Hacker News: Lewton

New comment by Lewton in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

Lewton — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:24:40 +0000

Thank you!

It really irked me when I read it the first time and it drives me nuts that no one else seems to catch this, you’re the first one in some 100 HN threads to point it out

New comment by Lewton in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

Lewton — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:54:55 +0000

Some of the cpi data is synthetic, based on best guess, the ratio of synthetic data has gone up sharply https://www.apolloacademy.com/the-quality-of-the-cpi-data-co...

New comment by Lewton in "How can I influence others without manipulating them?"

Lewton — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:43:15 +0000

> That all of earth is round, comes not from direct observation (except for the very few people who have been in space).

or anyone who's been in a plane?

New comment by Lewton in "Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others"

Lewton — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:19:42 +0000

I'm hard stuck on fish probability 59% fml

New comment by Lewton in "LLM Inevitabilism"

Lewton — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:01:49 +0000

> I heard majority of the users are techies asking coding questions.

Citation needed? I can't sit on a bus without spotting some young person using ChatGPT

New comment by Lewton in "Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels"

Lewton — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:23:00 +0000

I’m not arguing against your basic point as I completely agree arriving on time is my own responsibility, but when I do what you suggest, i forget my house keys lol

New comment by Lewton in "The Moat of Low Status"

Lewton — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 13:29:12 +0000

> since 100% of people already agree that you should never be afraid to ask basic but obviously important questions.

You don’t have a great mental model of how most people think

New comment by Lewton in "Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations"

Lewton — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:57:34 +0000

Breaking down muscle is good, not letting the muscle recover is bad

Same kind of thing

New comment by Lewton in "Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s"

Lewton — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 22:48:01 +0000

A week ago, I was looking for the name of a semi obscure late 90ies computer game. Google could not help me given the description i gave

Described it to ChatGPT, and we had a back and forth where I explained why the games it suggested me weren’t right, it eventually found the correct game (Nocturne) and was able to explain to me that half of the things I remembered from the game were just plain wrong, and that’s why Google couldn’t find it

ChatGPT helping me with my hallucinations, go figure

New comment by Lewton in "Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths"

Lewton — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:04:40 +0000

It’s all good, I didn’t take your comment as an indication of how it actually functions in Canada. Just reacting to the implications of your examples

New comment by Lewton in "Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths"

Lewton — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:41:50 +0000

> Where they can't afford the medication, or no medication seems to work, or they have an addiction problem and there just isn't any way for them to get into a treatment program

I would consider two of these absolutely monstrous reasons to assist someone in killing themselves. A broken society opting into killing its citizens because it can’t be arsed with fixing itself is next level evil

New comment by Lewton in "Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts"

Lewton — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:21:28 +0000

>If you sign out and view a user you can see their posts

Only for prolific twitter users and only a random mishmash of 2+ year old tweets. Usually it just asks you to sign up

New comment by Lewton in "The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity"

Lewton — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:53:59 +0000

It's a substack blog, there's no trickery going on. It just means she used https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/ until now

New comment by Lewton in "Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills"

Lewton — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:08:20 +0000

record players are perfect

New comment by Lewton in "Danish government will shut down encrypted messaging (including via blocking)"

Lewton — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:25:18 +0000

It's a mistranslation of 'vil' => will, when 'vil' actually means "would like to"

New comment by Lewton in "Danish government will shut down encrypted messaging (including via blocking)"

Lewton — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:23:09 +0000

*wants to, not will

New comment by Lewton in "You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses"

Lewton — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:05:20 +0000

This is the reason why I wear glasses now, it's not really fun to have your vision go blurry at random while biking

New comment by Lewton in "Isometric Projection in Game Development"

Lewton — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:26:20 +0000

Oh man, I completely forgot about that game.

Absolutely loved it as a teen!

New comment by Lewton in "NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job"

Lewton — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:25:54 +0000

where did you get the impression that i spend time hating people? I'm saying that you shouldn't normalise being a shitty person "because you have to be shitty to be great". There's tons of amazing artists that are generally known as being all around great people

(I'm not even referring to fat mike here, I have no idea if he's a good person or not)

New comment by Lewton in "NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job"

Lewton — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:34:25 +0000

nah, this is just lame apologia that normalises being a shitty person