Hacker News: surprisetalk

What has driven deforestation in the 21st century?

surprisetalk — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:20:12 +0000

Article URL: https://ourworldindata.org/what-has-driven-deforestation-in-the-21st-century

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344621

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Using an old Android phone as a music player

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://monocyte.blog/using-an-old-android-phone-as-a-music-player/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332812

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Galois / Twisp: Avoiding Foolishness in Distributed Systems

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.galois.com/articles/galois-twisp-avoiding-foolishness-in-distributed-systems

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332154

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Autonomous Buying of Experiment Equipment

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:40:13 +0000

Article URL: https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/autonomous-buying-of-experiment-equipment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331814

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to put 170 atoms in an atom

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:21:25 +0000

Article URL: https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331474

Points: 111

# Comments: 26

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:01:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.toxel.com/tech/2026/08/07/flat-chair-by-sara-paculdo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331084

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Noob Learns FFT

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:40:09 +0000

Article URL: https://entropicthoughts.com/fft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330678

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Embeds Did Serious Harm to One of My Websites

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:02:09 +0000

Article URL: https://unattributed.cc/2026/08/07/embeds-did-serious-harm-to/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330155

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Website Archival and Preservation

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:40:37 +0000

Article URL: https://unattributed.cc/2026/08/09/website-archival-and-preservation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329893

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Median Voter Is a Maoist

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:20:09 +0000

Article URL: https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/the-median-voter-is-a-maoist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329688

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

LLMs are (still) mostly powered by imitative learning, not RL

surprisetalk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wYpjXRLqbLbnmjbJP/llms-are-still-mostly-powered-by-imitative-learning-not-rl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329485

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant

surprisetalk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:41:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11158

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303652

Points: 50

# Comments: 11

How Claude's text watermarking works

surprisetalk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:15:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303350

Points: 73

# Comments: 69

Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things

surprisetalk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:40:16 +0000

Article URL: https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/activation-energy-is-a-good-model

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300272

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

How fast is C++26's std:hive?

surprisetalk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:20:36 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/02/how-fast-is-c26s-stdhive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299962

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Seven books I keep close because I love them

surprisetalk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:03:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299675

Points: 383

# Comments: 184

Printing Lists

surprisetalk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:30:26 +0000

Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/14/printing-lists.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297862

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services

surprisetalk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:51 +0000

Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-temu-fication-of-software-digital-goods-services/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297637

Points: 176

# Comments: 134

A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture

surprisetalk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:03:41 +0000

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/a-digestion-of-the-proof-of-sendovs-conjecture/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294913

Points: 40

# Comments: 24

The End of the Endangered Species Act?

surprisetalk — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:20:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/the-end-of-the-endangered-species

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286397

Points: 2

# Comments: 0