Hacker News: AndrewOMartin

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

AndrewOMartin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:48:00 +0000

I'm one of the git users who would sweat. Can you explain a bit (out link relevant docs) how I might split a commit up, and move it?

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

AndrewOMartin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:11:21 +0000

> Foreman was sued by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office over a drug search at his home in August 2022 that resulted in no criminal charges.

This is a mad sentence.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Ask HN: In the real world we pay for everything so why not software?"

AndrewOMartin — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:16:01 +0000

We should have to pay every time we use Pythagoras' Theorem. Sure this might make it more expensive for an individual to do math[s]? and that might have a negative consequence, but it would inspire more profit-driven mathematicians to contribute their skills to society.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

AndrewOMartin — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:38:07 +0000

I genuinely meant that lottery winners got murdered at a noticeable higher rate. However I can't find a good source for that belief now. So I'm happy to drop the belief.

Nevertheless, here's an article from an untrustworthy looking site!

https://www.grunge.com/1301397/lottery-winners-murdered/

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

AndrewOMartin — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:02:22 +0000

The thing that annoys me most about the lottery is the tradeoff between risk and reward is so dumb as to become actually dangerous. The linked site says the Eurojackpot has a 1 in 139,838,160 chance of a jackpot and a payout of €10,000,000, where for most people a payout of €50k-€250k would be completely life changing and I expect there exist risky bets/gambles/investments which would give you that payout for much better odds.

Not to mention that once your winnings goes over a certain threshold the chance that you end up dead from bad choices or straight up murdered seems to skyrocket.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

AndrewOMartin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:20:18 +0000

Redundancy isn't a dirty word in Information Theory.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)"

AndrewOMartin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:01:56 +0000

You're on the fringe of an area which in academia is called Sensory Substitution. A simplification of which is experiencing one of the five senses using different sense organs than usual. Classic examples of this are video cameras which represent their image as a matrix of vibrations on the subjects skin or as a sound.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Nvidia to invest up to $1B in AI startup Poolside"

AndrewOMartin — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:55:53 +0000

Nothing brings joy and optimism like giving $1B to a "coding automation for defence" startup.

If there's one person I don't want to lose their job to a shonky AI agent, it's Stanislav Petrov.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show"

AndrewOMartin — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:32:15 +0000

China should do some of their own research into Barbra Streisand.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

AndrewOMartin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:04:23 +0000

I have no doubt that he could, not only invent nuclear fusion, but get it running on a Pentium 90.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Model"

AndrewOMartin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:12:30 +0000

That whole page is so crisp and clean.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking"

AndrewOMartin — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:14:11 +0000

I also went to Maplins (UK Radioshack) and bought some infra red LEDs to hack together something to achieve this same effect. In the end I just taped the Wii Sensor Bar to my glasses!

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Chess engines didn't replace Magnus Carlsen, and AI won't replace you"

AndrewOMartin — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:52:52 +0000

My go to phrase for the equivalent observation is "If they ever make a machine that can make a coffee at the press of a button then all the coffee shops will have to close" /s.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Gravity can explain the collapse of the wavefunction"

AndrewOMartin — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:50:07 +0000

Sabine Hossenfelder has done a video on this. To paraphrase; she says she notices a subject people are talking about but she's not an expert in, and so she accesses some recent papers on the subject, ideally including a literature review, reads them, considers everything she's read together and forms an opinion.

I ask you, what else you expect anyone else to do? Isn't this exactly a scientific process? and anything else amounts to gatekeeping.

(quick edit: I'm all for taking everything anyone says on the internet with a grain of salt though, even peer reviewed papers shouldn't be taken uncritically)

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "How to write in Cuneiform"

AndrewOMartin — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:22:34 +0000

Not to mention his book, about when he found an Cuneiform tablet circa 1800BC telling the story of Noah and the flood, which included more detailed instructions on how to build an ark than the biblical accounts and so he went and built it.

Nice article: https://www.telegraphindia.com/7-days/the-ark-that-finkel-bu...

Excellent lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_fkpZSnz2I

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh"

AndrewOMartin — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:01:45 +0000

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently?"

AndrewOMartin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:32:48 +0000

Yeah, I think the jargon which will impress some people in the room is "I'll timebox an investigation of 2hrs/days/weeks".

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "When Bruce Lee trained with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar"

AndrewOMartin — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:30:49 +0000

- Time's getting thinner.

- and Leon's getting laaaaarger.

-- Stephen Stucker as Johnny

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

AndrewOMartin — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:36:41 +0000

> Peter Cook, [...] talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the ’30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.

Tom Lehrer - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7275489-i-don-t-think-this-...

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment"

AndrewOMartin — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:17:13 +0000

Some people in Europe have Televisions, too.