Hacker News: moomin

New comment by moomin in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

moomin — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:07:29 +0000

It is wild that, 80 years after a girl was murdered, she’s relevant to a court case involving technology it would have taken over an hour to explain in 1945.

New comment by moomin in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

moomin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:11:08 +0000

I think a better way of describing it would be, someone broke into your house. The police said they'd patrol it, but it would take 20 years to set up. In those 20 years, no-one broke into your house. You might suspect they had other reasons for wanting to patrol outside your house.

New comment by moomin in "FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again"

moomin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:20:06 +0000

It turns out that sometimes you really do want health and safety obsessed bureaucrats.

New comment by moomin in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

moomin — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:39:02 +0000

No, they're just owned by people. Most of whom aren't billionaires.

New comment by moomin in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

moomin — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:36:41 +0000

True Capitalism looks a lot more like socialism than many would like to admit.

New comment by moomin in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

moomin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:01:07 +0000

A weird question to ask in a thread about the destruction of evidence.

New comment by moomin in "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News"

moomin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:43:26 +0000

It would be, but humans are famously bad at judging relative areas at all, which is a problem for data visualisation everywhere.

New comment by moomin in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

moomin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:57:13 +0000

TL;DR by controlling the route every car takes and traffic lights, we’d get a 2% reduction in traffic.

I don’t think this heralds and great change in transport policy.

New comment by moomin in "EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster"

moomin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:39:42 +0000

My experience suggests that they _can_ be good, but this particular pattern they can be remarkably bad at. Source: I keep having to optimise this pattern.

New comment by moomin in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

moomin — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:09:54 +0000

I considered it, but I figured that whatever I did there would be inconclusive. Instead I tried to figure out the blast radius of this being proven, and I didn’t get very far with that either.

New comment by moomin in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

moomin — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:43:19 +0000

For comedy’s sake, I asked ChatGPT 5.5 about the significance of the problem and the chance that 5.6 would solve it with a three page solution. It said close to zero.

I invited it to search the internet and it remains extremely sceptical.

New comment by moomin in "Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys"

moomin — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:43:11 +0000

This is actually great, and I predict that fans of nil-punning will rapidly discover the joys of actually having errors trigger where the error was introduced rather than propagating through the program.

Any news on ClojureScript gaining the feature?

New comment by moomin in "New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview"

moomin — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:50:41 +0000

Don’t worry, some of us remember Y2K and a) how much we fixed b) how much went wrong on the day and c) getting told it was a waste of time later.

And I didn’t even have to deal with a jumpy national government.

New comment by moomin in "New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview"

moomin — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:24:21 +0000

Yes, there’s been a very popular narrative that Mythos’ abilities are just marketing fluff. I think it’s clear that there’s a real capability here, even if Anthropic’s communications have been heavily influenced by PR concerns.

New comment by moomin in "My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?"

moomin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:16:26 +0000

This is one of those little things I’ve had trouble putting my finger on: the US eats surprisingly few oats. The U.K. eats more than three times as much on average. Which is probably one of the reasons I find US cuisine slightly uncanny valley.

Southern Europe doesn’t really consume much either, but most US food is closer to Northern European food.

New comment by moomin in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

moomin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:51:41 +0000

I’m not a follower either, but inference from the article tells me: Krammik has come up with some sort of cheat detection method, has loudly accused some others of cheating, and FIDE are both unconvinced of the truth of the allegations and very unhappy he didn’t do this through proper channels. He also doesn’t appear to have co-operated with the investigation.

New comment by moomin in "Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP"

moomin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:18:06 +0000

I suspect this is a standard mathematical “it is computationally impossible to do this in the general case despite it being entirely feasible in many cases”.

New comment by moomin in "Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP"

moomin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:07:59 +0000

I don’t think anyone in the business thinks that the markets are 100% efficient, just that they are sufficiently efficient that beating them is a genuinely hard job requiring heavy, expensive analysis.

New comment by moomin in "Claude Sonnet 5"

moomin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:15:40 +0000

I feel like this is a bit of a disappointment. Sonnet 4 was a clear step above Opus 3.x, while this is a lot muddier.

New comment by moomin in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

moomin — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:24:39 +0000

Feels very like Squaredle.