Hacker News: mieses

New comment by mieses in "LLM Ass Bench"

mieses — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:32:27 +0000

Opus 5.5 is SI

New comment by mieses in "Remember Hong Kong"

mieses — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:01:47 +0000

I don't like almonds and AI word-salads very much. Walnuts are yummy.

New comment by mieses in "OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof"

mieses — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:37:48 +0000

who cares about plagiarism? the biggest issue, as described by Terence Tao, is that AI companies don't understand the math they are publishing and do not devote any resources to answering questions about their methods after publishing results and getting a headline. they miss the whole point of mathematics. they do not contribute to the improvement of human understanding of math, perhaps because they are unable to.

New comment by mieses in "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down"

mieses — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:14:33 +0000

what about throwing stones in glass houses now?

New comment by mieses in ""Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research"

mieses — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:34:31 +0000

Which of the 2 totally different beasts are the "Public-Private Partnerships" like Fauci NIH funded, to give one example?

It's definitely true that public research is underfunded. It would also need better leadership for more funding to matter.

Who cares about people that trust research because it has "public" or "private" label?

New comment by mieses in ""Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research"

mieses — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:16:13 +0000

we'll never know

New comment by mieses in "Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers"

mieses — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:31:48 +0000

croc is great. been using it for unimportant transfers for years. If you want to donate money then start with syncthing which is decentralized and even more useful. could syncthing add croc-like command that was as simple and quick?

New comment by mieses in ""Stop Cutting Down Flock Cameras " (Mass Surveillance Is Good) [video]"

mieses — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:53:35 +0000

he seems consistent. did you like him in any of his iterations? probably not. so he consistently has value.

New comment by mieses in ""Stop Cutting Down Flock Cameras " (Mass Surveillance Is Good) [video]"

mieses — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:51:31 +0000

mackenzie scott should send this guy a few million for the public good.

New comment by mieses in "Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills"

mieses — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:23:19 +0000

Canada should make some rules to fix the lack of investment. If Canadians were not allowed to invest in American companies the problem would be solved.

New comment by mieses in "Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)"

mieses — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:28:01 +0000

This just clarifies who the enemy is. I don't see a problem.

New comment by mieses in "Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)"

mieses — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:22:46 +0000

A sheltered childhood would lead you to change your mind about anything if you saw someone spill a glass of milk. Emotions. Feelings.

New comment by mieses in "Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)"

mieses — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:16:24 +0000

Camus wrote interesting fictions

New comment by mieses in "Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager"

mieses — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:47:14 +0000

How this solves sync seems useful. If you use Google Drive and KeePass clients you will probably run into conflicts between keepass "safe save" and how google drive does file versioning, resulting in runaway duplication of your kdbx files. I started using Syncthing and KeePass. File version conflicts are rare but still happen. Including sync in the app seems like a good idea.

It would be good to see screenshots of Bramble. The "sprawl of plugins and forks" in KeePass is why I use it. Many of the KeePass clients have modern UI's. I'll think about switching to Bramble when the sprawl begins.

New comment by mieses in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

mieses — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:48:14 +0000

It is a stupid comparison with a stupid anti capitalist agenda. All infrastructure in Switzerland is high quality and highly maintained because they are a tiny and wealthy country. Their wealth has something to do with banking. Maybe the author of the stupid blog post can ponder the relationship between free markets, banking, and wealth.

New comment by mieses in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

mieses — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:15:22 +0000

he is a self described pacifist. how nice to be him.

New comment by mieses in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

mieses — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:29:37 +0000

They make cool stuff but it's performance art. They're not a serious product company.

New comment by mieses in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

mieses — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:26:03 +0000

Awesome design as always but Teenage Engineering has zero product support. After they make and sell a product they move on to other cool ideas. If anything stops to function you are left with just form.

New comment by mieses in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

mieses — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:20:30 +0000

glitter and foil will blow you away

New comment by mieses in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

mieses — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:18:15 +0000

The Empire of the Rising Blue Ink Dot (of the unelected EU bureaucracy).