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New comment by beepbooptheory in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

beepbooptheory — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:17:22 +0000

As someone who lives this reality (arrest but no conviction), it's in practice not really so bad. It's never come up with a landlord. The last time it came up was after being accepted to grad school and I had to fill out a form about it. You do just carry with you the knowledge that if you ever get pulled over the cop can pull it up about you and have reason to hassle you more.

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

beepbooptheory — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:24:59 +0000

If this speculated intelligence is so "super" why would it matter what its host country's commitments are? I would hope it would at least be intelligent enough to sort things out there? How can something be so potentially threatening, so "super," but also be like a baby, where we need to worry how its raised? Its super intelligent about everything except ideology? That doesn't really sound like (super)intelligence to me..

But ok, even granting that framing, if the issue is China's placement on the spectrum of "liberal", what would it take for them to be the good enough guys here?

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

beepbooptheory — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:06:20 +0000

Why should we care about that? Even if you wanted to argue our individual fates are tied to our country's, we don't all live in the same country, so how, actually, could we all care? Are you really convinced its so zero sum like this?

We collectively spend decades and decades creating a sophisticated global capitalism, huge networks and infrastructures of trade and travel, just to find ourselves in some dark forest-esque race with everyone else anyway? Is this really consistent to you? What was the point of anything in the last, like 40 years to you if we just need to act like we are still in a cold war, except this time its a war with everyone?

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

beepbooptheory — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:58:40 +0000

If, like me, you have an older android and are running Firefox, do not open this site!

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

beepbooptheory — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:54:42 +0000

Thanks for caring and being respectful.

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

beepbooptheory — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:21:48 +0000

Tell tale sign of what? What are we even doing once we are "fully agentic"? I probably lack some imagination here, but if there is no human connected to any of it, what does any human actually get out of it? What is the point?

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Vivaldi 8.0"

beepbooptheory — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:57:57 +0000

But isn't that their point? In the age of AI, maybe being "easier to audit" is as much a risk than an assurance? I'm not sure I agree, but it is interesting to mull over. Further, either way, your tone and response is not very charitable, to say the least. From the outside, you are the only one blustering and grasping here. Not everything needs to be so antagonistic maybe?

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

beepbooptheory — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:30:32 +0000

Two wrongs don't make a right, as they teach us as children.

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

beepbooptheory — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:10:29 +0000

Of course! That point in the guidelines has links to some prior art in this vein. Highly recommend it for you.

And please, do better next time!

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

beepbooptheory — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:29:16 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills

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

beepbooptheory — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:06:38 +0000

I agree with you all around except it's somewhat up for debate actually that the PI is "contradicting" the Tractatus. That is, there is the so called "resolute reading" of the Tractatus that had some traction for a while.

But note this is more to say that the Tractatus is like PI, not the other way around. And in that, takes like GPs would be considered the "nonsense" we are supposed to "climb over" in the last proposition of Tractatus.

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

beepbooptheory — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:27:53 +0000

Where does it talk about a voice assistant?

New comment by beepbooptheory in "I Don't Vibe Code"

beepbooptheory — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:38:46 +0000

Wait what's wrong with the Criterion Channel??

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Why I don’t vibe code"

beepbooptheory — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:50:03 +0000

I taught myself linux/coding/servers because there was a long period of time where all I had was a chromebook for school, but I still wanted to explore this thing called "pure data" that i'd heard about, and thought I could make art with it. I distinctly remember being continually amazed at how you could get so many things for free, if you know where to look. And yeah.. once I found emacs it was all over. To this day I am definitely going to always go "the hard way" where I can instead of pay any SaaS even $5 a month. In my head its like: "I am a mechanic, or at least, I can get by as one, why would I take my car to the shop and pay money??"

I know its not rational, but it would be pretty darn terrible in my brain to pay for an IDE. Even more unimaginable to me to pay $100 a month for something...

All to say, "cheapskate"-ness from TFA really resonated with me, I don't see the sentiment around a lot.

New comment by beepbooptheory in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

beepbooptheory — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:34:57 +0000

Just wanna say I am happy 404media is, presumably, not banned here anymore!

New comment by beepbooptheory in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

beepbooptheory — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:48:31 +0000

What is a standard for a disagreement?

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

beepbooptheory — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:01:00 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

beepbooptheory — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:49:11 +0000

Ok! So the answer is in fact 'yes', with once again the rider that it is not something we should call a blockade. That seems fine with me, I think we agree about the important thing here.

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

beepbooptheory — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:46:46 +0000

...so that is a 'no' to the question, right?

New comment by beepbooptheory in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

beepbooptheory — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:44:56 +0000

Ok but if it is a murder/involuntary manslaughter-esque distinction, why not just say that? I feel like I made it really easy to do that and wasn't couching it in an accusation or any kind of hyperbole.

Just, please, tell it to me straight, I'm a little slow. Is that what we are saying? That everyone is claiming murder, but actually it's more involuntary?