Hacker News: nelox

New comment by nelox in "Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market"

nelox — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:11:13 +0000

Currency-issuing governments don't strictly need bonds to fund spending, but they issue them for monetary control, financial stability, and credibility.

New comment by nelox in "Zig v0.17.0"

nelox — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:03:20 +0000

Nobody refuses penicillin because it came from mold in a dish. If an AI found a cure for a disease, people would ask one question: does it work?

Bug fixes should get the same treatment. A patch is either correct or it isn't. Projects that ban AI-written fixes outright are asking "who wrote this?" instead of "is this right?", and users live with the bug in the meantime.

I get why maintainers are fed up. Review time is scarce, and they're drowning in plausible-looking garbage. But that's a problem with low-quality submissions, not with AI as such. Require tests, require a human who vouches for the patch and will answer for it, and ban repeat offenders. Then hold every patch to that same bar, whoever or whatever wrote it.

New comment by nelox in "Can gzip be a language model?"

nelox — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:10 +0000

Only if it can run DOOM.

New comment by nelox in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

nelox — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:41:50 +0000

Why not a free trade agreement?

New comment by nelox in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

nelox — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:28:37 +0000

I would be surprised if it wasn’t by Russia. Russian infrastructure is being systematically destroyed by Ukraine with funding, training, intelligence and materiel from Europe. This is an attempt to discourage European support by disrupting Europeans.

New comment by nelox in "People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination"

nelox — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:28:08 +0000

What does that mean? You can recite a description you’ve read or heard, but what about looking at a photo and describing it?

New comment by nelox in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

nelox — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:22:36 +0000

Now Africa looks even more enticing

New comment by nelox in "Splash-free urinals for global sustainability and accessibility"

nelox — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:20:44 +0000

It’s not much help if the aim is off

New comment by nelox in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

nelox — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:50:31 +0000

It may be gibberish to the casual observer, but a perfectly understandable language designed to appear as gibberish to intentionally obfuscate its true meaning.

New comment by nelox in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

nelox — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:08:19 +0000

'Natural' is either the bees knee’s, or a death trap. Take your pick.

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New comment by nelox in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

nelox — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:25:12 +0000

Thanks for the Vertigo Rollercoaster

New comment by nelox in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

nelox — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:32:22 +0000

Seriously? You should only ever need to walk to the village market to buy anything, and walk back with your own bag.

New comment by nelox in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

nelox — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:00:27 +0000

Indeed. The rising flood of people feeling East for West Berlin was the very reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall.

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

nelox — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:35:15 +0000

Ah yes, I’m not young enough to know everything.

New comment by nelox in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

nelox — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:23:58 +0000

General Counsel has entered the chat

New comment by nelox in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

nelox — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:17:38 +0000

If you use macOS, take a look at Agent Safehouse: https://agent-safehouse.dev

> macOS-native sandboxing for local agents. Move fast, break nothing.

New comment by nelox in "How the words we teach English language learners changed"

nelox — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:27:32 +0000

Its um like you know whatever

New comment by nelox in "The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)"

nelox — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:22:47 +0000

"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price" - S.R. Hadden

New comment by nelox in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

nelox — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:35:40 +0000

Once seen, it cannot be unseen. Thanks.

New comment by nelox in "‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays"

nelox — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:04:04 +0000

Ah the age old story of something being loved to death.