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BrokenCogs··on Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup
This needs to be higher
BrokenCogs··on Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker
This is not true. The hack did not affect Stryker products sold to hospitals and clinics, it only impacted Stryker employees work and personal devices. Yes 50tb of data was exfiltrated and it remains to be seen what that data is and how it might impact products down the line.
BrokenCogs··on Galaxy Zoo
Is this like Bob Fossil's Zooniverse?
BrokenCogs··on Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
Can you give examples of a few allegation stories that have been later retracted, in relation to the current administration?
BrokenCogs··on How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
Can this be containerized? :D
BrokenCogs··on Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?
You can sell them and their owners shady crypto
BrokenCogs··on Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
This is a terrible article. In the first subplot, there is no explanation of what v(b1) and v(c2) are. The -8 on the on y axis (amplitude) looks like an upside down 8.

Further down there is a sentence: "First, the Fuzz Face is a two-transistor feedback amplifier that turns a gentle sinusoid signal into an almost binary “fuzzy” output." But the figure does not match this - there is no "gentle sinusoid" wave shown on the first fuzz face plot.

BrokenCogs··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
Because the user asked for it
BrokenCogs··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
Yes but why would a pelican need a helmet? If it falls over it can just fly away... Common sense 1 Gemini 0
BrokenCogs··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
You shouldn't be browsing games while working, that's why
BrokenCogs··on MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake
The modern equivalent to "Never meet your heroes" is "Never follow your heroes on X"

I personally lost some respect for karpathy after seeing his post on moltbook

BrokenCogs··on I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor
I fully agree, there is something unsettling about this post and I can't put my finger on it, but here is an attempt:

His girlfriend is going through this medical issue, but he's made this post about himself? He's going to be the hero to save his GF and others with this brain tumor using the medical equivalent of vibe coding. I don't know, it just sounds immature and wrong

BrokenCogs··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
You have to self report of course. First we find all the 1s then we find all the 2s, and so on
BrokenCogs··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
1 if you've been emailed or mentioned (cited) by Jeffrey Epstein. 2 if you've been emailed or cited by someone who has an Epstein number of 1, and so on.
BrokenCogs··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
What's your Epstein / Erdos number?
BrokenCogs··on How will the miracle happen today?
Do you donate to a charity expecting reciprocity?
BrokenCogs··on How will the miracle happen today?
Sounds like someone who takes and does not give
BrokenCogs··on The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform
"The unreasonable effectiveness" is all you need
BrokenCogs··on The Q, K, V Matrices
"When we read a sentence like “The cat sat on the mat because it was comfortable,” our brain automatically knows that “it” refers to “the mat” and not “the cat.” "

Am I the only one who thinks it's not obvious the "it" refers to the mat? The cat could be sitting on the mat because the cat is comfortable

BrokenCogs··on 2025 Letter
It's pretty clear he meant Europe as the continent, which London is a part of.

It's very similar to "Europeans" broadly generalizing the US as one homogenous country, assuming everyone and everything in Chicago is the same as New York or Dallas.

Source: me, a brit, who has lived and worked in UK and US.

BrokenCogs··on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
Tariffs?
BrokenCogs··on If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
What a terribly flawed model. Being opportunistic can be classified as "vision" too.
BrokenCogs··on Backing up Spotify
Why... does Putin like music more than the next guy?
BrokenCogs··on Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile
Loom just reminds me of the cringey-est blog post I have ever read.

I hadn't heard about loom until I read the founder's post about how difficult it was being rich and successful.

Hope you're not looking to hike through Hawaiian forests or not become an NPC at Big Co

BrokenCogs··on Great ideas in theoretical computer science
There used to be a 'sophomore college' course at stanford called "Great Ideas in Computer Science" which I completed a while ago. I have great memories from that! https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/02/classy-classes-cs-54n-g...
BrokenCogs··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
This is amazing! Do you ever run a sale (christmas, boxing day, etc)?
BrokenCogs··on GPT Image 1.5
Yeah they fumbled big time
BrokenCogs··on GPT Image 1.5
The endgame is to make money during the hype and then cash out before it crashes.
BrokenCogs··on CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy
famous pelican enthusiast
BrokenCogs··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
The real clippy was in the comments all along
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