Hacker News: zer0gravity

New comment by zer0gravity in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

zer0gravity — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:22:10 +0000

The probability is high that major AI development companies are already using an AI instance internally for strategic and tactical decisions. The State power institutions, especially intelligence, are now having a real competitor in the private sector.

New comment by zer0gravity in "A Revolution in Biology?"

zer0gravity — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:53:28 +0000

I have created a simulation of how a tree can be grown from a programmable cellular automata. Each cell executes some operations, including replication, based on the surrounding conditions and its age/iteration. More complex organisms can be grown with this technique.

You can play too with it here: https://acionescu.github.io/digitalfire/WebContent/

New comment by zer0gravity in "The "it" in AI models is the dataset"

zer0gravity — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:56:44 +0000

This insight makes one wonder if the same thing applies to humans as well. Are we just the sum of our experiences? Or the architectures of our brains are much more complex and different so that they have more influence on the outputs for the same inputs?

New comment by zer0gravity in "The Block Protocol"

zer0gravity — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:05:21 +0000

As many have stated here, the problem is not that there aren't good data exchange protocols in the world, the problem is the PROTOCOL or the MODEL by which the world works, which is maximizing financial profit, not civilizational profit. Humanity is not yet capable of acting as a whole, we're still in a paradigm where each part is trying to rule the other parts. With this kind of mindset, a territorial mindset, it's only logical that every actor out there is trying to control as much as it can, and create an advantage for itself. That's why no sharing and cooperation data protocol catches, because those are incompatible with the current state of Affairs.

New comment by zer0gravity in "Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology"

zer0gravity — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:31:04 +0000

Absolutely! Should have said interesting and valuable.

New comment by zer0gravity in "Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology"

zer0gravity — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 06:55:37 +0000

I'd say that this is a romanticized holistic vs reductionist exploration. Interesting nonetheless.

Irish health system hit by ‘significant’ ransomware attack

zer0gravity — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:17:38 +0000

Article URL: https://therecord.media/irish-health-system-hit-by-ransomware-gang/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27155946

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by zer0gravity in "Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server"

zer0gravity — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:38:01 +0000

I get the same :( I'm on Archlinux.

New comment by zer0gravity in "Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server"

zer0gravity — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:26:52 +0000

This is amazing! There are a lot of low level things that I don't really grasp and, while going through the APE description, I saw this: "The other tradeoff is the GCC Runtime Exception forbids code morphing, but I already took care of that for you, by rewriting the GNU runtimes".

Can somebody, please, explain if allowing code morphing will increase security risks?

Nevada Democrats to Introduce Bill to Allow Tech Companies to Create Governments

zer0gravity — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:47:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dailywire.com/news/nevada-democrats-to-introduce-bill-that-would-allow-tech-companies-to-create-governments-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058055

Points: 17

# Comments: 7

New comment by zer0gravity in "Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)"

zer0gravity — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:58:37 +0000

I'm not talking about a zillion protocols with discoverable services, but of a single language of the internet that allows service discoverability and concept sharing dynamically between peers.

New comment by zer0gravity in "Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)"

zer0gravity — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:58:44 +0000

What I think we need is Interoperability, not just protocols. What I understand by interoperability is what a mature (spoken) language provides. Although its body of words remains pretty much fixed, it offers a wide range of expression. I think that what we need is a language of the internet to achieve this type of interoperability. So, in a way, a language can be seen as a communication protocol and, with such a language, two systems can talk and discover and consume each other's services. This language shouldn't change too much, but it should be complex enough, to start with, in order to allow a high degree of expression and, ultimately, interoperability.

New comment by zer0gravity in "Cargill open-sources Splinter, its ‘blockchain-like’ supply chain software"

zer0gravity — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:34:42 +0000

Open-source is eating the world and, in some sense, the other way around too.

New comment by zer0gravity in "Show HN: Federated, Encrypted, Anonymous Chat, with Video Support"

zer0gravity — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:59:29 +0000

I'm really not that knowledgeable about the alternatives. I would say that this is a very rudimentary form of IRC in terms of functionalities, but with encrypted connection between the nodes and making it easy for a user to run its own node. It offers a basic video conferencing feature as well.

New comment by zer0gravity in "Show HN: Federated, Encrypted, Anonymous Chat, with Video Support"

zer0gravity — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:21:40 +0000

Hi, creator here. This is a basic anonymous chat with video conferencing, implemented over a federated network of nodes that communicate over encrypted connections, exchanging events.

Basically, anyone can run their own node and access the services implemented over this infrastructure or connect to an existing node. For now, only this chat demo is implemented. One can choose to run its own node locally and accesses the chat app via their local node, the communication will be effectively end-to-end encrypted this way.

I'm here to answer any questions.

Show HN: Federated, Encrypted, Anonymous Chat, with Video Support

zer0gravity — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:35:20 +0000

Article URL: https://ognode.herokuapp.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778397

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by zer0gravity in "Show HN: Federated, Anonymous Chat, with Video Conferencing Feature"

zer0gravity — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:18:56 +0000

Hi, creator here. This is a basic anonymous chat with video conferencing, implemented over a federated network of nodes that communicate over encrypted connections, exchanging events.

I'm here to answer any questions.

Show HN: Federated, Anonymous Chat, with Video Conferencing Feature

zer0gravity — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:18:37 +0000

Article URL: https://ognode.herokuapp.com/client/chat.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25777298

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by zer0gravity in "A Breakthrough in Measuring the Building Blocks of Nature"

zer0gravity — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 10:06:46 +0000

This makes me ask the question: Is it possible for a cellular automata to measure its state in one region without getting inconsistent results, since the simple act of measuring means changing its state?

Tim Berners Lee’s startup Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform for enterprises

zer0gravity — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:59:07 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/08/tim-berners-lees-startup-inrupt-releases-solid-privacy-platform-for-enterprises/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25043431

Points: 8

# Comments: 0