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New comment by thedudeabides5 in "Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable"

thedudeabides5 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:57:16 +0000

thank you

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

thedudeabides5 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:01:17 +0000

This is fun but obviously assumes the conclusion

We need a function that hits infinity at a finite time. That's the whole point of a singularity: a pole, a vertical asymptote, the math breaking:

Also interesting that tokens/$ which represents the energy constraint is the shallowest slope, and also weird taking it out doesn't impact the date. That's a red flag, as you would think removing the energy constraint would bind.

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "The New Collabora Office for Desktop"

thedudeabides5 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:02:14 +0000

Nice, does it have Excel for Windows hotkeys?

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

thedudeabides5 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:43:51 +0000

will this nuke my old convos?

opus 4.5 is better at gpt on everything except code execution (but with pro you get a lot of claude code usage) and if they nuke all my old convos I'll prob downgrade from pro to freee

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "The Hallucination Defense"

thedudeabides5 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:35:54 +0000

a machine can never be held accountable

but the person who turned it on can

simple as

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

thedudeabides5 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:39:23 +0000

well I made a machine to help my machine's work on their machine building through my knowledge management machine while being prioritized from another machine

but the machine's keep going down, and we haven't cleaned enough of the bugs in the meta machine to open source it yet.

so...kinda?

The Case for Greenland

thedudeabides5 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:32:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/the-case-for-greenland

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706242

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "The Alignment Game (2023)"

thedudeabides5 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:12:52 +0000

yes, the classic solution to a hung democracy...appoint a dictator!

(kidding)

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "The Alignment Game (2023)"

thedudeabides5 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:42:09 +0000

what happens when you have three players, and three options that do not have a stable equilibrium?

aka Arrow's impossibility theorem?

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "MCP is a fad"

thedudeabides5 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:42:55 +0000

sometimes a bridge is also a fad

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "[dead]"

thedudeabides5 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:42:15 +0000

The people of Venezuela and Iran seem to be trusting it.

Though I can't speak for the good people of the TAX RESEARCH organization of the UK.

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "How wolves became dogs"

thedudeabides5 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:08:03 +0000

positive sum games

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity"

thedudeabides5 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:07:25 +0000

told my VCs I was going Napoleon mode and they gave me secondary

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "Show HN: Comet MCP – Give Claude Code a browser that can click"

thedudeabides5 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:47:14 +0000

nice, literally had claude tell me it couldnt do browser today.

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

thedudeabides5 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:52:05 +0000

the future

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

thedudeabides5 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:51:29 +0000

ugh

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It?"

thedudeabides5 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:57:48 +0000

In the end the Yuddites will make an allegiance with the Dems.

This was inevitable since EAs/GiveWell got money-jacked by OpenPhilanthropy and all of a sudden immigration and climate change became top priorities.

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "AI will kill all the lawyers"

thedudeabides5 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:28:35 +0000

good

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "A brief history of Times New Roman"

thedudeabides5 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:16:41 +0000

this is cool where can i find these fonts?

New comment by thedudeabides5 in "Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial"

thedudeabides5 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:06:09 +0000

The NSL (and the way it was implemented) is as stark a violation of he Sino British Joint Declaration as possible without PLA tanks on the ground.

Game over. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.