Hacker News: philipov

New comment by philipov in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

philipov — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:03:59 +0000

Does it stand for Censorship Management System?

New comment by philipov in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

philipov — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:45 +0000

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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

philipov — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:14:13 +0000

remember AMP?

New comment by philipov in "US Is Starting to See Heavy Job Losses in Roles Exposed to AI"

philipov — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:23:53 +0000

The future will certainly change things, but who can change the direction of a tidal wave? It will go where it wants, not where we want. The best a single individual can do is flee to higher ground.

Unless you happen to have a media empire at your disposal. Maybe then you can change the future. The problem is that those people are changing things for the worse.

New comment by philipov in "Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies"

philipov — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:38:44 +0000

AV obviously stands for Adult Video.

New comment by philipov in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

philipov — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:00:59 +0000

Now you've learned the advantage of knowing how to do things yourself. When you depend on untrustworthy agents, you shackle yourself to their idiotic whims. Be careful who you partner with.

New comment by philipov in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

philipov — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:47:15 +0000

What does it say, for those of us who can't use twitter?

New comment by philipov in "YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"

philipov — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:30:50 +0000

An ad blocker handles this use case just fine, however. It's easy to create a rule to remove the div containing shorts. Also works on many Use AI buttons.

New comment by philipov in "Cal.com is going closed source"

philipov — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:45:45 +0000

Sunk cost is sufficient friction for most people even without network dependence.

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

philipov — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:22:22 +0000

It was already necessary to solve the problem of humans contributing infringing code. It was solved by having contributors assume liability with a DCO. The policy being discussed today asserts that, because AI may not be held legally liable for its contributions, AI may not sign a DCO. A human signature is required. This puts the situation back to what it was with human contributors. What you are proposing goes beyond maintaining the status quo.

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

philipov — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:59:43 +0000

This policy effectively punts on the question of what tools were used to create the contribution, and states that regardless of how the code was made, only humans may be considered authors.

From the foundation's point of view, humans are just as capable of submitting infringing code as AI is. If your argument is sound, then how can Linux accept contributors at all?

EDIT: To answer my own question:

    Instead of a signed legal contract, a DCO is an affirmation that a certain person confirms that it is (s)he who holds legal liability for the act of sending of the code, that makes it easier to shift liability to the sender of the code in the case of any legal litigation, which serves as a deterrent of sending any code that can cause legal issues.

This is how the Foundation protects itself, and the policy is that a contribution must have a human as the person who will accept the liability if the foundation comes under fire. The effectiveness of this policy (or not) doesn't depend on how the code was created.

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

philipov — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:28:44 +0000

If you think it's an unacceptable risk to use a tool you can't trust when your own head is on the line, you're right, and you shouldn't use it. You don't have to guarantee anything. You just have to accept punishment.

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

philipov — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:24:16 +0000

GPL-2.0-only is the name of a license. One word. It is an alternative to GPL-2.0-or-later.

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

philipov — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:21:08 +0000

You take responsibility. That means if the AI messes up, you get punished. No pushing blame onto the stupid computer. If you're not comfortable with that, don't use the AI.

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

philipov — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:44:19 +0000

Unless one wishes to control the entire ecosystem rather than simply participate in it.

New comment by philipov in "Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything"

philipov — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:23:29 +0000

You are falling into the trap of thinking there's a single monolithic being called Software Developers that has inconsistent opinions. In fact, you're observing different people with conflicting values.

New comment by philipov in "What does it mean to “write like you talk”?"

philipov — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:50:06 +0000

I also started at the other end, in the sense that from an early age and for the rest of my life I have spent a lot more time chatting over text than with spoken word.

New comment by philipov in "What does it mean to “write like you talk”?"

philipov — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:45:43 +0000

I always understood it as advice for school children who don't know how to express themselves in writing and end up with a blank page. You are encouraged to imagine you're talking to someone to overcome the hurdle of translating thoughts into words.

New comment by philipov in "What does it mean to “write like you talk”?"

philipov — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:24:31 +0000

I learned the opposite lesson and ended up talking like I write.

New comment by philipov in "What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)"

philipov — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:57:51 +0000

Yes, perl is considered write-only because it is a mess of features that allow unhygienic programming habits to flourish - it is full of hard-to-trace magical behavior. Completely different than APL, which has had perl's write-only label applied to it by programmers not used to reading terse mathematical notation.