Hacker News: kleton

New comment by kleton in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

kleton — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:29:28 +0000

> The water thing

It’s amazing how Karen Hao managed to graduate from MIT without learning the difference between m^3 and L

New comment by kleton in "Agatha Christie's Disappearance: Amnesia, Suicide, or Despair?"

kleton — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:46:44 +0000

Maybe she just liked giving people mysteries

New comment by kleton in "How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes"

kleton — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:48:27 +0000

Would this imply that the matrices should have dimensions of multiples of 40?

New comment by kleton in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

kleton — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:38:09 +0000

About 15% of the UK's land parcels are not in any land registry database, because recording there only became compulsory in 1990, so if an event like a sale/morgtage didn't happen to a property since then, it might not be registered. Regardless of the land registry, the ownership can still easily be proven.

New comment by kleton in "GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance"

kleton — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:49:57 +0000

Clearly they are batching reasoning inference in a few multiples of 512 tokens as a throughput optimization

New comment by kleton in "Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers"

kleton — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:04:03 +0000

> Zuckerberg knows that threatening Wynn-Williams for standing in wooden silence on a stage makes him look like history's most guillotineable billionaire.

That might be a bit generous to assume that he has this theory of mind

New comment by kleton in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

kleton — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:23:07 +0000

> only my friends' status updates

I think that is the Feed's tab, though I have not used the blue app in a long time

New comment by kleton in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

kleton — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:14:50 +0000

hellottec is down but a cdn mirror of the product: https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/tesancdn/hellottec/2_BH_...

New comment by kleton in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

kleton — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:12:47 +0000

The real problem with Magnifica Humanitas is that it will be impossible to produce the first sentence of the canonical Latin version in which the first two words are "Magnifica humanitas" but carries the same meaning as the first sentence in the English version published.

New comment by kleton in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

kleton — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:04:22 +0000

It's amazing how Karen Hao's (Empire of AI) confusion of cubic meters with liters of water for datacenters continues to get amplified, even after this error was publicly revealed.

New comment by kleton in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

kleton — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:39:02 +0000

> The Wikimedia Foundation closed last fiscal year with $208.6 million in revenue. It holds $296.6 million in reserves, 17.1 months of operating expenses.

The actual physical cost of hosting Wikipedia is < $5 million per year.

New comment by kleton in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

kleton — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:02:39 +0000

Yes. We are cladistically more related to a goldfish than it is to a shark.

New comment by kleton in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

kleton — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:39:18 +0000

> First, “seed oils” is a marketing term, not a nutritional category.

"Seed oils" (commonly used cooking oils extracted from plant seeds excluding coconut) are as valid of a construct as "reptiles" (quadrupeds excluding aves and mammals) or "fish" (vertebrates excluding quadrupeds)

New comment by kleton in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

kleton — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:46:24 +0000

No, I meant Iranic. Pashtun and Parsi "Dari" speakers are canonically Iranic ethnic groups.

New comment by kleton in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

kleton — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:13:28 +0000

It would not be that stunning, given that a much poorer Iranic country decisively defeated the U.S. in a ~20 year war ending only a few years ago.

New comment by kleton in "NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things (2022)"

kleton — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:02:09 +0000

Truly a case where the old word polytropōs applies.

New comment by kleton in "UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)"

kleton — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:18:17 +0000

It is this compound https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39106304/

New comment by kleton in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

kleton — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:28:56 +0000

Any quarters and dimes he would have received in change would have been about 90 per cent silver.

New comment by kleton in "Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens"

kleton — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:02:02 +0000

Apple normally just does prepayment for capacity- funding the capital for the production line they need

New comment by kleton in "Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch"

kleton — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:59:53 +0000

Gen X and Millenials don't share Boomers' obsession with green lawns, so it's a race against time, whether Boomers or lightning bugs will go extinct first