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New comment by kaiwen1 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

kaiwen1 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:09:50 +0000

"But what about ?"

That blank will not be filled in with today's technologies, but with technologies we cannot conceive of today and with an energy abundance that we can hardly imagine.

Even in this apparently dire predicament, optimism is warranted.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

kaiwen1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:16:14 +0000

Why functional programming languages are the future (again)

Top comment:

“The Quantum-Lazy-Linker in GHC 18.4 is actually a terrifying piece of technology if you think about it. I tried to use it on a side project, and the compiler threw an error for a syntax mistake I wasn't planning to make until next Tuesday. It breaks the causality workflow.”

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Grokipedia and the coup against reality"

kaiwen1 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:59:05 +0000

An easy prediction is that comparing articles will become standard practice for many people. I’ve already done that today.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

kaiwen1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:41:45 +0000

Like many others here, I recommend giving org-mode a try. The main drawback is endlessly yak shaving it to your taste.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Claude 4"

kaiwen1 — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:13:48 +0000

What's different is intention. A human would have the intention to blackmail, and then proceed toward that goal. If the output was a love letter instead of blackmail, the human would either be confused or psychotic. LLMs have no intentions. They just stitch together a response.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

kaiwen1 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:21:53 +0000

RMB and Yuan are two names for the same thing. Maybe you're thinking of FEC? That ended in 1994.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

kaiwen1 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:02:54 +0000

I still use Quicksilver[1], the open source app that long predates Alfred and was the inspiration for it. I tried Alfred a few years ago but didn't see anything compelling enough to switch. Am I missing anything?

[1] https://qsapp.com

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained"

kaiwen1 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:24:37 +0000

I still used Lynx as my default browser while working on ships until 2020. Satellite internet connections at sea were slow and very expensive which made Lynx a good choice. But it turned out that the text-based, distraction-free browsing could be a better experience than the same site in a modern browser. And a few sites still serve text versions, like text.npr.org. I liked Lynx enough that I would still use it back on land until the habit faded.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "A Few of the Birds I Love"

kaiwen1 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 05:58:21 +0000

Upvote for the mockingbird. One fellow has for years perched himself in tree near the sidewalk tables at my favorite restaurant. His songs are as good as the food.

> only three species of birds survived the Chicxulub asteroid impact

I think it was three clades that survived, not individual species.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]"

kaiwen1 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 01:36:57 +0000

If human-like cognition isn't possible on digital computers, it's certainly is on quantum ones. The Deutsch-Church-Turing principle shows that a quantum Turing machine can efficiently simulate any physically realizable computational process.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice"

kaiwen1 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:45:05 +0000

Tangential, but... when my daughter was 8 or 9, we read _I, Robot_ together, and both both cried when Gloria's parents decided to separate her from Robbie, her robot companion. Such a fond memory to this day.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink"

kaiwen1 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:04:45 +0000

That article is dated 26 Feb 2025, not weeks ago.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Microplastics in the human brain"

kaiwen1 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:58:00 +0000

Pre-print paper that concludes “may”, so by implication, also “may not”.

And also may, or may not, be harmful.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1"

kaiwen1 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:39:03 +0000

No. My memory of the advent of the WWW was a sidebar in PC Magazine in Nov 1993 with an FTP link to download the NCSA Mosaic browser. It was a wow! moment to visit the few sites that existed. But nothing like this. What we’re seeing now is generating vastly more interest and excitement. It’s more akin to the 1999 dotcom bubble, but with far more impact and reach.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "[dead]"

kaiwen1 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:25:04 +0000

On one hand, I know I should "invest" in this ridiculous thing because it's practically guaranteed to surge. But on the other hand, I know I shouldn't because, like all crypto, it's just a steaming pile of ponzi garbage.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "The Anti-Social Century"

kaiwen1 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 23:10:32 +0000

Is the "deadly" due to an increase in confounding factors related to social isolation – drinking, lack of exercise, etc? Or does merely being alone, while still maintaining an otherwise healthy lifestyle, shorten life?

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Show HN: Org-Supertag"

kaiwen1 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 05:23:02 +0000

I live in org-roam nearly all day, every day, and the #1 feature on my wishlist is tagging. org-roam actually has a tagging feature, but it's very limited. org-supertag looks much better. Can't wait to try it. Great job, OP!

Kling AI Studio

kaiwen1 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:28:57 +0000

Article URL: https://klingai.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42436672

Points: 14

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New comment by kaiwen1 in "ChatGPT Pro"

kaiwen1 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:59:43 +0000

I know a guy who owned a tropical resort on a island where competiton was sprouting up all around him. He was losing money trying to keep up with the quality offered by his neighbors. His solution was to charge a lot more for an experience that was really no better, and often worse, than the resorts next door. This didn't work.

New comment by kaiwen1 in "Character amnesia in China"

kaiwen1 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:37:55 +0000

This is not analagous. The sound of every English word give clues – and often precise guidance - on how to write it, but the sound of a Chinese word typically offers no hint of how to write it. If you give me some obscure English word, say "persiflage", I might have no idea what it means, but I can probably spell it. But if you give a Chinese speaker 馘 (góu) in context, almost no one will be able to write it, even if they know the precise meaning ("to cut off the left ear of the slain").