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New comment by nsavage in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

nsavage — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:42:00 +0000

According to Denis Leary, he would be an "asshole". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

The left-wing case for AI

nsavage — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:01:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-left-wing-case-for-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083264

Points: 16

# Comments: 16

New comment by nsavage in "North American English Dialects"

nsavage — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:04:49 +0000

I'm from Ontario and its very simplified in my experience as well. Maybe the problem is the sample audio clips they have are all 'posh', its not how most people speak. Two large examples I can think of that even have their own wikipedia pages are the Ottawa Valley Twang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Valley_English) and the 'Torontomans' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_slang). I grew up in Toronto, and the latter isn't just something funny you see on tiktok, people actually talk that way.

New comment by nsavage in "Willingness to look stupid"

nsavage — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:20:11 +0000

Reminds me of the Dan Luu article from a few years ago: https://danluu.com/look-stupid/

New comment by nsavage in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

nsavage — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:08:32 +0000

If anything, this probably shows their reddit heritage.

The Moving and the Still

nsavage — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:53:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/the-moving-and-the-still

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145278

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nsavage in "Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original"

nsavage — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:47:49 +0000

People are already correcting you, but I find it hard to read this much into the case of this particular text. We'd need to know the full context to what exactly happened, but they might have chosen to sacrifice the catalog for many reasons, not just because of an anti-scientific bend. Maybe it was one of many copies that they held, yet the other ones didn't survive.

We also need to consider that these sorts of texts did survive because of monks. They kept the embers alive. Without them, we would have nothing, not living among the stars.

New comment by nsavage in "Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts"

nsavage — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:23:29 +0000

My Volkswagen has assistance features which routinely fail on snowy days and can’t seem to be disabled. The best you can do is disable them for a minute (!) at which point they start blaring again. Its ironic because the time you need the most focus is the time the car lets you focus the least.

New comment by nsavage in "Invader: Where to Spot the 8-Bit Street Art in London"

nsavage — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:42:42 +0000

I don't live in London, but was there a few weeks ago and walked right by one of the buildings featured and didn't notice. Goes to show that you should always be looking up.

New comment by nsavage in "Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science"

nsavage — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:22:30 +0000

Since I had to find the link: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

New comment by nsavage in "My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before"

nsavage — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:44:25 +0000

Bookstores like to make things easy for themselves by defining categories (a la Seeing Like A State), especially due to the perceived overlap between the readership of the two categories as the weird books the nerdy guys read.

While that may have been true historically, fantasy has a new, blossoming, largely female readership, although you could consider this to be overloading the term 'fantasy' as these new BookTok books seem to have little in common with the old school sword and sorcery.

New comment by nsavage in "Baseball durations after the pitch clock"

nsavage — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 22:43:36 +0000

I hate the removal of the shift. I thought it was such an interesting innovation to the game, and the fact that baseball allowed for such things part of its magic.

New comment by nsavage in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

nsavage — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:57:54 +0000

I'm working on Zettelgarden: https://zettelgarden.com.

It's a personal knowledge system. It's a zettelkasten with an LLM substrate. It uses LLMs to build a model of the theses, arguments and facts used in cards, and uses these to both summarize the information on the card and to automatically link cards together based on shared concepts.

I Accidentally Built a Runaway AI

nsavage — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:29:51 +0000

Article URL: https://nsavage.substack.com/p/how-i-accidentally-built-a-runaway

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260798

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nsavage in "Models of European metro stations"

nsavage — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:48:18 +0000

Given the title, I was surprised to find Canadian metro stations on the list, even my native Ottawa!

New comment by nsavage in "Building my childhood dream PC"

nsavage — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:34:53 +0000

This is a pretty common behaviour. My dad has been buying both his dream Amigas and his dream car, a Triumph TR6. I bought my dream childhood console, a Gameboy Advance SP (I only had a regular Gameboy Advance).

New comment by nsavage in "PKM apps need to get better at resurfacing information"

nsavage — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:41:57 +0000

Agreed, this is a big problem. I tried a paper zettelkasten to get around the taking notes and losing them problem, but my collection grew too big to maintain on paper. Because of that, I've been building Zettelgarden (https://github.com/Zettelgarden/Zettelgarden) to help and try to solve this problem for myself.

Among other things, it breaks your notes apart into facts and entities, then stores those along with embeddings. This helps surface things you've seen before since it makes and surfaces links based on individual things, instead of the text as a whole.

In case anyone is interested, I wrote a bit about the process here: https://nsavage.substack.com/p/facts-arguments-theses-buildi...

New comment by nsavage in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

nsavage — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:40:05 +0000

I bought a Remarkable and ended up returning it. It was a cool device, but you're exactly right, I had a hard time justifying the cost over a $10 notebook.

What I Learned Rebuilding Search Three Times

nsavage — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:28:41 +0000

Article URL: https://nsavage.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-rebuilding-search

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45125653

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nsavage in "Facts, Arguments, Theses: Building AI Knowledge Retrieval on Meaning, Not Slices"

nsavage — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 13:51:41 +0000

I see what you’re saying, this works a little differently in that its asking the LLM what it thinks the writing is trying to say and what the writing uses to support it. Agreed that hallucinations are an issue though.