Hacker News: bjourne

New comment by bjourne in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

bjourne — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:04:48 +0000

You are juxtaposing murder with killing. Every culture has a strong taboo against unlawful killing, i.e., murder. What counts as murder has changed, but the taboo against murder itself has not.

New comment by bjourne in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

bjourne — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:44:20 +0000

0 evidence of the "mowing down protestors with machine guns" claim. Plz don't spread rumors.

New comment by bjourne in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

bjourne — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:27:02 +0000

> Traveling back from an excellent AtmosphereConf 2026, I saw my first aurora, from the north-facing window of a Boeing 747.

Given the author's "safety first" stance on pqc, it seems a bit incongruent to continue to fly to conferences...

New comment by bjourne in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

bjourne — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:44:38 +0000

Resizing was based on a wireframe system and windows weren't repainted during resizes.

New comment by bjourne in "What category theory teaches us about dataframes"

bjourne — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:25:56 +0000

No, you can not. Your example is correct only if addition is associative. And it is not always associative. Hence the need for higher abstractions, where you model commutativity and associativity of certain operations.

New comment by bjourne in "What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames"

bjourne — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:36:45 +0000

Reductions are painful because they specify a sequence of ordered operations. Runtime is O(N), where N is the sequence length, regardless of amount of hardware. So you want to work at a higher level where you can exploit commutativity and independence of some (or even most) operations.

New comment by bjourne in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

bjourne — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:41:59 +0000

I hate articles like these. They get 10% right and the remaining 90% is just some random filler. I don't have time to write a lengthy comment but do note the LACK of SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE. There is no evidence that jacking kids cell phones and swapping digital articles for physical books improves anything. It's part of the perennial right-wing message: "Kids are so unruly these days! We need to discipline them harder!"

New comment by bjourne in "AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again"

bjourne — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:45:40 +0000

That echoes my experience as a much weaker player as well. I improved leaps and bounds by studying puzzles. Not so much by memorizing openings.

I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed

bjourne — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:32:13 +0000

Article URL: https://bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-number/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612053

Points: 580

# Comments: 130

New comment by bjourne in "Tom Scott is back on YouTube [video]"

bjourne — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:10:45 +0000

Veritasium dude sold his channel so why not Tom?

New comment by bjourne in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

bjourne — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:08:54 +0000

Fucking hilarius domain name . David is unfortunately not announcing a rewrite of the Linux IPC stack!

New comment by bjourne in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

bjourne — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:14:31 +0000

That was standard practice for much of recorded history. Surrender now or we will kill you all. Alexander the Great did it to Tyre and Sidon. The Romans did it to Jerusalem. The Israelis did it to Gaza. The orange madman and his henchmen have made it very clear that they don't give a shit about the rules of warfare.

New comment by bjourne in "Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?"

bjourne — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:28:36 +0000

Magazines published lists of phone numbers of bbses you could call with your modem. Long distance calls were very expensive so you could only call those within your local area. Prices were significantly cheaper during evenings and nights so that's when I called. BBSes were mostly for warez, porn, messages, and games. It took forever to download. Settlers I think came on 12 floppies and it took days to download due to quotas. Porn were jpegs or gifs, often magazine scans that loaded top to bottom. You needed way more patience than I had... Turn-based bbs games were quite fun because you played them over several weeks or months. Especially those that synchronized with neighbor bbses so you could team up with local users on a bbs to fight rival bbses.

Amiga bbs were 3l373 and PC bbses were for n00bs. However, Amiga bbses were all ASCII while PC bbses had way better ANSI graphics.

My bbs alias was "interrupt". I had no idea what it meant but I thought interrupt handlers were cool (they are!).

Someone wrote there wasn't politics but as I recall there was lots of bickering and quibbling. Things like "X banned me from his bbs for Y. He is a turd! Spread the message." Some people registered under others names and acted as pricks. I used the "sysop assistance" paging feature to wake up sysops in the middle of the night. Got me banned from more than a few bbses. :p

New comment by bjourne in "Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)"

bjourne — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:47:40 +0000

Does the data reject the null hypothesis? If you group people into hundreds of groups (occupations) and measure something (Alzheimer's rate) variance ensures that the means of the measurements will vary. Some groups will have low means other will have high means. The distributions may be equal but due to random chance there will be outliers.

New comment by bjourne in "Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference"

bjourne — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:31:07 +0000

There are many researchers who already avoid US conferences. The risk of arbitrary arrest, being denied entry, or general asshattery from border guards who want to snoop through your social media is just too high. The needless and unjustified war against Iran is just the final straw.

New comment by bjourne in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

bjourne — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:22:06 +0000

The media works for the billionaire elite and it is mostly aligned with the Republican party. And if you think that "both parties are as bad" or that the last president was as batshit insane as the current one, that same billionaire elite has duped you.

New comment by bjourne in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

bjourne — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:52:23 +0000

The comment is wrong -- model versions are clearly specified in the supplement.

New comment by bjourne in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

bjourne — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:25:45 +0000

Last I read the strike price for offshore wind was about half of that for nuclear power (Hinkley Point). In other words the "huge subsidies" aren't going to who you think they are.

New comment by bjourne in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

bjourne — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:15:48 +0000

90% of US media is not aligned with the Democrats and as such they do not possess the same power to manufacture outrage as the Republicans do.

New comment by bjourne in "GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?"

bjourne — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:54:13 +0000

My phone number dumbo.