Hacker News: evilfred

New comment by evilfred in "GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?"

evilfred — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:50:30 +0000

lol they are Microsoft, and the AI stuff has only multiplied usage like 2x, they haven't had sudden exponential growth

New comment by evilfred in "Incident with Github.com"

evilfred — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:50:55 +0000

14x is barely an order of magnitude

New comment by evilfred in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

evilfred — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:43:08 +0000

no, stop giving the AI companies free marketing

New comment by evilfred in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"

evilfred — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:53:47 +0000

the AI model has NOT solved Riemann

New comment by evilfred in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

evilfred — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:41:00 +0000

who do you expect to create pharmaceuticals other than pharmaceutical companies? sheesh

New comment by evilfred in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

evilfred — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:56:13 +0000

prep is great but i would really rather take a one-time vaccine than be expected to take an expensive pill forever that could mess up my liver

New comment by evilfred in "Show HN: ReasonGate- An explainable gate that blocks LLM prompt injection"

evilfred — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:58:16 +0000

it's impossible to block injection 100% when the input and outer instructions are unified together.

New comment by evilfred in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

evilfred — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:14:36 +0000

SpaceX makes its revenue from renting out GPUs

New comment by evilfred in "Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time (2025)"

evilfred — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:11:03 +0000

I think US states aren't allowed to switch unless the feds decide to allow it

New comment by evilfred in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

evilfred — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:44:36 +0000

exactly, thank you

New comment by evilfred in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

evilfred — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:43:03 +0000

he has apparently translated one word according to the only documentation we have. "my untrained amateur friend with no experience in the field has solved a hundreds of years old puzzle. no, trust me!" gets old real quick.

New comment by evilfred in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

evilfred — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:38:18 +0000

who at Rutgers and Cambridge? did he just email some random linguistics profs? why not classics? and did they respond out of genuine interest or just trying to let an enthusiastic amateur down gently?

i am sorry but "crank" is the correct term for the many amateurs who routinely email mathematicians, physicists, and apparently linguists with their special theories without having any academic experience in the field. for every anecdote where it panned out there are thousands of cases where it did not.

New comment by evilfred in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

evilfred — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:12:00 +0000

of course we have no way to assess this claim as there is no public software or paper to review

New comment by evilfred in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

evilfred — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:05:17 +0000

the info provided is completely unverifiable.

New comment by evilfred in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

evilfred — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:48:50 +0000

/r/classics thinks this is bunk btw https://www.reddit.com/r/classics/s/wwiNTytNfA

New comment by evilfred in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

evilfred — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:12:56 +0000

i'm gonna write a blog post now about how my buddy discovered cold fusion and will have a paper out real soon now

New comment by evilfred in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

evilfred — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:11:29 +0000

this isn't an achievement, it's yet another amateur crank claiming he solved a famous puzzle, without a paper and without any critical review. many people have claimed to decode Linear A before. just because this guy used an LLM doesn't make it more credible

New comment by evilfred in "Shopify outage [resolved]"

evilfred — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:12:49 +0000

Shopify doesnt block selling Nazi merchandise so idk what control you think they exercise

New comment by evilfred in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

evilfred — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:01:16 +0000

vibe coding is only "more efficient" if you ignore the massive energy costs involved

New comment by evilfred in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

evilfred — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:19:56 +0000

I don't think China is forcing the US president to do crazy stuff every day