Hacker News: YawningAngel

New comment by YawningAngel in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

YawningAngel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:37:44 +0000

>AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

Seems like there's no benefit even if it's used "correctly"?

New comment by YawningAngel in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

YawningAngel — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:59:17 +0000

I don't think it's politically motivated at all. My impression of this IPO is that it's designed to inflate SpaceX's perceived value by offering very limited float and aggressively seeking to capture passive money by bargaining for inclusion in indices it would not otherwise be eligible for. Speaking as a passive investor myself, I want my money nowhere near this company until it meets the old eligibility criteria.

New comment by YawningAngel in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

YawningAngel — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:11:37 +0000

As someone unfamiliar with the US-Canada trade relationship, it would be helpful if you developed this argument instead of stating it as a fact. I'm not well-placed to know whether your belief that Canada has bilked the US out of 46 billion dollars is well-founded or not.

New comment by YawningAngel in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

YawningAngel — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:10:35 +0000

I think that is a very valid criticism. Equally, in the UK there is a sense of providers having tried nothing and then given up concluding that it hasn't worked. Some services that ban bikes legitimately cannot accommodate them safely, some can. Some services legitimately are too busy at peak times to accommodate bikes, and some ban them anyway because making granular policy is hard. In a similar vein, some of those same services that ban bikes due to how busy they are running eight of a possible 10 carriages because they claim not to need the space.

I think a lot of the rules turn out to be reasonable but the rulemakers should be less gung-ho about restricting bikes when they don't really need to

New comment by YawningAngel in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

YawningAngel — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:08:37 +0000

I don't fault OP for this, but it's pretty frustrating to me as someone who's quite attached to his non-folding bike that the main benefit of folding bikes is that, unlike regular bikes, they aren't banned from pretty much all public transport

New comment by YawningAngel in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

YawningAngel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:37:50 +0000

Movistar are paying a billion dollars a year, so probably a long way away

New comment by YawningAngel in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

YawningAngel — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:53:03 +0000

I played this game recently and you have to click through several screens telling you that it's disturbing to open and play it

New comment by YawningAngel in "The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M"

YawningAngel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:38:39 +0000

If your definition excludes Ethereum your understanding of the term so differs from everyone else's that we aren't talking about the same thing

New comment by YawningAngel in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

YawningAngel — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:33:58 +0000

I think the navigation system was OK, we just said the impacts were further West than they actually were so the V2s fell on East London instead

New comment by YawningAngel in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

YawningAngel — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:05:39 +0000

I'm a little torn on this one. On the one hand, people are bad epistemologists and lots of countries manage with similarly limited jury trials. On the other, we're doing it for cost reasons, which I think is the worst basis imaginable for such a move

New comment by YawningAngel in "Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB"

YawningAngel — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:23:04 +0000

I'm not quite clear on the how of it, but Stockfish works pretty well outside the normal bounds of chess. There are toy chess variants on chess.com with "dragons" (knight + bishop) and stockfish can use those very effectively

New comment by YawningAngel in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"

YawningAngel — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:55:20 +0000

If you have a cogent critique of our policy on preserving old buildings, you should articulate it. As things stand you just sound unhinged

New comment by YawningAngel in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

YawningAngel — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:26:07 +0000

I don't think generative AI is even close to making model development 50% faster

New comment by YawningAngel in "HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden"

YawningAngel — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:21:39 +0000

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n...

New comment by YawningAngel in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

YawningAngel — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:14:35 +0000

If they came to your home country, very possibly yes.

New comment by YawningAngel in "NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?"

YawningAngel — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:03:11 +0000

Which insinuations do you think are ludicrous? Is it not a matter of public record at this point that the NSA and NIST have lied to weaken cryptography standards?

New comment by YawningAngel in "Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles"

YawningAngel — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:29:55 +0000

Coffee is inherently not a consistent drink. The only brewing methods that don't vary significantly with brewer skill and chance are immersion brews, which aren't broadly used in modern coffee shops. It's surely better to not burn the beans to ash and accept some inconsistency than ruin the drink every time

New comment by YawningAngel in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

YawningAngel — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:06:25 +0000

We have had several serious nuclear incidents and none have destroyed either a continent or the people on it

New comment by YawningAngel in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

YawningAngel — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:44:30 +0000

You don't need verifiers. I interviewed at R3 (now Onyx) in JP Morgan and my take on the business was that it's more of a distributed ledger than a blockchain

New comment by YawningAngel in "The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module"

YawningAngel — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:52:12 +0000

Not really. It isn't hard to use FIPS validated software, it's just annoying to do because most libraries you would want to use aren't FIPS compliant by default for good reasons. If you can get a government contract in the first place you are already administratively competent enough to use FIPS.