Hacker News: seatac76

New comment by seatac76 in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

seatac76 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:56:54 +0000

It’s probably trying to disrupt the Russian GPS jamming satellites.

Veritasium did a video on it recently https://youtu.be/tz23G_UXCGA

New comment by seatac76 in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

seatac76 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:37:24 +0000

Would be funny if Google drops Gemini 4 today.

New comment by seatac76 in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

seatac76 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:04:45 +0000

Man the RSS feeds are busted too now :/

New comment by seatac76 in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

seatac76 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:31:57 +0000

I wouldn’t count on safe Med passage, I think last month a drone attacked a ship in Egypt. And the channel to Suez isn’t exactly wide or out of range for Houthis.

GCC will have to talk to Iran now, there is no reasonable way out of this quagmire other than a regional accommodation with Iran. Talk about a regression but here we are.

New comment by seatac76 in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

seatac76 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:29:05 +0000

If Dems win next time around they should repeal the AUMF at the very least. We cannot be at war at all times.

New comment by seatac76 in "As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing"

seatac76 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:39:55 +0000

I’ve just been trying to get my hands on local compute period. I have this (perhaps irrational l) fear that personal computers will be increasingly expensive for the next half decade or so due to AI demand and I value having my own device much more now than just a chat bot.

New comment by seatac76 in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

seatac76 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:24:18 +0000

The loss is tragic but I’m sorry GPS jamming was not a factor here. There was a NOTAM indicating it’s going on, the pilots should have been aware and it appears when they reached out with a request the jamming was stopped.

It was a visual approach at a moonless night at an airport in high terrain, this was pilot error unfortunately.

New comment by seatac76 in "Our position on open-weights models"

seatac76 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:38:08 +0000

Dario thinks of policy as if the Berlin Wall fell yesterday, he is so detached from the reality of the world.

The way the world economy is right now with coercion being the norm between countries, there cannot be a global body for anything, certainly not one that is based here in the US.

New comment by seatac76 in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

seatac76 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:41:42 +0000

That is true. It’s a big corporate so I understand why purists dislike it but as a business it has done well.

New comment by seatac76 in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

seatac76 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:12:33 +0000

I think it has had latent ICBM capability for over a decade now but the government hasn't allowed one to be created. Their pacing threat is China and to a lesser extent Pakistan, those are adequately covered by their current inventory.

New comment by seatac76 in "It was OpenAI that accidentally breached Hugging Face"

seatac76 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:43:35 +0000

Or to start another hype cycle. Not trying to minimize the capability demonstrated but another round of AI is coming sure would work well for OpenAI.

It was OpenAI that accidentally breached Hugging Face

seatac76 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:06:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-breach-caused-by-one-its-models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997495

Points: 30

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New comment by seatac76 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

seatac76 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:06:50 +0000

Bloomberg has an exclusive today about how internal metrics on Gemini 3.5 Pro are not good enough, thus the release is delayed.

(Not posting link coz paywall)

New comment by seatac76 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

seatac76 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:04:23 +0000

Ohh it’s not an acquisition, it’s right to buy later for $60B or we a work together for $10B. Huh?

New comment by seatac76 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

seatac76 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:53:14 +0000

60 Billion for an IDE?

I guess back to Jetbrains it is.

New comment by seatac76 in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

seatac76 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:07:44 +0000

That is insane, Block seems to be very poorly run. The headcount still seems bloated, they'll blame AI and layoff more people for their own incompetence.

New comment by seatac76 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

seatac76 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:21:33 +0000

Prediction market creators making the case that their existing is some sort of a market efficiency play is the most laughable thing I have ever heard.

SC made a mistake in the Draft King/Fan duel saga and has unleashed the worst kind of market, takes up may too much money and time especially from young people.

New comment by seatac76 in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

seatac76 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:06:06 +0000

That has to be the lamest use of “AI” to justify price increases.

New comment by seatac76 in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

seatac76 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:49:46 +0000

I got the Kinesis Gaming split 5 years ago and honestly it has been a game changer. My wrist pain went away, takes about a week to get used to it but it has been a welcome change. I also feel like I can type faster on it.

New comment by seatac76 in "YouTube Is Down"

seatac76 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:54:01 +0000

Interesting outage, I can play videos added to my playlists, but homepage is empty.