Hacker News: Insanity

New comment by Insanity in "I sent Claude Opus 5 '–-' and it wrote me 5k tokens about a cartographer"

Insanity — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:24:17 +0000

I couldn’t replicate it either. Not sure if the user who discovered it, accidentally did this in an environment with “memory” like an OpenClaw.

New comment by Insanity in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

Insanity — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:58:10 +0000

Given how poor their Ukrainian war is going, this is a strange move. I guess it’s mostly just posturing?

New comment by Insanity in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

Insanity — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:01:40 +0000

I’ve never seen anything point to Anthropic being profitable.

New comment by Insanity in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

Insanity — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:59:58 +0000

Given how heavily subsidized it is at the moment, the efficiency isn’t as important. Typically efficiency would give you more at lower cost, but with token prices so removed from actual cost that plays less of a role here.

New comment by Insanity in "AI Bubble vs. Dot Com Crash. History Is Repeating"

Insanity — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:11:30 +0000

At least the dot com crash left us with m useful infrastructure. And it didn’t price regular customer out of the computer market.

Going to have to sell a kidney to build a new gaming PC the next few years.

New comment by Insanity in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

Insanity — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:38:10 +0000

True indeed, I definitely missed some sleep because of books.

New comment by Insanity in "Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)"

Insanity — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:24:37 +0000

Well, I guess both risk management and the 5 stages are inherently a human activity. Not too surprised that behaviour transfers across personal/professional boundaries. :D

New comment by Insanity in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

Insanity — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:33:24 +0000

Also, reading lowers stress. Which in turn improves sleep an overall mental / physical health. I always read before going to bed for at least 30 minutes, and anecdotally I have a much easier time to fall asleep that way.

New comment by Insanity in "The age of the Universe from a large sample of the oldest Galactic stars"

Insanity — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:53:27 +0000

And yet again the age of the universe is pushed higher. As our understanding improves, it tends to get older (and larger).

New comment by Insanity in "Maybe Men's Problem Is That They Like Being Lonely"

Insanity — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:55:21 +0000

Poor title or poor understanding of 'Lonely'. Lonely means the negative experience of being alone / longing for connection.

I guess better phrasing is 'Maybe men like solitude', or 'Maybe men like being alone'. 'Being lonely' is bad phrasing.

But more OT, I definitely need my 'me-time / alone time' to feel happy. I'd go crazy without that. Doesn't mean I want to always be alone, and I'm happy to be in a relationship. So by no means would I ever describe myself as 'lonely', even during the periods of time when I am alone.

New comment by Insanity in "I Learned to Read Again"

Insanity — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:21:16 +0000

I didn't read Peak Mind, but two books that are somewhat in the same vain (based on your description) are:

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59794522-non-things

2. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/236849376-attensity

First one I highly recommend. Second one I'm reading now, so far it's.. okay. The ideas in the book resonate with me but the writing is poor. The first book (Non-Things) talks about our relation to the digital versus the physical, and it convinced me to stop using my phone as much.

New comment by Insanity in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

Insanity — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:11:05 +0000

This resonates with me. I enjoy being at my grandparents’ home. And it’s exactly as you mentioned, if I would describe all the stuff in the living room it’d be called “cluttered”. Yet it feels “homey” and I feel pretty relaxed whenever I sit there to read a book.

And then on my side, for the past 15 years I moved to a new place about every 2-3 years. Never really invested in making it feel “homey” because I’m not sure how much space I’d have in the next place I move to.

New comment by Insanity in "Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues"

Insanity — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:49:57 +0000

I've been a paying customer for many years and can't recall the last time this happened apart from now. It's honestly been a pretty stable service and rarely encountered any issues with it.

New comment by Insanity in "AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget"

Insanity — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:57:54 +0000

Same here. I started describing it as the “uncanny valley” of text. It’s like a gut reaction that something is off with the text even if you can’t pinpoint it immediately.

New comment by Insanity in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

Insanity — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:33:31 +0000

Ah yes, remember how back in the day people spent about 6-8 hours reading the newspaper. /s

New comment by Insanity in "Life with Hazard Ratios"

Insanity — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:18:49 +0000

I think there’s just a decent component of “random chance” involved. You can live a healthy life and still die too young, or you can be a lifelong smoker who lives to 90.

When thinking about the impact of behaviour on health, it talks about humans in aggregate, not on an individual level.

New comment by Insanity in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

Insanity — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:44:04 +0000

+1. The base price for US healthcare is entirely removed from the cost of the service provided. And you can of course just look at other countries to figure out that the cost is much higher than it should be.

New comment by Insanity in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

Insanity — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:37:57 +0000

I tried a “cleaning sim”. I already forgot the name but it was just like doing chores with a pressure cleaner.

Have not tried the train / driving sim though.

New comment by Insanity in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

Insanity — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:36:51 +0000

I like this comparison. That’s a good way to think about it.

New comment by Insanity in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

Insanity — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:29:50 +0000

I never got the appeal for these sim games. From the screenshots, it looks like a beautiful game and I guess I could enjoy the visuals for an hour or 2.

But I don't see how it'd entertain me for hours on end. If someone here is into these sim games, what's the reason you keep going back to them?