Hacker News: axiologist

New comment by axiologist in "If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now"

axiologist — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:48:44 +0000

https://archive.ph/FoWIt

New comment by axiologist in "The German state (Schleswig-Holstein) trying to break free from Microsoft"

axiologist — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:32:16 +0000

https://archive.ph/nWRiH

New comment by axiologist in "Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x"

axiologist — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:48:29 +0000

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513475 from two days ago.

New comment by axiologist in "Windows PCs Fade Away"

axiologist — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:48:52 +0000

https://archive.ph/EEKuB

New comment by axiologist in "Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers"

axiologist — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:53:16 +0000

Since this is paywalled and archive.today doesn't provide any useable copy, here are some other sources:

https://www.andrewerickson.com/2026/01/honored-to-be-quoted-...

https://commstrader.com/news/thousands-of-chinese-fishing-ve...

https://min.news/en/military/5d824b7037942f3c9757f2079697308...

New comment by axiologist in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

axiologist — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:00:17 +0000

Thanks for putting this into the correct perspective.

New comment by axiologist in "Second hand is now better than new"

axiologist — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:40:29 +0000

Favorite quotation:

»[...] We are living in an age of advancing technology, run by boastful elites who keep telling us how much progress is happening everywhere. But my personal experience is the exact opposite—those technocrats ruin everything they touch.«

New comment by axiologist in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

axiologist — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:02:30 +0000

I'd rather be concerned about friendly fire from our own. As an US American, i'd rather be concerned about big tech and government backdoors than anything else. Especially in the current atmosphere of doom inside the US.

New comment by axiologist in "How British colonialism increased diabetes in south Asians"

axiologist — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:27:33 +0000

Direct link to the embedded video: https://youtu.be/z8Qv7zZBxq8

New comment by axiologist in "What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People"

axiologist — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:10:50 +0000

https://archive.ph/0Q8kA

New comment by axiologist in "What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People"

axiologist — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:27:50 +0000

Quote:

»Prejudice is one reason decades of research got autism so wrong. Researchers measured autistic people against neurotypical expectations and called every difference a deficit. They tested empathy by measuring in-group preference and missed commitment to universal fairness. They measured creativity by counting the number of ideas and missed originality. They saw moral consistency and called it rigidity. They saw deep engagement and called it rigidity. They saw sensory richness and called it disorder.

Most critically, they failed to ask autistic people about their inner experiences. They studied autism without genuinely listening to the autistic perspective. For decades, science examined autistic people through a lens of pathology and deficit, rather than dignity, comparing us to animals while missing our humanity. But autistic people don't lack humanity. Research just lacked the humanity to see it.«

What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People

axiologist — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:27:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202601/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-autistic-people

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568479

Points: 10

# Comments: 3

New comment by axiologist in "Johannes Kepler"

axiologist — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:02:07 +0000

Today is Johannes Kepler's birthday (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630)

Johannes Kepler

axiologist — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:02:07 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404210

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by axiologist in "Many of the "redacted" PDFs from the Epstein files aren't redacted"

axiologist — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:24:41 +0000

https://xcancel.com/vmfunc/status/2003292986650853825

New comment by axiologist in "A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance"

axiologist — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:40:09 +0000

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/john-lanchester/for-...

New comment by axiologist in "A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance"

axiologist — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:39:11 +0000

Favorite quotation: »If you work a job where you do something useful, you are on the losing side of this economy. All the real money is in this socially useless, no-value-creating, hypertrophied, metastasized finance sector. Every gain in finance is matched by a loss. It all amounts to – literally – nothing.«

New comment by axiologist in "The Hard Problem as Hidden Relationality"

axiologist — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:11:41 +0000

Interesting perspective on the hard problem:

»Consciousness, on this view, is not a thing to be explained. It is what physical processes look like from the inside — from the perspective of the system that those processes constitute. The hard problem asks how to derive the inside view from the outside view. But you cannot derive one perspective from another any more than you can derive what a building looks like from the south by knowing only what it looks like from the north. Both views are correct. Neither is reducible to the other. And the building exists independently of either.«

New comment by axiologist in "Jane Austen revealed the economic basis of society"

axiologist — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:21:23 +0000

https://archive.is/vxcDS

Accumulation by Dispossession

axiologist — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:02:25 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulation_by_dispossession

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46278015

Points: 21

# Comments: 1