Hacker News: antiquark

New comment by antiquark in "Ada 2022"

antiquark — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:49:18 +0000

Ada doesn't even have a "++" operator to increment a number. SAD!

Identiconn Connector Identification Utility

antiquark — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:39:19 +0000

Article URL: https://connectorbook.com/identification.html?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180368

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by antiquark in "Hey I almost got scammed by Google"

antiquark — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:47:33 +0000

Coincidentally, I did a search for "honda generator." One of the sponsored results was a scam posing as a different company!

https://imgur.com/a/3ydKHZe

New comment by antiquark in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

antiquark — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:57:58 +0000

First they came for the stochastic parrots, but I said nothing, because I'm not a stochastic parrot.

( /s )

New comment by antiquark in "No one wants to admit the real reason corporations are laying off thousands"

antiquark — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:01:43 +0000

> AI agents will soon be processing payroll, placing orders, paying suppliers, creating policies, sending out contracts, creating marketing materials, answering customer questions, analyzing profitability, filling out compliance forms, reconciling accounts and posting on social media.

Dystopian fantasy.

New comment by antiquark in "Ask HN: What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models"

antiquark — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:25:44 +0000

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

New comment by antiquark in "What is “literate programming”? (2024)"

antiquark — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:20:39 +0000

I seriously looked into it many years ago...

One problem with "literate programming" is it assumes that good coders are also good writers, and the good writers are also good coders.

Another problem is that the source files for the production code will have to be "touched" for documentation changes. Which IMHO is an absolution no-no for production code. Once the code has been validated, no more edits! If you want to edit docs, go ahead, just don't edit the actual source.

New comment by antiquark in "AI Broke Interviews"

antiquark — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:27:16 +0000

Welp, back to nepotism, I guess.

New comment by antiquark in "Why do we remember some life moments but not others?"

antiquark — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 03:35:31 +0000

I think to remember something, you have to replay it in your mind from time to time. The more you do that, the more you remember. (Reminiscing is probably the right word).

I guess differentiator between the "style" of memories is your personality and what you dwell on.

New comment by antiquark in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

antiquark — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:40:07 +0000

You're a bot, aren't you.

New comment by antiquark in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

antiquark — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:11:57 +0000

Nice ending:

> The reporter was banned and now it looks like he has removed his account.

New comment by antiquark in "Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY (2023)"

antiquark — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:35:26 +0000

In a tech support scenario, Dvorak is always troublesome. You sit down to type at someone's computer, and random characters start popping out.

New comment by antiquark in "Go is still not good"

antiquark — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:48:48 +0000

I'm still appalled that there's no "do while" loop in go.

New comment by antiquark in "Warfarin"

antiquark — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:09:17 +0000

I had long thought the name was based on the concept of warfare against rodents. Sadly, the etymology is far more mundane.

New comment by antiquark in "How would a passing gravitational wave look or feel?"

antiquark — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:23:35 +0000

So (in theory) you could hear the chirp of merging black holes, if they were close enough.

In fact, everyone on the planet would hear the same chirp. Someone should comb the historical records (or even, mythologies) for a birdless chirp heard by many people.

New comment by antiquark in "Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019)"

antiquark — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:13:37 +0000

This seems to be related to the "type III unum":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)#Posit_(Ty...

"This guy's arrogance takes your breath away" (J W Backus and E W Dijkstra 1979)

antiquark — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:46:29 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your-breath-away-5b903624ca5f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299165

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by antiquark in "Photon transport through the entire adult human head"

antiquark — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:43:23 +0000

Wow, weak signal... "The measured experimental attenuation was found to be of the order 10^18, corresponding to a detection of around one photon per second for a 1.2 W source."

New comment by antiquark in "New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable"

antiquark — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:41:06 +0000

The problem with these "house size studies" is that they ignore the nomadic people who lived in the surrounding areas and were (by definition), not housed.

How many nomadics were there, and how much wealth did they have?

This question would probably impact the conclusion that there was less wealth inequality back then.

New comment by antiquark in "You Commit Three Felonies a Day (2013)"

antiquark — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:06:22 +0000

Reminded me of the youtube vid, "Don't Talk to the Police" [1]. One of the speaker's points is that there are so many laws that people might not know which law they broke.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE