Hacker News: gammarator

New comment by gammarator in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

gammarator — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:50:03 +0000

You’ve got to normalize by dollars spent, though.

New comment by gammarator in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

gammarator — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:10:28 +0000

Ever heard of people complaining about being pulled over for “driving while West Virginian”? Why or why not?

New comment by gammarator in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

gammarator — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:01:31 +0000

Oh look! https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam

New comment by gammarator in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

gammarator — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:09:46 +0000

I would not be surprised if Sam A. helped engineer this whole situation… “Child’s play,” like replacing a reddit ceo.

U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran

gammarator — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:57:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191414

Points: 283

# Comments: 16

Rubin Observatory starts realtime monitoring of the sky with alerts

gammarator — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:57:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/02/25/rubin-observatory-real-time-alerts-dirac/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169570

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Acme Weather, from the Creators of Dark Sky

gammarator — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:36:37 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acme-weather/id6742032583

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097808

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by gammarator in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

gammarator — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:31:42 +0000

Did you read the article? The author considers these possibilities and offers their estimates of the odds of each. It’s fine if yours differ but you should justify them.

New comment by gammarator in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

gammarator — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:22:26 +0000

Also “The Unaccountability Machine” https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799...

New comment by gammarator in "World’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok"

gammarator — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:40:33 +0000

Evaporative cooling of the best content, likely, but plenty of social networks with worse ad loads still have plenty of users.

My question is whether Ellison does to it what Elon did to X: revamp the algorithm to support his politics.

New comment by gammarator in "Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star"

gammarator — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:54:16 +0000

This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.

New comment by gammarator in "High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects"

gammarator — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:23:05 +0000

Sounds like Dr. Kirkpatrick should have been a coauthor.

New comment by gammarator in "High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects"

gammarator — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:17:20 +0000

While Pasadena is a relatively wealthy city, historically there has been significant avoidance of its public schools by affluent residents: https://southerneducation.org/in-the-news/new-polling-data-f...

New comment by gammarator in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

gammarator — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:33:30 +0000

The sentence is accurate, your comment is not. The administration unilaterally canceled existing grants and halted and showed granting of funds appropriated by Congress, so the money was not used as allocated. If Congress allocated $1B for medical research and the administration only releases funds for $500M, it’s ignoring the law.

For example, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

As to “exercising control,” American science has been great because scientists judge which projects are the strongest. That’s being replaced by judgement by political appointees who are not experts: https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-pares-down-grant...

New comment by gammarator in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

gammarator — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:38:03 +0000

Your linked article does say Rivian ranked first in satisfaction, which does support the GP’s “rabidly loyal.”

New comment by gammarator in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

gammarator — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:29:06 +0000

Can’t wait for the brave new world of individuals “match fixing” outcomes on Polymarket.

New comment by gammarator in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

gammarator — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:08:18 +0000

(American _Astronautical_ Society)

New comment by gammarator in "The collapse of the econ PhD job market"

gammarator — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:16:29 +0000

[citation needed]

New comment by gammarator in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

gammarator — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:45:42 +0000

Emacs and vim have complex interfaces that have been stable for decades. Seems like every new flavor of LLM requires learning its warts and blind spots from scratch.

New comment by gammarator in "White House loyalty rating for companies"

gammarator — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:17:43 +0000

Lobby groups are private actors rating elected Congressional reps. This is government officials rating private actors (with an implied threat to punish those who don’t comply).