Hacker News: Topology1

New comment by Topology1 in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

Topology1 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:46:30 +0000

Do the processing fees really add up? Can't fathom that Stripe is big enough to buy PayPal, but maybe I'm just 10 years behind on this industry.

New comment by Topology1 in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

Topology1 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:42:34 +0000

How could you forget the dozenal (base 12) clock and the Dozenal Society of America

https://dozenal.org/

New comment by Topology1 in "Show HN: NamedLocal – does ChatGPT recommend your local business?"

Topology1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:30:29 +0000

I keep getting a "try again later" error

Show HN: Restore ArXiv's classic red banner (userstyle, 40 lines of CSS)

Topology1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:28:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/greysonbowser/arxiv-red

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48764697

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Topology1 in "Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser"

Topology1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:12:57 +0000

Any chance that a pentagon pattern could be added?

New comment by Topology1 in "Claude Tag"

Topology1 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:34:00 +0000

No way they announced a new product before commenting on access to Fable/Mythos.

New comment by Topology1 in "Hackers Publish Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online"

Topology1 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:45:28 +0000

Shiny Hunters at it again. Surely MSG has much more valuable data than customer emails?

New comment by Topology1 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Topology1 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:31:05 +0000

"In its IPO filing, the company had said Cursor's access to developers' data, including coding requests and design decisions, could help improve its AI models such as Grok."

There it is.

New comment by Topology1 in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

Topology1 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:32:14 +0000

How do they know when the model is recalling training data vs reasoning?

New comment by Topology1 in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

Topology1 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:28:46 +0000

Anyone know of an equivalent list but for Vi/Vim?

New comment by Topology1 in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

Topology1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:30:01 +0000

I thought they previous refused to help with war efforts earlier?

New comment by Topology1 in "The Ü Programming Language"

Topology1 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:03:55 +0000

I find the "Why choosing Ü?" table to be particularly amusing. Just cherry-picked language features where Ü happens to achieve all of them!

Standardization and price adjustment of our server products effective 15 June

Topology1 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:01:06 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/faq-standardization-and-price-adjustment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392732

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Topology1 in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

Topology1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:59:22 +0000

"Will the police stop and search people on the street looking for unauthorized phones? Prison sentences for buying a non-state computer on the black market? Charges of organized crime for smuggling in containers of open-source software on USB sticks?"

Come on, do people seriously believe this will happen?

New comment by Topology1 in "Humans have disproved the sum-product conjectures for real numbers"

Topology1 — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:44 +0000

The sum-product conjecture asks: for any finite set of real numbers, must at least one of the sumset or the product set have size at least

It was posed by Erdős and Szemerédi in 1983. This paper constructs a clever counterexamples using high degree number fields with bounded root discriminant.

Humans have disproved the sum-product conjectures for real numbers

Topology1 — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:44 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28781

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318869

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Topology1 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

Topology1 — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:26:01 +0000

Haven't tried it in Claude Code yet, but I would say over on claude.ai it is noticeably better at following instructions.

New comment by Topology1 in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

Topology1 — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:58:35 +0000

This is cool, but honestly, I find it hard to believe that 50,000 units were sold.

New comment by Topology1 in "Ferrari Luce"

Topology1 — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:37:49 +0000

What made Ferrari think it was a good idea to have the guy who killed the headphone jack and shipped the butterfly keyboard design their first EV?

New comment by Topology1 in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

Topology1 — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:13:39 +0000

Is this not old? Since then they have also required all social media to be public.