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Re:AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best [pdf] on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:18PM (#50292615)
The metric for review quality here seems to be: another AI likes it and three journal editors like it. Should be kept in mind...
Re:Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government... on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:59PM (#50292287)
LMAO, you mean he learned to install Signal and turn on disappearing messages after all of his chat messages, obviously implying corrupt political practices, were read in a special government committee? The guy doesn't even know what DHCP is, "I'm sure". I almost feel bad that company is getting traffic from HN. Kurz is such a disgusting little worm.
Re:LLMs Are Turing-Complete on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:29AM (#50085979)
That's not an LLM (keyword:Language). That's a transformer that you've forced to produce deterministic output... Kind of cool, but... Doesn't really prove any point.
Re:Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:18AM (#50073078)
Hilarious, I have the exact opposite experience. Especially mid-tier players will do anything to win. Cheese strats vs 2 hour opponents, public flame wars, reclaiming your buildings to steal your metal, etc. I enjoy BAR a lot, but as many RTS communities, it also has problems with sweaty, ragey, try-hard teenagers.

Edit: Just realised I might've fallen for the satire--thats on me.

Re:Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's St... on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:33AM (#49430273)
According to the US Chamber of commerce the US exports over 270 billion dollars. https://www.uschamber.com/intellectual-property/unlocking-cr...
Re:Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's St... on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:01AM (#49430051)
You are kind of right, but you also did not look very hard. They deleted huge datasets in anticipation of lawsuits, at least that much is known. Of course plaintiffs were unable to depose their internal lawyers (who apparently know why they were frantically deleted) due to 'attourney client priviledge' further refusing to provide any kind of transparency. But yeah, I guess they are they are better at covering their tracks and destroying evidence.

Also, as one more example, I find it hard to believe that their models could generate 'Studio Ghibli' style images without training on the movies. There is no licensing deal between them.

I think the real issues here are two-fold:

Firstly, Copyright is very ill equipped to handle these cases. Just because the model is tuned not to output the exact training data does not mean that compressing mostly-copyrighted datasets into a proprietary model is ethical, fair or /should/ be allowed, simply because they might destroy entire livelihoods. If you take those copyrighted works away you are left with, in OpenAIs own words, a cute little experiment.

Secondly, there is absolutely no transparency. Datasets are easily deleted and its impossible to tell what the models have been trained on, especially after fine tuning. Moreover, only the biggest most successfull works would be easily identifiable without the fine tuned model. Once again, sticking it to the little man.

Re:Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's St... on Monday August 24, 2026 @07:28PM (#49427217)
Doesn't really matter. The incentive structure to steal clearly exists, so why would they even go through the trouble?
Re:Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's St... on Monday August 24, 2026 @07:25PM (#49427202)
Pretty easy to assertain that they don't acquire them legally due to the plethora of evidence and court cases against them. No copyright holder would be sueing them if they knew they sold the works in the first place.

I always wonder why y'all feel the need for these impressive mental gymnastics. You can use the models /and/ think they are trained unethically. Living through the ambiguity without abandoning your ideals completely is a valuable skill these days.

