Hacker News: nyc111

Perfect Squares and Pythagorean Triples on the Ulam Spiral

nyc111 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:56:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ooQSrdz6g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007702

Points: 1

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Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR

nyc111 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:32:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5GKnb4H_bM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976203

Points: 1

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AI and Education: Generative AI and the Future of Critical Thinking

nyc111 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:53:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925299

Points: 4

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The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve – Collatz Conjecture

nyc111 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:24:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=094y1Z2wpJg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779630

Points: 2

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Parabolas and Archimedes - Numberphile

nyc111 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:31:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAcUZ3my6E0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46200946

Points: 1

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New comment by nyc111 in "Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)"

nyc111 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:55:08 +0000

I was able to open it in archive

New comment by nyc111 in "Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)"

nyc111 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:30:07 +0000

I use nano a lot but this page is not opening for me. Is someone else having the same problem?

The IBM 1401 compiles and runs Fortran II (2018)

nyc111 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:37:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFQ3sajIdaM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45551046

Points: 3

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New comment by nyc111 in "The Color of the Future: A history of blue"

nyc111 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:30:13 +0000

A beautiful book by Michel Pastoureau, Blue: The History of a Color (2001), the same content as the article in book form.

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-History-Color-Michel-Pastoureau/...

The Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright

nyc111 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:37:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/science/human-evolution-ilium-bipedal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45076492

Points: 3

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New comment by nyc111 in "Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)"

nyc111 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:31:33 +0000

More detailed video of Plimpton 322 from the authors of the paper https://youtu.be/L24GzTaOll0?si=sNdwKiM7uYXbzVfL

New comment by nyc111 in "Prime Number Grid"

nyc111 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:35:34 +0000

I tried but his pages do not have links to a home page or other posts

New comment by nyc111 in "A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf]"

nyc111 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:20:22 +0000

It looks like they chose to use the "universal gravitational constant" "k" instead of Newton^s constant, "G": p.23, "k^2 = universal gravitational constant, 1.32452139x10^20, m^3/(sec^2)(sun mass units)"

I think "k" was also known as "Gaussian gravitational constant" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_gravitational_constan...

But the value and unit of "k" given in the Wikipedia page is different. Do you know what NASA document means by "universal gravitational constant" in modern sense?

Real numbers as Cauchy sequences don't work (2015)

nyc111 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:03:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cI7sFr707s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799799

Points: 1

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New comment by nyc111 in "Some Mathematicians Don't Believe in Infinity"

nyc111 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:31:18 +0000

Mathematician Norman Wildberger has been criticizing the embrace of infinitiy by modern mathematicians for decades: https://www.youtube.com/@njwildberger/search?query=infinity

A Proportionality Hypothesis for modern physics – N J Wildberger

nyc111 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:48:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgKbzBCuSU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44633696

Points: 1

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Eromanga Sea

nyc111 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:48:11 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eromanga_Sea

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44551260

Points: 3

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New comment by nyc111 in "'Proof' Review: Finding Truth in Numbers"

nyc111 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:53:34 +0000

"What's irrefutably proven is that if you take this particular set of axioms, then these conclusions hold."

This is what I tried to say in my comment. It's the author who talks about the truth of the axioms. I'm objecting to his claim that we end up with "something we can know for sure". No. Your truth depends on your assumptions.

New comment by nyc111 in "'Proof' Review: Finding Truth in Numbers"

nyc111 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:49:18 +0000

"If the axioms are true, and the subsequent reasoning is sound, then the conclusion is irrefutable. What we now have is a proof: something we can know for sure."

... if the axioms are true. We still don't know for sure absolutely.

"The idea of self-evident truths goes all the way back to Euclid’s “Elements” (ca. 300 B.C.), which depends on a handful of axioms—things that must be granted true at the outset, such as that one can draw a straight line between any two points on a plane."

Strictly speaking, Euclid does not state axioms. He starts with 23 Definitions, 5 Postulates and 5 Common Notions. Drawing a straight line from any point to any point is stated as Postulate 1.

I realize this is a newspaper article.

New comment by nyc111 in "Why Philosophy of Physics?"

nyc111 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:17:51 +0000

“the greatest scientist of all time is undoubtedly Sir Isaac Newton”

Newton routinely explained natural phenomena with supernatural causes, like God. In fact he overruled his mathematics with his supernatural explanations. A well-known example is his rationalization of chaotic behavior in his calculations of orbital motions with “the hand of God.” For this reason alone I would downgrade Newton’s scientific status and say that he was a prominent researcher in the 17th century but definitely not “undoubtably the greatest scientist of all time”. Today, we would not call someone who explains natural phenomena with supernatural causes a scientist.