HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

mbmbn

-20 karma · joined June 7, 2026

submissionscomments
mbmbn··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Can you point the way where Free Speech is being countered here?
mbmbn··on Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
> “ Musk is only the most recent in a long line of semiliterates”

Jesus Christ. You people, smelling your own farts. It’s just ridiculous.

A bunch of nobodies, pending they are some sort of intellectual powerhouse, reining down on a guy that revolutionized, electric vehicles, space communications and space travel, like THEY are actually his mental superiors.

mbmbn··on Why do we assume everyone should be working?
The problem is not really if someone is working or not, but that someone is able to demand that someone else works to provide for them.

If you don’t want to work, but you are somehow able to get by without having your existence assured by redistributing the property of someone else, more power to you.

mbmbn··on Europe's fires are just the start
“French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu warned the country "is going through an unprecedented fire season", with 116,085 hectares (286,852 acres) burned and 13,566 fire starts recorded since January. The minister revealed in a post on X that nine out of 10 fires "are human-caused and most arise from carelessness: a cigarette butt, a barbecue, work carried out without precaution".”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg34128nvpo

mbmbn··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
I tried going that route, but most apps for streaming are Android. And that was only one of the issues.

It was a rabbit hole and in the end I got back using my NVIDIA Shield. This is about 10 years now, but it’s actually still the best option.

mbmbn··on 'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts
> they don’t really have a choice

This kind of discourse is so intellectually poor…

mbmbn··on Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women
And in Italy, she has 90 days to do it legally and for free.

And please stop that rape red herring. The overwhelming majority of abortions are carried out as contraceptive methods.

mbmbn··on Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women
So, providing information on how to carry out abortion after the 1st trimester in a country where abortion in the first 90 days is legal and free is not the disturbing part to you… it’s trying to prevent abortions after those 90 days.

I believe there’s something very wrong with your moral compass, pal.

mbmbn··on DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]
They are not catching up to US models. The only Chinese models that attain a modicum of competence are all, sooner or later, are discovered to be trained by exploiting US models (in fact Deepseek itself admitted so about 1 year back).

Chinese models are not innovating anything, they are just doing what China does everywhere else: copying the West… poorly but cheaper.

mbmbn··on Future euro banknote design proposals
I do hope we get Charles Martel though.
mbmbn··on "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
Shows about the same level of technical mastery that present days painters.
mbmbn··on Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
Would these measures have prevented, for instance, the generalized Rape Gangs they had in the UK and that were hidden by the authorities to keep some weird idea of social peace?
mbmbn··on Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
This title is very misrepresentative of the actual article.

This is an article about initiatives to attract scientists to the Netherlands, not about some supposed ongoing brain drain.

mbmbn··on The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting
And in a decent society, the state forcibly taking your money away with the threat of violence is called a robbery.
mbmbn··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
It’s an analogy, it’s always going to be imperfect!

Jesus Christ.

mbmbn··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
It’s like Bill Gates criticizing Apple… if you really want to split hairs about the analogy used.
mbmbn··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
I mean, I can see some issues with SpaceX valuation, but I find it really funny that we are now taking advice from the LinkedIn founder on HN.

Ideology is truly blinding.

mbmbn··on Steam Machine launches today
But, will it properly support NVIDIA GPUs? That’s was the biggest pain point for years.
mbmbn··on Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor
Why undemocratic? I thought parliamentary elections in UK worked like in most of Europe: you vote for a party, not a candidate.

At least here, it already happened, to have the PM resigning and then someone else from the party to pick up the role and that’s legally sound.

mbmbn··on How to feed a dictator
To spare the ones that still didn’t lose all their good sense to have to go through the all article. It ends with trying to put Trump in the same bucket as Pol Pot and Sadam Hussein (this is all so tiresome).

So, it seems clear this film does have a side to pick and will be of dubious accuracy.

“Neel did give some thought to including Donald Trump in his film – even though, “to be clear, he is not a dictator,” he says. “He wants to be one, but he’s not. I did find a chef who cooked for him before he got elected.”

mbmbn··on Amazon employees say they're facing termination for backing data center limits
I’m not sure about the law protecting them or not, but it’s deeply hypocritical from their part.

It’s just people used to virtue signaling that aren’t willing to pay any price, no matter how small, for what they defend. They really think they are up to something when all they do is speak and “look good”.

If they think their company is doing something really problematic, then resign.

mbmbn··on SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable
Realistically, what should be expected if I run this in my desktop with AMD 9000x CPU and a NVIDIA RTX 5000x GPU?
mbmbn··on Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
How do you achieve that? Any special tooling or just skills?
mbmbn··on Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
Then again, our laptop battery only lasts 1/3 as much on MacOS.

I know, I know. The community keeps pretending this isn’t an issue for the last, hum, 15 years? But it is, and for people that are looking for a tool and not for a statement, it quickly drives them away from Firefox back to Chrome browsers.

mbmbn··on Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus is already close to unusable for me. On the standard plan, the usage limits are so low that I can’t do almost anything agentic meaningful with it.

Sure, it does last a lot more when asking simple questions about the repo and doing simple surgical fixes. But as soon as I start doing bigger tasks that need plans written, it just exhausts the limits too fast (and unlike codex, if it’s in a middle of a task, Claude actually stops, while codex, even after hitting the limits, finishes the present task).

Codex is better, but still, getting worst in this regard.

So, I’m not that thrilled with this new model unless it means they are increasing opus token limits to what sonnet is at the present, and this new model gets the limits opus are at now.

BTW: the only skills I have in use are Obra Superpowers. I’ve been thinking if that’s at the origin of high token usage, but I doubt it.

mbmbn··on Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
They were actually distributing an opinion piece titled “Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!”

They weren’t distributing a scientific article.

Link: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Mi...

mbmbn··on Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
This is part of a paragraph of the article being distributed:

“These proposed cuts would eliminate the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, which they claim “is replete with DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] expenditures,” the Fogarty International Center, which is responsible for funding degree programs in foreign countries that benefit the health of all, including Americans, and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, whose charge includes supporting research and offering information about complementary health approaches in the setting of whole-person health.”

This is ideological. It’s got nothing to do with medical science and research.

mbmbn··on Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Any reasonable person, would understand that a scientific organization aim of promoting the share of information between members, applies to scientific information, not to political propaganda.