<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: rvnx</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rvnx</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:11:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rvnx" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Samsung overtakes Apple as smartphone market sinks to a 13-year low"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The same article at Apple fanboys website somewhat says the opposite: <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/13/apples-steady-iphone-pricing-pays-off/" rel="nofollow">https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/13/apples-steady-iphone-pr...</a><p>Curious where is the reality</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:40:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896124</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No no, it wasn't against you, in fact I used your comment to piggy-back on "my"/our vision :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:50:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808856</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least no regrets purchasing that expensive CPU and the solar panels</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:10:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807559</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reality is that the move is great, it's a very cool and nice stuff, just that it takes bandwidth and space without letting the user know.<p>A solution:<p><i>New AI features are available for use offline, they will make you able to translate offline, get answers, summaries, etc, would you like to download / install them (~4 GB)?</i><p>It is going to fix the experience in the UI. It's a significant misstep by Google in its form (probably lazy/hasted/bureaucratic release), but on the move itself, this is actually a very user-friendly initiative from Google.<p>It's quite unfair in that specific case to say that Google = evil, and when Qwen = good. It's just about informing the user better so the bandwidth and space is not wasted. Giving user choice.<p>They will fix it eventually, especially after raising the issue.<p>But shouting here "Google = bad, me uninstall Google, if you use Google Chrome you are an idiot" are not a productive feedback for a product owner there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:04:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807472</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! Very informative. Lot of new details including the answer from Google and several experiments</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:01:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807424</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can try the model here: <a href="https://chromeai.org/" rel="nofollow">https://chromeai.org/</a>
-> Press the left edit button to start a new context.<p>It's free, multi-language, well tested, respecting privacy (no cloud needed), nothing extra to install. Quite nice actually.<p>Like what iPhones do, and everybody is ok with it. Chrome is not just a browser, it's a Window (ahem) to the web, almost an operating system considering the wide scope.<p>Average game is 80 GB, Call of Duty 200 GB+, etc<p>It's a quite oriented title:<p><i>Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent</i><p>The same news can be read as:<p><i>Amazing, Chrome now includes a fully offline AI so you don't have to send your secrets to ChatGPT</i><p>A proper journalist would have found the middle ground, explained that this is by default, can be made optional and to raise the issue to Google as "Cons: this uses bandwidth and user is not aware of it".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:40:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807085</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Protect the kids bla bla bla...<p>Always the same political excuse</p>
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<p>All the models, have to respect their local laws, and most of all, pressure from users and the employees.<p>They all carry political weights, because humans behind defend their interests, and are promoting some social values.<p><a href="https://pastebin.com/hjhvsBFg" rel="nofollow">https://pastebin.com/hjhvsBFg</a><p>This answer from Claude is so biased that it is ridiculous</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:29:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787606</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/2031488099725754821" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/2031488099725754821</a><p>Well, there is this little conflict of interest</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:07:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787452</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, except the website doesn't have broad access to your computer and filesystem</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:32:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776906</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When a company can remotely push code without explicit user approval, and code that was hostile / almost malicious, it is a backdoor</p>
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<p>Can't say they are wrong, after the latest backdoor, or let's say, undocumented functionality that leaks some data that was pushed in Claude Code few days ago<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:12:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772764</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "This blog is written in en-GB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a weird broken import of French (could be because the EU Parliament) is in Brussels so highly French-speaking. It's also still very incoherent, it mixes up billion and trillion, and it mixes up milliard (the French equivalent) with billion. You absolutely do not want ambiguity there when you work professionally as a politician.<p>deadline supposed to come from delay but it is incorrect use in French.
cabinet is toilet. etc<p>It's an artificial invented variant, like a kid would invent its own language to speak to other kids, not something that was born out of habit and unified.  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto</a> shares a similar issue but at least it's cute and more logical though.<p>AI would be good at creating an international language</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/10-centimes-par-gigaoctet-la-proposition-du-ps-qui-pourrait-faire-exploser-le-cout-de-votre-connexion-internet-n258747.html">https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/10-centimes-par-gigaoctet-la-proposition-du-ps-qui-pourrait-faire-exploser-le-cout-de-votre-connexion-internet-n258747.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761038">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761038</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ujila1/anthropic_embedded_spyware_in_claude_code_and/">https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ujila1/anthropic_embedded_spyware_in_claude_code_and/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754</a></p>
<p>Points: 10</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:29:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ujila1/anthropic_embedded_spyware_in_claude_code_and/</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Robosexuality" rel="nofollow">https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Robosexuality</a><p>Could it become true ?<p>Well, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_fetishism" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_fetishism</a> we live in the future already</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:26:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751917</link><dc:creator>rvnx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rvnx in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feels like they cloned the vacuum cleaner Roborock Saros Z70, and attached the arms to a pole instead of the base.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x9TdqrvDHWY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x9TdqrvDHWY</a><p>Especially the arm clamp is the same shape, the actions are practically the same (take object and put in basket, teleoperation with live camera).<p>The type of thing you have lot of fun for 5 minutes.<p>Cheaper Unitree robots that starts at 4,900 USD are impressive in comparison.<p><pre><code>    Weave says the robot blends autonomy with teleoperation (remote assistance by a Weave specialist) to guarantee that we complete every fold
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Quite ridiculous. For 449 USD / month couldn't you just hire someone to clean your whole place and even sort your clothes, empty the trash, etc ?</p>
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<p>Ruining the planet, and we perhaps will miss the most important discoveries of the universe because of such programs.</p>
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<p>Maybe but if so, it would mean that US spontaneously would go against one of their main strategic interests for the planet ?
Doesn't makes too much sense.<p>It's like this bicycle meme where the person puts a stick in its wheels.<p>It's for the same reason that petrol cars are encouraged in the US.<p>Punishing SpaceX will lead to a bigger financial crisis, an upset Elon Musk who might refuse to fund the next democratic election and dozens of thousands of lost jobs (fortunately they already became millionaire, riding the right rocket) for a problem that most of the rich population doesn't care about.<p>Because in the city, it's about your petrol car, big trucks, and nobody to see the stars and a bit more pollution doesn't change much at that scale from their eyes.<p>CFCs (these gazes destroying ozone) were a notable exception, because it would lead to death of everyone (the same way that petrol with lead), except death, universally there was no advantage to defend.<p>But a space filled with US satellites is a great advantage for the US, since they are the only ones with the capabilities to deploy thousands of them, and it's a big business for military intelligence.<p>I can imagine the main reason they are going to regulate, is so that older satellite debris don't destroy the new shiny satellites, but beauty of the sky is going to be the very least important factor.</p>
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<p>The indie band in France also collect subsidies from "SACEM" AND "SPRE" (and YouTubeurs from "SCAM").<p>With SACEM, if you have a cafe, then you have to pay 4000 USD per year to support musicians, etc etc.<p>Of course, this is only broadcasting rights, you have to acquire the music (or rent it) on a B2B platform.<p>If you play AI Lofi in theory you don't have to, but don't worry that inspectors will find a way to fine you.<p>Ironically, the human band you are playing will get zero, and it will go to the big rich and popular artists.</p>
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