Hacker News: sekai

New comment by sekai in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

sekai — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:59:00 +0000

Just more Microslop, amazing...

New comment by sekai in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

sekai — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:50:09 +0000

> China is copying them though. They are still behind, but they are catching up.

They have been "catching up" for the past 20 years.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:23:20 +0000

> Did you miss the absolute massive amounts of aid US has given ukraine?

I missed US bombing Moscow, like they are bombing Tehran at this moment.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:07:34 +0000

> Tell that to the 30k+ iranian protestors that were killed. > Are you actually using "in good faith" and the current horrendous iranian regime in the same sentence?

If US needs to intervene, why are they are not intervening in Ukraine? Far worse things has been happening there for 4 years.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:30:12 +0000

> The previous campaign lasted a whole 13 days and WW3 didn't start. I'm not sure why anybody thinks it'll be different now or why Russia or China would bother going to war for Iran. That makes zero sense.

We did not move 1/3 of operational USAF capacity and 33% of our deployable Navy for limited strikes.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:50:31 +0000

> However i would say that yes, humanitarian intervention is one of the only non self-defense justifications for war that anyone has ever accepted in the post-ww2 era

So when is the US intervening in Ukraine then? Russia is literally doing human safari with drones hunting down civilians in Kherson.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:21:31 +0000

> Otoh, what russia desperately needs in the short term is oil prices to go up, so there is probably a major silver lining for them.

And they will again appear weak and incapable, unable to help their allies

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:19:27 +0000

Just now:

Trump: "The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties - that often happens in war."

Another republican president starting a war in the middle east, once again sacrificing American lives.

New comment by sekai in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

sekai — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:31:38 +0000

> It can also backfire. AI slop ads and marketing material imply cut corners and poor quality products. If a bakery isn’t going to bother touching up its AI slop banner, I don’t expect their cookies to be great either.

Average person won't notice, and would not care either way.

New comment by sekai in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

sekai — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:29:09 +0000

> Soon many real OF models will be out of job when everyone will be able to produce content to their personal taste from a few prompts.

net positive to society

New comment by sekai in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

sekai — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:56:10 +0000

> This is coming from an insane demand spike, not some nefarious plot by the RAM manufacturers.

Something something, 2000 dot-com bubble, something

New comment by sekai in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

sekai — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:40:05 +0000

> Don't worry, China is coming out pretty far ahead so I'm sure we'll still be in a unipolar world when this is all over, and you can sleep safe at night. I imagine you didn't know.

With their current demographics? Doubt it.

New comment by sekai in "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown"

sekai — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:16:19 +0000

> dead on the streets.

Iran regime already does that, they gunned-down thousands just last month, including 100's of public hangings.

New comment by sekai in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

sekai — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:38:14 +0000

> well, it's basically existential, so the incentive is there to not only get it very right but also to limit the delta with how right anyone else gets it. The same can't really be said of the long tail of products Google have done.

I've yet to see anything that threatens Google's ad monopoly.

New comment by sekai in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

sekai — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:29:47 +0000

> I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that we may be only a single digit number of years away from the singularity.

We're back to singularity hype, but let's be real: benchmark gains are meaningless in the real world when the primary focus has shifted to gaming the metrics

New comment by sekai in "The Waymo World Model"

sekai — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:44:18 +0000

> We’ve had autonomous trains for decades

Trains need tracks, cars - already have the infrastructure to drive on.

> Self driving cars is a dead end technology, that will introduce a whole host of new problems which are already solved with public transit, better urban planning, etc.

Self driving cars will literally become a part of public transit

New comment by sekai in "The Waymo World Model"

sekai — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:40:56 +0000

> What's going to happen to all the millions of drivers who will lose their job overnight? In a country with 100 million guns, are we really sure we've thought this through?

Same was said about electricity, or the internet.

New comment by sekai in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

sekai — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:00:55 +0000

> Ideally, trying to pass anything AI-generated as human-made content would be illegal, not just news, but it's a good start.

Does photoshop fall under this category?

New comment by sekai in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

sekai — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:34:21 +0000

> Educate us, tell us when did we vote for the commission and the likes of von der Leyen. (If your answer is "you didn't vote for it, but you voted for someone who voted for someone who voted for it in a secret ballot" I am going to chuckle)

Voters place their trust in representatives who then act on their behalf during the EP voting process and other legislative matters, such as electing the President of the European Commission

New comment by sekai in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

sekai — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:55:05 +0000

Or in this case, pulling the plug.