Hacker News: isaacfrond

New comment by isaacfrond in "When Google Cuts Off Access: Poland and the World"

isaacfrond — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:57:05 +0000

I'd say it's totally immaterial how it was written

New comment by isaacfrond in "The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

isaacfrond — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:03:25 +0000

> Surely researchers like this have the processing power to run them at home,

Nobody has that power. Certainly not mathematicians.

A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World

isaacfrond — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:51:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-framework-for-how-the-brain-compresses-our-noisy-world-20260824/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445394

Points: 3

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More than 100 suspicious images in Thermo Fisher antibody catalogue

isaacfrond — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:29:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01706-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445231

Points: 5

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New comment by isaacfrond in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

isaacfrond — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:50:36 +0000

The paper does not resolve P versus NP, but it does make an important advance in a closely related area. To prove that P ≠ NP, it would be enough to show that every algorithm for an NP-complete problem requires superpolynomial time. We cannot prove anything remotely that strong. For explicit NP-complete problems in unrestricted computational models, we cannot even prove superlinear lower bounds. There is therefore an enormous gap between the lower bounds we can prove and the superpolynomial bounds we would need.

VP and VNP are closely related algebraic analogues of P and NP. Here the paper proves new lower bounds for computing the permanent, a VNP-complete polynomial, in particular models of arithmetic computation: roughly (n^2\log\log n) arithmetic gates for unrestricted division-free circuits, and (n^4/\log n) size for the more restrictive formula model. These are still polynomial bounds, so they do not separate VP from VNP. But lower bounds on the resources needed to compute explicit functions are exactly what would ultimately be required for such a separation, and meaningful lower bounds of this kind are exceptionally rare.

Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

isaacfrond — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:38:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165841

Points: 5

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Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

isaacfrond — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:34:00 +0000

Article URL: https://cybernews.com/privacy/us-police-israeli-spy-vans-falconet-cognyte/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990886

Points: 135

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xAI can't deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it's suing users

isaacfrond — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:16:19 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/xai-cant-deny-grok-makes-csam-anymore-so-its-suing-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944616

Points: 5

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Astronomers discover first atmosphere around a rocky Earth-like planet

isaacfrond — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:12:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/astronomers-discover-1st-atmosphere-around-a-rocky-earth-like-planet-in-the-habitable-zone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944588

Points: 2

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Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt

isaacfrond — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:35:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/sealed-tomb-of-a-high-official-or-priest-filled-with-paintings-and-inscriptions-discovered-on-luxors-west-bank/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917906

Points: 133

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PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028

isaacfrond — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:00:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ryjyvjq41o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758043

Points: 3

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NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission

isaacfrond — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:41:15 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/nasa-picks-eric-schmidts-rocket-company-for-mars-mission-setting-up-a-race-with-spacex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597910

Points: 33

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AI has granted America new power

isaacfrond — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:34:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/18/ai-has-granted-america-vast-new-power

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596659

Points: 2

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FDA committee recommends a new mRNA flu vaccine

isaacfrond — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:27:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5863570/flu-vaccine-mrna-moderna-fda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596619

Points: 2

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Rolls-Royce secures deal to build small nuclear reactors for Sweden

isaacfrond — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:27:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/06/16/rolls-royce-secures-deal-to-build-small-nuclear-reactors-for-sweden

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596612

Points: 3

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Once again players are right to suspect AI was used in a game

isaacfrond — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:44:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/once-again-players-are-right-to-suspect-ai-was-used-in-a-game-once-again-a-dev-apologizes-for-using-ai-in-their-game/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489593

Points: 2

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New comment by isaacfrond in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

isaacfrond — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:41:25 +0000

You are confusing who is the party that is injured--as many in this thread are. We are not talking about the consumer who buys a non-fairtrade t-shirt, when he would rather had a fairtrade one. It's about the t-shirt producers who is legitimately fairtrade but whose business is now in the shitter because of a lying AI.

New comment by isaacfrond in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

isaacfrond — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:30:29 +0000

This is not such a decision though; it's a first instance decision at a lower court.

String theory may be inevitable from basic assumptions about the universe

isaacfrond — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:10:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/after-empty-promises-string-theory-finds-new-uses

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442562

Points: 4

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Google's Top DMCA Sender Plateaus at 70M Takedowns per Week

isaacfrond — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:35:27 +0000

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/googles-top-dmca-sender-plateaus-at-70-million-takedowns-per-week/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383158

Points: 4

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