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Anybody who wants to destroy the Chinese or western economies will be watching this carefully, it’s safe to assume.

And people problems are almost invariably managent failures


The difference seems really stark. HN’s front page seems to be 15-20% GenAI related content, but the small web version at 5% or so.

Is it an artifact of Kagi’s small web list generation, or are many stories being pushed by the “big web”?


I'd hypothesise that people doing small web kind of blogs just don't find GenAI interesting. They're doing things instead of trying to make LLMs do things.


I think that's a good hypothesis. Also, the main thing that sites are using genAI for is to reduce the cost of production. Small sites are more usually labors of love, where cost of production isn't really a very important factor.

Thank goodness for the small web, and hopefully it still stays relatively slop-free.


Well the canonical example is WhatsApp, but there are loads of other success stories if you care to look.

Small teams, big results is a characteristic that I’m very interested in, in our post-ZIRP reality.


I'm familiar with Whatsapp and its relationship with erlang (there's RabbitMQ as well, which I always forget when asked..)

But they're the only real case studies

If I were to say "Go", people can point to big projects like Docker, Kubernetes, etcd, Googles internal use, and a few others (Uber?)

Erlang just doesn't have that sort of buy in, which is concerning because it's been around longer than Go (as a FOSS language), heck it's been around longer than Python (but it was proprietary back then)

Speaking as someone that's never used it, that's got "don't bother unless you've got an academic interest in it" written all over it


The ideas in Erlang keeps getting (poorly) reinvented.

So it remains a “secret” weapon and I am fine with that. Not everything have to be validated by popularity in order to be unreasonably effective.


Sounds like haskell.


I opened this, only to be confronted by an article about the investigation into the downing of Air India flight 182, a terrorist attack that killed hundreds of people, including my childhood neighbour friends Brinda and Arti and their dad, Vishnu.

Forty years. What lives they could have led, people they would have loved and been loved by. For their family, so many years of grief.

Thank you for this project.


It’s especially painful to read about that again, with another horrific Air India tragedy having happened this year in India :(

RIP to all those innocent people.


If it’s true, do we get cheaper quantum dots and better atomic clocks?


Do we then need satellite internet for mobile broadband video for doctors and paramedics if information sharing by nonlocal photonic communication is real; despite the false limit and "loopholes"?

Would this simple experiment and less destructive photonic observation show the nonlocal communication described in the OT article?

"Name of this Q/QC experiment given a light polarization-entanglement complementary relation" (2025) https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/44435/n... :

> Given the ability to infer photonic phase from intensity, isn't it possible to determine whether destructive measurement causes state change in entangled photons? Is there a name for this experiment; and would it test this?

FWIU call blocking is not possible without centralized routing; so we wouldn't even all want quantum phones that don't need towers or satellites that may be affecting the jet stream and thereby the heat.


> Do we then need satellite internet for mobile broadband video for doctors and paramedics if information sharing by nonlocal photonic communication is real; despite the false limit and "loopholes"?

Yes we still need satellite internet. The doctors and paramedics can generate some random numbers and the hospital can generate some random numbers, and once they meet again they can look at them and see a strange correlation.

But if the hospital wants to tell something to the doctors and paramedics or vice versa, they must use a classic communication channel.


Will the bandwidth/throughput limits of entanglement-based communication systems continue to preclude their use for anything but lower bitrate applications like key distribution?


I don't want to be quoted in 1000 years like the guy that didn't believe in quantum communication, ... but my guess is that it will not provide a high bandwidth/throughput.


The Double Bind surfaces in tech/security hierarchies where the CTO manages the Head of Security, and is officially accountable for delivering on growth opportunities as well as managing security risks.

While there are great CTOs out there that are conscientious and thoughtful about this double-bind, most aren’t.

It’s good to have open discussions about upside opportunity versus downside risk and generally that happens best when your boss’ bonus doesn’t primarily depend on them maximising upside.


Is there any better way you could set this up? Just asking for a friend.


Get the downside risk people in tech to report to somebody who is accountable for managing downside risk at the same level of the CTO.

Typically an intelligent and tech literate CFO or Chief Risk Officer.

If the Head of Security and the CTO can’t come to a deal, it reaches the ExCo or board for a decision.

I call this “creative tension” and it works better than the alternative.


Sounds reasonable enough - thank you !


This is a terrifying report and if there is any justice in this world, the perpetrators of this crime against humanity will be persued and prosecuted by international tribunals.

With reports like these, there is no excuse that “we didn’t know”.


They won't be able to read the records due to physical bit rot of any public archives making it through the narrow path to the future, and of course the absence of most material behind paywalls that won't be in any public archives that substantially survive. They'll get more from acid-free paper archives under mountains than anything digital I expect.


Tight feedback loops, and where hookups are the goal then it's a real dopamine cycle. I'm guessing we'll be dealing with the impact of this for decades before we as a society manage to deal with it properly.


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