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New comment by pixel_popping in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

pixel_popping — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:20:00 +0000

It sounds actually nutts that governments are allowed to run unknown and uncheckable binaries as their(our?) infrastructure.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

pixel_popping — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:55:09 +0000

That's what's happening when people want to blame specific persons for world issues instead of the collective.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

pixel_popping — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:43:02 +0000

It is not impossible to think that many people will just be served an UBI and don't expect much more in life, after all, if we have AI+Family+Housing+Food (assuming gov robots would take care of providing us free food in some form), I bet millions of people would be contented with it.

PS: I include AI as an important one in the future because it will be a direct way to get educated and replace college for example without having to pay (or very cheap).

New comment by pixel_popping in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

pixel_popping — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:32:55 +0000

my bad.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

pixel_popping — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:40:13 +0000

HN has literally turned into a political cesspool lately

New comment by pixel_popping in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

pixel_popping — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:37:58 +0000

Like the Linux kernel?

New comment by pixel_popping in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

pixel_popping — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:24:27 +0000

I think despite needing money, it can still be considered a right, IDs cost money but you have the right to have them, and I'm pretty sure it means it could extend to government paying for it eventually (depending on your social class I guess).

New comment by pixel_popping in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:13:17 +0000

It's really 2 very different things, only the "shilling" might be deja-vu.

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

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:25:50 +0000

If the Ouija board was powered by Opus, who knows :D

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

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:07:22 +0000

That's a different issue actually.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:51:55 +0000

common, that's very different, that's something current with practical use-cases that are already being implemented across all companies, I don't even know why we compare this with blockchain, blockchain is just some fancy resilient DB with proofs in the end.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:44:03 +0000

Let's talk about it again in 5 years, but 1-2 years from now, at the very least, coding will be over in the sense that the best models will do it better than the best (or the 99.99%). I don't think I'm hallucinating no, when my own work went from coding+managing+bunch of other stuff to just orchestrating and my output is just insanely higher and I literally have a bunch of friends that went from coding 8h a day to just "pretending to code" and just using a bunch of agents and get paid the same salary for working 30min a day, that's real, not an hallucination.

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

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:36:02 +0000

So tomorrow, if a model genuinely find a bunch of real vulnerabilities, you just would ignore them? that makes no sense.

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

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:32:19 +0000

but why? it's a human making the PR and you can shame/ban that human anyway.

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

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:26:57 +0000

I still think it's insane, why would you care about the "origin" of the code as long as there is a human accountable (that you can ban anyway)?

New comment by pixel_popping in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:01:52 +0000

I don't think this is possible yet, because many people refuse to think AI would be eventually better than us at practically anything (at least anything virtual), they keep talking about what's "current" while I think it's completely irrelevant for that discussion, people need to assume extreme intelligence and orchestration tools (and robots) will be there, worldwide, it's a *fact*, not just a maybe.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:54:09 +0000

It clearly did open a discourse on HN at least :)

New comment by pixel_popping in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:51:17 +0000

My wife does it all the time, and it's actually decent.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:37:19 +0000

I understand (I'm not from the US), however, wouldn't healthcare in the US would get drastically cheaper (even eventually free?) if hospitals/clinics were composed of humanoids instead of humans?

New comment by pixel_popping in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

pixel_popping — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:23:05 +0000

I agree it is scary, but why would a robot take healthcare away? Wouldn't that be the contrary?