Hacker News: pxx

New comment by pxx in "Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)"

pxx — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:59:21 +0000

No controller support?

New comment by pxx in "The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]"

pxx — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:09:09 +0000

ETH (which was commonly thought to be true) implies P≠NP.

sure, this proof itself doesn't settle the P/NP problem, but we've lost one of our core beliefs.

New comment by pxx in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

pxx — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:38:28 +0000

this stuff might be cargo cult, but there's also an interaction/engagement signal because you have to expand the comments so the post itself might be higher ranked when they do this

New comment by pxx in "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"

pxx — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:08:40 +0000

Is Teams actually worse than Slack? Slack can't even reliably deliver messages.

I've had instances on all tiers of Slack plans on all clients where messages just disappear for days at a time and then come back to gaslight you.

ed: I tried to see if this is fixed and it doesn't look like it. Your IT team might have to write "help" articles like this one. Note that I've had this experience on other platforms.

https://teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/30/Portal/KB/Article/...

New comment by pxx in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

pxx — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:45:03 +0000

> I can't go to the cinema and decide I don't like the movie after 10 minutes to get my money back.

you, uh, typically can? not every theatre will comply but many will. I don't think you're understanding the concept here.

New comment by pxx in "'Breathtaking,' 'Devastating': Mathematics reels after new OpenAI release"

pxx — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:27:19 +0000

um, actually, one question must still be asked, as the Fields requires its recipient to be under 40 at some point in the year it is awarded

The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures

pxx — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:26:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867486

Points: 278

# Comments: 124

New comment by pxx in "A font that reads what you wrote"

pxx — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:48:12 +0000

other than the fact that the headline is misleading (this isn't what anybody would think of as a font), the concept misses the point of emphasis.

adding emphasis to words in unformatted text draws the reader's attention in ways that are not implied by the text itself.

you cannot figure out which word to highlight with the raw text "I didn't say he stole the money", but the semantics are completely different depending on if/where they exist.

you already have a mental model of surprise. adding visual noise to destroy what is already part of reading just makes things bad. the reason why syntax highlighting is successful is that the semantics are rigid. natural language is explicitly not that.

New comment by pxx in "List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games"

pxx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:55:59 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Amendment_to_the_Unite...

> In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law

47/50 states also provide for this right in their constitutions. the remaining three don't have it in their constitution but still have legislation or rules supporting it

New comment by pxx in "Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users"

pxx — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:13:48 +0000

Wait, what? Hasn't this been the case for more than a week? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432879

New comment by pxx in "A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation"

pxx — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:33:18 +0000

All of this text complaining about prices rising faster than other goods, but many of the listed ski resorts suffer from overcrowding.

If anything, ticket prices during peak times are too _low_. There's just too much demand.

New comment by pxx in "DeepSeek up to 1000% price hike is live"

pxx — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:19:18 +0000

Yes, that's exactly the point of their post and how cheap DeepSeek used to be.

New comment by pxx in "Can LLMs identify 16 cards in 45 bit-queries?"

pxx — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:14:31 +0000

something is wrong with your first simulator. it always responds YNYY if your queries are RRKK or KKRR on four different cards. "vibe" slop?

New comment by pxx in "Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again"

pxx — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:27:17 +0000

this AI voice is killing me. there might be something technically interesting in this blog post but it's so hard to read because the AI voice just completely distracts from the message

New comment by pxx in "Claude Opus 5"

pxx — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:36:43 +0000

it's a super exaggeration of a minor thing that happened

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/facebook-artifici...

New comment by pxx in "Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb"

pxx — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:54:50 +0000

the target rp2350 is a sub-$1 chip. a 16x2 LCD module is over $1. but more importantly, you might have this much ram sitting around unused on whatever you're building anyway.

New comment by pxx in "Fake food delivery site for the dopamine"

pxx — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:12:39 +0000

Doesn't quite meet the fantasy threshold. I can't seem to filter by allergens or dietary restrictions.

New comment by pxx in "IBM is on pace for its worst day ever"

pxx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:23:04 +0000

Paying taxes isn't optional. Sure you can invest more in the stock with external funds but that's not a fair proposition. If you were to tell me there's a certain chance of a stock going up by 100% we could also just buy calls with those magic funds and make far more money.

New comment by pxx in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

pxx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:54:32 +0000

Do you have evidence for your claims?

Show HN: Entropic — information-driven variable-rate media playback

pxx — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:04:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/patrickxia/entropic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346255

Points: 4

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