Hacker News: chairhairair

New comment by chairhairair in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

chairhairair — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:52:15 +0000

So much for anti-centralization.

New comment by chairhairair in "'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds"

chairhairair — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:01:41 +0000

Agreed on the Sausage. It’s elegant but sooo hard.

New comment by chairhairair in "'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds"

chairhairair — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:46:41 +0000

The Witness absolutely has a reason for all of its puzzles. There are several independent layers to it. Myst is cool but is ultimately an adventure game, in comparison.

If you prefer Myst then, besides Outer Wilds, I’d recommend Blue Prince.

New comment by chairhairair in "'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds"

chairhairair — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:40:27 +0000

Have you played Baba Is You? Parabox is great, but Baba is just so amazing.

New comment by chairhairair in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

chairhairair — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:16:38 +0000

Have you actually read the AGMAI or AHM releases?

https://agmai.org/statement-oct6/

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-o...

You can appeal to authority all you want, but you should actually read the opinion of the authority you're appealing to.

New comment by chairhairair in "OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers"

chairhairair — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:16:17 +0000

Irresponsible is an adjective that means lacking a proper sense of responsibility, or acting without thinking about or caring about the potential consequences of one's actions.

They do not care if they waste everyone’s time or flood the common with slop. They did not spend their own time to verify that the Lean proofs correspond to the natural language proofs. They did not even spend their own time to verify that all of these proofs are well written.

They instead are mining the unrenewable resource of open math problems.

However, seeing it another way is easy if you are financially motivated by their upcoming IPO (see how easy it is to invent motivations for comments?).

New comment by chairhairair in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

chairhairair — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:01:13 +0000

It always seemed embarrassing to me that Microsoft hired this guy as if he is some expert in anything.

New comment by chairhairair in "Swift 6.4 Released"

chairhairair — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:47:15 +0000

Beautiful? Just the number of keywords and reserved words and compiler attributes makes it very ugly to me. There are so many ways to do things (and if SwiftUI is involved I can expect a significant subset to... just not work - but I don't think that's the language's fault).

New comment by chairhairair in "OpenAI Agents API"

chairhairair — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:13:45 +0000

Perfect for when you want your data to be stolen programmatically.

New comment by chairhairair in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

chairhairair — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:17:53 +0000

n/a

New comment by chairhairair in "Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)"

chairhairair — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:49:18 +0000

This is from 2018

New comment by chairhairair in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

chairhairair — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:33:09 +0000

Consider that it is very costly to train a model. It is only cheap to copy because the substrate we instantiate it onto is a substrate we have designed to be fully readable.

I think you should reconsider this viewpoint. Suppose that we really can create silicon-based consciousness, in that case your view would result in a huge amount of suffering.

Take some other basis for dismissing digital consciousness, this one is too dangerous.

Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager

chairhairair — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:27:25 +0000

The tech PM role is… difficult to define, but we’ve all worked with good PMs and bad PMs - it’s usually quite quick to tell where someone falls on the spectrum once you’ve worked with them for a few weeks. But, I find it difficult to describe the difference.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825001

Points: 11

# Comments: 10

New comment by chairhairair in "Migrating to the EU"

chairhairair — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:51:53 +0000

"This way, I can enjoy YouTube ad-free and without an account."

Not having the gumption to actually give it up. Pathetic.

New comment by chairhairair in "Big Breakfast Alters Appetite, Gut Health"

chairhairair — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:28:55 +0000

19 participants.

New comment by chairhairair in "We Will Not Be Divided"

chairhairair — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:46:07 +0000

“no concern of repercussion”

Your worldview is outdated. There are obviously risks to signing this. Get your head out of the sand.

New comment by chairhairair in "OpenAI Frontier"

chairhairair — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:28:53 +0000

Upside: your employees don’t have to use WorkDay.

Downside: your employees’ agents decide that they should collectively bargain.

New comment by chairhairair in "Prism"

chairhairair — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:58:18 +0000

Never trust Sam Altman.

Even if yall don’t train off it he’ll find some other way.

“In one example, [Friar] pointed to drug discovery: if a pharma partner used OpenAI technology to help develop a breakthrough medicine, [OpenAI] could take a licensed portion of the drug's sales”

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-cfo-sarah-friar-futur...

New comment by chairhairair in "25 Years of Wikipedia"

chairhairair — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:17:05 +0000

The point is not that Wikipedia is completely unbiased. That's an obvious impossibility - for any encyclopedia.

The point is that accusations of "noticeable bias on any topic that has political implications" is the kind of accusation made by someone simply trying to sow distrust in information, writ large. It's increasingly common.

Being asked for an example or two isn't weird.

New comment by chairhairair in "25 Years of Wikipedia"

chairhairair — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:51:23 +0000

> Makes claim.

> Is asked for evidence.

> Refuses.

Brilliant work. These kinds of posts should be bannable.