Hacker News: bifftastic

New comment by bifftastic in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

bifftastic — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:31:46 +0000

Not sure why the title on HN ends with a question mark. It's grammatically incorrect and not in the original article

New comment by bifftastic in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

bifftastic — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:46:40 +0000

Or dired

Jeff Dean Leaving Google

bifftastic — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:14:49 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184879

Points: 79

# Comments: 2

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

bifftastic — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:30:45 +0000

Any advances in theoretical physics yet? Are there any fundamental obstacles? I would have thought not, but I haven't seen anything reported.

AI Kill Switch Act [pdf]

bifftastic — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:23:56 +0000

Article URL: https://lieu.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/lieu-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/ai-kill-switch-act.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027534

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false

bifftastic — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:06:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/DmitryRybin1/status/2079904005652893709

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011852

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

Leverage Research 1.0

bifftastic — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:52:27 +0000

Article URL: https://lydialaurenson.substack.com/p/the-inside-story-of-leverage-research

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891274

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Sam Altman: This is how we can make AI safe for everyone

bifftastic — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:30:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/0c2e1077-f658-4b3d-9040-602615c961ca

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749459

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bifftastic in "Ear Training Practice"

bifftastic — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:08:03 +0000

One comment - the perfect pitch exercise becomes a relative pitch exercise as soon as you get one note right. I don't believe I have perfect pitch but I got 100% on the quiz I just did.

How to convert between wealth and income tax

bifftastic — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:43:28 +0000

Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/winc.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237422

Points: 210

# Comments: 688

New comment by bifftastic in "Elizabeth I's Manuscript of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)"

bifftastic — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:50:02 +0000

> Want these images on your wall?

I think I'll pass

'Access to Insight' is shutting down

bifftastic — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:45:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162711

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

What's Worrying Jonathan Haidt Now?

bifftastic — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:42:52 +0000

Article URL: https://calnewport.com/whats-worrying-jonathan-haidt-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688664

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Closed-Loop Manifesto

bifftastic — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:35:04 +0000

Article URL: https://jakefeala.substack.com/p/the-closed-loop-manifesto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46495909

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bifftastic in "50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player"

bifftastic — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:04:37 +0000

> CDs are for listening to the music, and vinyl is for listening to yourself

This is amazing

Pearly kings and queens of London in their 150th year – photo essay

bifftastic — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:27:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/28/pearly-kings-and-queens-of-london-in-their-150th-year-photo-essay

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46076369

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Crown Office – The Gazette

bifftastic — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:34:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4992102

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45839300

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bifftastic in "Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103"

bifftastic — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 08:10:37 +0000

There is a theory connecting gauge theory and finance:

https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9710148

https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Finance-Modelling-Non-Equilib...

I don't think it's a crackpot theory. The basic idea is that the gauge group is the group of rescalings of the units of money, and arbitrage appears as curvature in the gauge field, i.e. you end up with a net change when you parallel-transport money around a loop in the (discrete) space of assets and time.

Hacker News: bifftastic

New comment by bifftastic in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

New comment by bifftastic in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

Jeff Dean Leaving Google

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

AI Kill Switch Act [pdf]

Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false

Leverage Research 1.0

Sam Altman: This is how we can make AI safe for everyone

New comment by bifftastic in "Ear Training Practice"

How to convert between wealth and income tax

New comment by bifftastic in "Elizabeth I's Manuscript of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)"

'Access to Insight' is shutting down

What's Worrying Jonathan Haidt Now?

The Closed-Loop Manifesto

New comment by bifftastic in "50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player"

Pearly kings and queens of London in their 150th year – photo essay

Crown Office – The Gazette

New comment by bifftastic in "Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103"

New comment by bifftastic in "Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition"

New comment by bifftastic in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"