Hacker News: andrepd

New comment by andrepd in "A Modern Web App in C"

andrepd — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:59:57 +0000

Instantly reminded me of this: source code of the first big Portuguese www portal and search engine: https://github.com/celso/sapo

New comment by andrepd in "LineageOS 24"

andrepd — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:20:05 +0000

In a practical sense, what are the consequences of that? If you're careful about not installing random shit on your phone?

New comment by andrepd in "Grieving the loss of details"

andrepd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:12:00 +0000

> transient LLM crappiness notwithstanding

Bold of you to assume.

New comment by andrepd in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

andrepd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:35:22 +0000

Everything in that list except "install drivers" is also present in consoles.

New comment by andrepd in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

andrepd — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:21:09 +0000

Why should a report about crimes committed by the IDF write about crimes committed by Russia or by Hamas? That's the most ridiculous attempt at whataboutism I've seen in a long time.

New comment by andrepd in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

andrepd — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:01:33 +0000

You did not respond to the point.

> they're applying this argument asymmetrically to their allies vs. foes

If a law is on the books, but it's only applied to a specific set of people in a retaliatory fashion, then it's worse than not being applied at all.

New comment by andrepd in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

andrepd — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:13:21 +0000

On the contrary, I found it a nice piece of rethoric to reflect on how misaligned incentives can overrule each individual's preferences in order to induce the group to take the opposite path.

New comment by andrepd in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

andrepd — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:10:09 +0000

> Give it six months

Ah, the "six months till AGI" meme, but unironically :)

Also, before citing Terence Tao on LLMs maybe you should read what he has to say about it...

New comment by andrepd in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

andrepd — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:08:43 +0000

Then you don't understand the process at all. You will get something back, you will get an immense amount back. But (almost always) not directly. A mathematician will not suddenly solve a theorem that will enable a cure for cancer or better solar panels or whatever. But working in mathematics will build the gradual understanding that will enable those practical breakthroughs to take place. It's also the most important part of how the people that create those technical breakthroughs will be trained.

New comment by andrepd in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

andrepd — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:31:25 +0000

> AI math is happening and there's no going back.

> I suspect that this is in fact the source of much of the angst.

Your comment reveals that you absolutely did not read or understand the Field medalists' open letter... Please, why would you refer to their complaints and claim you disagree when you clearly aren't engaging with the arguments presented therein!?

New comment by andrepd in "Mistral Large 4"

andrepd — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:51:09 +0000

Speaking in favour of peace in Palestine can get you thrown out of the country.

I know what you're going to say: not a citizen. But first they came for the foreigners, then...

New comment by andrepd in "Mistral Large 4"

andrepd — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:47:05 +0000

This comment could not have been more stereotypically American. I stress "stereotypical", I'm obviously not saying Americans in general are like this.

> I don't like Trump. But how has he weakened privacy rights?

Attacks on rule of law and civil liberties have increased, and the right to privacy is one of those liberties. It's of course not limited to Trump, he wasn't in office when Snowden showed the world the scale of American mass surveillance on domestic and foreign citizens.

> Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

I'm totally unsure what you are attempting to imply. That mass surveillance by the American state stopped at some point in the last 10 years?

> Allies spy on each other. The Europeans do it to each other massively and have done since the dawn of Europe. Good lord, go read some history.

What does that even mean "read history" ahaha. Espionage != mass surveillance. You do understand the difference, do you not?

> thanks for the classic European condescension

> I consider Europe to be dominated by happenings in DE + FR + UK. I don't care what Latvia does.

l m a o. Oh say can you see...

New comment by andrepd in "Mistral Large 4"

andrepd — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:39:07 +0000

> Like the surveillance state is insane. No e2ee chats, backdoors in everything.

New comment by andrepd in "Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)"

andrepd — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:32:06 +0000

I can't imagine anything more unappealing than exchanging AI generated images with my wife every time one of us cleans the kitchen or finishes reading a book on time. Goes to show, people really are different!

New comment by andrepd in "With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now"

andrepd — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:22:16 +0000

Which claims? The general feeling in the mathematical community was that significant progress towards Navier-Stokes was being made, and that the last "piece" to settle the question was imminent for some years now. Riemann Hypothesis seems virtually as unreachable today as it was 50 years ago.

New comment by andrepd in "With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now"

andrepd — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:10:44 +0000

RH would require completely novel insight and a brilliant original thought. Unlike Navier-Stokes it's not a gradual effort and you cannot piggyback off of other mathematician's works, so "AI" will not solve it anytime soon.

New comment by andrepd in "Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met"

andrepd — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:55 +0000

> "solve an open math problem" which has conclusively been done with Navier-Stokes (regardless of the controversy surrounding that).

In the same breath you recognise there is a controversy (there are actually several orthogonal ones!), and yet you call it "conclusive"... Very strange!

New comment by andrepd in "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive"

andrepd — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:56:02 +0000

The bear tax is working

Join Statement about Mathathon

andrepd — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:13:26 +0000

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/joint-statement-about-mathathon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891282

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New comment by andrepd in "Sonnet 5.5"

andrepd — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:40:07 +0000

Damn, yet they still hire programmers, marketers, researchers like there's no tomorrow. I thought everything would be vibe coded and we wouldn't need to even understand code anymore. Which one is it?

The proof of the pudding.