Hacker News: zeusdclxvi

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"

zeusdclxvi — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:24:51 +0000

I'd wager close to 0%

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Stealing Is a Skill"

zeusdclxvi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:20:26 +0000

Well, I have level 99 Thieving on RuneScape

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

zeusdclxvi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:12:27 +0000

They are saying not to do it though and their arguments are awful

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates"

zeusdclxvi — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:35:56 +0000

1v1 to start off

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

zeusdclxvi — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:30:13 +0000

I got 84/100 right. Their "Scientific Estimate" was that I know 65,300 words.

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)"

zeusdclxvi — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:49:16 +0000

No its weird buddy

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)"

zeusdclxvi — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:02:10 +0000

>our family group channel in Telegram

what country do you live in where this is a normal thing?

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

zeusdclxvi — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:12:17 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_spin_liquid

Neat

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Roman Letters"

zeusdclxvi — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:59:34 +0000

This appears to be written to this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Septicius_Clarus

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals"

zeusdclxvi — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:17:18 +0000

There was a mathematician and a chemist arguing these structures had a pattern that had something to do with the distribution of prime numbers. https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-chemist-shines-light-on-a-s...

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Hawaii passes law bypassing Citizens United, governor signs it"

zeusdclxvi — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:15:14 +0000

No it doesnt, it will not be upheld in court, as the Democratic Hawaiian AG even argues in the article

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

zeusdclxvi — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:47:10 +0000

If you are using AI-hallucinated references in scientific papers then there is some obvious intent to deceive there

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

zeusdclxvi — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:59:28 +0000

No reliable secondary sources that you are still alive I'm afraid

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "John Bradley, author of xv, has died"

zeusdclxvi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:43:10 +0000

Almost everything on the sidebar of vox day's site is a dead link too

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun'"

zeusdclxvi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:50:54 +0000

The polybolos was an advanced ancient Greek repeating ballista, often described as a "machine gun of antiquity," invented in the 3rd century BC by Dionysius of Alexandria. It used a unique chain-drive and gravity-fed system to fire bolts in rapid succession

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

zeusdclxvi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:00:53 +0000

Are you asking why public libraries exist?

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Digg is gone again"

zeusdclxvi — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:22:27 +0000

I downloaded the mobile app, and now it's just a login screen that doesn't work

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun"

zeusdclxvi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:27:13 +0000

India

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel by Using "Au10tix""

zeusdclxvi — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:15:28 +0000

Wasnt this confirmed to be random number generator searches, fake graphs etc.

New comment by zeusdclxvi in "Terence Tao had a paper rejected"

zeusdclxvi — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:14:15 +0000

He's just like me!