Hacker News: waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=waitforitHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:03:03 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture up to 4*10^18+7*10^13"]]>> 4 quadrillion (4×10¹⁸) + 70 trillion (7×10¹³)

That's 4 quintillion.

]]>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:09:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734979waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734979https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734979<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Don’t look down on print debugging"]]>> The thing is, in interpreted languages land print debugging has a power no debugger gives you: live debugging on your production instance.

Remote debugging is a thing that exists.

]]>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:36:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42221431waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42221431https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42221431<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Google Play killed my game and won't tell me why"]]>> it looks like a copycat of a popular flash game, the author’s name is atypical

That popular flash game is the game of this author.

> I am Tukkun, an indie game developer making games since 2008. My most significant work is a PC Flash game I made back in 2009 called Anti-Idle: The Game, uploaded to the website Kongregate.

]]>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:48:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809467waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809467https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809467<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable"]]>And by the author of this version: https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/

]]>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:17:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39800090waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39800090https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39800090<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Reddit CEO defends $193M compensation following backlash from unpaid moderators"]]>Many people complain about that number (not necessarily on hackernews, but there are some comments like that already) without realizing that most of that value is based on the stock price and not cash. Depending on how the IPO fares this $193M value can turn into $1M or $1B+ (both extremes and very unlikely to happen).

He got around $1.1M in cash.

> According to an SEC filing, Huffman got a salary of $341,346 in 2023 and a $792,000 “incentive” bonus. In February, Huffman’s salary was raised to $550,000 with the bulk of his $193 million compensation package tied to stock.

]]>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:43:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39776913waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39776913https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39776913<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Why Is the Sea So Hot?"]]>Do you think it's winter everywhere? It's about global temperatures and it was summer on the southern hemisphere.

]]>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 06:57:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39732468waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39732468https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39732468<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Reddit hasn't turned a profit in 20 years, filed to go public anyway"]]>"Only" a million of that was in cash, the rest was in stock awards and stock options. So he has to care about what happens after the IPO.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...

]]>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:55:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489715waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489715https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489715<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Happy Birthday Lemmings"]]>There is a game in development that combines the lemmings esthetic with base building.

The Settlings: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1771110/The_Settlings/

]]>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:35:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39396118waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39396118https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39396118<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "The University of California has all but dropped carbon offsets"]]>It seems like that's only a question of when it needs to shut down rather than if:

https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-power-plants-struggling-...

> In the US, the sole desert-based nuclear facility, the Palo Verde plant in Arizona, relies on municipal wastewater rather than rivers or seas, though the facility has struggled with rising costs as more industries compete for limited supplies.

]]>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:28:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38476207waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38476207https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38476207<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "The University of California has all but dropped carbon offsets"]]>> It works reliably and predictably in all weather conditions.

So they don't need to be shut down when it's getting too hot to cool them?

https://qz.com/1348969/europes-heatwave-is-forcing-nuclear-p...

https://www.energylivenews.com/2012/08/14/us-nuclear-plant-s...

]]>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:38:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475597waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475597https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475597<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Webb Telescope detects most distant active supermassive black hole"]]>kurzgesagt has a video about (spinning) black holes as an energy source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY

]]>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 05:10:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36641521waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36641521https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36641521<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Rejected GitHub profile achievements"]]>"The problem solver": asks how to solve a specific error while also posting the stacktrace/error which already contains a message about how to solve the error

]]>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 04:19:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611219waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611219https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611219<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)"]]>That would be true if it actually did the decryption, but my point was, an LLM doesn't decrypt. It just has the encrypted string followed by the decrypted string in its training data and so it outputs something that's almost correct. (the numbers being wrong 4501, 4502, 4503 instead of 4701, 4702, 4703 - maybe some bugged training data, maybe hallucination).

]]>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:39:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491925waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491925https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491925<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)"]]>Just because it's confident, doesn't mean it's right. But it probably contains training data from this or similar sites.

https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=The%20U534%20mes...

> Interpretation (preliminary):

> [An] U-4701, nachrichtlich [an] U-Stützpunkt Lübeck von Chef 4. U-Flottille: Mit U-4702 und U-4703 zur Flender Werft Lübeck gehen. Von dort folgt Weiteres.

> Translation (preliminary):

> [To] U-4701, for information [to] Submarine Base Lübeck from Chief of 4th Submarine Flotilla: With U-4702 and U-4703 go to Flender Dockyard at Lübeck. From there more follows.

]]>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:42:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36487727waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36487727https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36487727<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "“Fractureiser” malware in popular Minecraft mods and modpacks"]]>At the last Advent of Code there was a person whose solution didn't pass because a part of their input was replaced by a dogecoin address

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zb98pn/2022_d...

]]>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 09:31:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36239256waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36239256https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36239256<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)"]]>Somehow I find 30k +/- 1, 7, 11, 13 more pleasing. It's 8 numbers and the primality of each "group" can be encoded in a byte.

]]>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:26:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35710165waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35710165https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35710165<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Clock"]]>Explanation on how it works: https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/

]]>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 03:41:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35624008waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35624008https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35624008<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "AI solves Advent of Code 2022"]]>The linked solution is done by talking to the AI.

Automated solutions exist too:

* https://twitter.com/ostwilkens/status/1598458146187628544

* https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zb8tdv/2022_d...

* https://twitter.com/max_sixty/status/1598924237947154433

]]>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:16:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842905waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842905https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842905<![CDATA[AI solves Advent of Code 2022]]>Article URL: https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842904

Points: 157

# Comments: 77

]]>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:16:32 +0000https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842904https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842904<![CDATA[New comment by waitforit in "Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure"]]>With regards to records, you only need to wait for it: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/commit/99f60a5e662a7951dd5a...

]]>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:55:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33829859waitforithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33829859https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33829859