Hacker News: secondary_op

New comment by secondary_op in "Telegram is suspected to be removed from the App Store"

secondary_op — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:44:00 +0000

Another happy meal for the "Three Zuckerbrins", may they rot

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended (21 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897878

New comment by secondary_op in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

secondary_op — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:06:17 +0000

Another pathetic uncompetitive play from within US amalgamation blob.

This is world under 'Economic Hit Man' and the Rule-based international order.

Happy meal for the 'three Zuckerbrins', may they rot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...

New comment by secondary_op in "Tell HN: Pearl's "useful" PoW AI mining is vaporware"

secondary_op — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:45:48 +0000

The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Study of Pearl’s cuPOW Protocol

https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04819v1

All devs accounts anonymous

https://github.com/pearl-research-labs/pearl

https://www.together.ai/blog/together-ai-partners-with-pearl...

https://huggingface.co/pearl-ai/Gemma-4-31B-it-pearl

Tell HN: Pearl's "useful" PoW AI mining is vaporware

secondary_op — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:45:40 +0000

Hi folks, to further inflate GPU prices through stupidity and greed, it seems that right now certain entities are trying to resurrect the GPU mining craze. They are trying to reinvent PoW as something useful through AI compute, but it seems that what they ended up with is just snake oil and vaporware.

There is circumstantial evidence that, among others, NVIDIA and Together AI are behind it in one way or another.

Together AI hosts LLM inference on their own GPUs. Together AI subsidizes this inference from the profits of $PRL (Pearl), but miners with their GPUs in the Pearl network are not running actual inference. They are running useless PoW in an AI trench coat. "Useful" is snake oil, but more wasted compute, more greed, and higher prices are very real.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422809

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by secondary_op in "Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store"

secondary_op — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:31:31 +0000

And push notifications have stopped working, even if app remains on device, calls no longer going through. Democracy, F*k Yeah!

Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store

secondary_op — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:42:00 +0000

Apple has deplatformed the Max app from it's store.

Messenger app has over 100 million registered and 70 million daily active users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(app)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393472

Points: 9

# Comments: 4

New comment by secondary_op in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

secondary_op — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:40:03 +0000

Very interesting tool, but it's biased and not neutral from the get go, because I explicitly formulated claim in neutral way, but it automatically rewrote it to be western/wikipedia POV and then immediately proceeded to verify it.

original neutral:

  US DEPT OF DEFENSE/DNAVFAC planned renovations to School #05 in Sevastopol, Crimea in 2013 before Crimea became part of Russia in 2014

automatically rewritten to biased western view:

  The United States Department of Defense, via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), planned renovations to School No. 5 in Sevastopol, Crimea in 2013, before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.

https://lenz.io/c/73c0f16c

And the follow up

  The phrasing "Crimea became part of Russia" is more neutral than the phrasing "Russia annexed Crimea."

, and according to this tool is Misleading 9/10

https://lenz.io/c/93944614

Yeah, so my personal conclusion that this tool is garbage, it checks western/US allied only LLM providers, that in turn search only for western/US allied sources/documents like BBC/NATO and result is what it is.

New comment by secondary_op in "Inventing Cyrillic (2024)"

secondary_op — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:33:28 +0000

Wouldn't trust anything about medieval or cultural from someone in general and in this case _mirelaivanova_ who is touched by oxford group think, who is abandon twitter in favor of bluesky, who talks about "the uses and possibilities of the gender theory in the study of medieval world" https://youtu.be/dK9qpHIWXRs?t=118

New comment by secondary_op in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

secondary_op — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:44:20 +0000

This checks out, and reflects obscene world of SV according to bragging insider Lucy Guo @lucy_guo

    How to be successful in Silicon Valley: 

    1. Be born a man
    2. Be gay
    3. Hook up with the right people
    4. Repeat #3 until you've made it
    
    I've heard of investors leading rounds, founders getting multi million dollar contracts, and more. 
    It's wild stuff.

    Not the paypal mafia but the gay mafia

New comment by secondary_op in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

secondary_op — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:09:30 +0000

off-topic, but, please stop hosting websites behind cloudflare, just nginx is enough, cloudflare is cancer.

Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

secondary_op — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:55:14 +0000

Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ru?dateRange=52w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322629

Points: 128

# Comments: 84

New comment by secondary_op in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

secondary_op — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:51:18 +0000

That being sad, Yann LeCun's twitter reposts are below average IQ.

New comment by secondary_op in "I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface"

secondary_op — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:00:10 +0000

Unfortunately for everyone, people like you tie their entire identity and income to specific technologies, movements, or communities—becoming deeply tribal in the process. When something or someone undermines their sense of security—even with constructive criticism—they react defensively, often to the point of ignorance.

All this, combined with the fact that Zig, at best is still in beta quality and at worst amounts to a massive waste of everyone’s time, makes it unsurprising that people block you and simply refuse to engage with your loud community efforts, endless churn and crust tied to beta quality compiler.

> Zig is not really a handmade project, case in point both Andrew and I are blocked on social media by the two gods of the handmade movement (casey and john) and, according to their die hard fans, Andrew gave a talk at the last handmade conference that caused the community to split apart (the reality is a bit more complex than this, but Andrew's talk is certainly one that you wouldn't see at their new "better software" conference).

> Andrew's talk is here (second event after the two people chatting while sitting on chairs): https://handmadecities.com/media/seattle-2024/hms-day-one/

> Here you can see a particularly funny (but also sad) reaction by one of these people https://drive.proton.me/urls/MB1EB4EF34#YZdvmAvBFp1C

Regarding the links you posted:

In the first, at 2:30:40, Andrew Kelly publicly calls out a specific author of a competing technology in exaggerated, caricatured, and fabricated context.

In the second video, yet another author of a yet another competing technology directly points out this unapologetic and concerning behavior on Andrew Kelly’s part.

And now you—“VP of Community @ Zig Software Foundation”—assert your “righteous” stance by sharing these videos, while ironically pointing out that some of those same individuals (of competing technologies fame) block you on social media.

Too bad that doing your job probably means being as loud and visible online as possible to spread the molecules of Zig no matter what.

New comment by secondary_op in "Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won't buy a Tesla car"

secondary_op — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:20:09 +0000

observe how EU is brewing another global humanitarian crisis, war or just idiocracy.

New comment by secondary_op in "OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules"

secondary_op — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 23:18:07 +0000

Free market y all !

OpenAI calls DeepSeek 'state-controlled,' calls for bans

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355779

New comment by secondary_op in "OpenAI calls DeepSeek 'state-controlled,' calls for bans"

secondary_op — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 23:07:42 +0000

no, story you mention is about internal USA matters, while this is about pulling levers of rule base world order, in attempt to keep world dominance and gain advantage in free market with anti-competitive practices.

New comment by secondary_op in "Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit"

secondary_op — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:17:14 +0000

Crazy government money printer at work, everything is subsidised. Observe insane inflation as byproduct. And Musk is ideal distraction in the form of benevolent visionary for multi-planetary dream, while in reality the only ones who pays for all this infrastructure in low earth orbit are pentagon with Starshield project behind the curtains that eats whole planet SIGINT with a motto similar to "nothing is beyond our reach"

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NROL_39_vector_logo....

New comment by secondary_op in "Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit"

secondary_op — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:05:22 +0000

Gosh you delusional or brainwashed on "rule based world order", where "cooperating with local government" in your statement in reality means "while foreign government behaves like our vassals and country is our colony".

What this tool allows US state is to circumvent foreigns government sovereignty and ultimately, directly guide people through communication channels via psychological operations.

By inverse(contradiction), observe what happens with TikTok, Huawei or "Chinese ballons" within US borders.

New comment by secondary_op in "DoD Adjusts Nuclear Deterrence Strategy as Nuclear Peer Adversaries Escalate"

secondary_op — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:04:34 +0000

it is warmongering if country in question is the one who caused war in the first place.

New comment by secondary_op in "DoD Adjusts Nuclear Deterrence Strategy as Nuclear Peer Adversaries Escalate"

secondary_op — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:51:30 +0000

> Also, the U.S. remains committed to a safe, secure and reliable nuclear deterrent, he said.

really deranged warmongers you have there in D.C., there are no escape, only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction