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New comment by ms_menardi in "I wanna live an NPC life"

ms_menardi — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:00:27 +0000

a low stress tolerance and a highly sensitized stress reaction can often look the same. If someone is hurt repeatedly in the same way, they will react when a stimuli that reminds them of it comes near. Similarly, people who are constantly stressed out often develop things like "learned helplessness", where they are incapable of solving their problems because they've failed, been rejected, or told no so many times that they stop trying.

Tesla Valve

ms_menardi — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:35:21 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426171

Points: 3

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New comment by ms_menardi in "Home made 8192 Core RISC-V Cluster [video]"

ms_menardi — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:50:54 +0000

Wow! The future is parallel.

New comment by ms_menardi in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

ms_menardi — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:08:36 +0000

Increasingly, the "what do we have the most of?" questions will return "RAM" less and less often.

New comment by ms_menardi in "Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates"

ms_menardi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:49:21 +0000

make it multiplayer, I dare ya >:)

(if you need this kind of motivation)

Anthropic is conditioning our minds

ms_menardi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:43:14 +0000

anthropic financially rewards its users by encouraging them to use their software in a certain way.

the slow learners, the thinkers, the multitaskers, they are penalized when they leave open work in the computer hardware's ram. if you leave a window open too long, it asks "do you want to pay in tokens to reload the context from disk, or do you want to start from scratch?" with the option for a summary, which was calculated when the context was unloaded from cache.

the people who work consistently and in a focused way are the ones that are cheapest on their server hardware lifespan infrastructure capability. I wonder which path is most effective? Surely the workers prefer the one that is easiest and most engaging for the mind. I bet the preference depends on the mind...

anyway I bring no value judgements on if it's good or bad I just thought of that and I thought that someone somewhere should read about that for some reason

also

they encourage you to use a full-screen window and just to think your way through problems instead of looking elsewhere. They do this with the "auto-scroll-down" functionality that triggers whenever your mouse / focus leaves the window. This is very stressful and annoying to people who like to cross-reference. But, it is useful for keeping yourself on task. Without it, it often feels like swimming in a sea of text - this is because people don't know how to pg.up and pg.down.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365333

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by ms_menardi in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

ms_menardi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:28:15 +0000

I have like 40 projects that are 80% complete. I've been doing this in my spare time instead of a job.

I wasn't trying to make a product. I was practicing. Please hire me?

New comment by ms_menardi in "Can we have the day off?"

ms_menardi — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:41:54 +0000

This is the most brilliant thing I've read all year. That note at the bottom... Amazing.

If every OS was open source, you could run vista

ms_menardi — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:11:56 +0000

and it'd be fine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287756

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by ms_menardi in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

ms_menardi — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:34:44 +0000

if it's the lowest level available, then it's as close to "native" as we can get, so therefore it has to qualify, if we want to consider anything at all to be running "natively"

New comment by ms_menardi in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

ms_menardi — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:24:18 +0000

Um... Are you referring to WSL? Wouldn't that be the linux kernel running under windows?

New comment by ms_menardi in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

ms_menardi — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:41:11 +0000

> There is the Von Neumann method of generating an unbiased coin from a biased coin. Of throwing it twice, and checking if you got HT or TH. And completely discarding all HH or TT results. It doesn't matter if the coin you are using is 20% or 80%, the result will be a true 50/50.

This blew my mind. Thank you!

I had to think about it a bit, so for anyone scratching their head right now trying to figure it out, consider it this way:

what matters is the ordering, of heads-then-tails, or tails-then-heads.

It doesn't matter that it's biased one way or the other, if you keep flipping pairs until you get a result with two different values, it's a 50/50 chance whether the less-likely result comes first, or second.

You might only have a 20% chance of any particular pair having a tails (for example), but in the cases where you do have a tails, it's a 50/50 chance that it comes first or second.

New comment by ms_menardi in "Nowhere is safe"

ms_menardi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:28:14 +0000

I had this idea for a "drill" that I'd like to make someday.

Basically it was a box with several tentacles snaking out of it. The tentacles would each have a drill on the end, and they would dig holes in a surface. These holes would be spaced apart and they would be on the outer edge of where the tunnel is meant to be. The silicon arms would be full of actuators that measured their resistance in terms of the momentum they want plus the gravity weight of any nodes after them.

After drilling around the surface, they'd turn (hence tentacles) and tunnel inward. Then, a big hammer or other impact would hit the main surface (after ensuring there were no tentacles below) and the shock of the impact would significantly reduce the amount of rock to carve through.

I really want to know why this wouldn't work, but I'm a designer, not an engineer, and I don't feel like making products. gee I sure wish I knew a bunch of engineers who would make this for me or at least tell me why it wouldn't work so I could use it sometime. Oh sorry for wanting there to be tunnels in every city on earth so we didn't have to destroy woodland to build suburban cities at such a gorgeous rate, I'm just a forest witch who doesn't fit in with startup founders and product engineers. gee wish there was a market fit for me.

"we don't have to dig through the rocks, just dig around the big ones and let them fall free" every digger knows this

New comment by ms_menardi in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

ms_menardi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:49:45 +0000

I don't want the world, sounds like people would start bothering me all the time. I'd never get a moment to relax. But if I had the world, I'd do better with it than what we got.

New comment by ms_menardi in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

ms_menardi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:43:46 +0000

because they're not selling drinks, they're selling stimulants

Potential Anthropic Price Increases

ms_menardi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:00:06 +0000

just charge more for users who use more. let the people who use it an average amount define the price. I'm talkin', exponential increases for going too high in usage. But, with warnings for each increase. This way, people can't buy their way to infinite AI scalability, which should help everyone else stay caught up. Monopolies are strangling, markets are liberating.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685487

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ms_menardi in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

ms_menardi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:54:52 +0000

so, basically, anthropic is rolling their own version of whatever secret models the military is working with. and they're licensing it to network security firms?

New comment by ms_menardi in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

ms_menardi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:31:40 +0000

If a kid lives on their own but their mom buys them groceries once per month and their dad swings by on thursdays with pizza and beer, that kid's still pretty darn self sufficient.

Similarly, if a country can use 80% less oil or imported fuel than they would have without renewable energy, I think they're pretty self-sufficient. They don't have to be isolated from trade, it's okay to import some things and export others. Energy sources can be one of those things. But if they rely on energy imports, then when something disrupts their supply then they are in trouble. However if they get 80% of their energy from renewable sources, then they have significantly less of a problem.

New comment by ms_menardi in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

ms_menardi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:16:35 +0000

It could be an issue of discoverability too. Maybe they just haven't found the to-do app that does what they want, and it's easier to just... make one from scratch.

New comment by ms_menardi in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

ms_menardi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:30:45 +0000

This logic assumes that 35% of Americans WANT to rent their home. Which seems odd to me, if only for financial reasons - why would you pay 1400$ for a 1 bedroom apartment when you could pay 700$ in a mortgage for that same apartment if you could have bought it?