Hacker News: sergdigon

Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative

sergdigon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:51:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/07/dutch-tax-office-ditches-microsoft-365-cloud-for-on-premises-alternative/5301603

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071767

Points: 3

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New comment by sergdigon in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

sergdigon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:52:58 +0000

Wow this level of negligence at that scale is crazy

New comment by sergdigon in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

sergdigon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:23:27 +0000

No need to make assumption here, the article says it clearly:

> Danfoss told AFP in a statement that most of the affected equipment was "legacy" products which "no longer receive software or security updates". It said its AK-SM800 and AK-SC355 fridge regulator systems were notably affected, with a version of the former using "outdated firmware". It added that it had long advised supermarkets to update from those models.

That being said I am curious what is typically the amount of time for software support offered on a newly released equipment and how common it is for super market to use obsolete software (especially for the part which carry some security risk like something with remote control). Also what about the insurance? Will they (fully) cover the financial loss? I don't know what is in their insurance contract and I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that using obsolete software make the supermarket responsible to some extent

New comment by sergdigon in "Sonnet 5.5"

sergdigon — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:38:00 +0000

Am I getting out of touch or is it becoming kind of confusing what model should be used when? Sure you have tons of benchmarks pareto cost/perf curves etc but at the end of the day when I have a task to give to a model it is not so clear which model and which effort I should choose ... Also benchmark numbers are often reported with max effort but by default effort is medium and based on the pareto curve on this page, Sonnet 5.5 seems more cost efficient than opus only if effort is low or medium!

New comment by sergdigon in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

sergdigon — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:15:49 +0000

I am quite skeptical that an acquisition by Nvidia will make people move somewhere else ... The network effect remains central, if you are researcher/lab/company and you want to promote your model/dataset you go to the popular platform where most of the community is. The same way most of the public repo are still being published on GitHub despite people being pissed of by Microsoft acquisition. (I you add on top of that the cost changing your workflow, not using HF library, ... it make the transition even more difficult)

New comment by sergdigon in "Ilya Sutskever's SSI and Nvidia Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership"

sergdigon — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:16:34 +0000

Ilya Sutskever's SSI and Nvidia Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership

sergdigon — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:16:34 +0000

Article URL: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-inc-and-nvidia-announce-long-term-strategic-partnership

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121279

Points: 2

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German court holds Google liable for fake AI answers

sergdigon — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:20:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-holds-google-liable-for-fake-ai-answers/a-77527661

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558629

Points: 7

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2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews

sergdigon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:17:46 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.icml.cc/2026/03/18/on-violations-of-llm-review-policies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437101

Points: 203

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Anonymous model Hunter Alpha is Xiaomi's model

sergdigon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:42:33 +0000

Article URL: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-pro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436513

Points: 3

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Dutch ISP forwarded customers' personal data to American AI company for years

sergdigon — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:25:51 +0000

Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/03/11/odido-routers-forwarded-customers-personal-data-american-ai-company-years

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347547

Points: 3

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Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?

sergdigon — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:56:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cursor.tue.nl/en/background/2025/december/week-2/should-we-fear-microsofts-monopoly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46287098

Points: 48

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New comment by sergdigon in "GPT-5.2"

sergdigon — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:20:32 +0000

The fact that the post is comparing their reasoning model against gemini 3 pro (the "non reasoning" model) and not gemini 3 pro deep think (the reasoning one) is quite nasty. If you compare GPT5.2 thinking to gemini 3 pro deep think, the scores are quite similar (sometimes one is better sometimes the other one is)

New comment by sergdigon in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

sergdigon — Sat, 18 May 2024 09:11:04 +0000

> No. Renewable energy capacity is often built out specifically for datacenters

Not fully accurate. Indeed there is renewable energy that is produced exclusively for the datacenter. But it is challenging to rely only on renewable energy (because it is intermittent and electricity is hard to store at scale so often you need to consume electricity when produced). So what happens in practice is that the electricity that does not come from dedicated renewable capacity is coming from the grid/network. What companies do is that they invest in renewable capacity in the network so that "the non renewable energy that they consume at time t (because not enough renewable energy available at that moment) is offsetted by someone else consuming renewable energy later". What I am saying here is not pure speculation, look at the link to meta website, they are saying themselves that this is what they are doing