Hacker News: biorach

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

biorach — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:36:49 +0000

> I'd run Linux on the hardware if it wasn't a hack.

It's a hack in a good way and this is a really bad reason to not run Linux.

New comment by biorach in "Dolly Parton has died"

biorach — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:08:33 +0000

That's Steve Cooney. It was Dolly got the one in a lifetime opportunity.

New comment by biorach in "Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo"

biorach — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:59:03 +0000

No one worth listening to is claiming that there will be a COVID-style pandemic. The concern here is the very high mortality rate. Granted the transmission rate is low, but in countries where facilities and health-care workers are scarce this disease is still capable of being a real problem.

New comment by biorach in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

biorach — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:18:45 +0000

You might think. The UK would be the most prominent example and in fact has been a much more predictable and consistent trading and negotiating partner than the USA

New comment by biorach in "Breaking the WAL"

biorach — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:52:49 +0000

oh! damn! I did not notice that. That does answer my question.

New comment by biorach in "Breaking the WAL"

biorach — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:19:00 +0000

looks like the bug fixes are in individual commits here: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/compare/master...antithesis...

I'd be interested in seeing what the SQLite people have to say about them if/when they are submitted upstream

New comment by biorach in "Breaking the WAL"

biorach — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:58:07 +0000

this is a deliberate mischaracterisation of the content of the article

New comment by biorach in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

biorach — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:23:12 +0000

I don't see a need to be dismissive. There is a lot of evidence that there is a relationship betwwen sleep and learning. The hypothesis advanced by the OP is worth evaluating on its merits rather than being dismissed as a fale equivalence.

New comment by biorach in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

biorach — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:43:13 +0000

> Using Sol or Fable for implementing is like having your Principal Staff Engineer with 30 year tenure routinely write CRUD functions for a REST API.

A Principal Staff Engineer who costs $2400 a year and never feels any work is beneath them? Hell yeah.

OK OK, usage limits

New comment by biorach in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

biorach — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:09:09 +0000

I think you're being very harsh. I read it as a side project of a scientist meant to entertain as much as educate. Holding it to the same standards as the Event Horizon project seems pedantic and excessive.

New comment by biorach in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

biorach — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:08:20 +0000

> uv run ruff check --fix

Generally gets you 90% there.

New comment by biorach in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

biorach — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:37:17 +0000

Forget Iraq, forget Afghanistan... because This Time It's Different

and of course ground troops _have_ to invade Iraq, Saddam has WMD's. And it will finally bring stability to the region. And they _have_ to invade Afghanistan, there is no way to take out bin Laden otherwise. And it will finally bring stability to the region. Casualties will be minimal because the oppressed natives will welcome us as liberators and our overwhelming military superiority will ensure our troops suffer no casualties.

New comment by biorach in "The Beam Engine"

biorach — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:49:50 +0000

An Atmosphere (atm) is a standardised unit of pressure.

1 atm = 101,325 PA

It is not an SI unit but it is widely used and very useful in situations, such as this, where pressure relative to atmospheric pressure is relevant.

New comment by biorach in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

biorach — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:29:11 +0000

oh wow. this is a rarity on an internet dominated by toxic rage-bait. apology accepted. I think you probably have interesting things to say on the matter and I look forward to reading them on a better day. respect.

New comment by biorach in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

biorach — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:14:21 +0000

This is not page 1 of computer science. And you're being bitchy.

New comment by biorach in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

biorach — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:58:37 +0000

> "Algorithm" is not a word with a definition

what?

New comment by biorach in "'The Odyssey' Backlash Failed Tremendously"

biorach — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:22:17 +0000

> So much of this culture war jockeying exists purely online, to sustain an infrastructure of monetized outrage that is increasingly preoccupied with Western chauvinism, racism, and just plain antisocial weirdness.

New comment by biorach in "Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust"

biorach — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:32:06 +0000

> Those frameworks have a bit (more than a decade) head start

A decade? More like 21 years

New comment by biorach in "Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending 'Secrets'"

biorach — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:55:57 +0000

> With a skepticism towards consensus, Thiel says: “We always think that democracy is a good thing, and in a Democracy, the majority is more right than wrong. 51% is more right than 49%. 70% is even more right. But if you get to 99.9%, maybe that’s totally right — or maybe you’re in North Korea.”

This is inane and pretentious.

I’ve yet to see anything from this so-called intellectual that isn’t superficial theorising wrapped in a cloth of obscure cant, or millenarian nonsense.

'Crypto vs. community': local US lenders join forces to fight 'stablecoins' law

biorach — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:49:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/28/crypto-v-community-local-lenders-fight-stablecoins-law

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707808

Points: 4

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