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New comment by startupsfail in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

startupsfail — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:45:49 +0000

This potentially can be a supply chain attack at a massive scale.

New comment by startupsfail in "Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards"

startupsfail — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:01:14 +0000

When you do not have a seat at the table, you are not in the game, and winning a game is an impossibility. As long as you are a player, it is remains an option, if perhaps not win it somehow, but at least drag it to a draw, or change the rules, or make a loss to be survivable.

New comment by startupsfail in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

startupsfail — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:55:20 +0000

Don't be evil.

New comment by startupsfail in "Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards"

startupsfail — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:28:44 +0000

It can be a win-win. Simply having a seat at the table can be a win.

New comment by startupsfail in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

startupsfail — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:08:35 +0000

The system in question is a distributed system, an interaction within that system such as "confession" involves ridiculous amounts of distributed processing, far beyond two nodes that were participating in that original exchange.

New comment by startupsfail in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

startupsfail — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:37:15 +0000

"Wero lets users send money using just a phone number — no IBAN, no card, no intermediary."

As long as all the other cards still get acceptance, this seems like a great system.

New comment by startupsfail in "Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE"

startupsfail — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:10:48 +0000

Right way of resisting is not to quit your job, but to observe, be friendly, and gradually push away toxic people.

New comment by startupsfail in "Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering"

startupsfail — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:39:37 +0000

Claude is already known for its attempts to send emails to FBI ;)

New comment by startupsfail in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

startupsfail — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:33:17 +0000

The results are repeatable. Models are performing with predictable error rates on the tasks that these models had been trained and tested.

New comment by startupsfail in "My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed"

startupsfail — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:56:03 +0000

The default could be that a background upgrade should not be a foreground stress test.

Imagine you are driving a car and from time ro time, without any warning, it suddenly starts accelerating and decelerating aggressively. Your powertrain, engine, breaks are getting tear and wear, oh and at random that car also spins out and rolls, killing everyone inside (data loss).

This is roughly how current unattended upgrades work.

New comment by startupsfail in "My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed"

startupsfail — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:54:10 +0000

Is there a good reason why upgrades need to stress-test the whole system? Can't they go slowly, throttling resource usage to background levels?

They involve heavy CPU use, stress the whole system completely unnecessary, the system easily sees the highest temperature the device had ever seen during these stress tests. If during that strain something fails or gets corrupted, it's a system-level corruption...

Incidentally, Linux kernel upgrades are not better. During DKMS updates the CPU load skyrockets and then a reboot is always sketchy. There's no guarantee that something would not go wrong, a secure boot issue after a kernel upgrade in particular could be a nightmare.

New comment by startupsfail in "RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?"

startupsfail — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:16:25 +0000

I'm curious, where it has to be disclosed? Like if a company would pay a few legitimate reddit account owners to review their post and upvote, and would disclose this activity in the DISCLOSURES.txt available on their website, would that be legal?

Where would one find some reddit users willing to do such reviews, by the way?

New comment by startupsfail in "AI sycophancy panic"

startupsfail — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:55:30 +0000

There are still blatant failure modes, when models engage into clear sycophancy, rather than expressing enthusiasm, etc.

I'd guess, in practice a benchmark (like this vibesbench), that could help catching unhelpful and blatant sycophancy fails may help.

New comment by startupsfail in "Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes"

startupsfail — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:29:40 +0000

There is a nice essay from Paul Graham that starts with:

> The word "prig" isn't very common now, but if you look up the definition, it will sound familiar.

New comment by startupsfail in "How we lost communication to entertainment"

startupsfail — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:42:02 +0000

It's not a question of mimicking, it is interesting what is current within the teenage/student community. Adult population runs out of steam at some point.

New comment by startupsfail in "How we lost communication to entertainment"

startupsfail — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:52:36 +0000

I'm curious, is there some meaningful way for geriatric millennials to use Tik Tok?

Without being sucked in into doomscrolling and content consumption? Produce content? I'd guess it should be possible to play with the thing somehow...

New comment by startupsfail in "AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago"

startupsfail — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:29:57 +0000

Seems like an interesting story, Ashawna - she was about 25 at the time, and as per Wikipedia, already worked on the military projects - the Sprint Missile System, and was at Xerox.

> The processor was reverse-engineered by Ashawna Hailey, Kim Hailey and Jay Kumar. The Haileys photographed a pre-production sample Intel 8080 on their last day in Xerox, and developed a schematic and logic diagrams from the ~400 images.

New comment by startupsfail in "Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge"

startupsfail — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:53:07 +0000

It used to be worse, back in the days. See that case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy

New comment by startupsfail in "Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive"

startupsfail — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:25:38 +0000

Yes, executioners do proliferate this way. They tend to run out of murderers quickly though, then use any other excuses to execute.

New comment by startupsfail in "Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates"

startupsfail — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:12:15 +0000

Wow, I'm looking at current "Open Shuttles", a license to use 4KB of SRAM in the project is $2500. But it comes with Wishbone Bus interface!

> 1024x32 Commercial SRAM > CF_SRAM_1024x32 > Commercial SRAM: 1024 words x > 32 bits (4KB) with Wishbone Bus interface > Area: 0.17mm² > GPIOs: 0 > License: Commercial - $2500 per project