Hacker News: rorylawless

New comment by rorylawless in "Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach"

rorylawless — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:43:47 +0000

She gave a talk at my then employer during the pandemic, I think that was my first time listening to her. Well deserved.

New comment by rorylawless in "Check out the new US passport"

rorylawless — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:10:57 +0000

And only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency.

New comment by rorylawless in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

rorylawless — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:04:14 +0000

This was listed as a hallucination but is the most accurate for my name: “A NAME THAT MAY REFER TO AN INDIVIDUAL, BUT I CAN’T IDENTIFY A SINGLE WELL-KNOWN PERSON WITH CERTAINTY FROM THE QUERY ALONE.”

Crystal Nights (2008)

rorylawless — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:22:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364754

Points: 65

# Comments: 7

Can these dumbphone evangelists convince you to dump smartphones?

rorylawless — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:03:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/may/28/dumb-flip-phone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316149

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by rorylawless in "USCIS Will Grant 'Adjustment of Status' Only in Extraordinary Circumstances"

rorylawless — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:21:03 +0000

Slight correction here. It is fraud if you intend to stay after getting married. Nobody cares if you get married on a tourist visa and leave the country after.

New comment by rorylawless in "New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic"

rorylawless — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:30:10 +0000

In DC too. Usually associated with political campaigns, although I recently saw one advertising Uber Teens outside a school.

New comment by rorylawless in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"

rorylawless — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:40:22 +0000

Yes, the government has concocted a dastardly conspiracy to cut health system costs by reducing access to a known cause of illness.

New comment by rorylawless in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

rorylawless — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:13:03 +0000

I’ve recently been unwillingly exposed to this side of things. It’s truly an insane, there must be a better way?

New comment by rorylawless in "Slop Cop"

rorylawless — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:35:51 +0000

And it is not impossible the posts ended up in the training corpus.

New comment by rorylawless in "StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site"

rorylawless — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:46:53 +0000

It looks like a clone of present-day Reddit to me.

New comment by rorylawless in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

rorylawless — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:22 +0000

A couple of podcasts in my rotation had Sarah Wynn-Williams on as a guest [1] [2], with the caveat that she was unable to talk about the book or comment on the Meta. Absurd.

I need to give this a read soon.

[1] https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/live-special%3A-who-rules-...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mz5f

New comment by rorylawless in "Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?"

rorylawless — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:00:13 +0000

Is "30 under 30" one of those schemes that require people to put themselves forward and maybe pay a fee? I've seen a bunch of "awards" (particularly for companies) that follow the same model.

New comment by rorylawless in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

rorylawless — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:19:02 +0000

Quote from the article subheading:

"The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation."

It seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation to ban any device from courts.

Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple

rorylawless — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:28:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/business/898687/halide-lawsuit-co-founder-apple

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472189

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by rorylawless in "Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented""

rorylawless — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:51:17 +0000

What do you mean by “scientific”? These concepts aren’t discoverable in nature. However, they’re transparently defined in the code book and the “opinions” are available for analysis in the expert coder-level dataset.

New comment by rorylawless in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

rorylawless — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:12:24 +0000

The fine tuning endpoint is deprecated according to the API docs. Is this the replacement?

https://docs.mistral.ai/api/endpoint/deprecated/fine-tuning

New comment by rorylawless in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

rorylawless — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:14:05 +0000

The simpler explanation is that we live in a world that is more connected than ever so politicians, campaigners and the rest can get policy ideas almost instantly. There is no grand conspiracy, just a smaller world.

New comment by rorylawless in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

rorylawless — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:21:45 +0000

For high-level football/calcio/soccer at least, Reddit is and has been better for a long time. Often goal and other key highlights are uploaded before the broadcasters.

New comment by rorylawless in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

rorylawless — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:24:05 +0000

People will always need shoes.