Hacker News: shomp

New comment by shomp in "US State Department offers $3M grants to MAGA-aligned groups in Europe"

shomp — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:58:44 +0000

I don't have access to the article, but isn't censorship in general bad?

New comment by shomp in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

shomp — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:35:15 +0000

Why resist tagging?

New comment by shomp in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

shomp — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:38:07 +0000

Be selective where you invest your ~finite energy :)

New comment by shomp in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

shomp — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:54:18 +0000

Which aspects

New comment by shomp in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

shomp — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:08:29 +0000

That does help but on the 4th of July I would prefer the American ;)

New comment by shomp in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

shomp — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:07:47 +0000

To me it reads like a demand: "Valve, open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen"

If we are talking past tense, "Valve have open-sourced.."

And if we are talking American "English," then "Valve has open-sourced..."

New comment by shomp in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

shomp — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:18:30 +0000

Care to fix this ungrammatical headline? :)

New comment by shomp in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

shomp — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:15:23 +0000

If Facebook, in light of the 2021 "Facebook Papers," believed the legislation inevitable, what kind of legislation would maximize its advantage?

Noteworthily, the legislation moves age verification from individual apps to app-store operators [Apple, Google] which reduces Facebooks legal exposure for inaccurate/incorrect age verifications.

New comment by shomp in "Why has the web become so complex?"

shomp — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:37:21 +0000

Electric Clojure is a living example of hypermedia - instantaneous UI updates via differential. Client and server code co-exist in the same file, it really is a thing of beauty.

New comment by shomp in "Kids act would require age checks to get online"

shomp — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:30:33 +0000

If Facebook knows your precise age they can market to you "better."

New comment by shomp in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

shomp — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:29:17 +0000

call and email your congresspeoples, and tell them not to go through with this

New comment by shomp in "Human migration has surged since 2000 – these maps reveal where people are going"

shomp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:16:29 +0000

Where are the maps?

New comment by shomp in "It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle"

shomp — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:24:29 +0000

The ISA could be really cool, having lots of "combo" commands that might reduce program length dramatically. Think ADD and MULT and SHIFT all in one command, to give a simple analogy.

On the interaction, one system uses a clock signal / metronome and the other is all cascades. The clock signal is like a metronome calibrated to the duration of the longest cascade = "critical path." It seems clear that these can interact smoothly, as one simply has the training wheels of the clock, while the other is about progression-via-propagation.

New comment by shomp in "It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle"

shomp — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:13:36 +0000

Research question: does it make sense to make a new family of logic gates using neurons? My intuition says there is a rich texture/fabric to uncover here. The best analogy on hand right now is legos: rather than 2-knotch legos [standard gates like NAND, XOR] what about some sort of new, irreducible gates that are bigger "legos"? Been a while since I played with logic gates but my intuition says there is something lurking below the surface. A new class of irreducible gates, maybe cross-connections? Like compacted multilayer gates? Think SHA-512, how certain bits feed into different layers of the "puzzle". Optimistic this thought-amalgam serves you in your continued research :)

New comment by shomp in "It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle"

shomp — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:07:24 +0000

The instability ink-lines look like a flower blooming.

Observation: 2 neurons, 2 wheels. One for each?

New comment by shomp in "As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers"

shomp — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:12:40 +0000

The first thing that came to mind is the Monty Python line, "If we just built a large, wooden badger..."

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

shomp — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:13:40 +0000

Is there a place you are tracking or publishing your findings throughout this "test" ?

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

shomp — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:20:14 +0000

So you're making a programming language... and you don't want to read code. Have I got the gist of it?

New comment by shomp in "Ask HN: How did you find PMF?"

shomp — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:14:21 +0000

Sell a solution before you have a product.

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

shomp — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:06:45 +0000

You review the code on github also from your phone?