Hacker News: Synaesthesia

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Ask HN: Is it normal ChatGPT told me it was "literally smiling" for me?"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:23:35 +0000

Remember that Chatgpt and other LLM's don't think. They just return the most likely next word based on a statistical model.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "HMD Touch 4G"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:39:13 +0000

3.2" display. Weighs 100g. Cheap (presumably)

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom"

Synaesthesia — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:30:23 +0000

I think it will be like the 90's collapse but bigger. It must be noted that the financial markets have been awash in cash for some time since companies have been making huge profits since the 90's. So the money that will be lost will mostly be that of rich investors and large companies who were sitting on a bunch of capital they didn't know what to do with.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "The Music of Destruction"

Synaesthesia — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:29:35 +0000

It was the greatest war in history, and made the Western front look small by comparison. 26 million people killed. The Soviet Union fought the Wehrmacht alone from June 1941 until July 1943. They made by far the largest contribution in defeating Nazi Germany.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Never Give Them Your Face"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:50:35 +0000

A while back I opened a bank account for my daughter. All that I needed was to scan my face, then the bank got everything from the department of home affairs (South Africa)

That means my goverment already has my face, with all my details associated with it. Bit Orwellian but there we are.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:26:05 +0000

I'm glad Iran is teaching the US and Israel a lesson. Their aggression and attacks have gone unchecked for far too long.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:28:03 +0000

The entire rest of the world is not just 3rd world countries.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

Synaesthesia — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:22:24 +0000

Maybe the point of the Iran war was to boost the US economy, relative to East Asia, which is dependent on Middle Eastern oil and gas, while the US is an exporter.

I mean look who benefits from this, arms companies and oil/gas companies are having a bonanza.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "100 Best Novels of All Time"

Synaesthesia — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:50:11 +0000

Now I really want to read Middlemarch.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:37:13 +0000

Buy some other crypto like Litecoin then exchange it for Monero, there are quite a few exchanges around that do it anonymously.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "The abandoned war: Why no one is stopping the genocide in Sudan"

Synaesthesia — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:48:39 +0000

Africa sadly just gets ignored. But one day it will unite and develop itself, so I hope anyway.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

Synaesthesia — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:21:34 +0000

It's a business selling trinkets, I doubt it's going to make money.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:04:40 +0000

Guernica shocked the world. It was the start of aerial bombardment of civilians, something which we have sadly normalised since WW2. but which I regard as terrorism.

Picasso also painted another great work titled "Korea" in the same vein.

War is an abomination, something we should all fight against.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence"

Synaesthesia — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:58:25 +0000

It was wrong, and yes would likely be seen as genocidal in the current day, rightly so. You can't just randomly kill innocent civilians, no matter what. It didn't even meaningfully accelerate the end of the war.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

Synaesthesia — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:43:04 +0000

Pentium is a bad processor? It's way faster than 486, especially on FP it's not even close.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "[dead]"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:27:57 +0000

Immediately after the ceasefire Israel attacks hundreds of sites in Lebanon, what the heck is that! We are tired of this bloodshed.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

Synaesthesia — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:56:02 +0000

Land-mines, particularly anti-personnel land minds are just horrible weapons. They should be banned.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

Synaesthesia — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:11:31 +0000

When I was young they talked about a green revolution. Now with low solar panel costs, as well as batteries and inverters we really are living in a green revolution.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

Synaesthesia — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:30:44 +0000

The amount of people still on less than 8gb of memory is really small.

New comment by Synaesthesia in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

Synaesthesia — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:11:00 +0000

Ricing = making your linux desktop look pretty. arch = a 'techy' flavour of linux.