Hacker News: v64

New comment by v64 in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

v64 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:55:56 +0000

The evidence is Anthropic's own reporting [1]. You may doubt that they're telling the truth, but that's what they're reporting.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-dist...

New comment by v64 in "Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras"

v64 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:55:02 +0000

You have to pay to read the rest of the article, which says:

>In August 2024, the town of Cedar Grove held a routine city council meeting. There, they discussed raises for their crossing guards and the purchase of a new truck for the local waterworks.

>The last item on the agenda was whether to accept a donation of new automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras for the town’s police department.

>“We’ve received a generous donation of new ALPR cameras … a very generous donation that the police department is receiving,” the town’s manager said. “These are very heavily used tools in the law enforcement toolkit, so it’s good to add more to our belt.”

>The total monetary value of the donation was $37,004. In the approved resolution, the town detailed its provenance: an LLC based out of Encinitas, California.

>It just so happens to be the same LLC that property records list as the owner of a $9.5 million mansion in the town.

>The address for the LLC is also used for a number of other businesses, investment ventures, and a charity. All of which have the exact same manager.

>Aaron Rodgers.

Supporting documents:

https://cedargrovenj.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/1065

https://www.bizapedia.com/tx/pantheraleo-investments-llc.htm...

New comment by v64 in "In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years"

v64 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:44:11 +0000

Memento mori

New comment by v64 in "Waymo in Dallas"

v64 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:45:30 +0000

I live here and use Dallasian myself

New comment by v64 in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

v64 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:31:10 +0000

Those problems are because of the tobacco. Zyn packets et al are just nicotine, and nicotine itself has not been shown to be a carcinogen.

New comment by v64 in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

v64 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:36:28 +0000

On 1 February 1871 Charles Darwin wrote about these publications to Joseph Hooker, and set out his own speculation that the original spark of life may have been in a "warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts,—light, heat, electricity &c present, that a protein compound was chemically formed". Darwin explained that "at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_little_pond

New comment by v64 in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"

v64 — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:02:55 +0000

And that video game is called Gambonanza [1]

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3509230/Gambonanza/

New comment by v64 in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"

v64 — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:11:59 +0000

> Makes you wonder why they never added any rng into chess, ya know, to keep the player base "engaged"

arguably this is why Chess960 was created

New comment by v64 in "The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge"

v64 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:54:28 +0000

as far as I understand it, turing completeness is a weaker property than combinatory completeness, which Craig's theorem is addressing. The nonexistence of a singleton combinatory basis doesn't necessarily imply the nonexistence of a turing complete combinator.

New comment by v64 in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

v64 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:30:34 +0000

Looking forward to hearing about how you're using Opus 4.5, from my experience and what I've heard from others, it's been able to overcome many obstacles that previous iterations stumbled on

New comment by v64 in "Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game"

v64 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:58:04 +0000

your score is the length of your two words plus the space

New comment by v64 in "A Lean companion to Analysis I"

v64 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:45:00 +0000

Formalization of many of the ideas from HoTT are currently happening in the Agda community. [1] It's out of my wheelhouse, so I don't know the exact motivations, but Agda is apparently a better way to formalize those ideas than in Lean.

Also, there's a new textbook coming out later this year that's a more modern update to the original HoTT book [2] which also has an Agda formalization. [3]

[1] https://martinescardo.github.io/HoTT-UF-in-Agda-Lecture-Note...

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/introduction-to-homotop...

[3] https://github.com/HoTT-Intro/Agda

New comment by v64 in "A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode"

v64 — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:48:50 +0000

Earlier comments found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869093

From my brief reading of it, it seems like the interesting bit here is the development of the Hypercatalan numbers as the coefficients of the infinite sums of roots of polynomials. Some partial results for special cases of the Catalan numbers and roots had been found in the past, but the full understanding of the structure they call the Geode enabled generalization of the previous findings.

New comment by v64 in "Suno v4.5"

v64 — Fri, 02 May 2025 16:23:07 +0000

Have been using Suno over the last few iterations and can vouch for this; steering the final product with style tags is a lot better now and I can use more natural language rather than trying to come up with what the genre specific "wordings" for certain styles of music would be. Good to know the tip about the brackets in lyrics too.

Some examples of style descriptions I've used that generated results close to what I had in mind are "romantic comedy intro music, fast and exciting, new york city" (aiming for something like the Sex and the City theme) and "mature adult romance reality tv show theme song, breakbeats, seductive, intimate, saxophones, lots of saxophones" which did indeed produce cheesy porn music.

New comment by v64 in "The VTech Socratic Method"

v64 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:17:04 +0000

I had one of these as a kid; the slow way it drew the graphics onto the screen [1] for a new activity was an aesthetic in itself, like a coloring book being drawn and colored in before your eyes, a perfect loading screen for kids.

Wikipedia notes: The system will "draw" images by filling in areas of the screen with color one line at a time; it is not known whether this is an effect employed for the student's enjoyment or if it is due to the slow processing time of the system.

[1] https://youtu.be/r71ejYkkmDY?t=64

New comment by v64 in "Noise"

v64 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 17:50:19 +0000

moving around on the noise site, you can get it to resemble parts of loud pipes, especially at around 2:35 [1] with the repeated upward bits

https://youtu.be/64liF2VuLxI?t=155

New comment by v64 in "U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction"

v64 — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:03:10 +0000

I'm also self published. I would rather a thousand people steal and read and interact with and talk about my work than to be able to eat selling it to a privileged few. The free software movement is a parallel example of this viewpoint.

The economic reality of today is that words and publishing are cheap. If you have something to say and need to get the word out to as many people as possible, that's wonderful. If you need to eat, then accept this is how it is and write for an audience that's willing to pay you for your work even if it's available for free.

New comment by v64 in "Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5"

v64 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:55:31 +0000

link does not work for me, discussion is here https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1fc98fu/confirm...

New comment by v64 in "Cardinal – Virtual modular synthesizer plugin"

v64 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 21:00:53 +0000

Programs like this and VCV Rack are great ways to get started on the road to building your own modular synthesizer [1]. Many of the modules in the program are based on real hardware, and while the hardware versions of these modules can cost hundreds of dollars, the software versions are using the exact same firmware. Whether you stay virtual or go out and build the hardware equivalent of your rack, it's a great way to experiment and learn the basics at a lower cost than in the past.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_synthesizer

New comment by v64 in "Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker"

v64 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:50:24 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to clean this up and release it. I've never played DD Poker, but have experienced the loss of other games when servers go down and the software stops being updated.

I realize source releases aren't always possible, so it's a great gift to the community when one can make it happen and they put in the effort to do so.