Hacker News: greyw

New comment by greyw in "Tesla Roadster"

greyw — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:51:09 +0000

So just generic capitalism critique?

New comment by greyw in "More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke"

greyw — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:05:57 +0000

The theory did not do anything revolutionary. The products did.

New comment by greyw in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

greyw — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:43:46 +0000

If it makes them more money

New comment by greyw in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

greyw — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:49:21 +0000

There will always be people that write code with pen and paper. Its going to be an art form though rather than something productive.

New comment by greyw in "The Future of Mathematics"

greyw — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:02:39 +0000

That will also happen with regulation. It's just gonna be slightly slower process

New comment by greyw in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

greyw — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:37:37 +0000

My HN frontpage is filled with anti-AI rants

New comment by greyw in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

greyw — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:41:39 +0000

Indeed no one forces you to look up the solution.

New comment by greyw in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

greyw — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:47:13 +0000

Yeah because they commit tax fraud. I wont help businesses commit fraud.

New comment by greyw in "bzip3"

greyw — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:12:29 +0000

The author of bzip3 probably doesnt like pushover licenses so made user rights stronger

New comment by greyw in "Watch the 'Eclipse of the Century' Next Year When Spain, Egypt and More Go Dark"

greyw — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:58:25 +0000

"Let me potentially permanently damage my eyes to save 20 bucks".

New comment by greyw in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

greyw — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:33:11 +0000

Just pay with a credit card, it's the optimal way by far (float, flexibility, rewards). No need to overthink it.

New comment by greyw in "I, for one, can't wait to join the permanent underclass"

greyw — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:11:49 +0000

Reminder to do more capital investments rather than consume.

Laborers/Consumers arent gonna make it

New comment by greyw in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

greyw — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:05:51 +0000

It's data for their AI pipeline. Basically digital gold.

New comment by greyw in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

greyw — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:36:05 +0000

Non-industrial sounds to me like higher prices. If so, probably a non-starter for poor folks.

New comment by greyw in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

greyw — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:33:04 +0000

There are many many more things wrong with Zuckerberg than wasting my (our?) attention on ragebait nothingburgers like these.

New comment by greyw in "The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024"

greyw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:02:12 +0000

The equivalent would be not having to pay taxes if you dont earn money (or lie about it which the franchise business might be doing legally or illegally). Fortunately its quite rare to have a job that results in negative income.

Unfortunately, VAT is a consumption tax that has little to do with the company. Your gov thinks you need to pay it because you consume. Are you paying a consumption tax on investments? No that would be really dumb

New comment by greyw in "The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024"

greyw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:48:52 +0000

I dont know a single country that doesnt allow losses to be offset from future profits. Not a single one!

It discourages investments in your country.

New comment by greyw in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

greyw — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:56:35 +0000

Ironically, any SoTA LLM would be able to make a better analogy than you. Sometimes the average human is the slop generator

New comment by greyw in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

greyw — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:52:05 +0000

If you ask me to repeat the contents of a novel I read line by line I can do it too. Is this fair use? Do I have to pay someone?

New comment by greyw in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

greyw — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:24:45 +0000

In Switzerland this fictional imputed rent is actually extremly real. We have to pay taxes as if it was earned income.

So you live in your fully owned flat, pretend to rent it to yourself and then pay income taxes on that amount. The point is your government can make this "fake" value very real.

Luckily we recently voted to abolish this tax so it will be gone in some years. This tax was introduced as an emergency measure in ww1.