Live data from Hacker News

Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

nytimes.com

491–500 of 715 posts

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#491

It is a bit scary how people seem to genuinely be OK with violence (see this reddit thread [0]). Is just me or does it feel like the overall "temperature" has gone up. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1shugf8/firebomb_t...

Yes, the temperature has gone up. And we all know exactly who sits at the top of it all.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#492

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just non-techies. Plenty of techies share that same visceral hatred. Some of them even use these tools themselves, because it’s a complicated issue with nuances.

Yep, all of us with a clue are keeping our traps shut at work, or even boosting it or slapping it onto projects that don't need it, because this is clearly one of those things where attempting to offer counsel and advice that's contrary to the way the MBA winds are blowing can only hurt your career.

You literally get praised for slopping out as much code as fast as you can, so why not? Makes your boss happy and gives you job security cuz eventually that shit will be completely unmanageable with or without LLMs. Gotta hit those KPIs!

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#493

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Certainly not. Nepal's Gen Z literally overthrew their government due to inequality and corruption. https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/09/nepal-gen-z-t...

They were "helped"

Everyone is “helped.”

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#494

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's talk about it again in 5 years, but 1-2 years from now, at the very least, coding will be over in the sense that the best models will do it better than the best (or the 99.99%). I don't think I'm hallucinating no, when my own work went from coding+managing+bunch of other stuff to just orchestrating and my output is just insanely higher and I literally have a bunch of friends that went from coding 8h a day to ju…

> in 5 years That's literally the same argument that the blockchain gurus made, and each following year it was still 5 years in the future. I'm getting strong Real Soon Now™ vibes.

No, AI has real, immediate, large-scale industrial and scientific applications. Cryptocurrency is a massive disappointment, but AI has genuine potential value.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#495

[flagged]

It certainly is a highly convenient timing just before the Musk lawsuit against OpenAI.

Only minor damage was caused to a metal gate far from the building. Yet people here speak of "bombing Altman". So the sympathy works, and might work on the jury in that trial as well.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#496

No surprise given that a full quarter of these on one side of the political spectrum consider political violence acceptable (~25%. Same figure is 9% for self-identified moderates, 3% for the other side). Source: https://rb.gy/wdzmsc (YouGov poll, n=2,646, date = sep 10, 2025, question = "Do you think it is ever justified for citizens to resort to violence in order to achieve political goals? (%)", raw data linked und…

“ever”? So we’re not limited to reality or likely scenarios? Just anything I make up as if I was writing a creative fiction novel? I’m not sure how much this question actually measures propensity towards violence, than it does creativity and imagination.

Yes political violence is NEVER justifiable. That is the one and only correct answer if you wish to live in a modern society. And believe me, you do not want to live in the other kind

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#497

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“ever”? So we’re not limited to reality or likely scenarios? Just anything I make up as if I was writing a creative fiction novel? I’m not sure how much this question actually measures propensity towards violence, than it does creativity and imagination.

Yes political violence is NEVER justifiable. That is the one and only correct answer if you wish to live in a modern society. And believe me, you do not want to live in the other kind

The question is not limited to modern society! Or even humanity! Just “ever”. I mean what does the universe even look like in hundreds of millions of years? Humans won’t even be around.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#498

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes political violence is NEVER justifiable. That is the one and only correct answer if you wish to live in a modern society. And believe me, you do not want to live in the other kind

The question is not limited to modern society! Or even humanity! Just “ever”. I mean what does the universe even look like in hundreds of millions of years? Humans won’t even be around.

I am not going to play pretend with you. Sorry that you dislike what you see so much as to nitpick to such a microscopic level, such is the data.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#499

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but I would trust a human writing a blog not to suggest heating chicken to 110F because the human writing the blog understands that they are taking responsibility for that recipe... The AI LLM model doesn't have a clue about responsibility except to regurgitate feel-good snippets about responsibility.

Wild takes in this thread. Copy and blog writing industry is just random fiverrs or hires from countries with cheap labour to pump up the SEO rankings. Everyone grew up with an understanding to “never trust the random internet content for 100%”, now we’re trying to say that AI has to be 100% reliable.

Okay, captain pedantic. Clearly I'm assuming a known food blogger with a reputation at stake employed by bon appetite / food network / etc in this scenario. Not some random SEO spam.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

#500

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The question is not limited to modern society! Or even humanity! Just “ever”. I mean what does the universe even look like in hundreds of millions of years? Humans won’t even be around.

I am not going to play pretend with you. Sorry that you dislike what you see so much as to nitpick to such a microscopic level, such is the data.

[deleted]
Post reply on HN