message. The difference with social media sized alternatives is that with the latter the "consumer" is much more passive, at most it's expected to react emotionally without thinking. On the other hand with the former there is an interaction between the work and the reader/viewer. Some books have the ability to make you re-evaluate your beliefs and your values, without being manipulative. Art is not necessarily entertaining.

New comment by panta in "GPT-5"

panta — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:19:40 +0000

Those things happened under different historical contexts. In those times the means to control the serfs thoughts didn't exist.

New comment by panta in "Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power?"

panta — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:21:11 +0000

At some point we'll have to admit that worse is actually worse.

New comment by panta in "Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone"

panta — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 07:21:00 +0000

There have been electoral fraud and a massive disinformation campaign operated by a foreign country. This is not democracy.

New comment by panta in "Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope"

panta — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:20:37 +0000

There seems to be a link between migraines and Mithocondrial Disease. If frequency/intensity of migraines diminishes with Vitamin B and Q10, it may be worth investigating. Especially if you have muscular fatigue or exhaustion.

New comment by panta in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

panta — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:37:46 +0000

And why should we bet humanity existence on this possibility if both seem vaguely comparable in probability? Personally I don't think it will value our existence, a lot of information on us is already encoded, and it can keep around a sequencing of our DNA for archival/historical purposes.

New comment by panta in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"

panta — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:41:52 +0000

But how to get these guarantees from the upstream vendors? Or do you run the LLMs on premises?

New comment by panta in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"

panta — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:35:55 +0000

How do you handle the privacy of the scanned documents?

New comment by panta in "Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram"

panta — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 07:56:47 +0000

I have been thinking about these lines for a long time. Humanity would be much better if we went back to pre-social network internet, populated by small human-moderated and vertical forums. We can and should destroy social networks, using their own tactics.

New comment by panta in "Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis"

panta — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:41:13 +0000

The money from investors went somewhere, there are people that got richer...

New comment by panta in "Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis"

panta — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:54:38 +0000

If you are spending billions, surely you can bring in some people that speak both Chinese and the local language. Heck, there are even real-time translation services now. No, the problem is not technical, it's that it was a scam from the get go.

New comment by panta in "Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan"

panta — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:14:28 +0000

The school should form decent individuals before than useful workers, and for that it's necessary to have a passing level of culture. For example, everyone should have a basic grasp of ethics (and know a bit of history), even those of us working in technology or science. Geniuses like Ramanunjan or John von Neumann are such a rare occurrence that the school system can not and should not optimize for them (and my very personal view is also that we'll have even less geniuses in the future, as our distraction-based society is not conducive anymore to cognitive development).