Hacker News: nairboon

New comment by nairboon in "Timestral: Mistral release time-series foundation models"

nairboon — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:32 +0000

What's the connection between Timestral/Mistral and The Forecasting Company?

New comment by nairboon in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

nairboon — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:30:24 +0000

Sounds like Namecheap. They took one of my domains (held for many years) and try to sell it back to me for thousands because now it's a valuable domain.

New comment by nairboon in "The math that OpenAI keeps for itself"

nairboon — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:08:23 +0000

What's the $-value of some street cred/publicity vs. $-value of finding some optimization trick that reduces training/inference cost by millions compared to their competitors? Of course they're going to keep that IP to themselves.

New comment by nairboon in "The Mathocalypse"

nairboon — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:34:30 +0000

By standard semantics, if you state that believing with certainty that the proof is incorrect is stupid, then you surely believe with certainty that it's correct.

Unless you want the negate the certainty part, but then the nudge to gambling is less coherent.

New comment by nairboon in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

nairboon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:12:10 +0000

What a timeline, OpenAI's model is so good, it publishes hundreds of math papers.

The latest model even finds mistakes in previously published math papers!!!*

* so far, only OpenAI's math papers were faulty and needed retraction.

New comment by nairboon in "Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)"

nairboon — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:44:49 +0000

I'd guess for a change to the usual AI dominant frontpage.

New comment by nairboon in "Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models"

nairboon — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:01:59 +0000

The entitled consumer is just a symptom of large scale anti competitive practices. It's classic price dumping by the oligopolists. It's so pervasive that consumer get used to these super low prices (free).

New comment by nairboon in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

nairboon — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:07:00 +0000

The underlying question is: has a human counted and classified those 140 issues? Or is that information the output of LLM?

New comment by nairboon in "Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about"

nairboon — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:17:27 +0000

Scrolling through ~200 items is not really "infinite scroll", as in reels/shorts etc.

New comment by nairboon in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

nairboon — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:02:22 +0000

You had profanity filters for SMS?

New comment by nairboon in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

nairboon — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:47 +0000

Is that a cultural/national thing instead of an age thing?

I've never had texts censored by texting providers, they're not supposed to read texts in the first place (at least around here).

New comment by nairboon in "Java 27"

nairboon — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:57:09 +0000

And still funny today, not all jokes survive that long.

New comment by nairboon in "Most people prefer traditional architecture"

nairboon — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:13:20 +0000

Classical and in a sense neoclassical architecture literally stood the test of time.

New comment by nairboon in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

nairboon — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:40:59 +0000

That's why I had to enable the "pause updates for four weeks" setting on Windows. Otherwise every second update would break something somewhere and disrupt workflows regularly. With the one-month update delay you'd get the updates that fixed the previous update.

New comment by nairboon in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

nairboon — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:24:42 +0000

Like how one can easily not use snap on Ubuntu? /s

New comment by nairboon in "1,000+ shoes reviewed and cut in half"

nairboon — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:08:05 +0000

What if they'd retest shoes after 6m/12m and compare certain parameters with the first review? Basically checking if manufacturing quality degraded.

New comment by nairboon in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

nairboon — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:10:47 +0000

Something like YaCy?

New comment by nairboon in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

nairboon — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:08:14 +0000

It's still kind of an open problem. There are partial solutions, but not yet really an integrated one. There is Hister: https://hister.org/ that builds some sort of drive-by index of what you're browsing anyway. And there are "true p2p" solutions like YaCy: https://yacy.net/ but it takes ages to crawl the open web (and lots of storage). There's still a lot of optimization to do in this space.

New comment by nairboon in "I resigned from Anthropic today (Jacob Coxon)"

nairboon — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:59:53 +0000

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619227

New comment by nairboon in "The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025)"

nairboon — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:52:08 +0000

What exactly do you mean with "emergent" here?