Hacker News: octernion

New comment by octernion in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

octernion — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:00 +0000

ah yes the famine was because the people were lazy and did not want to farm. the history understander has logged on for everyone here!

New comment by octernion in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

octernion — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:57:35 +0000

having played that when it came out, my conclusion was that no, i will definitely be able to be on a beach; i am too meaty and fleshy to be good paperclip

New comment by octernion in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

octernion — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:42:19 +0000

do... do the "poison" people actually think that will make a difference? that's hilarious.

New comment by octernion in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

octernion — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:31:17 +0000

that was precisely my reaction as well. phew machines will deal with the timestamp issue and i can just sit on a beach while we singularityize or whatever.

New comment by octernion in "The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman"

octernion — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:41:47 +0000

does he think truly think e.g. opus 4.5 is "plateaued"? i really can't even vaguely take him seriously if he actually thinks that. what a silly man.

New comment by octernion in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

octernion — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:25:46 +0000

you think we should platform racism?

New comment by octernion in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

octernion — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:20:13 +0000

thanks man i'm very happy with myself

New comment by octernion in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

octernion — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:11:27 +0000

hmm all of my assumptions have been wildly correct and you are just further confirming it. good stuff my dude. sorry you choose a place like that to live. sounds miserable.

i'll be sure to wave at the other drivers next time i'm in town in a zoox or waymo and then go back to doing literally anything else than driving.

New comment by octernion in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

octernion — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:13:31 +0000

oh the humanity, maybe on the order of a few minutes. that changes nothing. we should be inconveniencing human drivers more, if anything.

that you feel obligated to use words like "sophistry" tells me everything i need to know about you.

New comment by octernion in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

octernion — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:44:14 +0000

heartless society is when someone has to wait at a red light for a few more seconds. and yes, enumerating a set of silly non-law "rules" you expect drivers on the road to follow is the definition of entitlement.

New comment by octernion in "A computer upgrade shut down BART"

octernion — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:36:22 +0000

your tax money broadly speaking doesn't go to BART; it's massively underfunded. not sure why they are the target of the snark.

New comment by octernion in "Bluesky now platform of choice for science community"

octernion — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:04:57 +0000

as a threads user since the beginning and a big fan of the platform, my answer is strongly "no."

which is my favorite reason to be there and i hope it doesn't change.

it's full of instagram and facebook users, which to use the common parlance, are all "normies." it's full of normal people have normal opinions in small spaces. there's very little viral posts or bits or memes that are carried outwards.

that being said dril started posting again there recently as have some other bigger ex weird twitter people so who knows.

New comment by octernion in "Bluesky now platform of choice for science community"

octernion — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:59:12 +0000

i just went on, searched bsky for variants of ai/llm/generative, and literally did not see one positive post after scrolling for several minutes (beyond some boring generative art slop, which isn't really "positive" imo).

it seems just the same sycophancy, but in the opposite way twitter is.

maybe my searches were poor so i'm curious what you see that is in any way "positive"; even given your example, searching for ai + cancer is just thousands of posts with some variant of "ai is a cancer."

it's so single note that it's no wonder that growth for bluesky has plummeted. it's just boring.

New comment by octernion in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

octernion — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:52:04 +0000

wow, a team that has one nine of availability and trending downwards fast is relieving pressure. big surprise!

New comment by octernion in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

octernion — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:48:33 +0000

well it was a mix of word and markdown files being converted before; converting the word files was somewhat annoying but iirc i exported them and converted those. i wrote all the custom styling we used; pretty straightforward

New comment by octernion in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

octernion — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:11:41 +0000

i switched all of our pdf generation to typst - fantastic software. love how efficient it is; it makes previewing trivial and iteration very fast.

New comment by octernion in "Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI"

octernion — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:33:57 +0000

it’s not working - it’s one of the highest ranking posts - and you really don’t want to go around admitting that. seriously, take a break.

New comment by octernion in "Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI"

octernion — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:11:16 +0000

you have like 50 comments in this thread whining about the law and desperately wanting businesses (not private individuals!) to idle their trucks next to schools.

maybe take a break man. not healthy.

New comment by octernion in "Alpha Centauri"

octernion — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:47:44 +0000

one of my favorite games growing up; fascinating to read the history and inspiration for such a great game.

i love that one of my favorite parts of the game (designing your own units) was the game designers' least favorite parts. hah!

i never read the pandora sequence that inspired it - thank you for sharing this article!

New comment by octernion in "AI Horseless Carriages"

octernion — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:13:12 +0000

that is 100% the correct course of action. what an insane piece of feedback!