Hacker News: salutis

New comment by salutis in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

salutis — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:20:21 +0000

Thank you! That was a (bad) typo. You are right, of course.

New comment by salutis in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

salutis — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:00:34 +0000

That is not how averages work. By definition of mean, perhaps.

New comment by salutis in "I built a GPU back end for Emacs"

salutis — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:13:59 +0000

Please do not spread lies.

"obsolete dinosaur who hasn't written a line of code in decades"

The most recent code change in Emacs by RMS was on 2026-04-22 (0fb9d096e38), so ~3 months ago. He can write complex code (without AI), such as the `cond*` macro (707 LOC, all macro code), authored and pushed to Emacs on 2024-08-02 (18491f48d97).

I think they are lying to you [video]

salutis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:12:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYsSFY4l18

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510471

Points: 90

# Comments: 59

New comment by salutis in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

salutis — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:09:32 +0000

I left Apple Music over this. My albums would keep quietly disappearing. I spent hours on the phone with their support, and despite their promises, nothing ever changed. I left Apple Music, and then all of their cloud services as well. Today, I'm 100% Apple-free, happily playing MP3s from Bandcamp in my Emacs. :)

New comment by salutis in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

salutis — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:43:02 +0000

But there is no dichotomy, is there? Good code is code that solves the problem well. Today and sustainably into the future. What else would "good code" even mean in general context?

Happy Towel Day HN

salutis — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:21:10 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266009

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by salutis in "Addressing Some AI Fake News [video]"

salutis — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:33:19 +0000

The "other side" of the AI craze.

Addressing Some AI Fake News [video]

salutis — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:33:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdPP7zLCgrk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062901

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2

salutis — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:57:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10176-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433865

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Mathematics in the Library of Babel

salutis — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:07:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/2/20/mathematics-in-the-library-of-babel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119868

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by salutis in "Eat Real Food"

salutis — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:53:49 +0000

This is incorrect reasoning. Science is advancing. It is like saying we should not listen to physicists because "Didn't those physicists gave us the original heliocentric system?"

Festivus

salutis — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:35:07 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282542

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by salutis in "Patterns.dev"

salutis — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:14:36 +0000

No, that is plain old recursion. Dynamic programming is recursive programming with a twist. The twist is that identical sub-problems are short-circuited with memoization.

New comment by salutis in "Vibe coding is mad depressing"

salutis — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:20:32 +0000

> Coding isn’t creative, it isn’t sexy, [...]

Nonsense. Coding is creative the same way mathematics is.

> Beautiful architecture, perfect tests, elegant abstractions those things feel deeply rewarding to the person who wrote them [...]

Nonsense. Best practices exist to make the code perform well. As a result, every user cares about them, albeit indirectly.

> That’s brutal to hear if you’ve spent years telling yourself that your intellectual passion is inherently admirable or sexy. It’s not.

Nonsense. Intellectual passion is admirable and sexy for many. This is subjective.

New comment by salutis in "The lost cause of the Lisp machines"

salutis — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:49:36 +0000

For me, Emacs on Mac OS is not all that stable. I see a freeze about twice a month, which is not "very rarely" in my book. It also leaks memory, albeit now (in the upcoming version) less so. (Disclaimer: I am a heavy user and contributor.)

FSF40 Hackathon

salutis — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:11:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40-hackathon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796575

Points: 120

# Comments: 3

New comment by salutis in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

salutis — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:19:01 +0000

Fennel (Lisp):

    (table.concat [:highlighted :primary (if discount :on-sale)] " ")

New comment by salutis in "I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English"

salutis — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:06:45 +0000

Psychology is stuck in pre-Galilean era. Even if it studies "properties of thought", as you put it, it does so without formal basis, let alone understanding from first principles. As Chomsky said, about psychology and the like, "You want to move from behavioral science to authentic science." [1]

[1] Chomsky & Krauss (2015) An Origins Project Dialogue at https://youtu.be/Ml1G919Bts0

Age verification doesn’t work

salutis — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 06:25:22 +0000

Article URL: https://pornbiz.com/post/17/the_scam_of_age_verification

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45135529

Points: 134

# Comments: 164