Hacker News: sobkas

New comment by sobkas in "Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds"

sobkas — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:16:35 +0000

Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.

New comment by sobkas in "Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview"

sobkas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:41:21 +0000

If they asked about it and you answered, they would no longer have a good excuse to not hire you.

New comment by sobkas in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

sobkas — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:45:22 +0000

And we are not the ones that live in the future... This two pre-bronze age tribes live in it, the future we all will experience with collapse of our natural world and our civilization.

New comment by sobkas in "25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier]"

sobkas — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:26:49 +0000

It's not a law if it can be selectively enforced against individuals, powers that be don't like.

New comment by sobkas in "AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200"

sobkas — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:55:45 +0000

prompt> Make as much money as you can, starting now.

Sell two of your kidneys, as far as I know humans have at least three of them

New comment by sobkas in "The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change"

sobkas — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:33:13 +0000

Because there is still time.

We might not stop what is already happening or what will happen, but we still have time to make it less severe than it would be if no action would be made.

We still can save lives, not all of them but some and for this people it will make a difference.

New comment by sobkas in "The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change"

sobkas — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:27:12 +0000

So you can prepare for what is to come.

New comment by sobkas in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

sobkas — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 03:47:01 +0000

CO2 capture produces more green house gases than it captures

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/shell-ccs-facility-in-canada...

New comment by sobkas in "Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers"

sobkas — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:31:35 +0000

Things that are plenty and cheap to replace are easy to hack because if you broke them, you could always try again...

New comment by sobkas in "Europe's fires are just the start"

sobkas — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:45:29 +0000

Water: https://www.dw.com/en/danube-water-levels-hungary-romania-cu...

New comment by sobkas in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

sobkas — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:11:27 +0000

Not doing anything is also an alternative, theoretically it can be worse than other alternatives too...

New comment by sobkas in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

sobkas — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:27:04 +0000

> It's easy to say these anti-capitalistic platitudes, but do you really want to live in a society where the concept of private ownership is not supported by the state? >

There is a country that allows police to just take your stuff and then demands you to prove it wasn't illegal. Also such property can be used/sold/spent by police force it was stolen by. Does it sound like private ownership is supported by the state? BTW. It's called civil forfeiture and country is named USA.

New comment by sobkas in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

sobkas — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:25:14 +0000

> I don't get it. > > Qualcomm has almost no products in the high-end inference/training market. The industry standard is the NVIDIA Hopper H100/H200. > > What could they possibly get from acquiring Modular?

Don't ask what they will gain from owning it, ask what they will gain from others not owning it...

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

sobkas — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:06:43 +0000

Just because something is in do-or-die situation doesn't mean that they have some kind of magical advantage over fat cat. Being in that situation means there is very real possibility of doing "die" part and we have lots of examples of them doing so.

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

sobkas — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:21:43 +0000

Also Theranos was do-or-die and we know how it ended.

New comment by sobkas in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

sobkas — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:25:04 +0000

Easy way is not doing charter schools. Why are they bad? Charter school can choose what children they will teach when public schools don't have that choice, then people point at charter schools as having higher outcomes. In essence charter schools are a tool to discriminate students from poor families.

New comment by sobkas in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

sobkas — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:49:16 +0000

And how many people would have been saved if he didn't forcibly extracted that money from society to begin with?

Because it's almost impossible to not help someone if he just throw wads of money at random. What important is how many people weren't saved because he decided to be a middle man in all of it?

New comment by sobkas in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

sobkas — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:38:04 +0000

His "charitable" contributions are only in place to charity wash his awful actions in the past and now. And it worked, everyone thinks of Saint Bill and his supposed good deeds while forgetting what he actually did or doing right now.

New comment by sobkas in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

sobkas — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:33:45 +0000

>They've admitted the US education work was a mistake. They are hardly alone in making that mistake, improving education in the US is hard.

It's only hard if you don't want to help anyone and your only goal is to push charter schools(by any other name) by any means necessary.

>Their work to clean water and cure diseases has saved millions of lives. They know what they are good at and they've decided to double down on that.

They helped so many people by not allowing them getting covid vaccine or by fighting generics? Also their "good" deeds weren't without negative consequences that could be avoided if someone actually listened to people they were "helping".

New comment by sobkas in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

sobkas — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:24:28 +0000

He uses philanthropy to force his ideology on everyone and his ideology doesn't work. His philanthropy makes things worse not better.

At some point it stops being a philanthropy when it makes lives of people he tries to "help" worse. Like his actions have a ulterior motives...