Hacker News: Chinjut

New comment by Chinjut in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

Chinjut — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:10:26 +0000

Yes, let's please give police officers the copious (cop-ious?) benefit of the doubt they have earnt.

New comment by Chinjut in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

Chinjut — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:48:49 +0000

If it's so worthless, let me have it instead of him.

New comment by Chinjut in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

Chinjut — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:54:36 +0000

The stock market is not definitionally "reality" in the sense being used. It's perfectly fine to look at the stock market and consider it "detached from reality", in the sense being said.

Elon Musk under fire for stoking anti-immigrant riots in Belfast

Chinjut — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:32:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/belfast-riots-elon-musk-anti-immigrant-violence-stabbing-rcna349384

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496014

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New comment by Chinjut in "Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap"

Chinjut — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:17:07 +0000

I have a PhD in category theory and know what the Leech lattice is and I still don't understand what is going on here. What is the value of using the Leech lattice to store memory?

New comment by Chinjut in "Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams)"

Chinjut — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:34:52 +0000

One bug after another over at GitHub. What is going on over there?

New comment by Chinjut in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

Chinjut — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:31:13 +0000

What's stupid about the disclaimer?

New comment by Chinjut in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

Chinjut — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:14:18 +0000

Very sad to see Hacker News discussing science funding. This has nothing to do with the hacker ethos of maximizing corporate profit.

New comment by Chinjut in "Please Use AI"

Chinjut — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:33:22 +0000

Hypocrite didn't even use AI to write this lovely poem.

New comment by Chinjut in "Can we have the day off?"

Chinjut — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:11:27 +0000

That's fortunate for you that what you enjoy doing and get meaning from is capable of providing you a living via market income. That's not true of many others. I try to make time for what I enjoy doing and get meaning from. But for me as for many, it does not provide income.

New comment by Chinjut in "Can we have the day off?"

Chinjut — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:50:37 +0000

Many of us do not particularly enjoy the work our employer has us do, nor believe in what the company we work for is trying to achieve. It's not like we get to choose its aims, and it's not like we have alternatives where we get to do so either. Our lives are spent working on someone else's goals.

New comment by Chinjut in "Can we have the day off?"

Chinjut — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:48:35 +0000

There's always a comment saying "Don't ask for better, because someone else had worse". Fuck that. I want better and I want everyone else to have it too.

New comment by Chinjut in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

Chinjut — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:36:57 +0000

Silicon Valley bigwigs supported this administration vocally. I am starting to doubt that their interests and morality align with mine.

New comment by Chinjut in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

Chinjut — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:54:51 +0000

But surely the more natural approach than making this undefined behavior would be making the computation of a[i] take place in 64-bit pointer space rather than 32-bit int space? Why does the compiler need the freedom to emit nasal demons?

New comment by Chinjut in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

Chinjut — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:39:39 +0000

How is undefined behavior necessary for this transformation?

New comment by Chinjut in "X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay"

Chinjut — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:18:27 +0000

Apparently, even paying users are being prevented from posting.

New comment by Chinjut in "X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay"

Chinjut — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:45:10 +0000

The implementation is buggy. Very many users report being banned while being nowhere near the usage limit: https://devcommunity.x.com/t/your-request-looks-like-it-migh...

New comment by Chinjut in "Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland"

Chinjut — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:49:56 +0000

These links' mentions of quaternions are about a different part of the book (the tea party). Furthermore, even regarding that different part, your first link explicitly debunks the second link and disavows the quaternion connection the latter alleges. Your first link's whole point is to conclude "it is indeed very unlikely that Dodgson had the quaternions in mind when writing the tea-party chapter."

New comment by Chinjut in "Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland"

Chinjut — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:41:04 +0000

I'm a mathematician, and my reaction here is somewhat different.

New comment by Chinjut in "Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland"

Chinjut — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:32:17 +0000

Why would you need to presuppose some inexplicably shifting number base to get the result of "four times [n]" always equaling n + 7? What does that get you over just more simply observing "For Alice, four times [n] has come to be n + 7"? Shifting number bases are a pointless supposition here. They don't explain anything better than what is already happening without them.