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New comment by kisper in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

kisper — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:31:24 +0000

I would think that the surrounding chemical "knowledge" could be useful in the context of programming in that industry. Have you ever found it to draw links and conclusions between what you're doing in computer science and the chemistry it's in the middle of?

New comment by kisper in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

kisper — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:33:12 +0000

My understanding of God is not “one more thing in the universe that explains an earlier thing.” It is closer to God as the ground of being itself: the reason anything exists at all, including matter, energy, spacetime, causality, and whatever laws describe them.

New comment by kisper in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

kisper — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:22:57 +0000

Grew up in the faith, but never made it my own. I fell away for some years after I left home, with psychedelics, and ‘free’ sexuality before I realized that I had been desperate to fill an emptiness and the find answers to the plaguing questions that plagued me of who I was and what I was for and why I should continue living. It took a night of experimentation in witchcraft to snap me to the realization that if there WAS a god, maybe it was possible that it could be the God that came to be with us as man. “If he is there, if he is all powerful and loving, then surely you will let me know you are there, that you are Truth, because that is what I have been searching for“ was the essence of the prayer that night and the rest is history. I have an M.Sc. in the earth sciences. I loved learning previously about the beautiful and intricate interplay of factors across discrete systems in our physical world and, from the start of my reversion, I have looked for something that I can’t accept in the teachings of the Catechism of the Catholic Church that is logically inconsistent or incoherent within an all-encompassing view of reality, physical and otherwise… something I can unequivocally view as bullshit so that I don’t have to believe it, so I don’t have to impose upon myself everything that would be entailed if religion were indeed all true. Instead, The book has instead been wonderfully illuminating and found it to be a great primer for learning about the spiritual and human side of our metaphysical reality.

Regardless of religion, creed, or motto, it is human to seek the truth and understand it.

New comment by kisper in "Show HN: Try any terrible idea, ChatGPT still leads with praise"

kisper — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:49:33 +0000

I think the rest of the opening of the LLM generated response is useful for discussion here:

“”” I love the creativity already — but let’s walk through it seriously for a minute.

Short Answer

A used dental floss marketplace is almost certainly not viable in the real world — for legal, health, and consumer-behavior reasons.

But the idea behind it might actually be valuable.”””

And it then goes on, in its formulaic manner; this is the key: almost everything in its responses is going to seem formulaic, unless led differently so by the input you provide. The default LLM instructions are to be helpful, polite, etc. It’s been “trained”, in some handwavey sense, that a polite response to an idea tries to say something nice, a before laying out a critique, good or bad.

New comment by kisper in "Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?"

kisper — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:51:19 +0000

How about glasses that just display text sent from a phone running live transcription software? Why not display notifications while at it?

New comment by kisper in "Sued by Nintendo"

kisper — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:01:27 +0000

It seems that you appreciate the existence of Japanese content, but want to use it on your own terms, not theirs. Is that a fair understanding of your point of view? I think that might be the point of contention for a lot of people.

New comment by kisper in "Cheaper MacBook powered by iPhone chip coming in 2026, per new report"

kisper — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:09:45 +0000

I wonder if the play is to be able to differentiate themselves from the other phone manufacturers. Perhaps they think a free bundled laptop (that is cheap enough to make financial sense to include), instead of a wearable or tablet, could get a significant amount of people on the fence to choose Apple. Then again, they could likely get a lot of them by having a cheaper phone; perhaps though, their fear is cannibalization of the higher end iPhone sales? According to their latest statement, net sales of computer were only a fifth of that iPhone sales. I suppose they think it’s a better risk carving out more sales in the computer market over what they might lose on the entry level MacBook Air sales.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2025-q4/FY25_Q4_Consol...

There’s bound to be multiple reasons, heck, it could even just be internal politics. I too am curious.

New comment by kisper in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

kisper — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:28:17 +0000

I never thought about ABS while purchasing my little 250cc Kawasaki Ninja about 20 years ago, but in retrospect, I wish I had it! Skidding isn’t as bad for vehicles with 3+ wheels; they stay upright, at least. It had rained earlier that evening, and for whatever reason (skill, pavement change, oily film on the road surface, etc) when I braked before a turn the back-end slipped out from under me. Luckily, I walked away with just a sprained shoulder, broken thumb, and a spot on my kneecap worn down to the bone.

I thankfully was wearing riding gloves, helmet, and boots; the pavement wore through several layers of the leather, my hands would have been shredded like my knee, or worse.

New comment by kisper in "AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating"

kisper — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 06:09:52 +0000

What if one were to train a neural network of sorts based on your response times and mouse paths toward on screen stimuli?

I’ve thought that trying to make a bot for personal fishing use would be a delightfully fun project, and this is how I pondered evading such anti-cheat heuristics.

New comment by kisper in "Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds"

kisper — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:52:20 +0000

THC is the primary compound in cannabis responsible for its “high”. Some plants are bred to be high in THC, but there are also those bred for CBD content, which doesn’t get you high. Both are useful in aiding sleep, though I’d say THC can be more stimulating, go for a strain labeled as indica for best results there. I’d recommend gummies (or mints/pills/etc.) as oral ingestion gives a much longer duration, otherwise it’s just a couple hours.

As you likely know, THC is illegal in many places, CBD is much more commonly available and socially accepted.

New comment by kisper in "Secd: A silly implementation of the SECD machine"

kisper — Sun, 07 May 2023 21:04:57 +0000

A mis-autocorrect from simple. The GitHub page has the word in the project title correctly as “simple”.

New comment by kisper in "NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation"

kisper — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 04:20:24 +0000

¿Por qué no los dos? That's what I've always loved about creation; designed and ordered, with principles and physical constants that result in just so much gobsmacking beauty, from the macro to the micro scale, and yet, it can be intelligible to us in math and science.

Looking up at the night sky, I've always found it to be an awesome experience, in a very literal sense. Looking at these comparisons of the Hubble and Webb images (especially esawebb.org's slider) made me audibly chuckle because I've long been impressed by the Hubble images for all the stars it revealed beyond those visible to ground-based telescopes, much less simple stargazers. With Webb, it just blows my mind how many more stars there are out there; the deeper IR, big mirror, and nice shady spot at L2 result in orders of magnitude difference, and to think of all the stars outside of our Hubble volume that are receding too fast for us to ever witness from here. We live in a truly amazing reality.

New comment by kisper in "Record-breaking gamma-ray burst possibly most powerful explosion ever recorded"

kisper — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 07:49:51 +0000

The wikipedia article seems to suggests that gamma ray bursts are actually believed to occur in beams of 5-20 degrees in width.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Energetics_and...