Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — big-and-small

big-and-small

HN member
Joined
Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 7:47 AM UTC
HN karma
109
Public activity
70 items

About big-and-small

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #48958422

    My point stands: if China was "against" Ukraine they wouldn't sell to Ukraine because a lot of drone manufacturing depends on Chinese components. Of course China does not support U…

  2. comment
    Comment #48947288

    > Energy is not the main reason. China would still stand with Russia without energy. Of course it will because Russia also has cheap raw materials not just exclusively oil and gas.…

  3. comment
    Comment #48713115

    [flagged]

  4. comment
    Comment #48691334

    They already helped Russia, gave more power and planning to unfreeze assets of Iran. Helping China achieve AI dominance is a logical next step.

  5. comment
    Comment #48162465

    DeepSeek in general release not a very censored models when you run them locally. E.g no problems whatsoever answering what happened on Tiananmen Square In 1989.

  6. comment
    Comment #47921821

    You cant imagine how much strain fast-moving mouse cursor put on display server of almost any OS if there a lot of windows open simultaneously. Also non-standard cursor sizes / for…

  7. comment
    Comment #47903971

    Macbooks were not overpriced since M1 Air released in 2020. Of course Apple was not competing in low-end segment back then, but $1200-$1400 M1 just outperformed all the competitors…

  8. comment
    Comment #47899487

    This is quite obviously because China have strict regulations and censorship of social media and US doesnt. YouTube Shorts and Instagram is full of the same garbage in US.

  9. comment
    Comment #47815554

    Might be it for scrapping content for training an LLM? Oh no only big tech allowed to do it...

  10. comment
    Comment #47815542

    Google AI studio and Gemini APIs are the least censored SOTA models.

  11. comment
    Comment #47814238

    China is working on this.

  12. comment
    Comment #47802947

    Spamhaus itself is a shady and non transparent organization and basically one of reasons why its been so hard to actually run email service for decades. Cloudflare is not perfect, …

  13. comment
    Comment #47802879

    And there obviously gonna be market for "verified" devices. Not like there is anything at all that could stop people of any ages looking at porn.

  14. comment
    Comment #47679320

    How do you imagine DRM can possibly protect text?

  15. comment
    Comment #47515082

    > To me, Epic Games were clearly trying to "pull a Valve" and capture the platform magic that allows Valve and other platforms like Roblox to be sustainably profitable. Valve have …

  16. comment
    Comment #47470338

    Europe to do what to stop the war? EU cant even stop war on their own borders. And we seen what Trump buddies think about EU in their leaked Signal chat. Also it's not like EU and …

  17. comment
    Comment #47470237

    Except it would be very weird goal to achieve because it's only give more reasons to bomb whole country into oblivion and justify deployment of ground troops.

  18. comment
    Comment #47365523

    Next step after age verification through ID will be making sharing of computer with others illegal. And Right to Read was already written back in 1997: https://www.gnu.org/philosop…

  19. comment
    Comment #47249382

    Dont bother. Even when works iPhone mirroring is unreliable and buggy experience, often asks to unlock iPhone again and sync gets broken at random and you have to go over enabling …

  20. comment
    Comment #47220432

    > Instead of being a problem solver you start to become a problem hunter, and you invent them in order to solve them Generic problem of any Linux newbie. You get good at solving pr…

  21. comment
    Comment #47194514

    Joke? Or someone really dont know it's his account?

  22. comment
    Comment #47178293

    Hey. I will ask how exactly it was solved and try to reply here in a day or two. My relative is woman so problem was that she had her original name in a passport from country of or…

  23. comment
    Comment #47166024

    While this is a real problem and I do have relative who had this issue like this there are ways to get new UK passport without paying £600 or changing legal name in other country. …

  24. comment
    Comment #47163957

    > Or are the capabilities of Gemini and AI systems in general being oversold? I pretty much sure that if anyone asked Gemini "Is it good idea to retroactively opt-in new services i…

  25. comment
    Comment #47125310

    > A government could implement the equivalent of China's great firewall. Even if it doesn't stop everyone, it would stop most people. Porn is not just political information about h…