Hacker News: hydrolox

New comment by hydrolox in "The AirPods Effect"

hydrolox — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:43:36 +0000

looks like the seashells of Fahrenheit-451 were inevitable

New comment by hydrolox in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

hydrolox — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:34:15 +0000

So instead of funding more research into a potentially important unknown, as you say, we should just.. not?

New comment by hydrolox in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

hydrolox — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:58:45 +0000

do you expect there to be logic behind it?

New comment by hydrolox in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

hydrolox — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:50:41 +0000

were you crying when you considered the myriad of negative effects of burning fossil fuels?

White House's Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens

hydrolox — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:14:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-aliens-gov-us-citizens-arrested/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339127

Points: 55

# Comments: 12

New comment by hydrolox in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

hydrolox — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:54:35 +0000

Stop spreading misinformation.

>No. Field sobriety tests are not mandatory in Illinois. A driver may legally refuse to participate in field sobriety testing without violating Illinois law. These roadside tests are voluntary and are not part of the State’s implied consent laws.

https://dohmanlaw.com/refusing-a-field-sobriety-test-in-illi...

New comment by hydrolox in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

hydrolox — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:14:37 +0000

isn't this a technology forum?

New comment by hydrolox in "Optimal Strategy for Connect 4"

hydrolox — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:52:48 +0000

isn't this very similar or a case of trading space for time or vice versa (e.g in algorithm analysis)

New comment by hydrolox in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

hydrolox — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:42:29 +0000

online map https://progress.minefact.de/

Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code

hydrolox — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:31:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/white-flame/am

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519622

Points: 70

# Comments: 11

New comment by hydrolox in "Python: The Optimization Ladder"

hydrolox — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:54:35 +0000

Yea while reading, I just didn't understand how you end up LLM writing the article? Clearly, the data and writeup are real. But, was it "edited" with an LLM? It looks closer to ~the entire thing being LLM written. I finished reading because the topic is interesting, but the LLM writing style is difficult to bear.. and I agree with your point that trying to fool us that it's human with `--` is just absurd

AI 2027 Concrete Predictions and dates

hydrolox — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:09:58 +0000

Article URL: https://alexpear.github.io/pages/ai-2027.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256181

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by hydrolox in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

hydrolox — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:13:38 +0000

Yes, the analogy habit is the most annoying of all. Overall formatting for me is doable, if it didn't divide up an answer into these silly arbitrary categories with useless analogies. I've tried adding in my user preferences to never use analogies but it inevitably falls back into that habit.