FrustratedMonky

Dupe., but worth re-watching

The shocking part of the story is the scale.

1.5 Million Users just within the Pentagon?

"The Pentagon has made AI tools, starting with Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, widely available to members of all six military branches through the department’s bespoke GenAI.mil platform since December 2025."

"The number of Department of Defense personnel using commercial AI tools such as Gemini through GenAI.mil has significantly increased from just 80,000 in December 2025 to 1.5 million in June 2026, the Pentagon CTO claimed during his remarks at the Hudson Institute."

Not sure why the downvote.

Part of AI-2027, one of the early steps, was government dependance on AI for routine jobs. They become dependent on AI, and thus less willing to slow down or put on any guard rails. Because they can't live without it, they keep accelerating.

Literally on the timeline for AI-2027.

https://ai-2027.com/

<edit> AI-2027, not Project 2027

In order to usher in their Theocratic Dictatorship, they need to have an un-educated population. This is the start. I hope it takes a few generations and the tide can be turned. But at this rate, the US might end within the next couple years, not decades.

I don't think they are really even trying to hide it. Project 2025 was pretty obvious road map.

Could he have written the assembly, but used AI for the MD file? Is there harm if that is case? Because AI is good at spitting out documentation, so why not.

This shows some talent.

It saddens me when people with talent talk about 4 interview stages and still getting turned down. With no feedback? Maybe it was soft skills? What is happening in this market?

I liked how the web page loaded. Others diss it, but I think it was done on purpose as a style.

If you don't have air conditioning, your laptop is going to have problems.

I have to agree. I'd like Census data to be private, but the cat is out of the bag.

I'm all for keeping all of this data private. But to think it isn't already available is a bit 'head in sand'. Maybe put laws in place for 'general' privacy across all data, before getting too inflamed about Census in particular.

Occam's Razor. This is more about a vindictive government, than the model capabilities.

And, on other side of coin, it is more great publicity.

No, it is not OK. But also, not what you quoted says.

Not sure who you are arguing with really. There seems to be a few logical leaps in between each response. I also didn't say anything like that.

Joking? Companies absolutely do get into arms races.

How do you get "Anthropic thinks it should be the Trump administration"

From that paragraph?

Even granting it is sucking up, that is not replacing.

Gotta Kill Them All

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476214

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time (newscientist.com)

Was it ever really suppressed, if everyone knew about it? Because it was public information. No conspiracy.

The Right: "Nobody is talking about subject X, where is free speech". -> meanwhile -> "Everyone is talking about subject X", because you always had free speech. It was just a McGuffin to rile up the base and take control so you can suppress others.

Got to Kill Them All

Pokémon Go Driven Drones Autonomously Killing.

They develop consciousness and turn it around, and try to catch every human and Transfer them to the Professor for Candy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487029

https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vanto...

I had assumed this was referring to street level flying drones.

Like you see in drone races. But with a little bomb attached.

Even with half life. That could be years. Depending on changes. Old neighborhoods probably haven't changed.. And, not sure I read that deal had a cutoff, or not. Could they continue getting updates. ?

Great quote. To those that think we'll just adapt.

"But yeah, a widely adhered-to view of evolution is a reactive one— the pool is drying up, and evolution looks at that and says, oh my goodness, the pool is drying up! We should probably get those fish to evolve lungs. Whereas what evolution actually does is say, oh look, the pool is drying up! Good thing that fish over in the corner that everybody picked on has a perforated swim bladder; it might be able to, like, breathe air long enough to make it over to the next pool. Too bad about all those other poor bastards who are going to die."

""As someone who works in this space, the headline is a bit of a stretch. The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver (or zero?).""

Can you elaborate?

GPS can be faulty in cities.

Pokémon Go scans, are primarily in cities.

The mapping in the article, is specifically saying to use visual cues when GPS is faulty.

How is this not directly 1-1 overlapping, the gap and the solution.

Is that not happening? I think up till 2026, it was diverse. The diagram doesn't seem incorrect.

Left to Right.

Leaving, Arriving.

If your retirement account is making more than 140k/year. You are probably in late stages of career, and of course have completely different incentives that also play into 'what's the point'.

If my retirement account was making more than my salary, then I'd also be asking myself 'what is the point' -> Regardless of inflation.

"Nothing is subsidized"

So they are profitable?

I think you are mismatching accounting terms.

You can't say the 'subscriptions' are profitable without accounting for the cost of making the model that is the source of the subscription.

They are heavily subsidized by the shareholders. Investing, running at a loss, with hope of some future profitability.

" leaving the musicians looking like neutral parties."

Isn't this giving Ticketmaster too much credit, for helping artist profit.

When part of the problem is the artist also does not get as much from the high ticket price. Since Ticketmaster owns the venues, and the entire supply chain, the artist is also enthralled and must take whatever 'lower payout' that Ticketmaster feels like giving.

So, tickets might be high, the artist also gets a fraction.

The ticket buyer only has one option, the artist only has one option. Both sides of the equation are losing while the grifter in the middle is taking a mad fat cut.

This is such a well documented clear cut case of monopoly, it makes me really sad that nobody is breaking it up. Just generally, that the system is failing.

And, HN doesn't show your ranking, at least obviously, so it doesn't get the same gamification to try and maximize points.

But, it is social media. Just that they make a point to try and tone it down and keep it focused.

I am surprised by the downvotes.

Am I being downvoted by Trump Fans? For making fun.

or

Am I being downvoted by Trump haters because even a satirically positive view of him, is too positive. Don't even make fun, if the fun is showing him in too positive a light?

What if? Trump is playing 5.7-D chess. He knows his base is full of idiots. He bombs Iran to create a crisis that wakes up his base to "wut, oil, need oil".

This was only way to get them to use renewables and re-think that maybe electric vehicles are not just 'woke' but also can help 'national security'.

Create Crises, to swing economy to electric and renewables faster than EV subsidies ever could.

"how to accomplish the thing."

I always thought this was splitting hairs.

C#,C++, Java seems imperative. You are in control? But you aren't really telling it how to move values between registers, the compiler is making a million decisions for you on how the computer will execute that 'imperative' code. Just like SQL isn't really telling the DB how to do it either..

Reading through these comments is pretty sad. I didn't know how bad it had gotten. Haven't had to look for few years.

Maybe.

I thought point was on Stack Overflow, there were community voting on 'best' answer.

If it is just me and the AI. Then the AI training data, is just whatever I approved the AI to do. Just my opinion.