Hacker News: alkyon

New comment by alkyon in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

alkyon — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:41:43 +0000

Invoking LOTR analogy, Woz would be Tom Bombadil of the industry. Musk, Altman & Thiel, on the other hand, quite the opposite.

New comment by alkyon in "Thoughts on AI and Jobs"

alkyon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:34:14 +0000

This blog post offers no new insights.

Let's imagine that half of the jobs or more are lost. It would create a shock for the economy as a whole, incomparable with anything that happened before.

It's a snake eating its own tail paradox. It means massive bankruptcies across all sectors and some governments defaulting on their debts. We can forget about UBI in these circumstances. Yes, OpenAI and Anthropic will pay more taxes but the economy as a whole will be uprooted.

New comment by alkyon in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

alkyon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:33:16 +0000

I normally exclude all AUR packages from system updates to speed things up, so I shouldn't be affected either.

New comment by alkyon in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

alkyon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:22:00 +0000

Sounds like exponential growth of crappy software. I'm not saying that before we didn't have mass produced crap in SE, but now it will turn into explosive overflow.

New comment by alkyon in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

alkyon — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:17:41 +0000

Carpentry would have been ideal career. Building real things, artisanal or not, and nobody insisting yet that the chest of drawers you're building include AI

New comment by alkyon in "Please Use AI"

alkyon — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:21:45 +0000

Poetic licence, it's poetry or poetic prose and not some random blog post about LLMs

Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

alkyon — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:41:12 +0000

Article URL: https://esawebb.org/news/weic2609/?lang

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296822

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by alkyon in "Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics"

alkyon — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:52:26 +0000

Was mentioned in a twin thread:

"27 is a Tao prime. Terence Tao suggested 27 was a prime number on The Colbert Report in 2014. He was likely very nervous."

New comment by alkyon in "Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics"

alkyon — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:37:44 +0000

I just noticed that it's 60-3 without any divisibility tests.

Tao's 27 prime was much more embarassing but understandable as he's no a calculator.

Savants are for things like remembering the first million primes. Someone like Tao or Grothendieck can't remeber them beyond 20, but it doesn't mean they can't actuly reason about them.

New comment by alkyon in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

alkyon — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:30:54 +0000

Not really, because investors will sooner or later want to see real returns on what they invested. Tokens are suddenly not dirt cheap and enterprises are screwed.

It's like selling dope, once they're addicted, a dealer could turn the screw on them

New comment by alkyon in "Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria"

alkyon — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:19:56 +0000

"The team was able to isolate two colorless molecules called benzoquinones—heterocyclic compounds that do not contain amino acids"

Hats off, not only were they able to isolate just two molecules, but also established that they were colorless.

I don't think this is a usual definition for benzoquinones:

"heterocyclic compounds that do not contain amino acids".

I can smell Sam Altman's socks reading this article.

New comment by alkyon in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

alkyon — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:22:57 +0000

In chronological sense.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989

Round Table agreement, which paved the way to the partially free elections in 1989 won by the opposition, preceded similar events in other countries by several months including Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the Fall of Berlin Wall.

New comment by alkyon in "Ask HN: Shouldn't we increase flagging threshold?"

alkyon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:36:11 +0000

Very good point. As an added benefit, new accounts would be gathering karma slower by creating valuable comments as opposed to some more or less random submissions.

Ask HN: Shouldn't we increase flagging threshold?

alkyon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:55:03 +0000

For some reason there is a huge discrepancy between karma you need to downvote comments (over 500) and flag submissions (31 according to https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md#flaggingvouching).

As flagging often creates a lot of controversy, shouldn't we make it more difficult for relatively new accounts to flag submissions by increasing the threshold to let say 100 or even 200?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750258

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

The Fall of the Shah

alkyon — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:03:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v07/n12/malise-ruthven/the-fall-of-the-shah

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579064

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alkyon in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

alkyon — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:14:16 +0000

Reminds me of this superb part of the Odyssey where Odysseus is reunited with his dog, Argos, after 20 years of absence. Odysseus was in disguise, but it's only him that could pass the test and recognize the returning king, after which he died.

https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.t...

New comment by alkyon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

alkyon — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:40:26 +0000

Still preferable to just pasting it without revealing the source. LLMs have become a brain prosthesis for some people which is incredibly sad.

New comment by alkyon in "Algebraic topology: knots links and braids"

alkyon — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:29:07 +0000

Horned sphere is a recursive beauty. Nice thing to refresh my memory on path-connected vs simply connected propety.

New comment by alkyon in "Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed"

alkyon — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:16:46 +0000

We don't know what happened with the bulk of Epstein's private island videos. Who knows, they may well have resurfaced in Tel Aviv or Moscow. Both countries have a lot to gain from this disastrous campaign.

New comment by alkyon in "US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide"

alkyon — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:42:02 +0000

You're recursively funny :]