Hacker News: boltzmann_

50 years of thinking differently

boltzmann_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:37:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/50-years-of-thinking-different/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597612

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Global Intelligence Crisis"

boltzmann_ — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:26:58 +0000

Good scary read

New comment by boltzmann_ in "The Illustrated Transformer"

boltzmann_ — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:41:26 +0000

Kudos also to Transformer Explainer team for putting some amazing visualizations https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ It really clicked to me after reading this two and watching 3blue1brown videos

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

boltzmann_ — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:19:35 +0000

Hallucinations has made huge progress over last 3 years

New comment by boltzmann_ in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

boltzmann_ — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:11:04 +0000

This will destroy low margin business (ex Supermarkets?), they will be forced to increase prices. There is a million downstream bad consequences

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

boltzmann_ — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:24:40 +0000

Love this! Will give it a try

New comment by boltzmann_ in "US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low"

boltzmann_ — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:10:00 +0000

yes?

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev"

boltzmann_ — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:20:04 +0000

Author just choose a nice number and give no argument to it

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Historical Tech Tree"

boltzmann_ — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:49:38 +0000

Most comments here seems to be historical complaints. But I love this!)

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Push Ifs Up and Fors Down"

boltzmann_ — Sat, 17 May 2025 17:17:15 +0000

You notice this quickly after working on codebases efficiency is important. Filter pushdown is one of the first database optimizations

Money Is the Map

boltzmann_ — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:31:39 +0000

Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/02/24/money-is-the-map.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43205359

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by boltzmann_ in "SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level"

boltzmann_ — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:04:59 +0000

Very smart!

New comment by boltzmann_ in "TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK"

boltzmann_ — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:02:19 +0000

Sadly, only HN users care about this kind of stuff

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count"

boltzmann_ — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 23:12:34 +0000

I think social media companies underestimate the value of negative feedback.

Also ranking-wise is a very strong signal to have

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)"

boltzmann_ — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 20:05:30 +0000

> constant

Yeah about that..

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Nyan Cat on the Blockchain"

boltzmann_ — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:22:27 +0000

I still don't understand this. Who is buying art at this ridiculous prices? My only explanation is money laundering but if someone has another explanation please comment

New comment by boltzmann_ in "How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products"

boltzmann_ — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:10:26 +0000

> except for social network effects In the social networks app world this is all that matters

New comment by boltzmann_ in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)"

boltzmann_ — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:48:39 +0000

Flightradar24 use raspberry pi's? Wow!

New comment by boltzmann_ in "I Feel Like I Have No Real Interests; My Only Interest Is Making Money"

boltzmann_ — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:18:23 +0000

> germany

That's why, just check how tech is pay in USA http://levels.fyi

New comment by boltzmann_ in "I sold Baremetrics"

boltzmann_ — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:46:17 +0000

kudos for the transparency, a really interesting post