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New comment by hazbot in "We won't "just hang out""

hazbot — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:07:06 +0000

Benevolent AI and biological immortality sounds like a good problem to have; at that point surely you only have yourself to blame for being boring

New comment by hazbot in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

hazbot — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:37:31 +0000

> Europe has been forced to depend on the US.

It's been more carrots than the (non-zero) sticks.

I think it's under selling Europe's agency to characterise the relationship as 'forced'.

And now that the US is increasingly seen as unreliable, Europe is (slowly?) decoupling - which is what you'd expect as a mutually beneficial relationship sours.

New comment by hazbot in "What the PHP2Shell rumors got wrong, from inside the PHP security team"

hazbot — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:37:38 +0000

AI;DR very much an over-detailed dump of events without a good filter on the meaningful errors

New comment by hazbot in "A Strongly Aperiodic Monotile in Three Dimensions"

hazbot — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:57:03 +0000

> However, the paper itself and the formalization that it claims for support are not in a form that is readily usable to anyone who wants to understand or check it. This is not just because of the needless length or complexity of the argument (which is indeed overwhelming as presented), or because the formal repository is not in normal form, or because much of the text is misleading or poorly organized, but mainly because there is so much irrelevant puff to push through.

Zing

New comment by hazbot in "Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence"

hazbot — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:31:44 +0000

Not proof but it does waggle it's eyebrows suggestively!

Like sure the marketing is undoubtedly overblown. But in 2025 there was no amount of money you could spend to make such impressive but weirdly unreadable progress.

New comment by hazbot in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

hazbot — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:34:21 +0000

> How do we even know the premises of the "verified" Lean proofs are correct?

We let the experts investigate. If the results are dodgy, then the next batch of results will have to do more upfront work to demonstrate their worth. If there is gold in them hills, then this is exciting though very disruptive for the math community.

New comment by hazbot in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

hazbot — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:33:27 +0000

I do sometimes worry it's just that the LLMs got a better disguise

New comment by hazbot in "The Tao of Backup"

hazbot — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:31:39 +0000

To be fair it's a plug from 1997 and the domain has since changed hands

New comment by hazbot in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

hazbot — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:25:01 +0000

I think it's fair to say the the parent comment's usage of 'crime' was likely in the informal sense, not in the legal technical sense.

New comment by hazbot in "AI Robots – When will they be in our homes"

hazbot — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:57:28 +0000

How could you sleep with one of these in your house? How could you trust it around small children?

If we see rapid advances in robotics will alignment become a visceral concern for the population at large?

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!