Hacker News: lysium

New comment by lysium in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

lysium — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:51:02 +0000

I understand your point, however I don’t buy „there's just no legal way to remove him“. With so low ratings where are the daily protests against such type of government? Surely, nationwide daily protests would make elected officials reconsider their positions, given an upcoming midterm election, while there still is one.

Don’t get me wrong, I know the thousands reasons why you won’t join a protest, I’m „guilty“ myself. I just want to argue against your argument that I quoted because this puts all of us in an unhelpful victim mentality.

New comment by lysium in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

lysium — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:09:42 +0000

I read it as „calling it from two places“

New comment by lysium in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

lysium — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:30:20 +0000

That article was flagged because it seemed fabricated by AI (see one of the comments).

I understand your wish to have simple rules that you can understand but I’m afraid this is often not the case with machine learning algorithms, e.g. neural networks.

New comment by lysium in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

lysium — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:24:19 +0000

> Algorithmic decisions should have audit trails.

I'm afraid it won’t help as much as we’d like. The algorithm might consider thousands of parameters all of which have scientifically been shown to correlate with some outcome.

A famous example is a denied credit application where one parameter is the battery level of your mobile.

A trail won’t help you decipher why the algorithm decided a particular action.

New comment by lysium in "The bottleneck was never the code"

lysium — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:08:22 +0000

FWIW I see the red dot only at the top of the page, flashing slowly. It does not annoy me, in fact I only discovered it because of your comment.

New comment by lysium in "The bottleneck was never the code"

lysium — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:06:59 +0000

Can someone explain the title? I think the author illustrates that the code was the bottleneck and it has shifted to context. What am I missing?

New comment by lysium in "GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty"

lysium — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:25:56 +0000

Please excuse my ignorance, what is a „biorisk“?

New comment by lysium in "Gender Equality and Work"

lysium — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:44:17 +0000

I think the argument is the other way around: fields that women prefer pay less, ie. the field pays less because women prefer it.

I don’t share that argument, I just wanted to point it out.

New comment by lysium in "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance"

lysium — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:20:02 +0000

Clearly, list the specific cases instead of letting the judge feel what is appropriate is the way to go. Also helps the judge doing the right thing.

New comment by lysium in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

lysium — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:06:10 +0000

Thanks, man! Appreciated

New comment by lysium in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

lysium — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:23:27 +0000

How did you do this? I once tried and it seemed impossible.

New comment by lysium in "Greenpeace pilot brings heat pumps and solar to Ukrainian community"

lysium — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:49:52 +0000

What are you talking about? Germany would be more energy independent if it had adopted solar and wind power when Greenpeace was advocating it fourty years ago, like China is showcasing today!

New comment by lysium in "Date is out, Temporal is in"

lysium — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:43:23 +0000

This will result in incorrect behavior when, between converting to UTC and back to the original timezone, the timezone database has changed, which happens more often than you think.

New comment by lysium in "[dead]"

lysium — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:10:39 +0000

Why posting something only for subscribers?

New comment by lysium in "Show HN: 0xDEAD//TYPE – A fast-paced typing shooter with retro vibes"

lysium — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:09:59 +0000

That's a fun game! I found out I have muscle memory for j/k meaning up/down, instead of w/s.

New comment by lysium in "I automated my job application process"

lysium — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:51:23 +0000

What do you mean with licensing? What’s the difference to a university degree?

New comment by lysium in "Seconds Since the Epoch"

lysium — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:02:15 +0000

That’s not a standard format. ISO format is yyyy-mm—dd. Also, sorts nicely by time if you sort alphabetically.

New comment by lysium in "Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage"

lysium — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:39:06 +0000

After reading that piece, I’ll do my best to avoid flying with a Boeing airplane. I hope the author survives his article.

New comment by lysium in "I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service"

lysium — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 09:44:23 +0000

I was wondering how „bob@[rocket]“ works… Thank you for clarifying.

New comment by lysium in "EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend"

lysium — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 06:30:48 +0000

It takes decades to build new nuclear plants. This won’t solve anything until they are built.

Renewables /are/ good for reducing CO2, as every kW produced by renewable is not produced by CO2-emitting alternative. Plus, they make you independent from foreign energy sources.