Hacker News: pera

SpaceX Set to Overtake Amazon in Value as It Soars for Third Day

pera — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:03:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-16/spacex-spcx-stock-set-for-more-than-50-jump-in-just-three-sessions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557381

Points: 21

# Comments: 13

Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage

pera — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:34:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sundar-pichai-stanford-commencement-22304888.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545260

Points: 139

# Comments: 32

New comment by pera in "Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight"

pera — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:54:29 +0000

Kissing the ring also helps - I won't be surprised if Anthropic's next model goes full MAGA

New comment by pera in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

pera — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:37:07 +0000

Here in Scotland it seems the desinfo campaign targeted mostly the SNP and Swinney. I guess it's hard to know how effective it was but his party lost 6 seats in last month's elections.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26188090.john-swinney-ta...

Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

pera — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/israeli-firm-blackcore-also-suspected-meddling-nyc-scotland-votes-french-2026-06-11/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514560

Points: 789

# Comments: 528

New comment by pera in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

pera — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:08:49 +0000

As a person from the developing world I feel obligated to say that I find your assurance quite unconvincing: the negative effects of smartphone at this point in time is invariant globally, and whether they are a net positive or negative is at least debatable.

And in relation to your first comment, most sane people would agree that "tools" don't exist in isolation - neither come into existence out of nowhere.

This reductionist position of treating extremely complex machines with deep social interactions as a tool like any other is objectively wrong, and I believe the reasons are highly obvious but I can expand on this if you disagree.

New comment by pera in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

pera — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:26:37 +0000

I remember reading in the news that Pokémon Go was quite popular in Palestine.

If GP has access to this dataset it would be interesting to know how sparse is the data in that area.

Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked £50M Met police contract

pera — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:14:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/09/palantir-sue-khan-blocked-met-contract

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463039

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract

pera — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:54:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/747ea340-2170-4567-93a0-7fd4b32885c5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458008

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by pera in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

pera — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:42:24 +0000

> they are dangerous for progress of humanity

A tiny bit hyperbolic for someone who's not a fan maybe? :)

New comment by pera in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

pera — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:09:08 +0000

I don't believe the comments I replied to were specific to Uber.

New comment by pera in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

pera — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:46:40 +0000

They get paid for saying whatever VCs want to hear and now that thing is "we have now become an AI-native company". The thing I'm still trying to understand is who is scamming whom

New comment by pera in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

pera — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:57:21 +0000

It's a real shame there are no many people like Woz in the bay area

Police sue Trump as Jan. 6 rioters gloat over 'weaponization' fund

pera — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:02:07 +0000

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/g-s1-123293

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228200

Points: 24

# Comments: 1

New comment by pera in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

pera — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:50:55 +0000

Yeah and back then it wasn't used as a sort of UUID to track every single thing you do in your life... Different times

New comment by pera in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

pera — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:01:43 +0000

> You are never going to get the exact book word-for-word using LLMs

You could say the same about MP3 encoders but I don't think that would convince any judge

New comment by pera in "Google changes its search box"

pera — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:26:14 +0000

Sharing ideas with people is nice, the actual problem is your ideas in this case are just a vehicle for generative AI companies to monopolize access to information and control our own cognitive processes, which is not entirely something new but it feels like we are now moving backwards: from free access back to ministry of truth days

New comment by pera in "Google changes its search box"

pera — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:05:18 +0000

This is absurd, why is Google so desperate to kill the best thing they once had? I would love to know what happens inside a corporation to destroy itself in such way.

I also don't remember ever seeing anything being force-fed as much as LLMs, why?

More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity

pera — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:06:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176060

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by pera in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

pera — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:45:38 +0000

I feel 2023 is when we entered the decrepit stage, but ~2015 is when it began: Theranos, Musk's charlatanry and cult, "unicorns", Cambridge Analytica, the raise of social media addiction, etc.

Not that things were amazing before that... it's just that mid 10s had simply too many bad actors showing up at the same time with a lot of money and power.