Hacker News: samastur

New comment by samastur in "Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme"

samastur — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:55:11 +0000

Neo just means new. It's not an out-of-jail card if it is completely unrelated to the old/real thing.

New comment by samastur in "Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme"

samastur — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:05:23 +0000

looks awful (to provide a genuinely felt counter view)

New comment by samastur in "OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof"

samastur — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:41:03 +0000

Why do you assume they were vague? Do you imagine mathematicians work by stumbling around searching for accidental clues?

New comment by samastur in "Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead"

samastur — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:42:38 +0000

Yes, we do.

He was a fabulist who certainly was more scrutinized because of his skin color, but it really shouldn’t be disputed that he plagiarized and lied profusely.

That doesn’t mean remotely he deserved this.

I also have little hope that everyone who contributed to this sordid tale, from Cambridge, police etc. will have to account for their profound failures.

New comment by samastur in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

samastur — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:34:44 +0000

They are, but using the same process for all books is simpler and cheaper.

New comment by samastur in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

samastur — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:44:04 +0000

That's because there so much of them and most of the range is not very comfortably accessible (you usually need to endure some discomfort either getting there or staying nearby).

Where you can get nearby fairly easy like base Las Torres, you'll have plenty of people doing just that.

I don't think this is by intent. It's just that the countries themselves are relatively poor and have higher priority projects for their limited resources.

New comment by samastur in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

samastur — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:41:27 +0000

This works, thanks :)

For anyone else who may want this, use: export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=claude-opus-4-6

New comment by samastur in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

samastur — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:12:46 +0000

How did you manage to do that?

/model command returns only 4 choices for me: Opus 4.7, two Sonnet options and Haiku.

New comment by samastur in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

samastur — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:04:49 +0000

I am as well and there's no shortage of relevant content to fill my whole day so I can skip articles I dislike.

New comment by samastur in "Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs"

samastur — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:20:04 +0000

Depends on what you want to say. It can be safer to say something directly to someone's face than online because it is transient and generally does not involve random passers-by.

I am not going to give examples, because I don't want them to be pinned on me as my views, but I'm sure most of us have enough imagination to come up with them.

New comment by samastur in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

samastur — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:53:13 +0000

Read something else then.

New comment by samastur in "How I estimate work"

samastur — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:17:07 +0000

I used to work for a company where we spent a day every 2 weeks doing this. And I had a headache at the end of the day every two weeks.

Great that it works for you.

New comment by samastur in "Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost"

samastur — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:28:20 +0000

EU has been a neighbour of Russia since a very long time as Finland joined EU in 1995. Not being a neighbour hasn’t been an option in a very long time as there are now several countries bordering it. Beside EU is not a military alliance so why should it matter?

Russia has only ever expanded, but since you seem to be wrong just about everything no surprise there.

New comment by samastur in "OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months"

samastur — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:29:55 +0000

This highly depends on the price difference and value you get form those 10%.

New comment by samastur in "Sora Update #1"

samastur — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 10:23:04 +0000

they will TRY to share this money ;)

New comment by samastur in "Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time"

samastur — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:15:36 +0000

I generally agree with you and the "short" format is what makes it successful, but Melvyn said himself that they choose teaching professors because they would know how to explain subject clearly and after almost two decades of listening I'd say it has mostly worked.

New comment by samastur in "How We Rooted Copilot"

samastur — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:40:43 +0000

Paranoia and not knowing which ones fall into "mostly" category :)

New comment by samastur in "Doom Didn't Kill the Amiga (2024)"

samastur — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:26:30 +0000

I did (but also for games). That wasn't the problem. The problem was computers built on closed architecture didn't have a future even if company didn't went to shit like Commodore did.

New comment by samastur in "Just how bad are we at treating age-related diseases?"

samastur — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:36:07 +0000

Not being extremely deadly is low bar since most of your life (with some luck) will be spent being old. I'd rather see my years being more than bearable.

New comment by samastur in "Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants"

samastur — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:15:40 +0000

They already are, it's just expected you calculate yourself the real price.