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New comment by 0003 in "New YC homepage"

0003 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:50:29 +0000

Turning a builder into a formidable founder, which via the PG quote is someone who seems they will always get what they want is in its self a death. A builder... a truth-seeking creator dies. Devoured by someone who gets what they want, a superego. There should be a black bar at the top.

Shout out to the risk takers.

New comment by 0003 in "Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)"

0003 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:40:31 +0000

You say you don't understand these types & that this is a high conflict subject for you. To offer a perspective, I think it has to do with how individuals cope with their existence. In every moment, we could be doing something more worthy of existence; worse, most of our life is sacrificed to working that definitely does not meet such lofty criteria. So take these small, but irrational acts just as minor self-therapy (vs rebellion) that is constructive to the individual -- hopefully it does not do any serious harm (I trust your judgement you made the right call).

I wager this is going to become more and more common as humanity cries against the hyper-specialization and hyper-inferred MEANING on work that may be trivial in scope when juxtaposed that we really only know that ourselves our conscious (or choose your word for whatever illusion we're experiencing). I imagine there exists at least 1 UBER phd gig worker who did not fully take seriously the annotative training work he or she was doing, if you're familiar with that article that made rounds recently.

People also change with age, and perhaps in 20 years you may find yourself doing these same things. Or, maybe now, coping differently in different ways, but that people find equally incomprehensible -- I know I do.

Just mean the above for good, seriously.

New comment by 0003 in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

0003 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:49:31 +0000

Soon any attempt to actually do it would indicate you're a bot.

New comment by 0003 in "That fractal that's been up on my wall for years"

0003 — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:43:32 +0000

It's an ingroup joke but also a true warning: "Handwaving" Anyone who delves deeply into something reaches a part where they can't articulate a developing theory and hand-wave around it -- hoping you "get" it.

New comment by 0003 in "AI Horseless Carriages"

0003 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:48:07 +0000

Always imagined horseless carriages occurred because that's the material they had to work with. I am sure the inventors of these things were as smart and forward thinking than us.

Imagine our use of AI today is limited by the same thing.

New comment by 0003 in "U.S. stock futures tumble indicating another plummet on Wall Street"

0003 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:26:14 +0000

In capitalism the profits will flow to the top no matter what happens. This is a handslap. Taxing Wealth and obscene profits, and treating collateralized debt as selling the underlying would be more reasonable. Instead we are tanking the global order we built because we don't want to tax the status quo.

New comment by 0003 in "What made the Irish famine so deadly"

0003 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 01:10:33 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZIB6MslCAo Sinead O'Connor - Famine

New comment by 0003 in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

0003 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:17:01 +0000

Please get a lawyer. This is a crazy, non-reasonable stipulation "They would presumably own the IP and were clear that I wouldn’t be compensated. But it was implied that they would then remove the hold, allowing me to graduate....unless, that is, I agree to work on a comparable solution for the university focused on solving the underlying problem I was building HuskySwap for."

New comment by 0003 in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

0003 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:23:11 +0000

Enemy scaling system does not make sense. A black hole should have incomprehensionable hp. It broke my immersion; which, was a shame because I was really happy with nailing 3 math problems in row. 2nd does the enemy need to do math?? What the heck! Other than keep up the good work.

New comment by 0003 in "Math is running out of problems"

0003 — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:57:07 +0000

Should have started with the last paragraphs first, and used the top paragraphs to support it's argument -- Of course; this approach would not be clickbait.

New comment by 0003 in "Early-life stress changes more genes in the brain than a head injury in rats"

0003 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:29:10 +0000

CTRL+F did not disappoint. Thank you.

New comment by 0003 in "The deep link equating math proofs and computer programs"

0003 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:09:08 +0000

In the spirit of the topic, I ran the truth tables you got yourself a valid argument. Feel free to pin this to the top.

New comment by 0003 in "A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves"

0003 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:40:43 +0000

Thus begins the spiral coming back to "physical" security vs abstracted tech. Imagine the sales of a new BMW M5... "Yup this baby has it all. Top of the line security. Worried the thieves will see your finger prints on the keypad no worries. Just manually hit the windshield 3x, run the blinkers so many times. Etc etc. And there she goes..."

New comment by 0003 in "SVB Financial: Blow Up Risk (2022)"

0003 — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:57:57 +0000

Really great marks. Almost perfect. Except the key piece "The company should be able to sell its AFS with minimal losses and about $2-3 billion of the portfolio pays down every quarter. The company also has some borrowing capacity. So, right now it looks unlikely the losses on the HTM portfolio will get triggered, it is a risk."

File this under... "thought it was bad, didn't know it was THIS bad." And enjoy the millions of dollars you made :P

New comment by 0003 in "Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex"

0003 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:11:02 +0000

29 times then

New comment by 0003 in "Mikhail Gorbachev has died"

0003 — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:11:01 +0000

The first driver was a KGB agent named Putin

New comment by 0003 in "US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf]"

0003 — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 18:28:51 +0000

Look up the eggshell doctrine. From wikipedia: The rule states that, in a tort case, the unexpected frailty of the injured person is not a valid defense to the seriousness of any injury caused to them.

A Short Film by Danil Krivoruchko Based on the Novel “Blindsight” by Peter Watts

0003 — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:12:59 +0000

Article URL: http://blindsight.space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26217788

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 0003 in "Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time"

0003 — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:03:43 +0000

Is this the fencepost problem but with time :P?

New comment by 0003 in "Covid-19 Sanity – Covid-19 papers from bioRxiv/medRxiv searchable and sortable"

0003 — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:54:54 +0000

The last paragraph is key and should be emphasized.