Hacker News: tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomlockwoodHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:52:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Talking to strangers at the gym"]]>I can't recommend going doorknocking for a cause you care about, enough. Its maybe a half-day, you'll find most people aren't like the angry commenters on twitter, you'll meet people in your community and it makes you more confident talking to strangers!

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 21:45:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015435tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015435https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015435<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"]]>The question is how many people tried to solve this Erdos problem with AI and how many total minutes have been spent on it.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:44:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907686tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907686https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907686<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"]]>America should fund tertiary education better, and that would solve even more problems.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:44:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907131tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907131https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907131<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"]]>Can you imagine how much ChatGPT cancer research we could fund if we stopped funding cancer research?

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:41:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907112tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907112https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907112<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"]]>I think one day the VCs will have given the monkeys on typewriters enough money that these kinds of comments can be generated without human intervention.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:37:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907094tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907094https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907094<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"]]>Because it could be a massive waste of time and money.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:18:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906988tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906988https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906988<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"]]>My big question with all these announcements is: How many other people were using the AI on problems like this, and, failing? Given the excitement around AI at the moment I think the answer is: a lot.

Then my second question is how much VC money did all those tokens cost.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:41:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906779tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906779https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906779<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"]]>The communist small business funding scheme.... Interesting.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:34:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906142tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906142https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906142<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "The tool that won't let AI say anything it can't cite"]]>I love how at the beginning of this boom people were talking about how heuristics applied to AI outputs were short-term gains disguised as real progress. Now it seems like almost every new tool is a series of heuristics applied to AI outputs.

]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:09:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714618tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714618https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714618<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "GPT-5.4"]]>Is this the best one for blowing up arab children and identifying their bodies in the rubble?

]]>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:42:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270178tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270178https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270178<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"]]>Go on?

]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:40:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966568tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966568https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966568<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"]]>One of the books that influenced my thinking the most was The Accidental Guerilla by David Kilcullen where he posits that economic disadvantage drove a lot of people to insurgency. This article supports that. Worth a read!

]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:21:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966275tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966275https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966275<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Big Tech groups race to fund unprecedented $660B AI spending spree"]]>https://archive.is/ZwCIo

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:07:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943952tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943952<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"]]>Yes yes such a complex situation and so hard to tell whether the guy with the pedo non-con site wanted to go to the pedo non-con island.

]]>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:12:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879423tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879423https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879423<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"]]>Elon's in the files asking Epstein about "wild parties" and then doesn't seem to care about all this. Easy to draw a conclusion here.

]]>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:24:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876766tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876766https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876766<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"]]>Oh wow! Guy who's current project depends on AI being good is talking about AI being good.

Interesting.

]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:07:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789075tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789075https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789075<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"]]>The people working for Palantir are collaborators.

]]>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:29:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757836tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757836https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757836<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"]]>Doesn't contradict what I said at all.

You think she was aiming at this chump?

]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:11:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559383tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559383https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559383<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"]]>In no way is this "towards" anyone.

]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:09:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559364tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559364<![CDATA[New comment by tomlockwood in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"]]>ICE agents should be tried in the Hague.

]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:06:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559333tomlockwoodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559333https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559333