Hacker News: anonymousDan

New comment by anonymousDan in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

anonymousDan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:49:45 +0000

Sorry so CRSP will be fast-tracking SpaceX? I just checked and my Vanguard has 50% in that so would like to understand how exposed...

New comment by anonymousDan in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"

anonymousDan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:50:03 +0000

I can't tell if your first sentence is a joke or not...

SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund

anonymousDan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:02:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/06/03/heavily-in-debt-loss-making-with-eyes-on-sending-people-to-mars-why-would-anyone-invest-in-spacex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385866

Points: 92

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New comment by anonymousDan in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

anonymousDan — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:57:07 +0000

Come back to me when it has solved P=NP.

New comment by anonymousDan in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

anonymousDan — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:54:53 +0000

One concern is that it will become more and more challenging to conduct cutting edge maths research without substantial resources only available at very rich institutions (to pay for state of the art AI assistants).

New comment by anonymousDan in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

anonymousDan — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:53:44 +0000

Out of interest, what would you estimate the proportion of new maths that is used by other fields to be? Do you think much of this new maths is potentially underutilised as it were?

New comment by anonymousDan in "DeepSeek v4"

anonymousDan — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:03:27 +0000

Can you suggest some good ones?

New comment by anonymousDan in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

anonymousDan — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:46:12 +0000

Hint: you are and always have been

New comment by anonymousDan in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

anonymousDan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:45:03 +0000

It amazes me that people seem to think that once they have clocked in for work they have entered some kind of dystopian dictatorship where all their rights are immediately forfeited. And that people are fundamentally not allowed to push back against this kind of bullshit.

New comment by anonymousDan in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

anonymousDan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:41:15 +0000

What a pathetic quisling attitude to life.

New comment by anonymousDan in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

anonymousDan — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:47:28 +0000

ML reviewing is a total joke. Why do you have noob students reviewing a conference paper.

New comment by anonymousDan in "How to Allocate Memory"

anonymousDan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:57:40 +0000

Nice reference, thanks.

New comment by anonymousDan in "Banned in California"

anonymousDan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:37:09 +0000

Ha, yeah I remember the Galveston beaches as a kid. Left when I was 9, I can't imagine things have improved much since then...

New comment by anonymousDan in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

anonymousDan — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:08:44 +0000

Unfortunately, you could argue that the model provider has also learned something, i.e. the interaction can be used as additional training data to train subsequent models.

New comment by anonymousDan in "How Is Data Stored?"

anonymousDan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:13:32 +0000

A book length version of content of this quality would be an awesome coffee table book!

New comment by anonymousDan in "The wonder of modern drywall"

anonymousDan — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:33:27 +0000

Very interesting perspective, thanks. One of the other comments mentioned that in Tokyo they heavily use concrete blocks. Not sure how accurate that is but how does their approach differ to the US?

New comment by anonymousDan in "Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out"

anonymousDan — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:38:21 +0000

I think you are deluded if you think the latter does not happen with hosted models.

New comment by anonymousDan in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

anonymousDan — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:53:54 +0000

What about some kind of mass underwater drone attack? Feels like it might be feasible in the not too distant future...

New comment by anonymousDan in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

anonymousDan — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:02:35 +0000

'some sort of security' - oh great, security as an afterthought.

New comment by anonymousDan in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

anonymousDan — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:36:48 +0000

You're forgetting about the supply chain. Who manufactures all the solar panels and wind turbines? Honest question - are we increasing the risks of becoming energy dependent on China? Or does Europe have the ability to manufacture its own?