Hacker News: Chinjut

New comment by Chinjut in "The Amazon tax"

Chinjut — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:59:42 +0000

Regulation, antitrust, regulation, antitrust.

New comment by Chinjut in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

Chinjut — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:12:30 +0000

iOS allows something similar because this is iOS. iOS allows something exactly the same because this article is about iOS.

New comment by Chinjut in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

Chinjut — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:06:38 +0000

Yes. And math too. I think there's lots of beauty remaining in understanding these things, and using that understanding to craft things cleanly rather than as slop, but no one will pay us to do it, so we will never have the opportunity to do it.

New comment by Chinjut in "Felix and I"

Chinjut — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:24:27 +0000

I don't understand what you mean by "too good to be true" here. You mistakenly think the women you have good first dates with are fraudulent in some way?

New comment by Chinjut in "What sort of maths are LLMs good at?"

Chinjut — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:47:07 +0000

The result in [1] is not progress on the Riemann Hypothesis. It's another fine result, but it's not progress on the Riemann Hypothesis. You could prove 100% of zeros are on the line and it wouldn't show the Riemann Hypothesis. 100% of natural numbers are composite in this same asymptotic density sense, and yet that doesn't prove that all natural numbers are composite.

New comment by Chinjut in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

Chinjut — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:51:42 +0000

For 58 years now.

New comment by Chinjut in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

Chinjut — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:51:39 +0000

Indeed. Money over everything. It is absurd to complain about decreasing quality of a product that makes increasing money for increasingly rich people (thus, by definition, better).

New comment by Chinjut in "Theo Conjecture solves 35-year-old math problem, finds a term no one predicted"

Chinjut — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:29:49 +0000

This article appears to be AI-written slop.

New comment by Chinjut in "Recursion is lying to you"

Chinjut — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:26:01 +0000

Recursion isn't lying to you. Rather, many JavaScript implementations are screwing you over.

New comment by Chinjut in "Recursion is lying to you"

Chinjut — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:22:15 +0000

Yes, because the number of calls in this setup is 2 * the next result - 1, and the Fibonacci sequence itself grows at this Θ(φⁿ) rate.

New comment by Chinjut in "Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?"

Chinjut — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:04:20 +0000

Homer's original won a blind writing test.

New comment by Chinjut in "git's –end-of-options Flag"

Chinjut — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:20:28 +0000

The "Everything is text, do everything via text" philosophy has its advantages, and also its disadvantages.

New comment by Chinjut in "Infinities, impossibilities, and the man in the white linen suit"

Chinjut — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:40:01 +0000

That just means even more limitations, then. (Though the grandparent comment is correct that literally everything is subject to the same Gödel-style limitation on its ability to make negative claims about its own behavior, whether computers, humans, or any other system at all.)

New comment by Chinjut in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

Chinjut — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:20:54 +0000

What PC GPU was in mainstream consumer use before the N64?

New comment by Chinjut in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

Chinjut — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:57:52 +0000

Remember that the most valuable human in the world is Elon Musk. What it means to be valuable is to be like Elon Musk. Calibrate your goals accordingly.

New comment by Chinjut in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

Chinjut — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:21:48 +0000

What is the advantage of asking AI to build an engine cloning these existing engines, vs just using these existing engines.

New comment by Chinjut in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

Chinjut — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:19:42 +0000

When you look at Super Mario World, do you see moving animated sprites?

New comment by Chinjut in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

Chinjut — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:02:30 +0000

Fine by me. Let's give it a shot.

New comment by Chinjut in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

Chinjut — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:56:44 +0000

What if you believe (correctly) that a corrupt government intends to punish you exorbitantly beyond reason for possession of these zines? Is it still immoral to move the zines? Is it so immoral that it therefore justifies 30 years of imprisonment for moving the zines?

New comment by Chinjut in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

Chinjut — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:10:28 +0000

Hacker News is for people who believe in the hacker ethos "It is immoral to do anything the government takes issue with and you deserve whatever punishment you get for doing so, unless it was breaking regulations to make money, the highest calling".