Hacker News: zeofig

New comment by zeofig in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

zeofig — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:48:31 +0000

I agree polymarket is "bad", but it's also highly relevant and should absolutely be included in this web page.

New comment by zeofig in "Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools"

zeofig — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:14:02 +0000

The problem here is the word "will". Because they don't exist.

New comment by zeofig in "Quartz crystals"

zeofig — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:33:12 +0000

The account of the youtube video linked in the article has been terminated apparently. Anyone know why or if there's an alternate link?

New comment by zeofig in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

zeofig — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:28:30 +0000

"Planning" is a strong word..

New comment by zeofig in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

zeofig — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:18:37 +0000

Just print so much money that people (yes, banks are people!) have nothing better to do than buy stonks. Problem solved!

New comment by zeofig in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

zeofig — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:38:45 +0000

Damn that's a considerable body of work.

New comment by zeofig in "Iran Protest Map"

zeofig — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:21 +0000

It would be cool to have protest maps in another politically unstable middle eastern country too.

New comment by zeofig in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

zeofig — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:54:16 +0000

I still don't understand how it's world-changing apart from considerably degrading the internet. It's laughable to compare it to railroads.

New comment by zeofig in "Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers"

zeofig — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:38:36 +0000

Are you actually making that article, or just "quoting" it as some kind of hypothetical? Regardless, without mentioning heat capacity, I don't see any point to your quotation in this context.

New comment by zeofig in "More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance"

zeofig — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:25:57 +0000

This is because peer review has become a bullshit mill and AI is good at churning through/out bullshit.

New comment by zeofig in "Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers"

zeofig — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:20:27 +0000

I think otherwise.

New comment by zeofig in "Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers"

zeofig — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:03:00 +0000

A perfect vacuum might have no temperature, but space is not a perfect vacuum, and has a well-defined temperature. More insight would be found in thinking about what temperature precisely means, and the difference between it and heat capacity.

New comment by zeofig in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

zeofig — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:35 +0000

HAMAS? We're talking about an attack in Lebanon my friend, not Palestine.

New comment by zeofig in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

zeofig — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:31:03 +0000

Yes, since conveniently the attacker also gets to define who is a civilian.

New comment by zeofig in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

zeofig — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:01:01 +0000

We're past the point of civility when it comes to things like github and M$0FT's involvement.

New comment by zeofig in "Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy"

zeofig — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:03:51 +0000

You're right. I'll send them some thoughts and prayers too.

New comment by zeofig in "Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy"

zeofig — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:51:23 +0000

Two idiot judges.

New comment by zeofig in "Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy"

zeofig — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 03:51:03 +0000

One of the reasons I try to avoid fast food and indeed everything.

New comment by zeofig in "A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging"

zeofig — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:22:30 +0000

Is correlated with*

New comment by zeofig in "AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem"

zeofig — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 02:33:13 +0000

It's a training data problem, and the training data you want doesn't exist.