Re:Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's St... on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:32PM (#49422270)
OpenAI plainly admitted that it is impossible not to do so in a House of Lords inquiry. So, presumably there is no way around it to train models. There is just not enough non-copyrighted data out there.
Re:I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished ... on Sunday August 23, 2026 @05:26PM (#49412814)
Hmm... I think this could be a case of the organic brain soaking up LLM-isms by the way as it is using these tools intensively. As much as I don't like robot writing, this all seems overly paranoid to me.
Re:'AI refuser' quit her dream job, and hopes others follow on Sunday August 23, 2026 @07:54AM (#49408069)
Pretty sure you misunderstood this person. I don't think they are advocating for the smashing of looms, rather fear that the movement that could redistribute the benefits of this new technology will go down that dark road again. I also think the reckoning is overdue, maybe it will never come to be. What reckoning? The reckoning for large scale IP theft, scaling up what they call "ghost work", the usage of natural resources and land which power data centers with no return to the people that depend on those and the already existing predatory and disgusting business practices that they have always partaken in. (I assume)
Re:AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:39PM (#49364646)
I don't think that is right. There is always a commercial and non commercial duality to art. Artists need money. Many artists hone their craft and make their money by producing commercial products, corporate music or web ads or whatever. I think your prediction is naive; this will take a huge, irreversible toll on art.
Re:AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:23PM (#49364459)
The discourse and discussion between Benjamin and Adorno is an interesting tidbit in this context.
Re:AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:42AM (#49363075)
Art is not solely an industry.
Re:AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:41AM (#49363047)
Word. But here we have about 300 sweaty nerds claiming 'AI training is like learning' and similarly misguided hogwash. Not sure how such a culture war can be won against people with no regard for intellectual property, the beauty of art and a fleet of propaganda chatbots (yes, I'm dying on that conspiracy theory hill any day).
Re:Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @11:11AM (#49346824)
Uhm, properly compensate passengers that have concrete harm to point to instead of offering a laughable alibi payment? What I'll never understand is why some neoliberal schools of thought defend conglomerates like they're their children... This company has enough money to compensate for fuck-ups, at least it should have. Every insurance on the planet can do the simple math involved for this risk assesment.
Re:The Ü Programming Language on Saturday June 06, 2026 @05:10AM (#48422961)
You realize that the Panzerschreck was a weapon developed by the Nazis in WW2? Honestly this seems pretty irresponsible to me, but you do you
Re:The Ü Programming Language on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:49AM (#48409814)
Why the nazi-esque "Frakturschrift" Logo? I get the font was not originally associated like that, but your name and that logo make me question what's behind it. I'm Austrian.
Re:Software Internals Book Club on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:40AM (#48104981)
Lol, requires LinkedIn and can't parse valid email addresses. This is what senior+ software development looks like.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:46PM (#46652654)
https://ungut.at

simple website with raymarched backgrounds :)

Ask HN: Where do you host managed HA PostgreSQL clusters in the EU?

Posted by ungut on Monday October 13, 2025 @03:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Due to a recent screw-up by the IT operations department at my organization, we are looking to external hosting providers to take over.I want to avoid the big three due to geopolitical risks and I want a competent PostgreSQL DBA that doesn't take weeks to load backups and I sure as heck don't want to roll my own.How do you choose your database providers? Are there established names in Europe?...

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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:06AM (#43035071)
This one was always kind of buggy, it was hard to maintain my custom config and figure out which plugins actually worked. Stopped using DeaDBeeF after my similarly whimsical Linux ricing phase. Can't recommend :/
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:45AM (#42933867)
Location: Vienna, Austria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (EU)

Technologies:

Languages:

- Python (Django/Flask/Fastapi, Celery, SQLAlchemy, Pandas/Polars, Crawler Tech.)

- JS/TS (Node, Vue/Nuxt, d3.js, WebGL)

- C++ (OpenCV, Qt, Embedded)

- Java/Kotlin (Android) GLSL, SQL, etc...

Software: K8s, Docker, Proxmox, NGINX, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, the classics: git and Linux of course. Im sure if I think long enough about it, I can come up with stuff that is more abstruse

Resume/CV: https://ungut.at/cv/CV_Max_Wolschlager_2025Q1.pdf

Email: hnwork2502 at ungut dot at

I am 25, have been programming since I was about 15 after stumbling into a hackerspace and started freelancing directly after school. I've been working for a research institute writing scientific software the past few years but am always looking for new challenges.

In my free time I've reverse engineered laser cutters, written JPEG decoders, a MIDI sequence definition language and designed simple PCBs (and much more). Beside that I have professional experience in Web Development, Databases, Crawlers, Embedded and Microcontroller Programming, Medical Technology and Scientific as well as Science Communication Applications.

Re:Facebook Flags Linux Topics as 'Cybersecurity Threats' on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @10:56AM (#42853756)
Sorry!

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