Hacker News: hydrolox

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.

Realistic Cave Exploration Game with Custom Renderer Tech

hydrolox — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:37:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k1OHSCp_h0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46819089

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Render meshes using realtime traditionally hand-painted textures

hydrolox — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Rink37/BOBJECT_engine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686018

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hydrolox in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

hydrolox — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:36:30 +0000

0 day old account that's only posted on this thread

Running a Minecraft Server on a Smartwatch

hydrolox — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:00:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-F94JLj5Bo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530879

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hydrolox in "Square Theory"

hydrolox — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:55:05 +0000

I think this is an example of a Garden Path Sentence[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence?wprov=sfl...

New comment by hydrolox in "Please Fund More Science (2020)"

hydrolox — Sat, 24 May 2025 21:11:38 +0000

money corrupts

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

hydrolox — Tue, 13 May 2025 22:35:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978511

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by hydrolox in "LLM Runs Fully Inside a PDF"

hydrolox — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:50:55 +0000

from this video https://youtu.be/4cBom2lAx-g

LLM Runs Fully Inside a PDF

hydrolox — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://evanzhoudev.github.io/llm.pdf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744534

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by hydrolox in "AnimeJs v4 Is Here"

hydrolox — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:04:05 +0000

isn't the point that it's an animation library showcasing what's possible?

New comment by hydrolox in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

hydrolox — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:20:48 +0000

I get what you're arguing but isn't "Jail the President for doing Presidential stuff" a bit charitable? "Nope, don't see it" isn't so simple, I think a lot of people would argue that this follows from the rule of law set down in the constitution in the form of things like the supremacy clause and implied by our entire legal/political structure.

New comment by hydrolox in "Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)"

hydrolox — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:49:34 +0000

yep https://youtu.be/L-azf9ecvfo

New comment by hydrolox in "Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)"

hydrolox — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:48:57 +0000

Although I haven't followed his project at all, one fully free alternative which gives similar insight (how logic gates build up to a full computer) is the nand2tetris[1] course. It starts with just a nand gate and then creates all necessary components to make a simple programmable computer, all simulated virtually so you don't need any physical components.

1. https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Top US Scientists "SOS" Letter to the Government

hydrolox — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:19:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/31/health/scientists-letter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547090

Points: 6

# Comments: 1