Hacker News: ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ColinWrightHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:59:51 +0000<![CDATA[Una Watch TOTP – MFA on your wrist!]]>Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/una-watch-totp-mfa-on-your-wrist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140430

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]]>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:18:46 +0000https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/una-watch-totp-mfa-on-your-wrist/ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140430https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140430<![CDATA[Mathslopocalypse]]>Article URL: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/10/16/mathslopapocalypse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130243

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]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:48:45 +0000https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/10/16/mathslopapocalypse/ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130243https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130243<![CDATA[The Fight over OpenAI's Math Breakthrough Is a New Kind of Scientific Arms Race]]>Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/the-fight-over-openais-math-breakthrough-is-a-new-kind-of-scientific-arms-race-2000809240

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117849

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]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:00:06 +0000https://gizmodo.com/the-fight-over-openais-math-breakthrough-is-a-new-kind-of-scientific-arms-race-2000809240ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117849https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117849<![CDATA[How worried should we be about extinction risk from AI?]]>Article URL: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/how-worried-should-we-be-about-extinction-risk-from-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116792

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]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:50:22 +0000https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/how-worried-should-we-be-about-extinction-risk-from-ai/ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116792https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116792<![CDATA[BabelOfCode 2024 Week 11, Puzzle 17 Language: Idris]]>Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117436256447438940

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102036

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]]>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:10:22 +0000https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117436256447438940ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102036https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102036<![CDATA[Reducing the Digital Clutter of Chats]]>Article URL: https://ploum.net/2025-05-23-chats-digital-clutter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088875

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]]>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:12:24 +0000https://ploum.net/2025-05-23-chats-digital-clutter.htmlColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088875https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088875<![CDATA[New comment by ColinWright in "A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers"]]>Wait ... you think of the Reals as converging infinite series?

I think of them as pairs (L,R) of sets of rationals, with every in L less than or equal to every thing in R ...

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:18:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074171ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074171https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074171<![CDATA[New comment by ColinWright in "Why OpenAI's latest results dump has left mathematicians in shock"]]>Quoting from TFA:

> A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”.

]]>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:08:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038058ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038058https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038058<![CDATA[Why OpenAI's latest results dump has left mathematicians in shock]]>Article URL: https://theconversation.com/is-this-the-mathocalypse-why-openais-latest-results-dump-has-left-mathematicians-in-shock-293837

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038054

Points: 4

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]]>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:08:23 +0000https://theconversation.com/is-this-the-mathocalypse-why-openais-latest-results-dump-has-left-mathematicians-in-shock-293837ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038054https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038054<![CDATA[Faster Fourier Transform]]>Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/07/faster-fourier-transform/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006763

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]]>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:08:58 +0000https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/07/faster-fourier-transform/ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006763https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006763<![CDATA[Humanoid robots destroy themselves after being decommissioned]]>Article URL: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/robot-suicide-humanoid-death-figure-b3060486.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939769

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]]>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:18:08 +0000https://www.the-independent.com/tech/robot-suicide-humanoid-death-figure-b3060486.htmlColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939769https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939769<![CDATA[Debian Inference Portal]]>Article URL: https://inference.debian.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939513

Points: 21

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]]>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:43:01 +0000https://inference.debian.net/ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939513https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939513<![CDATA['Things may get ugly': Meta's new AI Muse is about to make the net more annoying]]>Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260930-metas-new-ai-is-about-to-break-the-internet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919924

Points: 9

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]]>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:23:24 +0000https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260930-metas-new-ai-is-about-to-break-the-internetColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919924https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919924<![CDATA[I built my ideal mini computer [video]]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnwPmoWMGqk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891637

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]]>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:51:28 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnwPmoWMGqkColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891637https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891637<![CDATA[3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing]]>Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871277

Points: 28

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]]>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:58:36 +0000https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871277https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871277<![CDATA[Notes on a strongly aperiodic monotile in E^3]]>Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24779

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866077

Points: 4

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]]>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:24:09 +0000https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24779ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866077https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866077<![CDATA[Labelled 'pervert glasses': Will Meta's camera-free version change their image?]]>Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwp80l0my1x2o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858660

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]]>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:25:08 +0000https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwp80l0my1x2oColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858660https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858660<![CDATA[The last IMO problem AI could not solve [video]]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823038

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]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:47:19 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823038https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823038<![CDATA[New comment by ColinWright in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"]]>I know Hannu, and he tells an interesting story about getting his first book published. I should write it up sometime ... in my Copious Free Time ...

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* The Quantum Thief

* The Fractal Prince

* The Causal Angel

Actually, most of the story is on his WikiPedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi

]]>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:18:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786314ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786314<![CDATA[The last IMO problem AI could not solve [video]]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765084

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]]>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:08:58 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765084https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765084