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New comment by fergie in "Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML"

fergie — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:02:22 +0000

Having thought about it, I wonder if Klein, Ferris and maybe some of the others were there to give talks.

New comment by fergie in "Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML"

fergie — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:38:31 +0000

Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

New comment by fergie in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

fergie — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:56:27 +0000

I was a diehard spaces-over-tabs person until I saw this scene in Silicon Valley. I had rather naively assumed that the tab-indent default in emacs was an oversight rather than a considered decision. This scene actually educated me.

New comment by fergie in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

fergie — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:51:17 +0000

Bro- read the article before commenting!

New comment by fergie in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

fergie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:56:50 +0000

Must be a rockstar

New comment by fergie in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

fergie — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:10:07 +0000

It raises an interesting moral question:

If an un-guardrailed version of a model is capable of detecting security flaws, should it be kept secret? Should everybody be able to use these models to find (and fix) security flaws? Are we ok with the fact that those with access to that model have, in effect, the ability to hack lots of stuff?

New comment by fergie in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

fergie — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:05:16 +0000

Fair. What I mean is no internet connectivity, and no electronics outside of the drivetrain.

New comment by fergie in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

fergie — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:02:59 +0000

What I actually want is a no-tech, half-price, electric car with a long range.

New comment by fergie in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

fergie — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:19:15 +0000

Personally I find that every llm I use is unable to consistently identify the latest npm version numbers of the node packages that I use.

New comment by fergie in "What Gets Kept"

fergie — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:38:28 +0000

Can't not read stuff like this. Fascinating.

New comment by fergie in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

fergie — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:57:45 +0000

> The entire AI industry has been (not so secretly) paying a lot of experts in many fields to generate large amounts of novel training data. Novel training data that isn't found anywhere else--they hoard it--and which could actually contain original ideas.

Really? Any references to read more?

New comment by fergie in "Claude Platform on AWS"

fergie — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:46:01 +0000

> I think the idea is that you can launder your team or product AI spend through your AWS account.

Can confirm that this is the one and only reason that we use Claude through AWS

New comment by fergie in "I am worried about Bun"

fergie — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:56:19 +0000

Agreed- node/npm are exceptionally well run and designed. Personally I also prefer the non-TypeScriptiness.

New comment by fergie in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

fergie — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:26:36 +0000

Reminder that New York Airways used to operate helicopter flights to the top of the Pan Am building until a 1977 accident killed five people.

New comment by fergie in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

fergie — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:19:03 +0000

I want a half-price no-tech electric car.

New comment by fergie in "Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie"

fergie — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:29:14 +0000

Very cool and satisfying.

New comment by fergie in "What Is in Road Flares?"

fergie — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:18:53 +0000

I'm missing some context here: Why do we want to extract strontium nitrate anyway?

New comment by fergie in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

fergie — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:27:31 +0000

Started a volunteer run, drop-in, bicycle workshop a few years ago. Its still going strong- something about the vibe, the practicality, and bike maintenance being just the right level of hard. I don't run it any more, but I drop in from time to time, and it always makes me feel better.

New comment by fergie in "False claims in a widely-cited paper"

fergie — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:39:33 +0000

As somebody who has spent a bit of time in academia, I have often been slightly alarmed by some of the research (and opinon) that comes out of business schools. One thing is that it is often unsubstantiated and just plain wrong, another is that it often seems like the authors kind of know it, almost as if they are intentionally pandering to a lowbrow/midwit audience, and they expect everybody else to be in on the game. Its mystifying.

New comment by fergie in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

fergie — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:13:06 +0000

Thats probably what this was all about then (use Google Translate) -> https://www.nrk.no/norge/gradert-sak-behandlet-i-ekstraordin...