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New comment by futune in "I Don't Have a Smartphone"

futune — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:19:24 +0000

Strictly speaking it's based on AOSP. Which has Android in its name if you expand the acronym, but it's really not the same beast...

New comment by futune in "Not Becoming a Cyborg"

futune — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:46:02 +0000

One way to detect mathematicians is that we say "[...], in particular, [...]". I guess it's our version of the economist thing!

New comment by futune in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

futune — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:39:34 +0000

When I started playing (2011-ish), I suppose I was the counterparty to your playstyle. But that was the appeal: Being in actual danger and at risk for loss. Even stuff like moving an industrial with goods from highsec to npc null to sell at a markup was an exhilerating adventure. And if there is risk, sometimes you lose.

I don't know how many people felt like I did, versus how many ragequit the game.

After some years I became a wormholer though, and finally a permanent -10 lowsec pirate in the end. It's been a decade since I quit now.

Learned a lot from that game.

New comment by futune in "Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS"

futune — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:32:57 +0000

That's the bizarre thing about this hn discussion... A lot of people referencing rooted phones, but to the best of my knowledge GrapheneOS is almost never rooted?

New comment by futune in "Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful"

futune — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:49:27 +0000

I think your latter comment is kind of analogous to people writing python (or any high-level language) without understanding assembly. I think maybe that reduces the mystery a bit?

The Invalidity of the Claimed Disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture

futune — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:34:55 +0000

Article URL: https://philarchive.org/archive/NIEWTCv16

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257292

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by futune in "Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding"

futune — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:01:03 +0000

One of the famous problems with df is that it's very much single threaded. At least the last time I checked, which is some years ago by now.

Besides that blocker, your idea sounds like a nice win.

New comment by futune in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

futune — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:19:36 +0000

The reason I started with vim was to do live writing of latex notes while listening to conference lectures, on a small notebook. I did not want to bring a mouse with me due to the extra weight and usually lack of a mouse surface.

With the constraint that you simply don't have a mouse available, vim turned out to be faster from day 1 than alternative editors. Even knowing just a couple of vim movements.

And then I liked it and wanted to learn more.

New comment by futune in "How real are real numbers? (2004)"

futune — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:57:51 +0000

The numbers you mentioned are computable numbers. Constructivists and intuitionists have no problem with them, generally. The problem is that there is only a countable number of computable reals, so what do we do about all the other reals? The ones that nobody will give an example of because it is simply not possible to do so, which is to say, the vast majority of reals?

Does it exist if it is impossible to show an example? Only if "exist" is interpreted to mean "you cannot deduce a contradiction from assuming them", which is a logically consistent position. But if you mean "they are in some sense actually there", in some describable way, then it's muddier. And you can build a logically consistent position from declaring "they are not there" as well. Precisely because no counterexample can be produced.

And then there's ultrafinitists, and yeah, they are a bit bonkers.

New comment by futune in "Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf]"

futune — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:31:33 +0000

I think this is a good comment. Could you also provide an example of a true (essential?) proof of contradiction of an elementary mathematical statement, to illustrate?

New comment by futune in "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]"

futune — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:57:38 +0000

If /dev/null is fast and web scale, I will use it.

New comment by futune in "Solving Wordle using information theory"

futune — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:19:46 +0000

I did this immediately when wordle came out, too. Here's what I got for top 5 starting words along with the entropy:

"tears" 6.00570508021708 "teras" 5.95925128791865 "teals" 5.90122552646963 "tares" 5.88711668336419 "lears" 5.86158270234831

Using another metric which I called consistency (I think it was just minimizing the biggest bucket possible afterwards, trying to beat absurdle fast), the best starting word was tied between "arise", "raise", "aesir", "reais" and "serai". All of these have a worst-case scenario of 168 valid words remaining.

I find it interesting that different implementations seem to come up with slightly different rankings. Maybe the dictionaries are different?

New comment by futune in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

futune — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:38:12 +0000

It makes sense to me if the buyer is concerned that the performance would revert towards the mean on second generation if you attempt to breed further. But... The new paradigm is not breeding, it's cloning. So it seems like "one shot" high performance steeds even without pedigree could be viable?

I feel like I am missing a lot.

New comment by futune in "Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video]"

futune — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:34:39 +0000

What would it even mean for the ublock origin runtime framework aka firefox to be equipped with an adblocker?!

New comment by futune in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

futune — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:56:49 +0000

Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo way back was it for me. Not exactly genAI, but that was when I saw that where I thought we were vs where we actually were on a problem could shift by 10 years in 1 week.

New comment by futune in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

futune — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:25:57 +0000

Seems like the opposite to me. We don't like theft because the victim loses something. If stealing a car spawned a new car for you while the "victim" kept his, would it be a problem? So I don't really get the murder analogy. It's more like if the government had defined some act as murder even though nobody died.

New comment by futune in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

futune — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:58:15 +0000

I love "Let our Fame be Great", about the history of the peoples of the Caucasus. Strongly recommended.

New comment by futune in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

futune — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:57:49 +0000

The first person videos of drones hunting terrified soldiers coming out of Ukraine seem relevant. Apparently the last moments of the hunt are pretty much automated now, which increased the kill-rate considerably.

New comment by futune in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

futune — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:27:15 +0000

I had the same reaction.

New comment by futune in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

futune — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:25:29 +0000

I was thinking the same. But it worries me that these news about Motorola in particular doing shady shit. I was looking forward to the upcoming GrapheneOS/Motorola partnership :(