Hacker News: vinni2

Google's YouTube settles social media addiction case with teen

vinni2 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:41:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly81g7x73po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656521

Points: 4

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Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free

vinni2 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:58:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwerjy20kyo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626681

Points: 3

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W: Europe's alternative to mainstream social media

vinni2 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:52:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/06/19/w-thinks-it-has-the-x-factor-everything-to-know-about-europes-latest-alternative-to-mainst

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622960

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by vinni2 in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

vinni2 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:45:25 +0000

I am glad this was resolved. It’s annoying when companies take things for granted. It’s not just Elkjøp doing it. There are other e commerce companies and some online pharmacies doing it too.

New comment by vinni2 in "Did AI write this article?"

vinni2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:24:50 +0000

https://archive.is/uu9sA

Did AI write this article?

vinni2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:24:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/06/16/did-ai-write-this-article

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561511

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by vinni2 in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

vinni2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:04:38 +0000

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ai/data-poisoning/ Data poisoning.

New comment by vinni2 in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

vinni2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:54:58 +0000

Unfortunately sometimes we are at some specific provider’s mercy for whatever reason like lack of appropriate alternatives.

New comment by vinni2 in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

vinni2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:51:03 +0000

Unless they collude and hatch a plan to sabotage the LLM training.

In A.I. Blunder, More Than 34,000 Instagram Accounts Became Vulnerable

vinni2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:59:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/technology/instagram-hack-ai-bug.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467673

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by vinni2 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

vinni2 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:21:37 +0000

I can’t speak for other countries but in India cricket eclipses all other sports and drains talent. But soccer is gaining popularity recently but still long way to go.

New comment by vinni2 in "Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers"

vinni2 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:26:49 +0000

Why don’t you argue with science and engineering then?

New comment by vinni2 in "Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers"

vinni2 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:48:53 +0000

> every dollar you're spending on trying to train larger models is a losing prop

You probably don’t know how smaller models are trained then. Most of them are knowledge distilled or trained using data generated from larger models. If larger models are stopped there is no magical way smaller models will keep getting better.

OpenAI let ChatGPT aid and abet mass shooters, Florida lawsuit claims

vinni2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:12:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx2j0v8d2xo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361267

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by vinni2 in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

vinni2 — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:57:59 +0000

They want to have enough cash to pay the LLM bills.

New comment by vinni2 in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

vinni2 — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:57:09 +0000

Users can easily switch if they find better alternatives.

iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)

vinni2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:53:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/iphones-running-ios-26-freeze-facetime-calls-when-theres-nudity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300509

Points: 56

# Comments: 34

New comment by vinni2 in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

vinni2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:12:38 +0000

I use a self-hosted Searxng to make it work with my local LLM RAG setup. It works amazingly. Thank you for creating this. I will check out the hister as well.

New comment by vinni2 in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

vinni2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:50:49 +0000

Reminds me of Homer Simpson designing a car for his half brother and making him bankrupt.

New comment by vinni2 in "UK radio station apologises for accidentally announcing king's death"

vinni2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:47:37 +0000

> The erroneous announcement was made on Tuesday afternoon due to a computer error at Radio Caroline’s main studio in Essex.

Wonder what error caused it. Must be a human error blamed on a computer error?