Hacker News: tomasphan

New comment by tomasphan in "Anthropic, OpenAI et al. face antitrust suit for agreeing to slow AI development"

tomasphan — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:15:33 +0000

However, the Trump administration shot down this idea, with the president himself saying, “AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX.”

Wise words as always Mr President.

New comment by tomasphan in "US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut"

tomasphan — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:02:09 +0000

ATC seems like a great place to have redundancy with a starlink dish on the roof.

New comment by tomasphan in "One-Electron Universe"

tomasphan — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:05:36 +0000

How does this work with QFT? If an electron is just an excitation in a field then it being “one electron” is meaningless.

New comment by tomasphan in "There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet"

tomasphan — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:36:48 +0000

yesterday I visited a page with TWO! captchas side by side. When I got through the second one the first one had expired...

New comment by tomasphan in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

tomasphan — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:51:38 +0000

All the time. Politically speaking the past is quite embarrassing.

New comment by tomasphan in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

tomasphan — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:10:55 +0000

Sorry, I meant "bread" as in money.

New comment by tomasphan in "US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs"

tomasphan — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:12:35 +0000

Because it runs Windows hehe

New comment by tomasphan in "AI models don't kill people – people kill people"

tomasphan — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:10:35 +0000

“Bad ASI would pretend to be good *until* it could execute a plan to kill everyone all at once”.

So not today but tomorrow it could engineer an airborne virus. The point is it can come up with chess moves that are inconceivable to us.

New comment by tomasphan in "JetKVM Mini"

tomasphan — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:02:14 +0000

It’s 3x the cost of jetKVM though. For someone with 8 machines in their home lab this is a big commitment.

New comment by tomasphan in "Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training"

tomasphan — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:11:29 +0000

I agree with you, but suggesting Astroturf is apparently against the rules here. I like it because it needs less water for football fields.

New comment by tomasphan in "The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades"

tomasphan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:57:22 +0000

The titanium spar is filled with gas. If there was a crack in the spar the gas would escape, therefore tripping the pressure sensitive radiation shield. Releasing radiation that can be detected inside the helicopter.

Wireless systems aren’t used for opsec reasons.

New comment by tomasphan in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

tomasphan — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:38:04 +0000

The enterprising Germans all left for the US to make bread

New comment by tomasphan in "Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"

tomasphan — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:02:55 +0000

Fastmail seems great

New comment by tomasphan in "I wanna live an NPC life"

tomasphan — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:52:57 +0000

This post got the definition of NPC entirely backwards. NPC = follows the rules exactly like they’re programmed to. That means not thinking outside the box, ignoring gut feelings, adhering to a routine, consumerism and generally politically unimaginative.

The blacksmith from Skyrim is a great example because along comes a player, puts a bucket on your head and steals all your stuff without any complaints.

New comment by tomasphan in "Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America"

tomasphan — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:56:54 +0000

"Oops our Google Maps team is on vacation, an intern messed up the lake names microservice called "Lacus" and it is currently unavailable for changes. It will take the Google Maps team 2 years to make this change."

Thats how they could have pushed back against a dictator. Every finger you give him is a hand you lose.

New comment by tomasphan in "Claude Code is going reduce limits by 25% from September 14"

tomasphan — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:56:11 +0000

They are reducing to +25% from current +50%. So while the title is inaccurate in percentage it is factually correct that limits are going down.

New comment by tomasphan in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

tomasphan — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:15:48 +0000

Exactly, that’s the last sentence in my original comment.

New comment by tomasphan in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

tomasphan — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:34:11 +0000

We’re just speculating on the economics here so let’s agree to say making it illegal is not fixing the problem.

New comment by tomasphan in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

tomasphan — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:52:39 +0000

This is not an obsession with hurting animals. It’s survival and earning a living for these Indonesian fishermen.

To incentivize them to stop you have to give them better options. In this case, teach a man to not fish with explosives and you’ll feed him for the rest of his life.

New comment by tomasphan in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

tomasphan — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:09:11 +0000

Why not reply to that top comment? Its still there.