Hacker News: zeofig

New comment by zeofig in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

zeofig — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:20:00 +0000

Marketing

New comment by zeofig in "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"

zeofig — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:43:08 +0000

proompt didn't work

New comment by zeofig in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

zeofig — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:07:42 +0000

I do know their names. However I'm not in the field and there are many cases in recent years of high-profile scientists putting their weight behind highly dubious claims. Thanks for the advice, by the way.

Note that I'm not disputing the validity of the counterexample itself.

New comment by zeofig in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

zeofig — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:59:46 +0000

Do you have enough knowledge? I laugh at everyone who accepts these claims in the light they're presented despite knowing so little.

New comment by zeofig in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

zeofig — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:06:45 +0000

I don't have enough information about the announcement for it to mean much to me. I don't know much about this field of maths. I don't know how many mathematicians were actively working on this problem. It could be zero, which would indicate it's not really that interesting. The article gushes about how it's a Very Important Problem, but it's not even mentioned on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjectures_by_Paul_Er.... I'm sure the busy folk at openAI will fix that soon however. Furthermore the extensive dishonesty of companies like openAI makes me suspicious of just how this was achieved. Overall the announcement is of little interest to my "priors", although I don't typically think in such terms.

New comment by zeofig in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

zeofig — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:38:12 +0000

I still laugh.

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.