Hacker News: anArbitraryOne

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:33:28 +0000

I'm glad the abominable child sexual predators were mentioned. Poor Aisha bint Abi Bakr

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel"

anArbitraryOne — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:56:20 +0000

My username checks out

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

anArbitraryOne — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:42:18 +0000

So it's the opposite of smartphone, where keyboards are UI driven

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Intriguing stories in computer science"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:48:18 +0000

I disagree with the author about Black Lives Matter and abolishing ICE (more like abolishing the leaders who enable ICE to do terrible things - maybe there's some common ground there)

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "The End of Mathematics"

anArbitraryOne — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:58:35 +0000

Seems like clickbait so I'm not clicking it

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI (Lecture)"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:38:35 +0000

You beat me to posting this. Our YouTube recommendations must share some latent features

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"

anArbitraryOne — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:52:50 +0000

I'll never forget the first time that dreadful window appeared. I was frustrated for 10min, eventually turning to my phone to search for what to do.

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation"

anArbitraryOne — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:21:29 +0000

I was hoping this was going to be about french fries, but I'm not disappointed

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "The Voice of Google"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:24:29 +0000

I'm glad James Damore's arguments were correctly strawmanned

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets"

anArbitraryOne — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:51:36 +0000

It's interesting how all base 10 numbers identify as non binary

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Everything is logarithms"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:50:49 +0000

I can't believe he called normal logarithms 'based'

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2"

anArbitraryOne — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:14:25 +0000

It's fine if it hallucinates, as long as it sounds overconfident

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Dopamine Fracking"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:43:45 +0000

I don't really think bro dude understands any of the environmental effects of fracking, especially compared to other drilling mechanisms. But it's just a metaphor.

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:57:43 +0000

Wow, things operate according to lists of instructions. What a concept.

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book"

anArbitraryOne — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:44:06 +0000

I got it down to one, and then remembered I'm not a great chess player

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "What's a mathematician to do? (2010)"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:04:46 +0000

Good question, but I'm offended by the egregious misuse of a semicolon. My JIT compilation is throwing an error.

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:58:38 +0000

Just let me turn it off to preserve battery life

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

anArbitraryOne — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:29:45 +0000

What about just setting the stores in high income areas to have higher prices?

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)"

anArbitraryOne — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:49:04 +0000

What if your side-project has a side-project?

New comment by anArbitraryOne in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

anArbitraryOne — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:03:44 +0000

I made this acct to hate on MacOS but this is like shooting fish in a barrel