Hacker News: logicchains

New comment by logicchains in "Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war"

logicchains — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:43:36 +0000

Such great strides in technology, their standard of living was so high that their president was literally shocked just by the abundance of food in a normal western grocery story.

New comment by logicchains in "Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war"

logicchains — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:40:28 +0000

Please do share what capitalist country had a famine in the past century.

New comment by logicchains in "OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape"

logicchains — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:23:29 +0000

Eventually Chinese RAM will get good enough and then it'll flood the market, pushing prices down.

New comment by logicchains in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

logicchains — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:45:48 +0000

It's a sad indictment of the RMB that Iran would rather use BTC for bypassing US sanctions.

New comment by logicchains in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"

logicchains — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:22:32 +0000

>I also want Claude to work reliably but very few (no?) companies have ever seen this level of rapid growth. We're going to go through a long fail-whale-style period and I can imagine very, very few companies that could avoid that.

Their main competitor OpenAI has much better uptime and more generous usage limits.

New comment by logicchains in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

logicchains — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:20:29 +0000

https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/3/mwc-superpod-ai

>For AI computing, the Atlas 950 SuperPoD, powered by UnifiedBus, integrates 64 NPUs per cabinet and can scale up to 8,192 NPUs, delivering superior performance for large-scale AI training and high-concurrency inference.

New comment by logicchains in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

logicchains — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:49:14 +0000

Try Codex, it's a breath of fresh air in that regard, tries to do as much as it can.

New comment by logicchains in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

logicchains — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:09:33 +0000

This isn't new; in the 1960s France sent ships to take back its gold from the US to avoid losing it.

New comment by logicchains in "Gender Equality and Work"

logicchains — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:57:52 +0000

To whoever downvoted this, I'd be interested to see your sources showing that women do in fact have the same job preferences as men. Because every study I've seen shows that their career preferences differ. Or do you genuinely not understand that if women on average have a preferences for fields that pay less, they'll earn less on average?

New comment by logicchains in "Gender Equality and Work"

logicchains — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:49:51 +0000

We'd only expect to see wage equality if women had exactly the same job preferences as men, which empirically is absolutely not the case.

New comment by logicchains in "Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon"

logicchains — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:41:29 +0000

How far away are we from being able to run a hobby Linux on something like that, a completely hardware-backdoor-free system?

New comment by logicchains in "Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S."

logicchains — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:04:59 +0000

Not everybody has such a troubled personality that having the ability right at their fingertips to access all the world's information and communicate with anyone in the world somehow causes them problems, maybe you should touch grass.

New comment by logicchains in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

logicchains — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:19:28 +0000

Welcome to Dubai, German habibis, you can join all the Russians fleeing their draft here. Still a lot less likely to get hit by a drone here than to die when fighting on the frontlines in Europe.

New comment by logicchains in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

logicchains — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:11:43 +0000

No crazier than that the old can vote to send the young to war.

New comment by logicchains in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

logicchains — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:06:11 +0000

"Fuck you got mine" is the attitude of the boomers expecting young people to die for a country that the boomers left economically and demographically ruined. Young Germans have the worst life prospects of any generation in the past fifty years.

New comment by logicchains in "German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months"

logicchains — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:03:38 +0000

Nation state is just another word for state, no? What state is not a nation state?

New comment by logicchains in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

logicchains — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:00:17 +0000

That's not true. When France surrendered in WW2 most French men didn't have to fight or die (unless they were Jewish).

New comment by logicchains in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

logicchains — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:15:09 +0000

>Incorrect. Physical scarcity matters, but it’s not the main driver. Gold’s price is far more sensitive to interest rates, dollar strength, sentiment and fear, speculative flows.

Those are only relevant on a shorter timescale; on a long timescale gold's held its value extremely well. The price of a loaf of bread in gold now is still similar to what it was in the Roman Empire 2000 years ago.

New comment by logicchains in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

logicchains — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:52:14 +0000

Those countries, like Iran, are also quite poor because the army siphons off so much of their resources.

New comment by logicchains in "The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s"

logicchains — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:00:37 +0000

Not necessarily, it's possible that a country that goes too fast with human augmentation will end up accidentally sterilizing the majority of its population, causing it to fall behind. Like the Asgard in Stargate, who accidentally sterilized themselves through excessive use of cloning.