Hacker News: Tyr42

New comment by Tyr42 in "EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype"

Tyr42 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:30:46 +0000

Copyleft is built on copyright, do you think removing copyright protections is going to get people to release their source code?? I don't think so. Not unless you want to try and legislate some general copyleft law, but that's probably a nonstarter.

New comment by Tyr42 in "Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]"

Tyr42 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:09:35 +0000

Your lists formatting got eaten by HN.

New comment by Tyr42 in "Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)"

Tyr42 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:11:13 +0000

You'd also care about angular sand vs round sand grains.

New comment by Tyr42 in "U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers"

Tyr42 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:04:10 +0000

Behind the meter power generation is being included on site with the data centers.

New comment by Tyr42 in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

Tyr42 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:06:58 +0000

And you are tipping before you even see the service in that case, as you pay before the food.

Of course, the staff also see how you tio before they prep your food...

New comment by Tyr42 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

Tyr42 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:50:35 +0000

Then don't visit? Or realize how bad they are with ads and bounce? They probably track bounce rate as ads load.

New comment by Tyr42 in "The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)"

Tyr42 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:18:29 +0000

You can prove something is in NP by providing a (polynomial) reduction from a known NP hard task, and vice versa. All the known NP problems (Knapsack, SAT, etc) are mutually reducable in this way, so solving one lets you solve the others. So if X was shown to be NP, then given a polynomial time solution to X, you can stack the polynomial time reduction from X to SAT to solve SAT in polynomial time too.

Art Doesn't Scale

Tyr42 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:46:12 +0000

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/art-doesnt-scale/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946729

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by Tyr42 in "Half-Baked Product"

Tyr42 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:45:38 +0000

That's handwashing right?

New comment by Tyr42 in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

Tyr42 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:52:45 +0000

Man, I always wonder what would have happened if Bill Watterson had been around for the era of webcomics. Much more creative freedom, and no editor or syndicate to tell you how to layout your panels. Would he have loved it?

Or would he have hated it? He certainly wouldn't have wanted to build a website for it.

New comment by Tyr42 in "Every Frame Perfect"

Tyr42 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:50:50 +0000

Ty but the animations don't seem to animate on mobile chrome on Android.

New comment by Tyr42 in "Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux"

Tyr42 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:09:28 +0000

Same blog eh?

New comment by Tyr42 in "Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You"

Tyr42 — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:12:07 +0000

Can I do

  echo blah blah >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

And that'd be auto approved?

New comment by Tyr42 in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

Tyr42 — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:02:35 +0000

> None of this bites evenly. The editing falls hardest on broadcast and promotional push; the notifications people actually want tend to pass through untouched or amplified.

Sounds fine with me?

New comment by Tyr42 in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

Tyr42 — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:37:27 +0000

What's the best way to play on Linux? I'm sure proton would work but it's not on steam...

New comment by Tyr42 in "Where the goblins came from"

Tyr42 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:09:36 +0000

My instructor for Epsilon Delta proofs and limits would always talk about "his cousin in Romania" picking the Epsilon and him picking the Delta.

i.e. forall epsilon > 0. exists delta > 0. forall d with |d| < delta. |f(x) - f(x+d)| < epsilon.

If we had a proof, no matter what epsilon his cousin from Romania picked, we could always find a new delta which would satify his cousin and let him pick the worst d in range.

This worked better than just saying "pick any epsilon", as it convayed the adversarial approach better.

Another book I read used the Devil as the one you are trying to convince, but it's nowhere near as fun as "his cousin from Romania".

New comment by Tyr42 in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

Tyr42 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:48:04 +0000

Health outcomes of lottery winners suggest it's not great.

New comment by Tyr42 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

Tyr42 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:38:51 +0000

I second this proposal. Three weeks shift can feel about right.

But we lost a lot of nice symmetries that way, which is unfortunate

New comment by Tyr42 in "The MacBook Neo"

Tyr42 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:44:51 +0000

Ah but then you'd need to hard shut down to carry it home. The battery should keep the ram active to commute while sleeping

New comment by Tyr42 in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

Tyr42 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:49:58 +0000

Heck, doing a self review when you wrote the code catches stuff like forgetting debug prints.