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peraon AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

Yeah and back then it wasn't used as a sort of UUID to track every single thing you do in your life... Different times

peraon AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

> You are never going to get the exact book word-for-word using LLMs

You could say the same about MP3 encoders but I don't think that would convince any judge

Sharing ideas with people is nice, the actual problem is your ideas in this case are just a vehicle for generative AI companies to monopolize access to information and control our own cognitive processes, which is not entirely something new but it feels like we are now moving backwards: from free access back to ministry of truth days

peraon Google changes its search box

This is absurd, why is Google so desperate to kill the best thing they once had? I would love to know what happens inside a corporation to destroy itself in such way.

I also don't remember ever seeing anything being force-fed as much as LLMs, why?

peraon Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?

I feel 2023 is when we entered the decrepit stage, but ~2015 is when it began: Theranos, Musk's charlatanry and cult, "unicorns", Cambridge Analytica, the raise of social media addiction, etc.

Not that things were amazing before that... it's just that mid 10s had simply too many bad actors showing up at the same time with a lot of money and power.

peraon OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

I remember back in 2018 during peak crypto bubble the same class nick named Malta as the "Blockchain Island"

peraon Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

For cars the classic example of inherently bad tech are touchscreen controls instead of physical knobs.

If you want more examples look into IoT products like smart toothbrushes, many of them now are "AI enabled".

peraon Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

I don't know anything about tractors but our modern world is full of useless and inherently bad "tech" that only exists for the flashy factor.

People are just tired of being mislead and abused by corporations, which is why there is now a market for non-tech products.

peraon Farmer arrested for speaking too long at datacenter town hall vows to fight

> Who is building it and who is principally using it?

I was actually just looking into that: Beale Infrastructure, owned by Blue Owl.

we saw a gap: some of the largest global hyperscalers—companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google—needed partners who could move at their speed and scale to solve their growing data needs

https://wealth.blueowl.com/learnengage/ra/capturing-growth-t...

The CEO is ex-Azure/Microsoft:

https://bealeinfra.com/about/

peraon ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

I really can't tell for sure (new user posting a ridiculously hypocritical corporate message on a Sunday) but if GP actually works for OpenAI the lack of self-awareness is seriously striking

peraon Ask HN: Looking for programmers who don't use and don't want to use AI

Virtually everyone on Mastodon is against generative AI

peraon GitHub is once again down

Microsoft Makes AI Mandatory For Employees

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/07/08/microsof...

peraon Ares and Apollo cap private credit fund withdrawals as exodus grows

Also reported on The Financial Times:

Apollo caps investor withdrawals from flagship private credit fund

https://www.ft.com/content/d315cb1c-1e1e-479c-a6d4-b3a817fea...

Ares limits withdrawals from $10.7bn private credit fund

https://www.ft.com/content/9a1b60c5-7015-4314-9608-d02c00c3a...

peraon Liberated Systemd

Context/related submission:

Store birth date in systemd for age verification

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436240

peraon OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

The Private Equity world already has a solution for this:

Nasdaq's Shame

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392550

peraon Malus – Clean Room as a Service

There are a lot of examples like that since the first announcement of GitHub Copilot in 2021, search for (copying) "verbatim" in this submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266

Here is a more recent example I found in Cursor's browser experiment from January:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661236

peraon Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

Yeah power consumption (and performance per watt) is the main reason I keep buying Raspberry Pi, I haven't find anything similar on that regard, specially for pi zeros

peraon Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

Maybe if I can find an unused one, still not sure tbh... Or I might go for an alternative SBC from AliExpress and compromise on CPU

peraon Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

I was just looking to buy a Raspberry Pi 5: the 8GB one is now 58% more expensive than last year; that's more than what I'm willing to pay.

peraon No right to relicense this project

Suchir Balaji, the OpenAI researcher who was found dead in his flat just before testifying against his employer, published an excellent article somehow related to this topic:

When does generative AI qualify for fair use?

https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

Balaji's argument is very strong and I feel we will see it tested in court as soon as LLM license-washing starts getting more popular.

peraon Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge

It turns out the biggest threat to AI safety is capitalism, who would have thought

peraon Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge

This was on the news yesterday:

> The meeting between Hegseth and Amodei was confirmed by a defense official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/hegseth-to-meet-with-anthropi...

peraon OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill

Not just childhood: Altman is reducing human beings to his own commercial products. This way of thinking won't end well.

I think it is getting more clear why two years ago the board ousted him, and also the reasoning behind those who left OpenAI.

peraon Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA012056...

peraon Ask HN: Why LLM providers sell access instead of consulting services?

But those margins are for traditional businesses with human workers, if these claims of 100x productivity increase are real Anthropic should very easily be able to outcompete Accenture no?

peraon Data centers in space makes no sense

New GPU dense racks are going up to 300kW, but I believe the normal at moment for hyperscalers is somewhere around ~150kW, can someone confirm?

The energy demand of these DCs is monstrous, I seriously can't imagine something similar being deployed in orbit...

peraon When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

> I agree that "from scratch" is a misrepresentation.

I believe in the UK the term for this is actually fraudulent misrepresentation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misrepresentation#English_law

And in this context it seems to go against The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1277/made

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/section/226

peraon Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water

That's very interesting, thanks! I had no idea that legionella risk was a thing for data centers. This article mentions that to avoid the risk most data centers treat the water with disinfectants which are sometimes toxic:

https://www.scaleway.com/en/blog/making-the-energy-efficienc...

peraon AI Usage Policy

Last year I had to deal with a contractor who sincerely believed that a very popular library had some issue because it was erroring when parsing a chatgpt generated json... I'm still shocked, this is seriously scary