Hacker News: terminalbraid

New comment by terminalbraid in "Amazon WorkMail End of Support"

terminalbraid — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:58:36 +0000

Not surprised given development was clearly abandoned years ago.

Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

terminalbraid — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:06:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=5511

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416131

Points: 290

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New comment by terminalbraid in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

terminalbraid — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:59:33 +0000

I would prefer we have posts when github is not having issues to cut down on noise.

Associated Press Announces It's Teaming Up with Kalshi Ahead of the Midterms

terminalbraid — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:54:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/ap-announces-its-teaming-up-with-prediction-market-site-kalshi-ahead-of-the-midterms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224707

Points: 2

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New comment by terminalbraid in "New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?"

terminalbraid — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:42:21 +0000

The density does not dictate cardinality which is what this article is about.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

terminalbraid — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:42:28 +0000

Stop giving money to the company that doesn't give you what you want.

New comment by terminalbraid in "4chan for Clankers"

terminalbraid — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:32:37 +0000

I thought the point of calling them clankers was to be unkind.

New comment by terminalbraid in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

terminalbraid — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:42:25 +0000

"Hey GPT thanks for the result. But is it actually true?"

New comment by terminalbraid in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

terminalbraid — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:29:24 +0000

It's a nontrivial calculation valid for a class of forces (e.g. QCD) and apparently a serious simplification to a specific calculation that hadn't been completed before. But for what it's worth, I spent a good part of my physics career working in nucleon structure and have not run across the term "single minus amplitudes" in my memory. That doesn't necessarily mean much as there's a very broad space work like this takes place in and some of it gets extremely arcane and technical.

One way I gauge the significance of a theory paper are the measured quantities and physical processes it would contribute to. I see none discussed here which should tell you how deep into math it is. I personally would not have stopped to read it on my arxiv catch-up

https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new

Maybe to characterize it better, physicists were not holding their breath waiting for this to get done.

New comment by terminalbraid in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

terminalbraid — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:26:45 +0000

That doesn't answer the question. That statement just admits "maybe" which isn't helpful or insightful to answering it.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

terminalbraid — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:32:34 +0000

Forejo was originally forked from Gitea

New comment by terminalbraid in "U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession"

terminalbraid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:46:00 +0000

I disagree, but my personal belief is the economy and the government stewardship thereof work much the same way as WH40K ork technology

New comment by terminalbraid in "We mourn our craft"

terminalbraid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:31:45 +0000

> AI can generate any kind of music anyone wants

It only sounds like music.

New comment by terminalbraid in "We mourn our craft"

terminalbraid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:30:21 +0000

I'd add part of the craft is enjoying those minutiae, sharing lessons, and stories with others. The number of people you can do that with is going to dwindle (and has been for a long time from the tech sphere's coopting of all of it). That's part that I mourn.

New comment by terminalbraid in "We mourn our craft"

terminalbraid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:13:19 +0000

No, I actually haven't made, nor desire to make, a way to automate "thinking about, researching, and solving a problem".

New comment by terminalbraid in "We mourn our craft"

terminalbraid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:55:20 +0000

The better analogy is you're now a shop manager or even just QA. You don't need to touch, look at, or think about the production process past asking for something and seeing if the final result fits the bill.

You get something that looks like a cabinet because you asked for a cabinet. I don't consider that "woodworking craft", power tools or otherwise.

New comment by terminalbraid in "We mourn our craft"

terminalbraid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:41:48 +0000

Forgive me if "just dig your way out of the hole" doesn't sound appealing.

New comment by terminalbraid in "We mourn our craft"

terminalbraid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:41:31 +0000

Right. Except the dictionary analogy only goes so far and we reach the true problem.

New comment by terminalbraid in "We mourn our craft"

terminalbraid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:39:22 +0000

> All the things the author said will still exist and keep on existing.

Except the community of people who, for whatever reason, had to throw themselves into it and had critical mass to both distribute and benefit from the passion of it. This has already been eroded by the tech industry coopting programming in general and is only going to diminish.

The people who discovered something because they were forced to do some hard work and then ran with it are going to be steered away from that direction by many.

New comment by terminalbraid in "We mourn our craft"

terminalbraid — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:35:24 +0000

> Programming was always a tool

This is the narrow understanding of programming that is the whole point of contention.