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New comment by ptidhomme in "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament"

ptidhomme — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:03:10 +0000

This conspiracy is certainly true anyway. It's not like we never saw real conspiracies, especially coming from the US.

New comment by ptidhomme in "We won't "just hang out""

ptidhomme — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:26:55 +0000

Let's take this all the way through : in such a world, AI operators will deem the majority of human lives to be completely worthless, and arrange for a mass reduction of it.

The struggle for supremacy is embedded in nature, and it will absolutely be at play no matter what.

New comment by ptidhomme in "Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?"

ptidhomme — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:56:17 +0000

The whole article is about just that : the LLM has to know what an "animal" and a "street" is to perform effectively.

But then dumbly concludes : oh is language intelligence ? ("Perhaps our form of intelligence is tantamount to language modeling, too?"). C'mon.

New comment by ptidhomme in "Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?"

ptidhomme — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:19 +0000

>> To be sure, the success of LLMs shows how much information about the world is encoded in the statistical patterns of language alone

How can we still have it so backwards. Language is just a medium to convey information on an underlying reality. LLM do not model the medium, they model the underlying reality (so far as the medium allows it).

New comment by ptidhomme in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

ptidhomme — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:09:31 +0000

Thanks for the tips. To be clear I absolutely wasn't criticizing GrapheneOS in any way. I know things are this way (and my choice) and I'm perfectly fine with it.

In any case, many thanks for your work. GrapheneOS is a breath of fresh air in the consumer electronics nightmare.

New comment by ptidhomme in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

ptidhomme — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:26:45 +0000

French cars are hopeless (since the 2010s). Stay away from them especially if they're such marketing stunts.

New comment by ptidhomme in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

ptidhomme — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:38:03 +0000

Some don't work at all, bc they must be GSF-only I guess (installed via Aurora store). Others like Whatsapp or Signal sort of work but sometimes the app seems to not be running (even though I set up the no battery optimization). And I get multiple unread messages at once when manually starting the app.

New comment by ptidhomme in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

ptidhomme — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:25:00 +0000

Same for us on our Grapheneos Pixels. Notification are a bit of a lottery. But we take that as a feature. People can call if there's an emergency.

New comment by ptidhomme in "Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen"

ptidhomme — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:10:24 +0000

Chromium and Firefox have unveil on OpenBSD, which is a good start.

New comment by ptidhomme in "Yes, and"

ptidhomme — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:04:24 +0000

Thanks for these insights. They made me think of AI as what a mechanic is for your car. He knows more and is more capable than you, and he can save you a lot of time vs if you had to do the dirty work yourself.

However, the more you know yourself about car maintenance, the more you will trust his diagnosis, solutions and the fairness of the money he asks for it. More generally, the more you will trust him to act in your interest instead of only his (or someone else's).

The edge in the AI future will be ownership.

New comment by ptidhomme in "What should we tell our students?"

ptidhomme — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:31:57 +0000

The AI overlords will eventually consider the majority of human lives to be worthless. Let's face it, one day we will need to fight for mere survival.

Fabrice Bellard: The Ghost in the Code

ptidhomme — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:57:29 +0000

Article URL: https://zbruceli.org/blog/the-ghost-in-the-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996383

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

New comment by ptidhomme in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

ptidhomme — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:29:33 +0000

Did you feed OpenAI models with your insights though ?

New comment by ptidhomme in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

ptidhomme — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:29:45 +0000

AI will eventually get better than you at all you do, because it trains on your inputs.

Secret knowledge/data will be tomorrow's gold.

What's Behind the AI Panic

ptidhomme — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:28:30 +0000

Article URL: https://bombthrower.com/whats-really-behind-the-ai-panic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889031

Points: 10

# Comments: 6

New comment by ptidhomme in "Show HN: Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch"

ptidhomme — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:20:57 +0000

"Geiger"

Prepping for AI apocalypse I see

New comment by ptidhomme in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

ptidhomme — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:37:44 +0000

Some Jews see AI as a messianic entity, so it fits the bill.

New comment by ptidhomme in "Show HN: Stuxnet – A reconstructed source code of the infamous cyber-weapon"

ptidhomme — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:59:23 +0000

Interestinly, it does include the string "myrtus", which was likely it's real internal name.

https://medium.com/@arpit.writes/stuxnet-and-the-birth-of-di...

New comment by ptidhomme in "I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers"

ptidhomme — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:33:32 +0000

Well, it's actually an essay against the thinness of AI slop.

> Erasing the line between the thick and the thin has left us defenseless against slop at the exact moment of its onslaught. Everyone can sense there’s something amiss with the prose that comes out of the machines, but we lack the language to talk about it, and so we’ve converged on the idea that slop simply means using too many em dashes, bullet points, and line breaks.

New comment by ptidhomme in "OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root"

ptidhomme — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:35:04 +0000

Man, thanks for this precious tip