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New comment by dkga in "France pulls last gold held in US"

dkga — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:43:22 +0000

I disagree. It was a right policy in the sense that it bought France an insurance policy that essentially no other Western country has. Like all insurance policies, you hope to be wrong, but when the time comes, you are protected from some of the worse case scenarios.

New comment by dkga in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

dkga — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:06:56 +0000

Very nice! Here's the full code for those that had, like me, a more minimalistic .zshrc:

```

autoload -U up-line-or-beginning-search

autoload -U down-line-or-beginning-search

zle -N up-line-or-beginning-search

zle -N down-line-or-beginning-search

bindkey "^[[A" up-line-or-beginning-search

bindkey "^[[OA" up-line-or-beginning-search

bindkey "^[[B" down-line-or-beginning-search

bindkey "^[[OB" down-line-or-beginning-search

```

New comment by dkga in "Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive"

dkga — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:26:47 +0000

Boy how I love them all, especially Egypt, which looks like the shekel symbol, and the arches.

New comment by dkga in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

dkga — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:33:21 +0000

At the very least it lowered the barriers for agents without satellite or maritime intelligence. Another piece of information extracted from the Strava episode is that the carrier is not going through a GPS-jammed location, or jamming it itself.

New comment by dkga in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

dkga — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:29:40 +0000

Yes, all of which can be purely personal and not shared beyond the device.

New comment by dkga in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

dkga — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:34:22 +0000

For those that want a broader context on private credit, the Bank for International Settlements has been publishing some great material on the topic, including the connections between private credit and other corners of the financial system. Some examples follow.

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[0] https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt2503b.htm [1] https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull106.pdf [2] https://www.bis.org/publ/work1267.pdf

New comment by dkga in "Vim 9.2"

dkga — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:16:38 +0000

Delighted to see vim continuing.

New comment by dkga in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

dkga — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:06:25 +0000

Same frustration here. It’s somewhat painful for me to type but using dictation on the iphone is so terrible I prefer the physical pain.

As for names, I an also baffled. Most people in my family have either a Brazilian Portuguese or German name, but my work life is in English, so guess what, no getting anyone’s name right!

New comment by dkga in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

dkga — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:30:33 +0000

One of the (not so many) things about Windows that I loved was the zen simplicity of the Notepad. I saw it through Windows 3.1 all the way to the bloated oblivion it was driven to, and I did not like to see that sad, final chapter. (Broader theme, do I miss the simpler computer times!)

New comment by dkga in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

dkga — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:54:05 +0000

By the way, one of the best financial podcastst

New comment by dkga in "How Does AI Distribute the Pie? Large Language Models and the Ultimatum Game"

dkga — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:50:36 +0000

Hi, HN! Co-author here (I don't know if own papers are also Show HN, happy to adjust if so). We explored LLM strategic choices in a simple but intriguing game theoretical setting, the ultimatum game.

In this game, a Proposer proposes to distribute a share of the amount at stake with the Responder. If the Responder accepts, both get their proposed amounts; if the proposal is rejected then no one gets anything. This game shines a light on how these models could behave when their payoffs depend on the opponent's choices too.

We document three main findings.

First, LLM behavior is heterogeneous but predictable when conditioning on stake size and player types.

Second, some models approximate the rational benchmark and others mimic human social preferences, but we also observe a distinct "altruistic" mode emerging - in this case, LLMs propose hyper-fair distributions (greater than 50%).

Third, when we calculate the expected payoff, LLMs actually leave a lot of money on the table. They forgo a large share of total payoff, and an even larger share when the Responder is human.

How Does AI Distribute the Pie? Large Language Models and the Ultimatum Game

dkga — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:50:36 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6157066

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46929061

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by dkga in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

dkga — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:20:02 +0000

HACK THE PLANET! Have to rewatch the movie tonight!

New comment by dkga in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

dkga — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:01:44 +0000

Next year: LeGit !

New comment by dkga in "What's up with all those equals signs anyway?"

dkga — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:21:34 +0000

It has to be at least… three times bigger than this

New comment by dkga in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

dkga — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:37:42 +0000

The (excellent!) economist Jesús Fernandez-Villaverde is conducting excellent work on this, uncovering a lot of inconsistencies in population counts.

New comment by dkga in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

dkga — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:04:44 +0000

Don‘t forget the kill switches

New comment by dkga in "The longest Greek word"

dkga — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:17:24 +0000

Agree

New comment by dkga in "East Germany balloon escape"

dkga — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:53:39 +0000

+1, really well-done movie!

New comment by dkga in "39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos"

dkga — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:23:20 +0000

The WhiteDate talk was pretty cool!