Hacker News: ascots

New comment by ascots in "Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages"

ascots — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:04:11 +0000

I thought Nvidia was the shovel seller here.

New comment by ascots in "Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far"

ascots — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:40:37 +0000

my Z_spiritual(T) has been unusually high recently because all of this slop is supercharging the value I've been generating through ego-confrontation and progressive liberation

New comment by ascots in "Claude partial outage"

ascots — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:43:57 +0000

Project completely disappeared. Conveniently for Anthropic, the bug report also went down, so they weren't spammed by my stale complaints after the project magically resurfaced.

New comment by ascots in "Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width"

ascots — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:19:19 +0000

Now I'm considering how many tokens I've wasted writing "tihs" instead of "this" - tens! Any how much extra work goes into understanding misspellings?

New comment by ascots in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

ascots — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:46:27 +0000

How does LVT square away zoning laws that require commerical real estate to maintain vast parking lots that sit 50% unused?

New comment by ascots in "Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals"

ascots — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:09:44 +0000

looks like we both created educational materials about the same topics - except yours clearly is higher effort in terms of prose and human effort.

https://learn.mimmsy.com/

Was toying with the idea that with everyone vibe coding niche educational sites (this is a claim about myself, not this site) it would be nice if that effort could go into building an auditable library of widgets/ educational resources users could trust.

Disclaimer: my concept is a stalled WIP/ completely vibe coded, but for me it was fun POC of a widget registry that can be served into chats via mcp

New comment by ascots in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

ascots — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:24:44 +0000

Googling "gtao graphics" results in "Grand theft auto online"

"Gtao technique" was more helpful: Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion

New comment by ascots in "A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)"

ascots — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:43:03 +0000

Frontotemporal dementia

New comment by ascots in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

ascots — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:28:59 +0000

100% agree. If the models are so capable that they're advancing math, it doesn't seem like a stretch to expect they should be able to determine with "doing math research" entails and the best way to use their capabilities towards that end. Why do we need to hand hold the models by telling them to do parallel research, keep threads independent, etc.