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New comment by wyldfire in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

wyldfire — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:47:37 +0000

Of course he should be punished but the best lesson here is for bettors. Those who wager on "prediction markets": you are betting against people who have access to more information or can influence the outcome of the wager. Don't waste your money.

New comment by wyldfire in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

wyldfire — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:42:05 +0000

Maybe we should criminalize writing articles about Undefined Behavior that have a "So what do we do now?" subheader but omit any mention of UBSan.

New comment by wyldfire in "High-Entropy Alloy"

wyldfire — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:13:19 +0000

This is a legitimate, understandable way to discuss a mixture of abstract and specific things. This is a novel we are referring to, here. The intended audience is very, very broad.

New comment by wyldfire in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

wyldfire — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:53:26 +0000

Please, please tread on me.

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic's Mythos

wyldfire — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:02:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-discord-sleuths-gained-unauthorized-access-to-anthropics-mythos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906876

Points: 2

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New comment by wyldfire in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

wyldfire — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:39:59 +0000

It would be interesting if there were a state sponsored effort to discredit a project that helps some people keep their communications private.

New comment by wyldfire in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

wyldfire — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:06:00 +0000

In your country merchants are not obligated to honor fraudulently altered price displays.

New comment by wyldfire in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

wyldfire — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:40:59 +0000

Poe's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

New comment by wyldfire in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

wyldfire — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:47:59 +0000

The cult of personality is impenetrable. He won't be held to account, ever. Nor his sycophants in the administration.

New comment by wyldfire in "Fuzix OS"

wyldfire — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:10:02 +0000

> FUZIX is a fusion of various elements from the assorted UZI forks and branches beaten together into some kind of semi-coherent platform and then extended from V7 to somewhere in the SYS3 to SYS5.x world with bits of POSIX thrown in for good measure. Various learnings and tricks from ELKS and from OMU also got blended in

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX#what-does-fuzix-have-o...

New comment by wyldfire in "A Python Interpreter Written in Python"

wyldfire — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:02:05 +0000

The fact that it's written in python is often brought up in order to explain its name. But really, it's much less interesting than the fact that it has a tracing JIT. If it were called PyJIT I'd bet it would be clearer and more obvious that it's fast. And people would prob get less hung up on the distinction between python/rpython.

New comment by wyldfire in "Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds"

wyldfire — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:47:45 +0000

It makes a lot of sense to me that PV and wind power could have subtle undesirable effects that we don't know about until it scales up.

Taking gigawatts of energy out of the planet ecology and redirecting it to something else seems like it could have drawbacks. Of course, on net it seems likely to still be a significant improvement over burning hydrocarbons.

New comment by wyldfire in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

wyldfire — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:25:07 +0000

Dang, can you substantiate that this is actually Mr. Farrow like he claims?

Or Mr Farrow can you post some evidence somewhere we can see?

New comment by wyldfire in "The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub"

wyldfire — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:33:30 +0000

Some of that could be related to the ISA but I'm hoping that it's just the fact that the current implementations aren't mature enough.

The vast majority of the ecosystem seems to be focused on uCs until very recently. So it'll take time for the applications processors to be competitive.

New comment by wyldfire in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

wyldfire — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:02:04 +0000

I guess if you can solve phase alignment then another big problem is grid capability?

If everyone plugged one in, could the transmission network reliably deliver the power generated where it's needed? I thought that was a serious long term challenge for utilities wrt solar.

New comment by wyldfire in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

wyldfire — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:42:49 +0000

> blaming them for not accepting email is kind of silly.

I definitely agree - but if the organization creates pain as an externality, then there's no incentive for them to change. Making them realize the cost of their decisions seems appropriate and just and not-even-abusive. Yelling at the person on the phone is bad and doesn't help anyone. Malicious compliance like this helps motivate them to escalate their concerns to people who can change the policy.

New comment by wyldfire in "Chuck Norris has died"

wyldfire — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:19:27 +0000

MAGA isn't a political platform, it's a cult of personality.

Witness the abrupt reversal in public opinion on foreign wars in the last month.

New comment by wyldfire in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

wyldfire — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:57:19 +0000

Modern semiconductor fabrication is a very narrow field.

As far as monopolies go I don't think it's our biggest concern, like you say.

If we want to continue to wage wars and seek conquest, it's not great to have it located in one/few countries. But instead if we want to work towards peace, we should continue breaking down barriers to trade (while maintaining protections for labor).

New comment by wyldfire in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

wyldfire — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:04:01 +0000

The same self-centeredness that drove man to think that Earth was the center of its Universe.

New comment by wyldfire in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

wyldfire — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:33:22 +0000

> the world has changed.

It's the effect of a cult of personality. People don't feel like they want or need this. But they're on board with the cult.