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New comment by throwaway29303 in "Sam Neill has died"

throwaway29303 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:40:31 +0000

Godspeed. ;~;7

New comment by throwaway29303 in "NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation"

throwaway29303 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:18:19 +0000

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/XIckyKVIEgKNus-koX...

Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the Next Evolution of reCAPTCHA

throwaway29303 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:17:35 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863181

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Chuck Norris has died"

throwaway29303 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:40:04 +0000

Godspeed. ;~;7

New comment by throwaway29303 in "We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)"

throwaway29303 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:47:54 +0000

  The date (2003) is incorrect.

You're right, it's even older than that; it should be (1999).

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.kegel.com/c10k.htm...

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

throwaway29303 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:23:23 +0000

Sounds interesting and challenging. There's something similar, although not the build part just the modular aspect of it inspired by CPAN called CCAN: https://ccodearchive.net/. Very few people know about it, I believe, and it goes way back. I'm not involved with that project, though. Good luck!

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Linux Kernel Explorer"

throwaway29303 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:16:27 +0000

Maybe fs/select.c or the polling machinery.

Gmail: Bulk Promotions deletion requires different browser or incognito disabled

throwaway29303 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:09:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/andrew_michels/status/1992330739615182998

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039355

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by throwaway29303 in "LLMs Achieve Gold Medal Performance at the IOAA"

throwaway29303 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:12:03 +0000

Had to shorten the title due to its size. The original is

  Large Language Models Achieve Gold Medal Performance at the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics (IOAA)

LLMs Achieve Gold Medal Performance at the IOAA

throwaway29303 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:11:09 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05016

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618383

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by throwaway29303 in "What's New in Python 3.14"

throwaway29303 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:25:11 +0000

Missed opportunity to call it Pithon 3.14 just for this release. :-)

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Jane Goodall has died"

throwaway29303 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:53:18 +0000

Godspeed.

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Ask HN: What industries are being overlooked by tech?"

throwaway29303 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:05:37 +0000

I would say management. Think Chief $SOMETHING Officers, etc.

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap""

throwaway29303 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:42:51 +0000

Can someone, more informed than me, about the job landscape, name these jobs people keep claiming AI is creating? Thank you in advance.

New comment by throwaway29303 in "When Google plays judge and jury: account gone, zero due process"

throwaway29303 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:21:13 +0000

  I turned to Academic Torrents, a platform widely used by researchers to share datasets. There, I downloaded a large NSFW dataset often cited in AI research. I unzipped the file in my Google Drive to begin preprocessing. A few days later, my entire Google account was banned — without warning, without explanation, and without any clear path to appeal.

Why did you think this was a good idea?

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Show HN: IRC /Whois Gallery"

throwaway29303 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:30:11 +0000

That's a cool project, OP.

I'd like to share other historic projects which I had a hard time searching for and they seem to be gone from most search engines (at the time I searched for them anyway):

  https://archives.darenet.org/ (not available)

  https://arsiv.behroozwolf.net/index.php (it seems to be working)

Those are software repositories for a lot of IRC related projects from clients to servers and bots, etc.

Cheers.

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Ask HN: What can we as humans do to defeat the AI?"

throwaway29303 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:49:59 +0000

  Too much gameable measurement on the tax end, and too much unnecessary bureaucracy both to support that on the tax end and the retraining end;

I'm not sure if I agree with this because, after all, AI systems are going to be taking care of this so... What's bureaucracy for us is a couple trillion cycles on a CPU/GPU on a machine somewhere in a data center.

An agent to take care of the bureaucracy, another to retrain someone for a new job, etc.

And, yes, the long-term plan would be to fund UBI at some point; because if these systems become so capable and so efficient might as well let them do everything for us while we humans enjoy leisure time.

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Ask HN: What can we as humans do to defeat the AI?"

throwaway29303 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:21:41 +0000

Nothing but we should most definitely progressively tax these systems based on a percentage of the difference between the least efficient model[0] and the most efficient human. (Assuming, of course, that the least efficient model is more efficient than the most efficient human.) Use those funds to retrain people who lost their jobs for the mythical jobs every manager/CEO keeps talking about.

Suppose the most efficient human produces $250k/y worth of labour and the least efficient model produces $1M/y worth of labour. So $1M - $250k = $750k. %1 of $750k = $7.5k. Now multiply that by the number of companies/people who bought these services.

Models are assumed to a) become more efficient and b) be competent on several and different types of jobs.

This would also include robots but those systems aren't yet ripe, IMO. I'd let them marinate a little further before taxing them.

Apply this tax to very large companies that produce/sell these systems.

[0] - This incentivizes companies to keep investing in more efficient and capable models/systems.

New comment by throwaway29303 in "I accidentally built a vector database using video compression"

throwaway29303 — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:25:07 +0000

Amazing.

New comment by throwaway29303 in "Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI"

throwaway29303 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:35:50 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17848882