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The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony

maxall4 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:09:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50205425

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxall4 in "Railpass"

maxall4 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:34:14 +0000

What is illegal is not necessarily immoral, and what is legal is not necessarily moral.

Is AI the End of Math as We Know It?

maxall4 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:24:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-end-of-math-as-we-know-it-20261005/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066231

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He's Won a Fields Medal. (2022)

maxall4 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:06:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065261

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction

maxall4 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:20:17 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-sticky-alpine-darwin-year-carnivorous.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060547

Points: 107

# Comments: 63

New comment by maxall4 in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

maxall4 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 01:55:22 +0000

I asked super intelligence to determine if a series converges or diverges yesterday. It said cos(1 + n * pi) is always positive for all n… I must be wrong, not the super intelligence.

New comment by maxall4 in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

maxall4 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 01:51:00 +0000

When I clicked on this link, I had to triple check that it was the real Politico website. What interesting times we have the joy of living in…

New comment by maxall4 in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

maxall4 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:02:18 +0000

“Good writing and the ordering of things, [the thread]—this distinguishes the master from the bungler, even in trifles” — Leopold Mozart‘s advice to his son, Amadeus

New comment by maxall4 in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

maxall4 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:44:16 +0000

Not OP, but Nietzsche wrote thus in Beyond Good and Evil: “Ultimately one loves one’s desires and not that which is desired.” I, personally, find this to be very much the case; and I suspect that it is a feeling common, albeit not universal, among the intellectually inclined towards their problems.

The UK's Sovereign AI Lab

maxall4 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://cosine.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945264

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Vaping for Crypto

maxall4 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:02:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2606580?query=featured_home

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928796

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxall4 in "Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math"

maxall4 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:22:29 +0000

This is a view I strongly agree with. While the “worked example effect,” which is apparently a key part of the platform, does seem to accelerate learning compared with discovery based learning [0], I do not think the learning achieved by the regurgitation of another person’s ratiocination is nearly as useful or rich as learning acquired by discovery. In my view, the best way to fully and completely understand something is to come to it in your own mind.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worked-example_effect

EU Tech Push Boosts Ultrafast Laser Startups

maxall4 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:08:53 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ultrafast-lasers-europe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832720

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

A Workaphile's Apology

maxall4 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:08:16 +0000

Article URL: https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/a-workaphiles-apology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767699

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Curves on Potatoes

maxall4 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:03:28 +0000

Article URL: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/363950/curves-on-potatoes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762897

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

maxall4 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:04:17 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761432

Points: 206

# Comments: 139

Isaac Asimov Asks, "How Do People Get New Ideas?"

maxall4 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:12:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/10/20/169899/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721687

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by maxall4 in "AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA"

maxall4 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:12:57 +0000

One of the most egregious cases of this, in my opinion, is only publishing metrics that cover part of the confusion matrix. “The false-negative rate? That could not possibly matter for a variant effect prediction model; why would we include that in the paper?” Example: AlphaMissense.

New comment by maxall4 in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

maxall4 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:21:31 +0000

I really want to like Julia. It has a nice type system, a good ecosystem, reasonable syntax, and it’s far faster than Python. But there are several issues with its DX that prevent me from using it: the most severe of which being the complete lack of a cache for the JIT (or JIT like system), inducing multi second compile times for scripts that run in <100ms. There are some external packages that try to solve this issue, but they are far from first-party quality, and, in my experience, are quite buggy.

(I last tried Julia a few years ago; perhaps this has been improved since?)

New comment by maxall4 in "GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB"

maxall4 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:17:41 +0000

The benefit is probably from the removal of fat, not a direct antibacterial/antiviral effect. Fat plays a complex immunoregulatory role in human physiology: it down-regulates some pathways, while up-regulating others (notoriously, the production of IL6 is carried out, in part, by adipocytes). The overall effect of fat on the immune system, however, is negative: it tends to increase the chances of rheumatological disorders, cancers, and many other diseases. Alternatively, the effect may be due to some sociological factor that their analysis failed to account for.

(I am not a medical doctor)