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New comment by sanbor in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

sanbor — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:46:58 +0000

Providing GPS, communications, media, etc. in space so there is access anywhere in the world has a clear advantage. Here the only pros seem to be that it is potentially cheaper than a datacenter on earth because of solar and cooling. But I assume the environment impact is worse than having datacenters on earth. Launching lots of satellites uses lots of fuel and CO2 emissions. Building satellites and dealing with the end of life tech has much higher environmental impact than dealing with datacenters on earth, where you can do proper waste management and recycle materials. From the economic point of view, polluting the environment is currently free. I guess if the externalities would be part of the equation it would not be economically viable.

Maybe this project exists because the "early in the game" factor. It has worked well in the past for Google, OpenAI, etc. They used copyrighted content to train LLMs to sell AI. They indexed Yahoo directory and websites before robots.txt existed, once they have a dominant position they put robots.txt in Google results so new players can't use their content. And they are launching AI in Space before regulations and politics catch up.

Lateline: A Mind of Their Own (1996) [video]

sanbor — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:36:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFeeVJR5rVc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835794

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Open Letter on the Massacre in Gaza from an Editor in Israel (2025)

sanbor — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:51:24 +0000

Article URL: https://lithub.com/an-open-letter-on-the-massacre-in-gaza-from-an-editor-in-israel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670743

Points: 17

# Comments: 0

New comment by sanbor in "The moral panic over data centres is foolish"

sanbor — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:19:46 +0000

Agreed. I was trying to make the point dishwashers use less water than washing by hand [1]. To what extend I haven’t found much research.

BTW many people have water running constantly while doing the dishes.

[1]: https://www.epa.gov/watersense/start-saving#save-indoors

New comment by sanbor in "The moral panic over data centres is foolish"

sanbor — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:46:56 +0000

Using a dishwasher can be up to 5x more water-efficient than hand washing. Hand washing one load of dishes can use 20 gallons of water, whereas water- and energy-efficient dishwashers may use as little as four gallons.[1]

[1]: https://www.kitchenaid.com/pinch-of-help/major-appliances/di...

New comment by sanbor in "Git at any scale"

sanbor — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:58:07 +0000

I missed the news about SpaceX acquiring Cursor for 60 billion. Good to know.

New comment by sanbor in "Solod: Go can be a better C"

sanbor — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:42:31 +0000

Good point! Regarding C being the language of choice for mission-critical systems, probably you want to avoid memory bugs that might result ruining the mission. I understand many projects have large C codebases or interact with other projects in C, but migrating to Rust when possible (like replacing lead pipes as you find them for plastic pipes) sounds like a smart choice to build mission-critical low level systems.

New comment by sanbor in "The future of Flipper Zero development"

sanbor — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:54:18 +0000

I pay for LittleSnitch major releases. I’m kind of forced to, in order to keep up with macOS major releases.

Maybe they can sell the hardware which includes 1 major upgrade release.

Maybe they can have a Kickstarter campaign to fund new releases.

GCP IAM Authorization Bypass

sanbor — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:17:04 +0000

Article URL: https://olearysec.com/research/config-connector-authorization-bypass/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596145

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by sanbor in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"

sanbor — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:52:00 +0000

The off-peak hours this pass is valid: Monday to Friday from 9 am to 4 pm and 6.30 pm to 6.30 am. I wonder what happens if you start your ride 3:59 pm.

New comment by sanbor in "Open source AI must win"

sanbor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:12:05 +0000

Good point. I currently choose to give money to Anthrophic rather than OpenAI because they align a tiny bit more with my values and the product is good. Perhaps releasing an open source model every year could be a differentiator from competitors, where enterprise and individuals choses the lab not because is the best model out there but because gives autonomy in case something happens to the organization providing the models.

New comment by sanbor in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

sanbor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:32:49 +0000

Because other countries are starting to use AI for military purposes, other countries are also looking into it to asses and learn. Here in Europe there is the EU AI Act to limit harm everyday harm to citizens caused by AI systems. However, it currently excludes military. The new legislation is just started to be enforced to high risk uses (employment filtering, biometrics, etc.) in august 2026, and full rollout in august 2027. In April 2025 there is a report from EU this legislation may help pave the road for military AI usage conventions [1]

[1]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/7695...

New comment by sanbor in "Open source AI must win"

sanbor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:12:20 +0000

I would be totally willing to pay $50 per month to support an open source AI lab, rather to get open source models as byproducts of corporations.

Learn X in Y Minutes

sanbor — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:16:47 +0000

Article URL: https://learnxinyminutes.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449065

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Unhook, extension to block YouTube suggestion feeds, comments, and more

sanbor — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:10:08 +0000

Article URL: https://unhook.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446388

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sanbor in "200 Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive's Role in Preserving Public Record"

sanbor — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:07:15 +0000

The Internet Archive could block (or add a nag wall) all IP addresses from the NY Times to give the journalist and workers there how it feels to be blocked. I guess that would be against IA’s mission “Universal Access To All Knowledge”

New comment by sanbor in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

sanbor — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:52:25 +0000

    At regular intervals, the team reflects on how
    to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts
    its behavior accordingly.

https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

New comment by sanbor in "The Importance of Being Idle"

sanbor — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:19:17 +0000

It is very important to have the time and freedom to be idle.

In our modern society, however, we hear the phrase "time is money". So, if you are idle, you are not making money. Instead of being idle, you should be busy. "business" is good.

I learn this play of words in Spanish. Idle in Spanish is "ocio". Business in Spanish is "negocio". Thus negocio is the combination of words "negación" and "ocio". The phrase "negación del ocio" translates as "idleness denial/negation".

New comment by sanbor in "An incoherent Rust"

sanbor — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:53:05 +0000

Tangent to the topic: One of the great things about Go is that the Go team goal is to have a great developer experience. As a result, they try to bundle common third party libraries (mux, zap) into the standard library. For example, they offered an http server, but due to lacking features community packages offered convenience. The Go team used those libraries as a reference to what people wanted, and addrd a performant and simple http routing in the standard library[1].

From that link:

> We made these changes as part of our continuing effort to make Go a great language for building production systems. We studied many third-party web frameworks, extracted what we felt were the most used features, and integrated them into net/http. Then we validated our choices and improved our design by collaborating with the community in a GitHub discussion and a proposal issue. Adding these features to the standard library means one fewer dependency for many projects. But third-party web frameworks remain a fine choice for current users or programs with advanced routing needs.

[1]: https://go.dev/blog/routing-enhancements

New comment by sanbor in "International Law of Self-Determination"

sanbor — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:32:41 +0000

Good question. I find law in general quite ambiguous and full of edge cases and exceptions.

My basic understanding is that self-determination is the right of a nation to choose their own way of government.

[1] Self-determination includes the right of a people of an existing State to choose freely their own political system and to pursue their own economic, social, and cultural development. As such it does not, in light of the current state of international law, impose on all States the duty to introduce or maintain a democratic form of government, but essentially refers to the principle of sovereign equality of States and the prohibition of intervention which are already part of international law

[1] https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law:epil/97801992316...