Hacker News: skywalqer

New comment by skywalqer in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

skywalqer — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:12:17 +0000

Well, if the price would be incorrectly set, then bots like this one would make money, which would in sufficient time cause the market to adapt and the average price would change so the bot doesn't work.

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

skywalqer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:52:36 +0000

Well, the device tiers could be an intentional joke also

New comment by skywalqer in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

skywalqer — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:40:13 +0000

Yeah, because killing murderous dictators is helpful, and it doesn't matter that much who does it. In Europe, states aren't sacred – it is the freedom of people, and when people are freed, Europeans are happy even if it includes breaking the sovereignty of some terror state. I'm not saying I like Trump, but when he kills evil dictators, I can't complain. (There was 10k+ protesters killed in Iran recently)

There is huge potential hidden in Iran; it has always had a huge influence over the region and possibly the whole world.

New comment by skywalqer in "I’m joining OpenAI"

skywalqer — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:06:16 +0000

You also believe that AI will replace mathematicians?

New comment by skywalqer in "How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?"

skywalqer — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:03:02 +0000

Best comment here

New comment by skywalqer in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

skywalqer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:33:03 +0000

You know that tax money is taken from people who could buy art with it? Or, maybe buy food and other things that they need even more than art at the moment.

New comment by skywalqer in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

skywalqer — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:58:51 +0000

What about SimpleX? Is it good? Did somebody try it?

New comment by skywalqer in "Some C habits I employ for the modern day"

skywalqer — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:41:45 +0000

Nice post, but the flashy thing on the side is pretty distracting. I liked the tuples and maybes.

New comment by skywalqer in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

skywalqer — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:52:38 +0000

At my university (Charles University in Prague), we had oral exams for 200+ people (spread over many different sessions).

New comment by skywalqer in "Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange"

skywalqer — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:21:29 +0000

However, ads are also the reason why many services on the Internet are free. So maybe they are not completely bad.

Self-Avoiding Walk

skywalqer — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:43:25 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-avoiding_walk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867858

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by skywalqer in "You know more Finnish than you think"

skywalqer — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:23:13 +0000

I don't think it is as clear with the Russian word for market (торг) being derived from the name of the Finnish city, because related words (trh in Czech, targ in Polish...) (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/t...) are used in most Slavic languages, so this origin explanation feels a bit strange.

The Ski Rental Problem

skywalqer — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:34:47 +0000

Article URL: https://lesves.github.io/articles/ski-rental/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44740325

Points: 91

# Comments: 92

New comment by skywalqer in "Sci-Net"

skywalqer — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:14:55 +0000

Wikipedia:

> Elbakyan was in conflict with the liberal, pro-Western wing of the Russian scientific community.[8] According to her interview, she was attacked on the Internet by 'science popularizers' who supported liberal views that led to the shutdown of Sci-Hub in Russia in 2017 for a few days.[59] In particular, Elbakyan was strongly critical of the former Dynasty Foundation (shut down in 2015) and its associated figures. She believes that the foundation was politicized, tied to Russia's liberal opposition, and fit the legal definition of a "foreign agent".

> She has also done work on religion,[57] and has argued that Stalin was a god of science, and an incarnation both of the god Thoth and the Christian God.[58]

Idk but this sounds so sus that I don't believe her with anything. Arguing that Stalin was good is very similar to arguing that Hitler was.

New comment by skywalqer in "Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail"

skywalqer — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:26:53 +0000

Yeah, but maybe it is a powerful country because it has a lot of hard-working people with improving conditions, not because it has a communist government. I mostly think that the Chinese government harmed Chinese development in the future with their shortsighted policies, like the one-child policy.

Also, does the government really work for its citizens if they are doing a genocide of one nation in the country?

Yeah, I agree that the Trump situation is frustrating and idiotic, however, we should not resort to shifting towards totalitarians. That's problematic thinking.

New comment by skywalqer in "Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail"

skywalqer — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:11:43 +0000

Yeah, more efficient in making suboptimal decisions for everyone in the country.

With freedom of thought and markets, you get competition of ideas, which ultimately selects a better solution than any central planner can plan.

New comment by skywalqer in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

skywalqer — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:04:52 +0000

Yeah, Palestinians are indeed Semites, however, the word antisemitism (for historic reasons) is used to refer specifically to hatred of Jews. It makes historical sense that Germans are afraid to criticize the Jews.

I probably disagree with your opinions, but the debate would likely be useless.

New comment by skywalqer in "The Russian Paradox: So Much Education, So Little Human Capital"

skywalqer — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:06:44 +0000

Nah, Gorbachev and Yeltsin were good. The people who took it after them (the one guy) led the country to this state.

New comment by skywalqer in "The Burnout Machine"

skywalqer — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:29:02 +0000

Yeah, great, give programming a high entry barrier for new people. One of the worst ideas I've heard today.

Snapshots of Modern Mathematics from Oberwolfach

skywalqer — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.imaginary.org/snapshots

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317889

Points: 49

# Comments: 2