Hacker News: fellowmartian

New comment by fellowmartian in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

fellowmartian — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:20:19 +0000

This feeling of being defeated by and trapped inside the “machine” and seeing the “truth” is exactly what the “machine” would want you to do. The actual red pill is that there’s no “machine”, there’s only people and shared social constructions held together by our compliance and they’re contingent.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

fellowmartian — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:49:14 +0000

Plus it’s not like some absolutely enormous data centers, only 300MW.

New comment by fellowmartian in "The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think"

fellowmartian — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:27:40 +0000

Derek Thompson keeps banging his neoliberal drum in the face of (what he sees as) literal extinction. We need GDP, growth, yada yada. Just another 1% of GDP growth bro, it’ll fix everything. It’s funny how we’re unwilling to move a single iota on our socio-politico-economic system and actually fix what people are SAYING the problem is. Actually free childcare, education, cheaper housing, more future security, etc. Yes, most of us grew up in a world where none of that was present, but we now understand how suboptimal it was on our psyches and want to break the cycle.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Accelerando (2005)"

fellowmartian — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:12:01 +0000

Is it? Literally nothing even remotely similar from the book is happening in reality beyond the lobsters’ broken command of language being similar to early GPTs, but even they seem to have had a better world model than our current SOTA.

New comment by fellowmartian in "7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities"

fellowmartian — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:54:05 +0000

It’s debatable whether data centers is “civilization”. Civilization, in theory, should be a a benefit to all. Data centers provide basically zero benefit to communities where they get built. They don’t even get to tax the value the compute inside creates. It’s just an ugly, loud, power and water hungry box as far as they’re concerned.

New comment by fellowmartian in "RISC-V Router"

fellowmartian — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:13:11 +0000

You’re not running a BSD on an embedded device with full driver support any time soon. Linux won this space.

New comment by fellowmartian in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"

fellowmartian — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:47:40 +0000

Hey, he MIGHT be that CEO one day. Currently he’s temporarily embarrassed billionaire.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Why Japan has such good railways"

fellowmartian — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:13:25 +0000

“Regulatory capture”? This term means something very specific and doesn’t apply in this case at all.

New comment by fellowmartian in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

fellowmartian — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:12:12 +0000

I agree, it’s just a failure of imagination. Some folks correctly foresee not being able to continue what we’re doing now in the exact same way in some new context and conclude everything is impossible. Life isn’t this fickle, it’s adapted before and will adapt again. This is why great science fiction is so valuable, as some people are better at imagining new ways of being more than others, and can show the rest of us the possibilities.

New comment by fellowmartian in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

fellowmartian — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:18:33 +0000

Everyone should have a smartphone, just not necessarily a closed down and enshittified one.

New comment by fellowmartian in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

fellowmartian — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:13:10 +0000

We MADE the energy expensive.

New comment by fellowmartian in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

fellowmartian — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:15:36 +0000

I think you’re missing the point of Dune. They had their Butlerian Jihad and won - the machines were banned. And what did it get them? Feudalism, cartels, stagnation. Does anyone seriously want to live in the Dune universe?

The problem isn’t in the thinking machines, it’s in who owns them and gets our rent. We need open source models running on dirt cheap hardware.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Xous Operating System"

fellowmartian — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:26:56 +0000

Yocto? Nobody is expecting Yocto for deeply embedded systems likely to be built on this OS. It’s closer to FreeRTOS, Zephyr, Embassy, but with this additional hardware-level safety guarantees.

New comment by fellowmartian in "psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context"

fellowmartian — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:41:02 +0000

An unfortunate name that triggers everybody who’s ever worked at Meta :)

New comment by fellowmartian in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

fellowmartian — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:09:07 +0000

it’s actually true and they’re trying to develop GLP-1 resistant foods by using other sensory channels: https://archive.is/N0whF

New comment by fellowmartian in "Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring"

fellowmartian — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:37:08 +0000

People are free to knock themselves out with Bazel if they’re into that kind of masochism, but having it as the ONLY way to build your OSS project is a big no.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Why won't Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1?"

fellowmartian — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:00:06 +0000

It wouldn’t be HN without an EU bashing comment for no reason. Seems like it’s living in people’s heads rent free.

New comment by fellowmartian in "“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill"

fellowmartian — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:33:32 +0000

The goal should be to not produce homo economicus in the first place, not to figure out how to build a society out of them in the same way you build a trustless smart contract.

New comment by fellowmartian in "A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science"

fellowmartian — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:13:55 +0000

There’s tons of variants of ZFC without the “infinity”. Constructivism has a long and deep history in mathematics and it’s probably going to become dominant in the future.

New comment by fellowmartian in "The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful"

fellowmartian — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:18:56 +0000

It’s quite rich coming from this guy, but I’m glad he’s seen the truth nonetheless.