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New comment by elevaet in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious"

elevaet — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:11:34 +0000

I completely agree, and came here to say the same thing but thought I'd check if someone else mentioned it first. I also have a hard time articulating it, but my intuition is that it's more of a prerequisite than embodiment is. I've never seen a great rationale for why embodiment matters.

New comment by elevaet in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

elevaet — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:25:08 +0000

Cool to see you on here ladyada, been a big fan since x0xb0x. I've always appreciated your conduct online, and will be cheering for the best possible outcome in this situation for you.

New comment by elevaet in "Starship V3"

elevaet — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:33:57 +0000

Can you explain why and how we would build cities on Mars if we found an alien shipwreck there? That doesn't make any sense to me.

It would likely cost bare minimum 10-100 billion dollars to put a few boots on the ground on Mars, how could we possibly build cities there within the end of the decade?

New comment by elevaet in "Starship V3"

elevaet — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:28:06 +0000

No air, scarce water, radiation challenges. Comms to earth has a 3min lag on a good day, 6mins roundtrip. On a bad day it's 45mins.

We are better off at this stage of human civilization to look at building resiliency and redundancy at home. Settling margins of Earth in places like Antarctica, underground, under water is many orders of magnitude simpler than Mars, provides useful models for distant future space colonization, and also provides us with some of the civilizational redundancy and resiliency many space-colony-enthusiasts are looking for.

New comment by elevaet in "Starship V3"

elevaet — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:21:30 +0000

Obviously there are research stations on Antarctica. And presumable your argument is that these are "permanent"? My point is that they are not, not in the sense that we will need for Mars. No one lives there full time, people aren't raising families there, they are very dependent on regular deliveries from the outside.

Supply runs to Mars will be in the range of 10000x as expensive, possibly even higher. Something that costs $100 to get to Antarctica will cost $1million to get to Mars. Permanent Mars settlement will entail a level of self-sufficiency that we haven't proven on a place that is comparitively balmy and has the benefit of a breathable atmosphere and abundant water (Antarctica). Not to mention radiation...

Don't hold your breath. I'm as much a fan of space colonization of as the next nerd, but it's premature.

New comment by elevaet in "Starship V3"

elevaet — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:41:57 +0000

We don't even have permanent settlements on Antarctica. Don't hold your breath.

New comment by elevaet in "UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)"

elevaet — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:24:43 +0000

DDL-920, which apparently looks like this: https://www.probechem.com/userfiles/product/PC-22875.gif

"DDL-920 is a potent, selective and brain permeable negative allosteric modulator (NAM) of the γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptors (GABARs), inhibits parvalbumin (PV) expressing interneurons (PV+INs) and consequently enhances γ-oscillations both in vitro and in vivo."

https://www.probechem.com/products_DDL-920.html

New comment by elevaet in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

elevaet — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:14:11 +0000

I've been very happy using Codex in the VScode extension. Very high quality coding and generous token limits. I've been running Claude in the CLI over the last couple of months to compare and overall I prefer Codex, but would be happy with either.

New comment by elevaet in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

elevaet — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:27:40 +0000

Yeah they are the trend, so they will probably cause a polarized response - some will find it cliche and reject it, others will coalesce around the standard.

New comment by elevaet in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

elevaet — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:42:04 +0000

This is great, now we can better disguise slopware!

New comment by elevaet in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

elevaet — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:58:40 +0000

> Except literally going outside and just talking to people? Using whiteboards?

> Also, you fed it when you used a model to write this blog post. You didn't have to do that.

my thoughts exactly

New comment by elevaet in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

elevaet — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:59:04 +0000

Cool, nice work!

I've been building a MORPG version of a kind of Ultima 3.5 on the side in spurts for the last 5 years using Go, postgres, and React on the frontend. Top view tile graphics, old school keyboard control/commands. It's pretty janky still, but I hope to do a Show HN at some point.

I think I need to take some inspiration from you and partition the world into sectors, I have a n^2 scaling problem right now as there are more PC and NPC in the world.

New comment by elevaet in "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI"

elevaet — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:05:04 +0000

How often do you hit your usage limits with Claude Pro?

New comment by elevaet in "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI"

elevaet — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:39:49 +0000

I am too, and haven't really given Anthropic's stuff a fair shake as a result, and am so curious if I'm missing out or if it's the same shit different pile.

New comment by elevaet in "Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it"

elevaet — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:18:51 +0000

There were lots of places in the USA that (as a Canadian) my family and friends loved visiting - Kauai for hiking and beaches, Mt. Baker for skiing, bay area for all the weird stuff that goes on there, Nevada for that thing in the desert, Oregon coast for surfing, Utah-area parks like you said, hiking in Washington.

Lots of amazing outdoor adventures to be had in the USA. Now days I don't know anyone that goes to the states.

Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings

elevaet — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:51:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/audio/native-instruments-enters-into-insolvency-proceedings-leaving-its-future-uncertain-183206826.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800645

Points: 116

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New comment by elevaet in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

elevaet — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:17:58 +0000

What about the old gym adage "training to failure is failing to train" - is there any physiological basis for this, or is it mental, or just a myth?

MIT prof Nuno F. G. Loureiro fatally shot in his home

elevaet — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:38:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/nuno-loureiro-brookline-shooting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294089

Points: 10

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New comment by elevaet in "Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source"

elevaet — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:12:18 +0000

Are there any great variable and open serif web fonts around?

New comment by elevaet in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

elevaet — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:57:50 +0000

Another risk is just loosing your keys.

I bet it happens a lot more than people like to talk about.