Hacker News: tumdum_

New comment by tumdum_ in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

tumdum_ — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:21:22 +0000

EU is not deporting anyone for peaceful protests in front of Russian embassies or consulates.

New comment by tumdum_ in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

tumdum_ — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:13:02 +0000

The talent has left but have you seen mass protests against Russian aggression in EU/US by those who left? I haven’t. And this is a big difference to the behaviour or Belarusians who fled - they are often seen across EU protesting against Lukashenko.

So the talent has left, but not because they disagree with Putin actions.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Security headers on 4,688 small-business websites: 49.7% met none of 7 criteria"

tumdum_ — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:36:35 +0000

Sadly non of it was written by a human being.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

tumdum_ — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:03:21 +0000

What does it matter where physically computers are located? If the owners can be imprisoned in US, the will cooperate with US government.

New comment by tumdum_ in "What Zig felt like, coming from Rust"

tumdum_ — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:04:35 +0000

Each one makes me update my estimate slightly in favour of AI. Also, pangram agrees.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality"

tumdum_ — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:45:32 +0000

Exactly, they are *hated* for it. Afaik, I haven’t met anyone live streaming in my boring real life.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality"

tumdum_ — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:43:28 +0000

That’s simply not possible with the announced Apple products. Afaict, Apple will let people save *transcripts* of last 15s and save *summaries* of transcripts.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality"

tumdum_ — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:59:57 +0000

It’s been 20 years since first iphone, this is nothing new. And somehow people are not recording everyone all the time.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Making Startups Powerful"

tumdum_ — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:51:22 +0000

> is there a way to make the money flow through it? It's always good when money flows through you.

Ah, yes! The dream of being rent seeking middleman! The first thing that come to mind when I think “hacker” ;)

New comment by tumdum_ in "We must pace the frontier"

tumdum_ — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:50:34 +0000

Is it their way of saying “we are unable to increase energy production to maintain growth rates” without saying it?

New comment by tumdum_ in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

tumdum_ — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:22:58 +0000

Go to lobste.rs and hide the 'vibecoding' tag.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Stockfish 19"

tumdum_ — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:32:05 +0000

I think so, see the tournament results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Chess_Engine_Championship#...

New comment by tumdum_ in "Bun 1.4"

tumdum_ — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:59:12 +0000

That was the initial work, but since then there was lots of work performed with LLMs.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Bun 1.4"

tumdum_ — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:27:48 +0000

I wonder what was total token cost of the rewrite.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

tumdum_ — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:02:30 +0000

It tells you little about living conditions but it tells you a lot about importance of a country as a whole. GDP per capita of China might be far from US but due to its size it still makes China very important actor.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

tumdum_ — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:16:02 +0000

They offer similar product to a more well known Proton.

New comment by tumdum_ in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

tumdum_ — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:36:35 +0000

Or you can just use any of the actual European companies (I’m using Tuta).

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers

New comment by tumdum_ in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

tumdum_ — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:22:40 +0000

So you are saying that they cherrypicked some obscure illnesses to make Europe look good? They used data for:

- infant mortality

- maternal mortality

- colon and breast cancer survival

- heart attack mortality

- childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia (most common childhood cancer)

Those are one of the most common health issues.

Also, here is another recent paper showing how it’s better (health care wise) to be average in EU than wealthy in US: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2408259

New comment by tumdum_ in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

tumdum_ — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:07:02 +0000

They are looking at the outcomes of specific procedures because they are interested in the health care system quality. Looking at things like life expectancy would make it impossible to disentangle them from other factors like lifestyle or environment.

New comment by tumdum_ in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

tumdum_ — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:54:25 +0000

It’s actually better to be average Western European than white and top 1-5% American: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...