Hacker News: mypalmike

New comment by mypalmike in "Integer multiplication below n log n"

mypalmike — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:20:38 +0000

!did ydaerla eW

New comment by mypalmike in "Berthd"

mypalmike — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:25:55 +0000

We simply need neural implant technology to overclock our brains, making the world (and its Claude instances) appear to go slower.

New comment by mypalmike in "Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland"

mypalmike — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:01:12 +0000

Meanwhile the US is doubling down on fossil fuels because… reasons.

New comment by mypalmike in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

mypalmike — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:15:30 +0000

It’s not even shares though, which he would have a much stronger case with. It’s options, which inevitably have an expiry date.

New comment by mypalmike in "My Humble Opinion on 'Omarchy' OS"

mypalmike — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:38:57 +0000

The usage of the term oligarchy here seems to somewhat fit the OED definition, which refers to a small group in charge of a government or organization, though IMO it deviates from the spirit.

New comment by mypalmike in "Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

mypalmike — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:45:04 +0000

Somebody tell Claude we found the load-bearing part.

New comment by mypalmike in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

mypalmike — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:41:51 +0000

I suspect that beyond just marketing, these pursuits yield plenty of useful information about model design that will likely lead to model improvements and optimizations for both mathematics and general reasoning going forward.

New comment by mypalmike in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

mypalmike — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:44:01 +0000

Recording equipment didn’t exist when the constitution was written.

New comment by mypalmike in "I asked astra to make playable 4D chess"

mypalmike — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:53:21 +0000

A couple years ago I wrote a rough CLI based proof-of-concept of a different form of 3D Sudoku. Funny enough, just this morning I was thinking about using Claude to turn it into something actually playable.

New comment by mypalmike in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

mypalmike — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:06:49 +0000

Voting is a massively multiplayer game, not an individual sport.

If you want to protest, please do it. But throwing away your vote is not a protest, it’s a method of ceding a small amount of power.

New comment by mypalmike in "Check if a file was made with Claude"

mypalmike — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:37:05 +0000

grep “load[ -]bearing” file.txt

New comment by mypalmike in "Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS"

mypalmike — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:15:05 +0000

Yeah, async/await in JavaScript is syntactic sugar for promises.

New comment by mypalmike in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

mypalmike — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:45:13 +0000

The news is virtually never important enough. And my definition of “important enough” is “actionable”.

There’s a pervasive idea, mostly among more educated people, that keeping up with political news is civic minded and responsible. I’m not sure if I’m just cynical or small minded but I just don’t see the point. Getting a daily blast of topics to worry about that I have no control over doesn’t seem like a good use of this life journey.

New comment by mypalmike in "Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose"

mypalmike — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:44:45 +0000

“But I can customise EMACS endlessly, why would I use an actual IDE?”

There’s no need to bring religion into this.

New comment by mypalmike in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

mypalmike — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:44:23 +0000

I thought I was the only one who realized how much Claude called things “load bearing”. I’ve mentioned it to colleagues and they hadn’t noticed.

New comment by mypalmike in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

mypalmike — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:27:13 +0000

I once worked as a contractor at a startup whose CEO had little trophies on display in a wall case showing off funding rounds for previous startups. There were like 3 employees and 15 contractors, and he had one of the contractors give a speech about believing in the mission or whatever. It was laughable. I was only there a couple months and found out later they got bought out by the largest company in the space. He probably bought a few more tacky red Ferraris after that.

New comment by mypalmike in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

mypalmike — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:19:13 +0000

They believed in the company’s Mission™ (brand tortillas).

New comment by mypalmike in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"

mypalmike — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:14:47 +0000

It’s “censorship” when he gets downvoted for extreme right wing commentary, like supporting the complete elimination of USAID for one example.

New comment by mypalmike in "MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150"

mypalmike — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:53:05 +0000

Good times indeed. Similar to you, my first Linux install was MkLinux on a PowerMac 7100. And I had completely forgotten about the mouse button issue until you mentioned it. I vaguely recall somehow attaching a 3-button PC serial mouse and writing some code to make all the buttons work.

New comment by mypalmike in "GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"

mypalmike — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:24:32 +0000

The article failed to describe the problem or a solution. But it was fun seeing the phrase “paradigm shift” again, which feels very 1998.