Hacker News: zaik

New comment by zaik in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

zaik — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:22:43 +0000

I have achieved nothing this year, and yet I have had a lot more success than Mr. Musk in the "human lives saved" category by not gutting USAID. With reasonable estimates on the weight of this category I'm quite confident to have been more successful overall as well.

New comment by zaik in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

zaik — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:16:11 +0000

> unknown to most Europeans

Good opportunity to learn!

New comment by zaik in "What else do people draw on gradient.horse?"

zaik — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:10:47 +0000

Is clicking and double clicking some kind of voting system?

New comment by zaik in "Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)"

zaik — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:05 +0000

Why exactly should someone acknowledge their unhappiness but then do nothing about it?

New comment by zaik in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

zaik — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:08:54 +0000

Would this counterexample not be included in their search space?

New comment by zaik in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

zaik — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:24:57 +0000

> it starts collecting samples from the photodiode (every ~24 µs).

They also have repeated measurements which improves the precision.

New comment by zaik in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

zaik — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:27:50 +0000

Most sensible Tesla valuation.

New comment by zaik in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

zaik — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:28:16 +0000

Can this be replaced with the original NHK World article?

An interesting statistical example of flaws in a voter impact index

zaik — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:26:25 +0000

Article URL: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/13/interesting-statistical-example-of-flaws-in-a-voter-impact-index/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901561

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by zaik in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

zaik — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:33:13 +0000

> I think the era of the blog is simply dead now and that’s mostly ok. Blogspam and corporate blogs had killed quality bogs ages ago

I simply instruct my RSS Reader to fetch articles only from blogs which I believe to be high quality.

New comment by zaik in "A graph that should be front-page news"

zaik — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:30:05 +0000

If the factory is in China but the product is consumed in the US who should the CO2 emissions be attributed to?

New comment by zaik in "A graph that should be front-page news"

zaik — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:28:46 +0000

The red line is not a prediction, it is a measurement.

New comment by zaik in "The four horsemen behind Postgres outages"

zaik — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:46:53 +0000

It is explained in the article: Any of those changes require massive or incompatible changes.

New comment by zaik in "So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)"

zaik — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:20:59 +0000

That seems like a very physics focused of mathematics. What about statistics or optimization?

New comment by zaik in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"

zaik — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:50:53 +0000

$40k compensation for 55 years of service...

The Future of Digital Money: The Race Between Tortoise, Hare and Rhino

zaik — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:02:07 +0000

Article URL: https://sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/2026/07/09/the-future-of-digital-money-the-race-between-the-tortoise-the-hare-and-the-rhino/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877008

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by zaik in "Show HN: 18 Words"

zaik — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:33:48 +0000

I think it will be easy for a bot to behave in a way that is indistinguishable from some human you don't want to exclude.

Package Management as Org Chart

zaik — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:18:56 +0000

Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/10/package-management-as-org-chart.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864713

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

AI could keep poor countries poor

zaik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:20:08 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.deenamousa.com/p/ai-could-keep-poor-countries-poor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840572

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by zaik in "Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing by up to 13 years"

zaik — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:36:40 +0000

Link to the actual research?