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New comment by subw00f in "Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order"

subw00f — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:35:12 +0000

Since sometime after the WW2 when most of Europe became US vassals.

New comment by subw00f in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

subw00f — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:01:20 +0000

Funny, and here I was thinking that neoliberal authoritarianism, Cold War anti-communism, and neofascism were all ideologies. But I guess it's only ideology if the bad guy was propped up by the USSR or the PRC?

New comment by subw00f in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

subw00f — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:50:15 +0000

I'm well aware of the share of commodity exports that goes to China. I'm also well aware of the history of US intervention and its brutality in South America and what it did to keep the region its backyard. Now, if the PRC wants to do the same, they need to seriously step up their game, because it was a LOT.

New comment by subw00f in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

subw00f — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:25:36 +0000

It's the same for the whole region, friend. Shut up and keep mining, harvesting, or raising these cows for the gringos, ain't no need to get clever about it.

New comment by subw00f in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

subw00f — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:21:50 +0000

Or, you know, the Chilean US puppet Augusto Pinochet who killed, jailed, or exiled professors, intellectuals, students etc.

New comment by subw00f in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

subw00f — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:13:49 +0000

Or if you look at the issue more closely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_theory

New comment by subw00f in "The conflation of money and things"

subw00f — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:04:39 +0000

Why waste time say lot word, if few word do trick

New comment by subw00f in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

subw00f — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:28:16 +0000

>It hasn't exactly demonstrated an ability to "deeply embed" itself into internet backbones the way the USA does

I’m not sure how that’s even relevant to the point I was trying to make which is: you are monitored by a foreign and openly hostile government through its privately owned collaborators. That’s worse than your own government using transactional data to monitor money laundering and tax evasion activities that detracts from your direct quality of life. And again, it’s naive to think Brasil has no control over the internet backbone in its own territory, you must not understand how it even works to say something like that.

> Lack of capabilities limit the scope of government tyranny. It used to be that the government didn't have the manpower required to audit everyone and everything, so only the bank transactions above some threshold would be monitored. With pix, they are monitoring 100% of transactions now. This is a massive gain in capability that should not be ignored.

And yet here you are arguing against something that decreases the amount of potential bad actors who can gain direct access to your data. It’s the digital age for a while now, there is a general privacy tradeoff in anything you do online. If that’s a concern, use money. My issue with you is that, again, you seem to prefer to hand over your data to foreigners that have no incentive to use it for anything other than extracting as much value as possible out of your country AND with the additional criminally flagrant behavior of inflicting their interests on judicial and political decisions AND make your pay a 3 fucking percent charge over it.

New comment by subw00f in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

subw00f — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:29:29 +0000

Such a naive take. Like the US government espionage is not deeply embedded in even the most basic infrastructure, let alone payment gateways. They probably spend millions on huge data pipelines straight to the fucking pentagon.

New comment by subw00f in "U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP"

subw00f — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:49:06 +0000

You keep using words like “us” and “ourselves” but I don’t think you understand that you’re not in the same class as the people who lend the money or the people who lobby for how any public resources are going to be spent at all.

New comment by subw00f in "DeepSeek v4"

subw00f — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:22:50 +0000

Oh yeah? Weird. I just went into Zhihu, read a few posts, commented on others. I guess the Chinese communist party will poison me anytime soon.

New comment by subw00f in "Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms"

subw00f — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:57:18 +0000

Reminds me of Hyperion Tesla trees.

Ask HN: What would be the impact of a LLM output injection attack?

subw00f — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:29:25 +0000

I'm talking inference layer compromise, someone being able to inject commands that would eventually be executed by agents/tools on the other side.

There is a massive amount of unskilled users letting LLMs decide which commands to run on their computers. I know for things like Cowork you have a sandbox, but many simply use Codex or Claude Code (and some even went above and beyond and learned to use --dangerously-skip-permissions). But what happens if an attacker is successful? What's even preventing it from happening?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852571

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by subw00f in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

subw00f — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:17:14 +0000

Check the title of this website.

New comment by subw00f in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

subw00f — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:15:15 +0000

You think “morality” is what’s preventing the US or Russia to drop atomic bombs on their smaller targets?

New comment by subw00f in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

subw00f — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:07:52 +0000

As opposed to the US, which just has companies and a thin veil of “government”.

New comment by subw00f in "Ask HN: Are your product managers sending PRs?"

subw00f — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:39:44 +0000

Hah, that's a good one. Though with the current vibe (pun intended), I think they would actually be ok "reviewing" it.

Ask HN: Are your product managers sending PRs?

subw00f — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:02:34 +0000

I'm a BE-heavy FS dev at a small startup of 25+ people, and lately I have been getting vibe-coded PRs from PMs with an actual expectation that they should go to production and that they have saved work from devs by doing so. This is obviously not the case. Besides the obvious bizarre things I immediately catch, I always feel the need to clone it, test it myself, and usually, well, work the task again or spend much more time than I would if the PR was from another dev. I feel like I'm going crazy having to argue that this is not the best way to go, and they should probably spend more time and even use the code if they like to build better specs instead of direct contributions. What has been your experience?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784477

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by subw00f in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

subw00f — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:42:31 +0000

The agricultural and industrial revolutions "weren't labor displacement", they were technological and social changes that happened unevenly and gradually in time and space and which resulted in labor displacement, but they were not the only cause, and they didn't happen BECAUSE of labor displacement. I would argue the subsequent labor displacement caused a minor part of the social gains to be later distributed and realized through class struggle, but that's beside the point. Most wars cause mass labor displacement and military technological advancements that later translate into society as a whole. Are you prepared to argue for wars? If you are American, you are experiencing firsthand the effects of what once was a major part of your industrial labor being absorbed by China. It has led to massive inequality and erosion of standards of living in the US. Not so much for the Chinese working class, which has increasingly improved their standards of living. Are you going to argue for it? I think if we only look at things from a limited perspective, and in this instance a technocratic and teleologic view of history, as in history has a designed finality and this finality will be achieved through unrestrained development of production forces, you are bound to quietly take part in the destruction of society and nature, now viewed as externalities, and accept the worst of atrocities in the name of "advancement", while most of any gains are captured in the short term by a minority.

New comment by subw00f in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

subw00f — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:56:58 +0000

Independent? You say independent, I say parasitic. Just like any ruling class of the Middle East, especially the UAE. They’re not independent, they’re very much dependent on the semi slave labor they manage to exploit. Anything that makes life worth living is the result of collective labor. People coming together and building or learning upon previous knowledge. Hell, even your understanding of yourself comes from the social relationships you form during your formative years. This desire to be what amounts to an outcast is a defect, an abnormality imposed by the mode of production that organizes the world right now.