Hacker News: nyeah

New comment by nyeah in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

nyeah — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:24:32 +0000

No. It doesn't have to be a bubble at all. It just has to be a cycle of rapid capital equipment build-out that returns to more normal levels in a few years.

New comment by nyeah in "What happened to nerds?"

nyeah — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:30:35 +0000

Exactly. I'm glad someone else remembers the pre-eternal-September internet. (For me mid to late 1980s.)

New comment by nyeah in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

nyeah — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:20:57 +0000

Have you worked in a corporation? How sane was that corporation? Did it seem to even value its own survival? (Not corporations in general. In general they seem great. Just curious about the ones you actually did time in.)

New comment by nyeah in "AI is slowing down"

nyeah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:59:34 +0000

Yeah this part scares me a little. I imagine it scares everyone who is more than a couple of years out of school. I hear that "the solution to LLM tech debt is more LLM." That might be true, but it might not be.

New comment by nyeah in "AI Is Slowing Down"

nyeah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:46:18 +0000

Thanks, it's very clear what you're saying.

New comment by nyeah in "AI Is Slowing Down"

nyeah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:58:41 +0000

Interesting data, thanks.

New comment by nyeah in "AI is slowing down"

nyeah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:54:32 +0000

It's tuned to the audience. Bloomberg was traditionally for people who actually wanted information. People who were fallible and had limited knowledge.

Of course that mentality is obsolete. Now we all have infinite access to perfectly correct information via the internet.

New comment by nyeah in "AI is slowing down"

nyeah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:51:54 +0000

Agreed. If the arguments seem sound and well supported, then all we can do is attack the tone.

New comment by nyeah in "AI is slowing down"

nyeah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:41:20 +0000

That's possible, sure. But I think the answer is more likely in the numbers, not in just qualitatively saying AI isn't worth anything. Like if I pay $30k for an ounce of gold, I got value. Gold is worth something. But that amount of gold wasn't worth what I spent.

EDIT: In fact, parent comment has a link to some numbers.

[EDIT: Most] people don't want to go through the numbers. Ok. But there's a history here. When people don't want to see the numbers, certain kinds of things tend to happen.

New comment by nyeah in "First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas"

nyeah — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:54:04 +0000

Stop testing. If you test, the picture is only going to get worse.

New comment by nyeah in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

nyeah — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:39:36 +0000

This is a reasonable reaction to the title, but not to TFA.

New comment by nyeah in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

nyeah — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:12:44 +0000

Why listen to US progressives' opinions about Europe? Ask Europeans.

New comment by nyeah in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

nyeah — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:13:17 +0000

So much like Clippy.

New comment by nyeah in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

nyeah — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:22:14 +0000

Some might argue that lying to those who want to be lied to is still usually dishonest.

New comment by nyeah in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

nyeah — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:28:42 +0000

What are you assuming about overflow? Three 32-bit numbers multiply out to 96 bits.

New comment by nyeah in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

nyeah — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:27:42 +0000

I think this depends a lot on how you select the set of private schools you're looking at.

New comment by nyeah in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

nyeah — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:27:40 +0000

I don't think it's paradoxical at all. This was the original strength of the SAT system.

New comment by nyeah in "A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot"

nyeah — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:31:09 +0000

I'm not sure whether these FPGA codes count as specialized hardware.

New comment by nyeah in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

nyeah — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:45:31 +0000

>not gambling due to insider information.

I can't make this argument work at all. Gambling with some cheating is still gambling.

New comment by nyeah in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

nyeah — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:17:43 +0000

>If someone will lend you money without cross-collateralization, why wouldn't you prefer that?

I would prefer that! I'd prefer even more strongly that the debt be owed by someone else entirely, so a default isn't associated with me at all. If you're up for it I'd also prefer to use your credit card number to buy stuff on Amazon. But for whatever reason the law doesn't always seem to follow my preference.

I'm sensitive to your point about restricting formation of new corps. The system can't just be changed randomly without extremely careful thought. And often not even then.