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New comment by lucaslazarus in "They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went worse than you think"

lucaslazarus — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:46:23 +0000

I don’t entirely understand the war-gaming aspect here. Is this just Model UN for adults?

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2026 Cancelled"

lucaslazarus — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:48:35 +0000

> Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)

> features women

Are your pearls ok?

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Extra Big Ass Intelligence"

lucaslazarus — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:02:39 +0000

I’ve been using em dashes since I was 17 once I realized that they—when used without spaces—allow you to squeeze a few extra words past the Common App website’s word counter. Not exactly a strategy that works to your advantage these days.

Elephant Cognition

lucaslazarus — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:00:29 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927569

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Can you tell which images are AI-generated?"

lucaslazarus — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:19:31 +0000

AI vs Aye, it was I

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU"

lucaslazarus — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:43:21 +0000

This seems less like a proof and more like a "pretty please" with test cases?

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

lucaslazarus — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:46:07 +0000

Wow a corporate TLD in a wild, never seen this outside of the erstwhile domains.google

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets"

lucaslazarus — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:22:19 +0000

Not true, the Tesco meal deal shocked my American sensibilities!

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Pareto Front"

lucaslazarus — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:13:48 +0000

You mean the People’s front of Pareto!

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements"

lucaslazarus — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:45:56 +0000

Depends, is P = NP?

Diatom

lucaslazarus — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:49:59 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003321

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by lucaslazarus in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

lucaslazarus — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:17:51 +0000

4chan is down the hall and to the left

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

lucaslazarus — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:12:07 +0000

It’s pretty much a religious eschatology at this point

New comment by lucaslazarus in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

lucaslazarus — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:20:26 +0000

No. Firstly because it is spelled “typo.” Secondly you typically use the diaeresis to tell the reader to not confuse it with a similarly spelled sound or diphthong. So it tells a reader that “reëlect” is not pronounced REEL-ect, “coöperate” is not COOP-uh-ray-t, and “naïve” is not NAY-v.

New comment by lucaslazarus in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

lucaslazarus — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:39:54 +0000

Yes, this is exactly correct, and I will die on this hill. Additionally, I don't like the way a hyphenated "techno-optimism" looks and "technOOPtimism" is a bit too on-the-nose.

New comment by lucaslazarus in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

lucaslazarus — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:35:35 +0000

> I think it's the first time I'm asking myself: Ok, so this new cool tech, what is it good for?

I feel like this is something people in the industry should be thinking about a lot, all the time. Too many social ills today are downstream of the 2000s culture of mainstream absolute technoöptimism.

Vide. Kranzberg's first law--“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

lucaslazarus — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:26:56 +0000

Your criticism is entirely reasonable despite the pedantry. Yes, these people are bad people, but I think that could be the point here. Not to mention, this is just another chapter in SF's long history of being the vanguard of drug experimentation.

You may enjoy Didion's 1967 Slouching towards Bethlehem[1], a similarly anecdotal (and substantially better-written) piece about the drug scene in SF's Summer of Love.

[1] https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Notes from the SF Peptide Scene"

lucaslazarus — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:18:22 +0000

Strong parallels with Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1967):

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Google Street View in 2026"

lucaslazarus — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:53:03 +0000

Knowing Google’s tendency to kill things they try and fail to revamp, I’ll take this stagnation as long as they keep updating it with new imagery. Street View is the greatest project in human historiography; there’s too much to lose to silly Google management.

New comment by lucaslazarus in "Sizing chaos"

lucaslazarus — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:01:02 +0000

re: consistency

https://xkcd.com/927/