Hacker News: politician

New comment by politician in "Pi.dev: You Said No MCP"

politician — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:21:13 +0000

An MCP server should be self-describing, so I use prompts to deliver skills or skill-like context.

New comment by politician in "How to Write with an LLM"

politician — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:51:27 +0000

I think your take has more application than writing. I also suspect that Jev-like use cases for LLMs will begin to overtake the generate-all-the-things paradigm in programming, contracts/legal, music.

People are beginning to wisen to how to more skillfully deploy generative models.

New comment by politician in "How to Write with an LLM"

politician — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:40:30 +0000

I was seriously reading this article right up until the word "load-bearing", and then despite my best efforts, my brain just sort of disconnected from the piece. I just skimmed to the end quickly before realizing what happened.

New comment by politician in "US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report"

politician — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:37:24 +0000

People will not be held responsible; the disasters caused by AI will be attributed as a natural phenomenon -- like the weather. The companies involved in creating and operating AI will certainly not take any accountability for any "spills".

New comment by politician in "Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month"

politician — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:24:47 +0000

Do you work for Apple?

New comment by politician in "Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month"

politician — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:13:04 +0000

Would you consider taking all of your learnings and translate them into a concrete specification and publish it on your website, so that we can all do our own clean-room from-spec-only implementation?

New comment by politician in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

politician — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:47:06 +0000

And given nigh-unlimited compute for free.

New comment by politician in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

politician — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:02:32 +0000

I think understand what you're trying to say, that the relative sizes of countries on the map is not of any particular importance, and that it certainly does not affect the pride one feels in one's country positively or negatively.

Yet, it was clearly very important for the governments of the formerly smaller countries to be shown to be larger on the official UN map. Otherwise, why bother with a vote?

New comment by politician in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

politician — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:49:49 +0000

The entire point of the new projection was to reflect the relative size of the landmasses more accurately.

New comment by politician in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

politician — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:47:07 +0000

Hmm, I see your point but I wasn't actually disagreeing with your post. I was just pointing out how something that starts innocuous and defensible can quickly spiral into dark patterns when the lawyers are properly incentivized to cover things up.

New comment by politician in "We must pace the frontier"

politician — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:02:38 +0000

I downvoted you because I think the OPs model is far simpler to implement and suffers from fewer conflicts of interest.

If we go down the regulation of alignment route, we'll have to ask experts to create those regulations and monitoring regimes. And which experts will the government ask? Oh, right, the parties that stand to benefit the most from regulation: OpenAI and Anthropic!

When "the experts" make certification cost $100M/model because "safety and alignment", then they will have cemented their duopoly.

Meanwhile, tariff rates on compute is a simple percentage that can be scaled up and down. Congress doesn't need experts to do that. Vendors can participate proportionally to their scale. This is far simpler and far more fair.

New comment by politician in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

politician — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:50:59 +0000

Later, AcmeTV has a 1MB lookup table of wake words that can be updated OTA. Whenever a wake word is detected, it triggers an alert flag with the device id, word id, and timestamp, and then broadcasts it out as high-frequency sound through the speakers.

Nearby, another AcmeTV or business partner device picks up the sound and sends it to AcmeHQ.

The former device "never transmits your viewing behavior to Acme". The latter device "never records your viewing behavior".

New comment by politician in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

politician — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:14:08 +0000

I'd love to hear from the folks that downvoted this carefully neutral observation.

New comment by politician in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

politician — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:11:41 +0000

The comrades in the US want the existing system removed. So, for now, while it remains, they want no policing, no oversight, no enforcement because weak governance advances their goals. Later, when the system is replaced with their preferred system, they will want maximum policing, maximum enforcement, maximum purges of undesirable elements because strong governance advances their goals.

This behavior isn't a flaw, it's a feature.

New comment by politician in "A/I shuts down"

politician — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:23:12 +0000

Stop using our DNS? I don't understand how you can call us "self-absorbed" when Europe so heavily relies on us for its existence.

FWIW, I'm in favor of withdrawing the nuclear umbrella from Europe.

New comment by politician in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

politician — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:25:53 +0000

Another headline to trigger the comrades.

Do you not realize that all countries monitor capital movement so that, for example, the rulings of their judiciaries are enforced?

New comment by politician in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

politician — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:10:36 +0000

Basic tools don't need AI features, but facilitating AI access from external agents is extremely useful. We used to call these things APIs.

New comment by politician in "Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?"

politician — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:33:25 +0000

Consider publishing the prompts used to create it.

New comment by politician in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

politician — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:06:15 +0000

I wrote a small command-line tool that installs skill packs into agent-specific project folders. It works pretty much like `brew` (or any package manager, really). The skills are compiled into the binary so that I don't have to worry about where they're located and can quickly move the skills between machines by copying the tool.

Making sure they actually work? Trial and error, mostly. I know some folks have tried auto-researcher approaches, but I haven't found that to be the best use of time in my work.

New comment by politician in "A/I shuts down"

politician — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:49:23 +0000

Why is my position invalid? I'm in favor of the exact type of free speech provided by the Bill of Rights for citizens of the USA, of which I am one, and that I do not care about the fantastical universal "for everyone" form of free speech that is being pushed on HN?

Let your own countries defend their own "free speech" rights. The UN cannot defend it for you, and you cannot defend it for yourself.