Hacker News: spencerflem

New comment by spencerflem in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

spencerflem — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:18:40 +0000

They’re the ones doing it lol

New comment by spencerflem in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

spencerflem — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:21:47 +0000

I still like the name Bard

New comment by spencerflem in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

spencerflem — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:30:24 +0000

In my experience games crash a lot less often than the windows file explorer

I feel like we give what’s some pretty impressive engineering short shrift because it’s just for entertainment

New comment by spencerflem in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

spencerflem — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:04:10 +0000

Not to stand up for Claude Code in any way, I don’t like the company or use the product. This is just a related tangent-

one of my favorite software projects, Arcan, is built on the idea that there’s a lot of similarities between Game Engines, Desktop Environments, Web Browsers, and Multimedia Players. https://speakerdeck.com/letoram/arcan?slide=2

They have a really cool TUI setup that is kinda in a real sense made with a small game engine :)

https://arcan-fe.com/2022/04/02/the-day-of-a-new-command-lin...

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

spencerflem — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:53:26 +0000

Why do you think they’re jealous of future fraudsters?

But like genuinely, this sort of take confuses me so much. It’s like, if someone made fun of Putin and the consensus was that they’re just jealous they don’t have a country of their own to run.

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

spencerflem — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:45:36 +0000

Why do you think they’re jealous of fraudsters?

New comment by spencerflem in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

spencerflem — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:09:25 +0000

USA tried this with the CHIPS act

New comment by spencerflem in "Light on Glass: Why do you start making a game engine?"

spencerflem — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:42:05 +0000

Yeah I’m with you. Hate to assume such things but with how much AI spam is out there on programmer blogs these days I kinda just give up reading the blog post once something becomes confusing. Most of the time there’s not any insight to be learned by investigating deeper.

This one also has a lot of Its not X, its Y type phrasing

New comment by spencerflem in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

spencerflem — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:07:13 +0000

Cool! Thank you

New comment by spencerflem in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

spencerflem — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:47:59 +0000

Maybe if most people would agree the corporation is big and bad and should have penalties, it’s more democratic to go with that decision that the decision nine unelected philosopher kings come up with.

New comment by spencerflem in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

spencerflem — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:22:15 +0000

Because it’s a lot of fluff to convey things in a way that’s not very accurate.

New comment by spencerflem in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

spencerflem — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:11:23 +0000

I like the visualization, but I don’t understand the grid quantization. If every point is on the unit circle aren’t all the center grid cords unused?

New comment by spencerflem in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

spencerflem — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:04:42 +0000

I think it is though-

“ TurboQuant, QJL, and PolarQuant are more than just practical engineering solutions; they’re fundamental algorithmic contributions backed by strong theoretical proofs. These methods don't just work well in real-world applications; they are provably efficient and operate near theoretical lower bounds.”

New comment by spencerflem in "Some Things Just Take Time"

spencerflem — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:18:19 +0000

They’re pointing out that if the jar was _filled_ with sand, then of course you can’t fit any rocks in because it’s full. It’s cute but misunderstands the original metaphor I think.

New comment by spencerflem in "Chuck Norris has died"

spencerflem — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:09:36 +0000

Haha haven’t heard of either of those but I do know that when Chuck Norris does pushups he pushes the Earth down

New comment by spencerflem in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

spencerflem — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:30:21 +0000

I apologize for not wording things as pleasantly as the guy who wants people thrown in camps.

New comment by spencerflem in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

spencerflem — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:41:57 +0000

You can be anti billionaire and still not be a fuckass racist

New comment by spencerflem in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

spencerflem — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:54:21 +0000

If so, why do they need to build new power plants for it?

New comment by spencerflem in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

spencerflem — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:51:32 +0000

I’m not saying it’s inefficient. I’m saying cloud computing uses a lot of power.

New comment by spencerflem in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

spencerflem — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:48:46 +0000

Climate change and pollution, and yes they do.