OpenAI is already doing mass surveillance, so nothing changes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/21/tumbler-ridge-...

"Don't do evil"

Oh, wait...

Defending one's own country is not evil, no matter how much money Qatar pours into Western social media influencers.

It is when "defense" means invasion and subjugation of other countries. All countries pose their military operations as "defense." Inquiring minds should ask if a country surrounded on sides by two oceans with two pacified neighbors has any real threats or merely opportunities for cheap labor, market access, and mineral rights abroad.

This has been going on for a very long time (read what Smedley Butler said in "War is a Racket"), but after the Iraq War, the credibility of the US should be somewhere in hell.

It's not black and white. There is an entire spectrum of completely justifiable and extremely questionable uses of military power by the US.

US did rename the Department of Defense to Department of War so not sure how much posing is left..

> Defending one's own country is not evil

What if the your country’s government is the biggest threat to it, though?

I can't remember the US ever being in a position of defense, no matter how much AIPAC handlers blackmail Western politicians with Epsteins.

Aiding Hegseth / The Heritage Foundation is not aiding the US. If anything, it's the exact opposite.

"need a contractual relationship with a US company to interact with the UK Government"

Generally, this is called a vassal state. Better to keep overlords happy.

Very nice post! This is finally news for hackers again.

Weak. They should pivot to AI.

For alternative European providers, I recommend OVH. Some euros pricier, but good.

If your only complaint with Hetzner is the price hike, though, it makes no sense to migrate to a more expensive vendor.

Used to have my VPS' with OVH a few years back but noticed the performance was significantly worse than similarly priced Hetzner ones. Not sure if that changed.

Regarding alternative VPS providers, Infomaniak in Switzerland have decent prices on their Lite range [0]. I'll stick with Hetzner but if I move some day, I might try them out.

[0] https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/vps-lite

I checked yesterday. The cheapest vm I can get from them was something like 25 euros/month. The one I get from Hetzner was 6/month and now will be 8 per month. That's a 3x difference. A little cheaper than GCP/AWS. But not a whole lot. I went with Hetzner based on that as I'm trying to reduce an 800 euro/month Elastic Cloud + GCP bill to < 100 month. Even with the price increases, I should get below 100/month.

I've been on OVH forever, but recently switched to Hetzner as OVH doesn't have their equivalent of their auction servers which are great if you are looking for combinations of SSD + HDD servers. These don't really exist at OVH unless you pay > 200 euro / month.

I have received awful, slow, inaccurate support from ovh. Avoid.

OVH also increased their pricing significantly.

The article isn’t describing someone who learned the concept of sortable IDs and then wrote their own implementation.

It describes copying and pasting actual code from one project into a prompt so a language model can reproduce it in another project.

It’s a mechanical transformation of someone else’s copyrighted expression (their code) laundered through a statistical model instead of a human copyist.

“Mechanical” is doing some heavy lifting here. If a human does the same, reimplement the code in their own style for their particular context, it doesn’t violate copyright. Having the LLM see the original code doesn’t automatically make its output a plagiarism.

I am addicted to Hacker News. Who can I sue?

I can confirm the products bit, I tried to use Gemini to help with G Suite admin.

One does not need products if you have monopoly on search

That monopoly is worth less as time goes by and people more and more use LLMs or similar systems to search for info. In my case I've cut down a lot of Googling since more competent LLMs appeared.