Hacker News: fellowmartian

New comment by fellowmartian in "Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?"

fellowmartian — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:50:28 +0000

Also it’s really hard to start exercising if you’re already depressed.

New comment by fellowmartian in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

fellowmartian — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:20:07 +0000

Because this is amazing PR? Just following the Anthropic rulebook.

New comment by fellowmartian in "How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?"

fellowmartian — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:35:08 +0000

There’s the pro-growth Abundance faction, but they’re captured by special interests, so they’re predictably advocating for supply-side YIMBYism and relaxed regulation, without addressing the political economy that led us to the current situation.

New comment by fellowmartian in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

fellowmartian — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:42:52 +0000

This isn’t gonna work, space isn’t truly empty. Even with antimatter propulsion the interstellar medium will start to vaporize your ship at speed above 0.2c.

New comment by fellowmartian in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

fellowmartian — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:14:56 +0000

It’s highly unlikely we’re ever getting FTL. We should become comfortable with that and let go our fantasies. Let theoretical physicists chug away at this, we should get underway with projects that are possible with known science.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

fellowmartian — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:42:20 +0000

Or just ask any model to do it for you.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline"

fellowmartian — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:44:36 +0000

From the title I thought it’d be a timer for the agent itself, so it doesn’t waste time on endless thinking loops, etc.

New comment by fellowmartian in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"

fellowmartian — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:00:07 +0000

Life wouldn’t be here if mitochondria only accumulated damage. We can do in the lab what biology does in the wild - introduce selection pressures. Either by sequencing iPSC clones and picking the best, somehow inducing the natural purifying selection, or simply using a donor mitochondria.

New comment by fellowmartian in "For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward"

fellowmartian — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:31:56 +0000

It still won’t help unless the AI bubble pops. Even old fabs will continue pumping out HBM instead of DRAM as long as hyperscalers gobble it up.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

fellowmartian — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:59:04 +0000

This meme is 100% true in western Europe.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

fellowmartian — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:33:50 +0000

It is scientifically proven cognitive performance starts falling above 22C, but feel free to continue your baseless moralizing.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

fellowmartian — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:18:18 +0000

It’s not different if you’re used to. Heat acclimation is a real thing, but it won’t magically beat physics if wet bulb temperature hits body temperature.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components"

fellowmartian — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:42:17 +0000

It’s possible to boot Linux in seconds, it’d just be a terrible developer experience.

New comment by fellowmartian in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

fellowmartian — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:38:02 +0000

“Why not just provide an email address that's delivered directly to the agents you have developing Oak?” Genuinely can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

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.