Hacker News: timthelion

New comment by timthelion in "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"

timthelion — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:21:19 +0000

Actually, for the purpose of providing the service its fine to look. They just aren't allowed to use what they see anywhere else. Just like your doctor hears about your health problems but can't sell your medical records. Whats with the nasty toxicity?

New comment by timthelion in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

timthelion — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:20:00 +0000

Well if they want their posts to be readable they do have a selfish reason.

New comment by timthelion in "Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn't use their work"

timthelion — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:56:53 +0000

OpenAI is the possessive actor here. They were supposed to develop the AI for the benefit of humanity. Now they do it closed and do it only for their private profit.

New comment by timthelion in "No Spanish reading crisis?"

timthelion — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:09:53 +0000

I guess I'm nobody then. I almost only read the internet.

New comment by timthelion in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

timthelion — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:49:05 +0000

This is already happening alot with gaza. On Mastodon wehad manyduplicate accounts with very similar AI videos asking for money...

New comment by timthelion in "CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years"

timthelion — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:50:19 +0000

Somehow I'd imagine that you could have container size and shape batteries and maybe even stop more often in ports to swap them out using existing crain mechanisms

New comment by timthelion in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

timthelion — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:01:55 +0000

We've been developing a new method of developing software using a cloud IDE (slightly modified vs code server), https://github.com/bitswan-space which breaks down the development process into independent "Automations" which each run in a separate container. Automatons are also developed within containers. This allows you to break down the development into parts and safely experiment with AI. This feels like the "Android moment" where the old non-isolated way of developing software (on desktops) becomes unsafe. And we need to move to a new system with actual security and isolation between processes.

In our system, you can launch a Jupyter server in a container and iterate on software in complete isolation. Or launch a live preview react application and iterate in complete isolation. Securely isolated from the world. Then you deploy directly to another container, which only has access to what you give it access to.

It's still in the early stages. But it's interesting to sit at this tipping point for software development.

New comment by timthelion in "Balcony solar is taking off"

timthelion — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:13:06 +0000

Since europe uses almost exclusively underground power lines there are rarely outages due to weather.

New comment by timthelion in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

timthelion — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:05:39 +0000

The interesting thing is that they do not own copilot.com

New comment by timthelion in "New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill"

timthelion — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:41:21 +0000

Here in Prague I pay $300 a year for 1000/1000 symetric.

New comment by timthelion in "Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells"

timthelion — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:14:45 +0000

Is celulose a 'microplastic' though? Obviosly most tea bags are not made of plastic, at least historically...

New comment by timthelion in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?"

timthelion — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:41:17 +0000

bitgrid is cool! https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

New comment by timthelion in "Norway's Wealth Tax Is Backfiring. Are Americans Paying Attention?"

timthelion — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:25:31 +0000

Perhapse the tax shouldn't be based on residency but rather capital within the country...

New comment by timthelion in "Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel"

timthelion — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 08:43:40 +0000

Last time I tried it was unskippable via UI.

New comment by timthelion in "Lactate helps cancer cells resist chemotherapy"

timthelion — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:59:21 +0000

This news should be irrelevant to anyone not undergoing this specific type of chemotherapy.

New comment by timthelion in "DEF CON's response to the badge controversy"

timthelion — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 20:55:38 +0000

Am I the only pne who lmthinks it is rediculously wastefull to have electronic badges for all atendees?

New comment by timthelion in "RLHF is just barely RL"

timthelion — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 08:20:08 +0000

Karpathy writes that there is no cheeply computed objective check for "Or re-writing some Java code to Python? " Among other things. But it seems to me that Reinforced Learning should be possible for code translation using automated integration testing. Run it, see if it does,the same thing!

New comment by timthelion in "Fake job interviews are securities fraud"

timthelion — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:30:23 +0000

What about the typical college summer jobs? Those have high turnover and that is expected.

New comment by timthelion in "LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear"

timthelion — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:38:16 +0000

One usecase that occures to me, is a very larhe transparent screen in front of a stage at a conference with the presenter standing behind their presentation...

New comment by timthelion in "Some packages are no longer installable after test command is removed"

timthelion — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:11:21 +0000

Can we somehow vote to just stop having setuptools be maintained? When it breaks it wasts years of collective developer time and it really doesn't need to change at this point...