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Re:Open Sesame – I Now Have to Ask My Internet Router to Give Me Internet on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:03AM (#47072086)
I have a problem. It’s 11 PM, I tell myself “just five more minutes of Reddit” and suddenly it’s 2 AM and I hate myself. Sound familiar? After years of failing to fix this with willpower alone (spoiler: willpower doesn’t work against billion-dollar engagement algorithms), I decided to solve it by using an openwrt router to block internet access at night with exemptions based on an LLM evaluation.
Re:How Ancient People Saw Themselves on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:49AM (#45758490)
Thats so cool. I have built a mirror with some added technology for science exhibitions and now seeing that this has been an ancient endeavour going back to the greeks is awesome: https://kryptokommun.ist/portfolio/projects/tech/2024/07/01/...
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:52AM (#30942184)
https://kryptokommun.ist

An quite old Jekyll still going strong and the CI still works :)

Startup Idea/Question: Custom web search (only blogs/media/users you trust)?

Posted by kryptokommunist on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:49PM
from the self-post dept.

Is there something like Algolia (e.g. https://hn.algolia.com ) for custom web search? Some solution where I can create a custom search engine that will only search whitelisted blogs/twitter users/Youtubers etc.?Ideally a solution would let me enter my favorite blogs and let me connect my social media accounts and then automatically search only content of users I follow. I haven't found anything...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020) on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:00PM (#24039422)
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I can vouch that it's a great team of smart people and an exciting product. No bullshit, the result is what counts.

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If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me: marcus@$COMPANYDOMAIN

Re:Ask HN: As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your comp... on Sunday April 19, 2020 @04:59PM (#22918735)
I feel that when everyone would apply this world view there would be no point in ethics at all and we would live in a more grim world than we already are. I find it very discouraging since this assumes that we have no choice. But we do.

I met a guy studying CS in Cuba (he grew up there) on a Congress and visited him there. The living conditions there are not nice, wealth is something most people there don’t have access to. But this guy was asked by FB/Google to interview for a position and he proudly told me how he declined and wrote them exactly why he morally thought he will never work there. Regardless of the correctness of his view it impressed me that he held principles higher than his potential income. If you just follow financial incentives in your decisions plus a minimal ethical code that will keep you out of prison you are contributing to humanities demise. Long term if too many people just follow their incentives without reflecting on their net contribution to society as a whole this will destroy our society.

Also it’s not like you will be out on the streets if you don’t work for Google/FB. You’ll most likely still be considered rich with whatever you make at other companies in this sector.

Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:44PM (#22634612)
With Netflix having content caches this seems like incompetency from the EU commissioner paired with an openness to virtue signaling in this time from Netflix. Isn’t it the job of the ISP to shape the traffic accordingly if they overprovisioned and are now failing their customers due to that?
Re:36th Chaos Communication Congress – Streams on Friday December 27, 2019 @05:28AM (#21890437)
Which organization do you mean?
Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:32PM (#19995607)
It’s hard to find official details (I guess they keep them private to protect the victims?) but this looks like reasonably trustworthy source: http://mab.nu/2018/11/16/a-friend-called-niles/

But even without details looking at Julia Redas track record and the fact that the German pirate party and European pirate party distanced themselves from him suggests more than a minor error in judgement. It’s unbelievable that he could successfully trick his party so he could get on the candidates list as number 2. And he will be there on election day! This is no FUD but something they have to blame on themselves.

(That blog entry is linked in this Buzzfeed article: https://www.buzzfeed.com/de/pascalemueller/europawahl-pirate... )

Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:04PM (#19994852)
Consider that they placed Gilles Bordelais, a man who as an EU parliament committee determined sexually harassed women in multiple cases, on their list in Germany before voting for the German pirate party:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/german-parliam...

Re:Mind as an emergent self-organizing process on Monday December 26, 2016 @04:29AM (#13257609)
Well in a way the articles approach is similar to Piaget's in the sense that the approach is also functional. The hypothesis here is that the mind is just a information processing system and the research approach therefore is developing functional models. It will either work or not, you can actually test your models. This approach doesn't just model biological structures but independently tries to find functional explanations/mechanisms that could result in a mind like system. I think the articles model is one of the most sophisticated of the highly integrated ones out there. It really is worth reading, especially the explanation for emotion and motivation i found to be quite interesting.

If you need a teaser to get you going, there is also a talk by the author which is a good summary of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKQ0yaEJjok

Re:Mind as an emergent self-organizing process on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:56PM (#13254834)
I think there is a much cleaner, more logical approach to the topic without any magical voodoo. I always find that this topic somehow lures people into esoteric explanations that wouldn't be acceptable in other areas, but when dealing with the mind it somehow is okay. In my opinion there is an example for a more productive paradigm when we want to discuss what the mind is. Just take a look: http://www.cognitive-ai.com/publications/assets/Draft-MicroP...