Hacker News: asmodeuslucifer

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

asmodeuslucifer — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:40:54 +0000

It's amazing how scary an obvious puppet in a grocery cart can be.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

asmodeuslucifer — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:23:23 +0000

I had a model F, I loved it. Then the H key stopped working. I knew from previous experience that trying to fix them never went well, so it went to the shelf and eventually to the garbage.

They were only about $100 on ebay at the time though.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "What Is a Dickover?"

asmodeuslucifer — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:19:11 +0000

In a similar vein, If I had to explain what javascript was to someone non-technical I would say "you know all that crap that covers up a web site you are trying to look at? That's javascript."

dickover n. : a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

asmodeuslucifer — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:07:31 +0000

I believed Steve Gibson about lastpass, then about bitwarden.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Trump's threats are giving Iran a reason for wanting a nuclear weapon"

asmodeuslucifer — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:02:25 +0000

Why do we kiss Pakistan and Israel's ass? They have nukes. Why do we shit on Iraq and Iran? They don't.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Laws of Software Engineering"

asmodeuslucifer — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:05:43 +0000

I learned about Dunbar’s number

(~150) is the size of a community in which everyone knows each other’s identities and roles.

In anthropology class. You can ask someone to write down the name of everyone they can think of, real or fictional, live or dead and most people will not make it to 250.

Some individuals like professional gossip columnists or some politicians can remember as many as 1,000 people.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

asmodeuslucifer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:58:54 +0000

When are they going to release Hunter Biden's laptop? The FBI has it. (supposedly)

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "What changes happen in the aging brain?"

asmodeuslucifer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:09:01 +0000

With age comes four molecular hallmarks: chronic inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, genome instability, and epigenetic changes. Recent findings have pinpointed the epigenome as a major driver of physiological aging.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due"

asmodeuslucifer — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:29:21 +0000

Two mushrooms walk into a bar.

The bartender says "You can't come in here."

They say "Oh C'mon we're fun guys!"

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Rendezvous with Rama"

asmodeuslucifer — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:41:32 +0000

Like celebrity deaths, news about RwR comes in threes.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008"

asmodeuslucifer — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:58:25 +0000

I'm going to repurpose a quote I saw from a 'distinguished' (old) science fiction writer, I can't remember who.

I know writers who have stopped selling, but I don't know any writers who have stopped writing.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?"

asmodeuslucifer — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:41:02 +0000

Yes I did find that paper, I did not find which one of the 5 authors it was, or someone not listed as an author. The word 'vacation' is not in the paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.02177.

Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?

asmodeuslucifer — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:05:10 +0000

Apologies if this is old news to everyone, but perhaps the hive mind knows the answer. I was watching a youtube video "The most complex model we actually understand" by Welch Labs and heard the story about the researcher who left a model training when going on vacation, which then learned to generalize after thousands of training steps. But when I try to look up the name of the discoverer it has not been made public, which seems a shabby way to treat someone. What's the real story?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999433

Points: 2

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New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Show HN: A tool to capture my every ADHD thought"

asmodeuslucifer — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:10:06 +0000

Hug of death for me.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Distributed Denial of Secrets"

asmodeuslucifer — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:38:20 +0000

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented over 100 people killed in the United States and Canada in attacks committed by extremists linked to the white supremacist movement since 2014.

google is your friend

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022)"

asmodeuslucifer — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:07:15 +0000

Thanks to reading The Three Body Problem, I can imagine.

https://three-body-problem.fandom.com/wiki/Sophons

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent"

asmodeuslucifer — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:53:54 +0000

Just a reminder, the poor don't do the billing. Businesses do.

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "How big tech is force-feeding us AI"

asmodeuslucifer — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:37:20 +0000

"Even when it’s not obvious to the user, tech companies are often engaged in what the designers call a “manipulation of visual choice architecture” that tilts users towards AI products."

I'm not surprised the people who invented dark patterns are using them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows"

asmodeuslucifer — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:52:52 +0000

I'm more interested in what the equity owners get.

edit: and the insurance companies

New comment by asmodeuslucifer in "Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows"

asmodeuslucifer — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:46:56 +0000

Beat me to it. This chart is only 1/2 complete. It doesn't show where the money goes after hospital care, for instance.