Hacker News: hoseja

New comment by hoseja in "What is a manifold?"

hoseja — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:37:53 +0000

So what is the "Not a manifold." part? The actually interesting part.

New comment by hoseja in "iFixit iPhone Air teardown"

hoseja — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:40:11 +0000

The advantage is you can put bigger screen into your pocket. You already have one exposed display in there normally.

New comment by hoseja in "Where's Firefox going next?"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:25:10 +0000

And eventually, out of the blue sky, Kali will reach with her crimson palms.

New comment by hoseja in "To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:40:38 +0000

Recalling the subtle difference between std::lower_bound and std::upper_bound and where it matters is somewhat annoying before it becomes muscle memory.

New comment by hoseja in "Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:43:23 +0000

for a whole two weeks probably

New comment by hoseja in "Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:42:24 +0000

Isn't that trivially an iterative formula? You know, the physics solver iterating dT after dT.

New comment by hoseja in "Reflections on OpenAI"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:19:58 +0000

>As a result, OpenAI is a very secretive place.

The choice of name continues providing incredible amusement.

New comment by hoseja in "Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:58:13 +0000

"The most striking features of Gothic architecture are the narrow, vertical proportions and the pointed arches. Gothic-era writing mirrors these concepts."

They didn't have printing press or some conscious aesthetic architecture-typecafe correspondence. That's just how the letters evolve if you want to quickly and densely copy them with a quill. It's like trying to draw meanings from connections between cuneiform and ziggurats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter

"Why do all of this? Because otherwise, the base of the building would look like it was sagging, and the columns would look like they were about to fall outwards."

Or, you know, it would ACTUALLY sag. The columns would ACTUALLY fall outwards.

New comment by hoseja in "NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:40:54 +0000

Well for example you can take several of the clocks and compare them.

New comment by hoseja in "Where's Firefox going next?"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:57:37 +0000

Every dollar they take from the foundation donations for these causes is a dollar that enables them to better sabotage Firefox development actually. If they were starved like cancerous tumour the body might heal and survive.

New comment by hoseja in "Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:53:56 +0000

I am INCREDIBLY baffled it's not there already.

New comment by hoseja in "GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical"

hoseja — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:48:21 +0000

Well for Earth life there are multiple but evolution just learned to exploit them all.

New comment by hoseja in "A Century of Quantum Mechanics"

hoseja — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:26:36 +0000

I didn't know string theory makes any verified more precise predictions.

New comment by hoseja in "Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025"

hoseja — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:11:00 +0000

Alas. I would love a story with utterly alien paradigm but nobody can actually write them and neither will the artificial minds anxiously crafted in the image of human mind be able to.

New comment by hoseja in "Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025"

hoseja — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:54:07 +0000

Ah yes, the hard sci-fi staples such as riding to orbit on a crotch rocket and contributing to dimensional potluck at the end of time.

New comment by hoseja in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

hoseja — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:31:53 +0000

Surely, SURELY, this has to be satire.

New comment by hoseja in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"

hoseja — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:30:13 +0000

Well so is "Birds" a dinosaur movie then.

New comment by hoseja in "Let me pay for Firefox"

hoseja — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:25:23 +0000

The Mozilla corporation made sure to wash its hands of all those successes.

New comment by hoseja in "Let me pay for Firefox"

hoseja — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:11:58 +0000

More millions for the CEO!

New comment by hoseja in "Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train"

hoseja — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:07:22 +0000

"Waaah waah they didn't ask permission to read the internet"

Meanwhile unintentionally ultrarlhfrelevant title photo.