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New comment by bobcostas55 in "Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: László Krasznahorkai"

bobcostas55 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:57:09 +0000

"The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project"

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

Stripe Press – The Scaling Era

bobcostas55 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:45:03 +0000

Article URL: https://press.stripe.com/scaling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45525502

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release"

bobcostas55 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:25:21 +0000

I really like Immich, although recently their android app randomly decided to go out of sync with my library and stop backing up automatically :/

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers"

bobcostas55 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:02:40 +0000

I built mine around an N150 board off of aliexpress. 6 SATA slots, 4x2.5G ethernet, 2x m.2 slots. Find a cheap second-hand case, a bit of RAM and you're ready to go. It's got hardware transcoding, handles 4K without breaking a sweat. And it consumes 6W!

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding"

bobcostas55 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:48:05 +0000

Theranos famously didn't manage to raise VC money, the funding all came from people like Rupert Murdoch and the Walton family.

New comment by bobcostas55 in "The role of the University is to resist AI"

bobcostas55 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:15:40 +0000

It's bad on purpose to make you click.

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece"

bobcostas55 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 21:19:53 +0000

I completely agree with this evaluation, I dropped it as well fairly early on.

2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model, Scott Alexander and Kokotajlo [video]

bobcostas55 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:36:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htOvH12T7mU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43572179

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Notes on China

bobcostas55 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:29:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/notes-on-china

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42530587

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Kevin Langdon's 'Omni' IQ test"

bobcostas55 — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:23:06 +0000

People with aphantasia are actually _better_ at mental rotation tests! Lack of visualization is no obstacle to the brain, which of course has all sorts of interesting implications.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381002...

New comment by bobcostas55 in "The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning"

bobcostas55 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:54:44 +0000

All psychological traits are highly heritable. See eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739500/

New comment by bobcostas55 in "LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground"

bobcostas55 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:17:43 +0000

Everything search is the most befuddling one. The delta between Everything and the built-in Windows search can only be described as monumental. A vast gulf. They do not even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence. Just fucking buy the thing and integrate it, what could they possibly be thinking?

New comment by bobcostas55 in "DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside"

bobcostas55 — Fri, 17 May 2024 10:07:46 +0000

Nature, uh, finds a way.

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Adobe is buying videos for $3 per minute to build AI model"

bobcostas55 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:58:35 +0000

You know what, I _would_ download a car.

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic"

bobcostas55 — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 10:36:07 +0000

Seems like a straight-forward CFAA violation, no?

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Cormac McCarthy's Sideline: Freelance copy editor"

bobcostas55 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:10:28 +0000

From Stella Maris:

>Cantor, Gauss, Riemann, Euler. Hilbert. Poincaré. Noether. Hypatia. Klein, Minkowski, Turing, von Neumann. Hardly even a partial list. Cauchy, Lie, Dedekind, Brouwer. Boole. Peano. Church is still alive. Hamilton, Laplace, Lagrange. The ancients of course. You look at these names and the work they represent and you realize that the annals of latterday literature and philosophy by comparison are barren beyond description.

If anything, I would say the book suggests he was cynical about literature rather than science!

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinths of Copyright"

bobcostas55 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:03:03 +0000

Having read the Di Giovanni translations, I find them inferior to the Irby/Yates ones. Hurley is the worst.

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder"

bobcostas55 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:26:30 +0000

Without a second offer in hand, you're always going to be in a very bad negotiating position when it comes to salary. Avoiding the stress of multiple interviews is almost certainly costing you tens of thousands per year. Over your entire career we're talking about millions of euros.

New comment by bobcostas55 in "Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk"

bobcostas55 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:08:15 +0000

If a third alternative existed that would be a meaningful objection.

New comment by bobcostas55 in "The NVIDIA AI Red Team"

bobcostas55 — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 07:09:38 +0000

A ~1sd difference in average g at the national level is the difference between not having stable electricity, and being an uber-rich technological wonderland. That suggests that even if the curve is bending, it's not a very hard bend.