<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: n2d4</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=n2d4</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:54:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=n2d4" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by n2d4 in "OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The withdrawn papers were not lean verified nor claimed to be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:38:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004609</link><dc:creator>n2d4</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by n2d4 in "How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought it was a fixed ratio (1/3rd?) for posts and 1/1 for comments? Can't tell you for sure about posts as I mostly just comment, but someone else can surely jump in</p>
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<p>Are you in San Francisco by any chance? Andon Market is managed by AI and open six days a week, you may want to check that out<p><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/KwnBs1kcCLxMsRC49" rel="nofollow">https://maps.app.goo.gl/KwnBs1kcCLxMsRC49</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:10:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702323</link><dc:creator>n2d4</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by n2d4 in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're right — the wording in the doc is that the "first prompt" was sent after learning about the rumor, although this might be the first prompt of this solution approach, not necessarily first prompt to any Navier Stokes solution.</p>
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<p>Drama/accusation summary:<p>- Aug 15th: Tristan Buckmaster & Levent Alpöge make progress on a few important math problems, "finite-time blowup with smooth forcing for incompressible porous media, for Boussinesq, and for 3d incompressible Euler."<p>- they do NOT have a proof for the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize problem. BUT, they do claim to have a proof for a similar (non-Millenium) Navier Stokes problem that could help lead the way there<p>- Levent works at Anthropic, but this research was independent of his work there, with a mix of GPT and Claude models. Tristan is not related to Anthropic.<p>- Early Sep: Rumor spreads to OpenAI that Anthropic solved a major problem. Tristan emails OpenAI to clarify, without revealing the problem they solved or how they did it.<p>- After hearing of the rumor, OpenAI started researching Navier Stokes with a new internal model.<p>- Sep 6th: OpenAI's Sebastien Bubeck tells Tristan that they solved the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize Navier Stokes problem. The approach is very similar to Tristan & Levent's approach to the non-Millenium problem.<p>- Tristan is suspicious of the timing, as only few others were trying this approach. OpenAI says the model didn't access his user data directly, but leaves unanswered whether Tristan's chat conversations were part of the training.<p>- OpenAI says they would partially credit Tristan for the $1,000,000 discovery (even though Tristan did not solve the $1,000,000 problem) — but only if they remove Levent as an author, as he works for Anthropic.<p>- Sep 8th: Tristan refuses to remove Levent, and rushes to publish their results independently.</p>
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<p>Sure and whoever sells the monitor can sell it in a bundle like that, people will just stop buying their monitor and buy the competition's instead<p>You can do that with software, too. It just turns out that there's more people who want to bundle their software</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://twitter.com/hackernews/status/2092359322433191997">https://twitter.com/hackernews/status/2092359322433191997</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442528">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442528</a></p>
<p>Points: 28</p>
<p># Comments: 34</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:11:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://twitter.com/hackernews/status/2092359322433191997</link><dc:creator>n2d4</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by n2d4 in "typ.ing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is really cool! Although a little disappointed that it punished me for using an emdash instead of a dash when an emdash would've been syntactically correct :)</p>
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<p>> I don't understand why you'd ever want these two things combined into a single image.<p>An image with the FOV of the wide-angle camera but the quality of the main one in the center? Assuming the border interpolation works well (which tbf is probably hard for close objects), why would anyone <i>not</i> want this?</p>
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<p>Content, like software, is easy to copy and distribute. Traditional supply-demand diagrams no longer apply; content doesn't get more expensive to produce if it reaches more people.<p>This creates a monopolistic economy where top content creators can create slightly "better"/more viral content at a multiple of the cost, and starve out smaller creators.</p>
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<p>Nominative determinism! The hypothesis that people tend to do things that remind them of their own names <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:13:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766052</link><dc:creator>n2d4</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by n2d4 in "Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure why you're getting downvoted. You are correct, and it is so rampant these days that I wish we just banned the word "after" in headlines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:02:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603791</link><dc:creator>n2d4</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by n2d4 in "Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What makes you think they've canceled it? Did you read past the headline?<p>What should they have done here — keep the movie despite the obvious conflict of interest? Be more secretive about the fact they're trying to separate so no one can write articles like these?<p>If they did the right thing, it would look exactly like this. And I think it's generally a good idea to assume good faith (even with corporations) — you can still get your pitchforks up if they do refuse to give away the rights to movie.</p>
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<p>1. Because Amazon is a bigtech corp making a film about another bigtech corp. Plenty of conflicts of interest here (in either direction).<p>2. Regardless of whether it is or isn't related, implying they are without any evidence is just speculation. There's a reason they didn't say "months after" in the headline, even though it would be much more informative and much less confusing!<p>You also seem to conflate "there's evidence for" and "you believe that". Those are very distinct statements. "you don't believe there's evidence for X" doesn't make sense here — I said "there is no evidence for X in the article", that's a fact, not a belief.</p>
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<p>Amazon is actually much more reasonable than the headline makes it seem:<p><pre><code>    > “We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker — not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” a spokesperson for Amazon said to Variety in a statement. “We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.”
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Well, yeah, I kind of agree. Amazon probably shouldn't be the one producing the film, and it sounds like they're working to get the rights sold to someone else.<p>The headline also sucks because "after" means "months after with no evidence that it's related". It's just clickbait all around.</p>
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<p>The conversion would be more accurate if it compared wealth and capital gains taxes, no?<p>A defining feature of wealth taxes is that they only tax those that make most of their income through capital gains. This is why they're popular among much of the population.<p>Now the question is, if we lowered capgains tax rate by 20% but instituted a 1% wealth tax, would that be better or worse? My guess would be worse because wealth taxes are nearly unenforcable, but I wonder if there are good arguments for the other position.</p>
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<p>No, because randomly guessing from a list of diagnoses is not 50/50</p>
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<p>Cool! I've been using your API for running sandboxed JS. Nice to see you also support VMs now.<p><pre><code>    > we mean forking the whole memory of it
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How does this work? Are you copying the entire snapshot, or is this something fancy like copy-on-write memory? If it's the former, doesn't the fork time depend on the size of the machine?</p>
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<p>This was interesting to do on my own profile. It got a bunch of personality attributes about me right that I haven't directly mentioned on here, which is impressive.<p>I then followed it up with "Given my chat history, how do they compare to me?", and it started making comparisons of myself to myself. Very fun experience.</p>
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<p>This looks really useful — occasionally I run into the issue that I'm on an odd machine with minimal packages installed, and want to use AI to do some stuff without setting up a full Node/Python environment. This seems like the perfect solution for that.<p>Is it possible to download just the binary itself, without needing to run the install script which installs it globally?</p>
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