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New comment by tdiff in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tdiff — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:30:53 +0000

Out of curiosity, can that model be trained from the beginning without touching "sensitive" areas and remain useful in others? Will it be able to help in building biological weapons without being trained on articles and books about biology/ medicine?

New comment by tdiff in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

tdiff — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:23:14 +0000

Just for context, it looks very much the same as Fast Payment System in Russia. Been a thing for some 10 years, and huge amount of retail works on it.

New comment by tdiff in "Google changes its search box"

tdiff — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:00:53 +0000

I think perplexity implements the same. Ive been using it as a default search for a month and actually still find myself explicitly using Google instead.

The ai generated summaries are slow, often miss the point of question and seem to be focused on user engagement, not in giving set of infos to sort out myself.

So there are two different types of queries, and when I want llm's answer, I ask chatgpt directly.

New comment by tdiff in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

tdiff — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:47:26 +0000

Interesting if his educational startup turned out to be less perspective at least with the current gen of llms.

New comment by tdiff in "Days without GitHub incidents"

tdiff — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:19:54 +0000

Not buying that untill they use a picture from the Simpsons

New comment by tdiff in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

tdiff — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:26:21 +0000

Was at actually so important to rush with the switch?

New comment by tdiff in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

tdiff — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:18:04 +0000

Ok if there were some rust guys rewriting coreutils with no experience in linux, but how come Ubuntu accepted it into its mainline?

New comment by tdiff in "Chernobyl wildlife forty years on"

tdiff — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:15:56 +0000

If you check what people were telling about him (at least here: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%BE..., sorry for Russian), you will find what the opinions were very different. Yet in the series it all boiled down to a very primitive character.

New comment by tdiff in "Chernobyl wildlife forty years on"

tdiff — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:25:55 +0000

It is silly how the show depicted Dyatlov as an arrogant sargeant behaving like a bully in American series about mid school kids.

This alone sets the tone of a TV show that needs to have clear goodies and baddies, and obviously life is never that simple.

New comment by tdiff in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

tdiff — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:39:41 +0000

Is it actually allowed to suggest that some races are better than others in some areas?

New comment by tdiff in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

tdiff — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:06:39 +0000

I don't get why people capable of making complex bas-relief could not make the coin more or less round

New comment by tdiff in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

tdiff — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:10:32 +0000

> more about authorizing private to your army to find and capture pirate vessels

I think important detail is that it authorised attacks on any foreign vessel (of a specific nation), not only on pirate ships.

New comment by tdiff in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

tdiff — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:40:22 +0000

I just wonder if there are comments in this thread from anthropic bots, marketing itself

New comment by tdiff in "Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal"

tdiff — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:05:27 +0000

> more than 1.5 million people have taken action, either by cancelling subscriptions, sharing boycott messages on social media, or signing up via quitgpt.org

That's just silly compared to their user base and wont have any effect

New comment by tdiff in "What Is OAuth?"

tdiff — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:21:57 +0000

> What I need is to understand why it is designed this way, and to see concrete examples of use cases that motivate the design

Author managed to simultaneously praise the question and avoid answering it at all.

New comment by tdiff in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

tdiff — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:33:05 +0000

Is not that model-dependant? Skimmed through, but did not find which model the tests were run with.

New comment by tdiff in "Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals"

tdiff — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:05:26 +0000

> That suggests that Russia was for 20+ years fine with whatever financial crimes this guy had been committing as long as he played ball ... and is really using these crimes to get him now for political motives.

Even if so, it does not contradict the idea that his actions may have been unlawful and thus can be punished according to crimial law.

New comment by tdiff in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

tdiff — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:02:19 +0000

It just destroys the "eco" image of deutsche railways.

Well, I'm all pro public transport, but please make it work first.

New comment by tdiff in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

tdiff — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:14:59 +0000

Im jealous of people able to write multi-paragraph text for such a simple thought.

New comment by tdiff in "Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto"

tdiff — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:48:05 +0000

Hard part is keeping the feature branches orthogonal and maintaing all the -base branches. Every fixup commit would invalidate them.