Hacker News: elinear

New comment by elinear in "CSSQuake"

elinear — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:20:47 +0000

I noticed my cursor was continuously sliding upward first in Neal.fun's latest canvas multiplayer game and I experienced it here as well. Anyone else see this behavior?

And maybe a skill issue but I was unable to jump out of the slime...

New comment by elinear in "[dead]"

elinear — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:49:13 +0000

12 hours 93 subagents 2.6B tokens processed <$1k API costs

Fixed video and keyboard drivers in a live demo to play DOOM.

New comment by elinear in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

elinear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:25:08 +0000

If you ship an old laptop with an old HDD, decent chance it will die in shipping.

New comment by elinear in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

elinear — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:00:26 +0000

Hank Green's visualization[0] a few weeks ago cite several statistically significant risk increases to CRC incidence (omitting ultra endurance athletes):

- Sugary drinks (≥2/day as teen) - 2x

- Sedentary lifestyle (>2hr TV/day) - 1.7x

- Childhood antibiotics (recurrent) - 1.5x

Have any studies tracked the growth of these behaviors in recent decades, potentially lining up with the increase in early onset CRC?

[0] https://www.hankgreen.com/risk-factors

New comment by elinear in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

elinear — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:30:35 +0000

Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!

New comment by elinear in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

elinear — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:40:59 +0000

Benchmarks pasted here, with top scores highlighted. Knowledge MMLUPro Knowledge MMLURedux Knowledge CEval STEM GPQA STEM HLE Reasoning LiveCodeBench v6 Reasoning HMMT Feb 25 Reasoning HMMT Nov 25 Reasoning IMOAnswerBench Agentic Coding SWE Verified Agentic Search HLE (w/ tools) Instruction Following & Alignment IFBench Instruction Following & Alignment MultiChallenge Instruction Following & Alignment ArenaHard v2 Tool Use Tau² Bench Tool Use BFCLV4 Tool Use Vita Bench Tool Use Deep Planning Long Context AALCR Overall Qwen Max is pretty competitive with the others here.

  Capability                            Benchmark           GPT-5.2-Thinking   Claude-Opus-4.5   Gemini 3 Pro   DeepSeek V3.2   Qwen3-Max-Thinking 87.4               89.5              *89.8*         85.0            85.7 95.0               95.6              *95.9*         94.5            92.8 90.5               92.2              93.4           92.9            *93.7* *92.4*             87.0              91.9           82.4            87.4 35.5               30.8              *37.5*         25.1            30.2 87.7               84.8              *90.7*         80.8            85.9 *99.4*             -                 97.5           92.5            98.0 -                  -                 93.3           90.2            *94.7* *86.3*             84.0              83.3           78.3            83.9 80.0               *80.9*            76.2           73.1            75.3 45.5               43.2              45.8           40.8            *49.8* *75.4*             58.0              70.4           60.7            70.9 57.9               54.2              *64.2*         47.3            63.3 80.6               76.7              81.7           66.5            *90.2* 80.9               *85.7*            85.4           80.3            82.1 63.1               *77.5*            72.5           61.2            67.7 38.2               *56.3*            51.6           44.1            40.9 *44.6*             33.9              23.3           21.6            28.7 72.7               *74.0*            70.7           65.0            68.7

New comment by elinear in "Skip is now free and open source"

elinear — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:06:23 +0000

At current prices, if you do not already have 32GB RAM, it will cost over $300 for DDR5, and over $200 for DDR4...

New comment by elinear in "Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023"

elinear — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:51:15 +0000

Both versions are grammatically correct. "Lagged behind" is common for everyday speech, while using "lagged" as a direct verb is a standard, formal way to describe data gaps in business or news. So yes, the headline uses just "lagged" to save space.

New comment by elinear in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

elinear — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:22:24 +0000

A particularly egregious offender is Kalshi ads. They regularly play for a minute, sometimes up to two minutes before they can be closed.

I would not be surprised if the incentives are in place for ad networks to push for longer ads and for advertisers to create longer ads.

Zoom AI Achieves SotA 48% on Humanity's Last Exam

elinear — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:19:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/humanitys-last-exam-zoom-ai-breakthrough/?cms_guid=false

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46225443

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Claude the albino alligator in Cal Academy passed away at age 30

elinear — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:48:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/claude-the-albino-alligator-passes-away-at-age-30

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46128012

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

US House approves bill to end longest government shutdown in history

elinear — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:43:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g-s1-97607/house-vote-shutdown-end

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909431

Points: 18

# Comments: 32

Israel, Hamas agree on first phase of ceasefire, hostage release

elinear — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:21:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/gaza-live-trump-says-israel-hamas-agree-first-phase-plan-end-war-2025-10-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521745

Points: 53

# Comments: 35

New comment by elinear in "Indeed recruiter text scam: I responded to one of the "job" messages"

elinear — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:03:06 +0000

https://archive.is/r4lZ0

Saudi Arabia Built a $16B Clock Tower [video]

elinear — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:17:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gwrSaNSl00

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651409

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by elinear in "iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues"

elinear — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:49:12 +0000

MKBHD in his review mentioned a very odd instance of overheating, seemingly random and unrelated to any stressful workload. Anecdotal evidence points to iOS bugs.

https://youtu.be/cBpGq-vDr2Y?si=B0Tv1iRcd6Iran6B&t=669

New comment by elinear in "Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half"

elinear — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:02:32 +0000

Modern day California, and by extension Silicon Valley, would not look the way it is today without the California Gold Rush [1], as horrible as its externalities were.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush#Longer-te...

How Bitcoin is helping middle-class users survive the pandemic

elinear — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:17:16 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/how-bitcoin-is-helping-middle-class-users-survive-the-pandemic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25865205

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by elinear in "U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests"

elinear — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 22:28:14 +0000

I have seen this article [1] being thrown around among my conservative friends, and while I do not have the statistics background to understand the detailed analysis, it seems to suggest some strange behavior around the reporting of mail-in votes. Not exactly evidence, but something that may have warranted investigation at the time.

[1] https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-...

edit: I'm looking for folks to give their take on this analysis since I nowhere qualified. A good summary is the final two sections of the article.

Give Your Amazon Box New Life (2016)

elinear — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 21:13:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/xde6cauvpfp66o2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16335643

Points: 2

# Comments: 0