Hacker News: frontfor

New comment by frontfor in "UAE to leave OPEC"

frontfor — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:33:31 +0000

It’s well known that some OPEC members cheat nonetheless.

New comment by frontfor in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

frontfor — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:22:34 +0000

Agreed. It’s a classic fallacy to compare rent vs mortgage on a numbers to numbers basis. It’s classic example of not accounting for the total cost of ownership.

New comment by frontfor in "Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs"

frontfor — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:04:28 +0000

Agreed. Asking the AI to do a calculation isn’t the same as asking it to “prove” a mathematical statement in the usual meaning.

New comment by frontfor in "Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems"

frontfor — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:16:01 +0000

To clarify, it's not "Africa and Asia". Only India, South Africa, and Zimbabwe are still using DDT actively.

New comment by frontfor in "US Administration halted largest Offshore Wind project in the U.S."

frontfor — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:51:10 +0000

> CapEx break even is estimated 7-10 years

I don’t think this is unique to wind farms.

New comment by frontfor in "Socialist ends by market means: A history"

frontfor — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:25:33 +0000

State control over production means instead of letting the free market decide what’s worth producing, the central planners believe they know better than the market (and the 2nd, 3rd order effects) what to produce and how to allocate and price resources and production. It very much removes or diminishes the “market”.

New comment by frontfor in "Blender 5.0"

frontfor — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:12:02 +0000

Agreed. You haven’t really won until it stops becoming noteworthy and “oh look X is using Blender!!”

Nobody talks about how Linux dominates the server space anymore. Nobody talks about how “git is winning” or getting “battle tested”. These are mundane and banal facts.

I don’t believe the same has happened to Blender yet.

New comment by frontfor in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

frontfor — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:34:34 +0000

Exactly my thoughts. A free market tends towards specialization which makes the market more efficient and therefore more competitive. As specialization increases it becomes more critical that one chooses and specializes their career early on. But this is unfair to young people who often have no idea what to do. Hence luck plays an increasing role, which is again the opposite of fairness.

New comment by frontfor in "I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it"

frontfor — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 01:10:25 +0000

Same here. I’ve recently switched back to Fedora after a long time on Windows. There are so much less distractions on Fedora and I really hope that it stays this way forever.

New comment by frontfor in "Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update"

frontfor — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:32:55 +0000

When did Apple “sue and jail ppl” for “try to look at things properly”? I’m pretty sure Apple isn’t legally allowed to jail people.

Terence Tao: Research Powers Progress [video]

frontfor — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 03:53:07 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401625

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by frontfor in "This map is not upside down"

frontfor — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:54:50 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt the same. There are so many edge cases to the incredibly broad and outdated classification of the world in terms of “north” (rich) and “south” (poor), the terms have lost all meaning. They don’t account for the fact that countries rise and fall. It speaks to the human penchant for short term black and white thinking.

New comment by frontfor in "Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession"

frontfor — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:22:32 +0000

Why do you think you’re able to time the market? What if it keeps going up? Even if you’re right that the market eventually drops, you’ll still need to be right in timing your re-entry. It’s not as easy as it sounds.

New comment by frontfor in "Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession"

frontfor — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:19:48 +0000

How do you know that?

Conway's Game of Life in APL [video]

frontfor — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 07:18:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45156092

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by frontfor in "996"

frontfor — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:20:51 +0000

When 996 makes being able to afford a house easier, many people will be compelled to do it.

New comment by frontfor in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

frontfor — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:31:48 +0000

It doesn’t matter. From the general population point of view, whoever writes the article is the “reporter”, and “they” don’t provide the links. You can argue otherwise and it won’t change the optics.

New comment by frontfor in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

frontfor — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:21:55 +0000

The horrible life in Soviet Union was due to horrible governmental policies, which are not unique to authoritarian governments. Liberal governments have their fair share of bad policies.

New comment by frontfor in "Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment"

frontfor — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:31:13 +0000

It’s not about cynical: it’s a purely risk/reward calculation. If you talk to the police and nothing happened, you don’t gain anything. If you’re found guilty though, it turns into a massive inconvenience. There’s no positive ROI.

New comment by frontfor in "Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks"

frontfor — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:29:04 +0000

It might be one motivation, doesn’t mean it’s a good one as per the original comment if consumers don’t care.