Hacker News: hazbot

New comment by hazbot in "Show HN: UTC Time - live clock, ISO 8601, Unix timestamp"

hazbot — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:58:48 +0000

Love the 8601 evangelism.

New comment by hazbot in "Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]"

hazbot — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:26:19 +0000

I read Simon Singh's book as a young teenager - loved it!

New comment by hazbot in "Git rebase -i is not that scary"

hazbot — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:50:33 +0000

It's because git replays your commits one at a time on top of a new commit; so if you resolve a conflict but then your next commits also touches the same code, the intent is ambiguous to git and it asks for your help with the conflict.

Wsc891 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wsc981 has a good resolution for this in the comment directly above: 1) rebase -i onto your own history and squash 2) rebase onto the new branch.

New comment by hazbot in "Australian Data Centres forced to generate more power than they use"

hazbot — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:47:15 +0000

I always wonder what the politicians are really thinking here.

Is Albo like "this is optics for the plebs, just a bit of window dressing bureaucracy on top of the normal market mechanisms where the data centre buying electricity will stimulate supply"

Or is he like "without these rules, data scenters will shoot themselves and the market in the foot and there won't be enough supply"?

New comment by hazbot in "CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026"

hazbot — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:26:45 +0000

Can confirm the Baldur's Gate 2 manual was an endlessly fascinating tome.

New comment by hazbot in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

hazbot — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:54:36 +0000

The generous interpretation of the OPs comment it was gentle hyperbole but directionally correct relative to the not so distant past.

New comment by hazbot in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

hazbot — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:45:36 +0000

Ahhhh but cancer treatment has gotten significantly better over the last 50 years.

Cancer research has a half-decent feedback mechanism that means fads eventually have to prove themselves or die out.

New comment by hazbot in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

hazbot — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:46:08 +0000

I suspect it is the feedback from the stricter compiler, not differences in training data between python and rust

New comment by hazbot in "The dead economy theory"

hazbot — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:46:42 +0000

> I feel like 20 or 30 years ago, the average person seemed to have more disposable income.

Big if true but is it true?

New comment by hazbot in "The dead economy theory"

hazbot — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:43:37 +0000

Totally - the (useful) economic models they are bringing are being extrapolated into very unusual territory!

New comment by hazbot in "The dead economy theory"

hazbot — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:39:42 +0000

If AIs become smart enough to outperform a critical mass of humans across the board, that's the singularity and whilst the economic model says all humans out of jobs means no consumers, the model isn't really valid anymore because the underlying assumptions are just broken too, so you can't take the model too seriously. Obviously it would be very disruptive but the demand destruction economic model just isn't making useful predictions anymore.

New comment by hazbot in "The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)"

hazbot — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:25:28 +0000

It's satirical argument against claims that computers will never be as intelligent as humans.

New comment by hazbot in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

hazbot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:20:19 +0000

I enjoy having a DVD player for the kids, it makes curating their options so much easier.

New comment by hazbot in "Glasses Got Worse on Purpose"

hazbot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:03:57 +0000

Thankyou, this is the comment I came here for - advice on alternatives!

New comment by hazbot in "Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI"

hazbot — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:44:33 +0000

Yes, it is much easier to train someone to use AI than to train them to have sufficiently baked-in math and language skills to be able to leverage the AI.

New comment by hazbot in "Samsung releases new all-in-one heat pump for residential use"

hazbot — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:27:56 +0000

Integration of the air cooling and water heating. For example, I have a air conditioner pumping heat out of my house right next to a box that's putting heat into the water coming into my house.

New comment by hazbot in "Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use"

hazbot — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:11:40 +0000

We are a happy paying customer at $DAYJOB.

Also, I looked into omfiles for a project recently, I was very impressed with their speed and blown away by the compression ratios!

New comment by hazbot in "Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November"

hazbot — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:50:16 +0000

Yes this is much stronger and relevant evidence

New comment by hazbot in "Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November"

hazbot — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:02:49 +0000

When I watched a very short clip juxtaposed next to a clip of a nazi salute, then it looked like one to me.

But when I watched it in context, it looked like a man putting a hand on his heart and then proffering his thanks to the audience.

My belief is that it was most likely not a nazi salute and is not relevant evidence in the important task of assessing Musk's political stances.

New comment by hazbot in "Show HN: Chess on a Donut/Torus and Deep-Dive"

hazbot — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:52:14 +0000

It's fun to sit down and draw what the board looks like when you cut and flatten the torus before you watch the video!

Bonus points if you hit upon the other 2D projection that is useful (I didn't)