Hacker News: hkmaxpro

New comment by hkmaxpro in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

hkmaxpro — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:53:15 +0000

They want Buckmaster to dissociate with Alpöge in a follow-up rewrite of OpenAI's work. (They only publicly admit “Buckmaster as the lead author”, but judging from Buckmaster’s statement, it’s pretty clear that don’t want Alpöge at all.)

Just suggesting to a mathematician to dissociate with their collaborator for a follow-up work, because their collaborator “is inappropriate to author OpenAI’s work”, is completely against the norm of mathematical research. As charm137 puts it in a comment below:

> This is like a researcher from CMU saying to an NYU researcher that their collaborator, being from MIT, is a problem - this is as ridiculous as that!

New comment by hkmaxpro in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

hkmaxpro — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:30:36 +0000

Both Sam Altman and Sebastien Bubeck admitted they only want Buckmaster to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof.

https://x.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140

https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379411691516310

A wake up call for using OpenAI models. If you discover something with their model and you work for a competitor, they “felt it would be inappropriate” for you “to author OpenAI’s work”.

New comment by hkmaxpro in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

hkmaxpro — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:28:59 +0000

Both Sam Altman and Sebastien Bubeck admitted they only want Buckmaster to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof.

https://x.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140

https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379411691516310

A wake up call for using OpenAI models. If you discover something with their model and you work for a competitor, they “felt it would be inappropriate” for you “to author OpenAI’s work”.

Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

hkmaxpro — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:43:36 +0000

Article URL: https://linuxiac.com/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831886

Points: 109

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AI research papers are getting better, and it's a big problem for scientists

hkmaxpro — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:33:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/930522/ai-research-papers-slop-peer-review-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147306

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

As Russia Expands Internet Blackouts, Kremlin Tells Citizens to Use the Radio

hkmaxpro — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:54:54 +0000

Article URL: https://united24media.com/latest-news/as-russia-expands-internet-blackouts-kremlin-tells-citizens-to-use-the-radio-18566

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056163

Points: 6

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China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables

hkmaxpro — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:29:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-tests-deep-sea-electro-hydrostatic-actuator-that-can-cut-undersea-cables-at-a-depth-of-3-500-meters-state-hails-successful-trial-and-hints-at-deployment-readiness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788357

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

KFC, a.k.a. Korean Fried chicken, took over the world

hkmaxpro — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:46:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/09/korean-fried-chicken

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699738

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by hkmaxpro in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

hkmaxpro — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:04:38 +0000

How does a Jan/Feb holiday affect this year’s March number (that was reported in early April)?

I’m not talking about the Feb number that is reported in March.

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

hkmaxpro — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:12:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609564

Points: 784

# Comments: 368

New comment by hkmaxpro in "Wedeo – a Rust Rewrite of FFmpeg"

hkmaxpro — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:27:12 +0000

Worth mentioning https://github.com/yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg, another rust rewrite of ffmpeg (apparently from scratch, not translated)

Results from round one of First Proof (benchmarking LLMs for math research)

hkmaxpro — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:04:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-ai-keeps-improving-mathematicians-struggle-to-foretell-their-own-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422931

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Moscow Reverts to 90s Communication Tools as Internet Outages Cause Chaos

hkmaxpro — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:17:16 +0000

Article URL: https://united24media.com/latest-news/moscow-reverts-to-90s-communication-tools-as-internet-outages-cause-chaos-16800

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355009

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hkmaxpro in "YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users"

hkmaxpro — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:29:17 +0000

Some alternatives recently discussed:

NewPipe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218

PipePipe: https://pipepipe.dev/

I haven’t used any of these alternatives myself.

OnceMap: Rust Pattern for Running Concurrent Work Exactly Once (uv codebase)

hkmaxpro — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:12:15 +0000

Article URL: https://codepointer.substack.com/p/uv-oncemap-rust-pattern-for-running

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523852

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hkmaxpro in "Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement"

hkmaxpro — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:35:47 +0000

I am also not a fan of automatic fraction.

BTW, I notice that both of your complaints will be addressed in the next version:

https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/6672

https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/6442 , see also https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/math-mode-problem/

China tightens internet controls with new centralized form of virtual ID

hkmaxpro — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:53:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/tech/china-censorship-internet-id-hnk-intl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44336444

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by hkmaxpro in "Vision Language Models Are Biased"

hkmaxpro — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:37:32 +0000

I think social biases (e.g. angry black women stereotype) in your paper is different from cognitive biases about facts (e.g. number of legs, whether lines are parallel) that OP is about.

Social biases are subjective. Facts are not.

New comment by hkmaxpro in "Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)"

hkmaxpro — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:43:52 +0000

Reminds me of Yasha Berchenko-Kogan’s excellent answer to the question “What do grad students in math do all day?”

https://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-do-grad-students-in-m...

> a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

> What can you say?

> "It is a tool that does suck up dust to make what you walk on in a home tidy."

What do grad students in math do all day? (2013)

hkmaxpro — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:40:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quora.com/What-do-grad-students-in-math-do-all-day-Do-they-just-sit-at-their-desk-and-think

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678642

Points: 2

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