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jwpapi··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Okay I looked it up. I think the answer is here we don’t know it depends on if the physical world is discrete or not and we don’t know that yet.
jwpapi··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
I think first it’s artificial colonisation
jwpapi··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Like we haven’t solved it but it we partly did finish birth in an artificial womb and we have birthed extinct species through a different breed.

Theoretically it might be possible to do embryo arks where you would send machines to a new habitable planet and they would travel for hundreds of of thousand of years then build everything up and then artificially bring humans back to life.

Whilst this obviously has an enormous amount of challenges, we don’t know a physical law that is not allowing that.

Imagine what we do now and what we do in 100.000+ years when we face extinction.

We might also just blow us up, even though I think extinction is very unlikely

Practically an embryo ark

jwpapi··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
I honestly think they are both finite lol.
jwpapi··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
How about sending robots to a habitable planet with biological material of humans, programmed to tell us the story of earth?

Re life quality: Sure technical advancement can lead to cheaper electricity, better materials discovered, disease prevention and a lot of other stuff. A lot is hold back by complexity.

I don’t want to make a call that this will happen and that it’s a net-positive for society. I’m just saying the technical advancements is interesting and enablin.

jwpapi··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Honestly, I’m a bit scared but also a bit excited.

I’m currently reading Africa by John Reader which covers a lot of humanity storyline. From HN I get the humanity achievements that are happening right now.

The feeling digesting both daily is in order of magnitudes bigger than what any really exciting tv show did to me.

I honestly at this point don’t know anything about what could be possible and what couldnt.

I understand that this is really freightening, but also especially ETH being false gives even more hope that some fundamental problems could be solved in our lifetime, for example understanding universe, aging, colonization of planets and also our limits. I know I’m the minority, but these answers really interest me.

jwpapi··on CSS-Tricks has a new owner
As most others I’m also very doubtful of making this a worthwhile venture. I hope OP didn’t pay too much and makes this a chill project.

I see 2 additional paths:

1) I have no knowledge, but how does the let the crawlers pay work? Could a site like css-tricks with a lot of backlinks make money on that ? Or do LLMs have enough free content available

2) He could make this an anti-llm design website.

jwpapi··on The State of Context Engineering
3

I have auto-compact on at 400k

jwpapi··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Do you want to donate OP money for keeping the server up?

I think we might not know about the actual exploit, as it would be given there was no further config change worth more than the 2k.

@OP, was it a final cap raise or another config change or was the the 1MB wall really broken?

jwpapi··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
pretty sure it will work soon again wheneverybody turns off their monitors and auto-attacks
jwpapi··on JetBrains Thinkrail
NGL Jetbrains has massively helped my developer journey and be a great tool for many many years. I don’t open it that often anymore, but I see that they’re trying hard to stay relevant, which is probably not easy as probably the whole market moved against you.

So I’m willing to give it a try.

jwpapi··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
you must be the first with this idea
jwpapi··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
Not gonna lie that seems true.
jwpapi··on After automation: Solo founding will be the default
I just run ads and it’s profitable and I’m running it alone. Before developing I did do online marketing.

I’ve coded before vibe-coding.

jwpapi··on SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful
Very interesting. If I’m honest with myself it could be very much a reality that I would be better off in only using for medium effor size tasked instead of trying to "offload" the necessary architecture thinking to "high" or even more.

They are good for inspiration though, but maybe I rather let me build a demo and then tell a medium model what I want from it.

jwpapi··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
Whilst I agree it’s not conclusive to assume that just bc something happened the way it did in the past it will happen again. I think there’s still 'reason to believe'.

My answer to your job is that more jobs move from secondary to tertiary sector (entertainment). That has happened usually.

jwpapi··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
I mean if you read some history it’s not the first time complete workforces have been replaced. It doesn’t mean the same jobs stay, but usually there will be something to do.
jwpapi··on How the Claude Code team does code review
What I’m more worried about is feature identification and how to monitor them. How can you get the product to the next level?

Honestly I’m not worried about code anymore in my codebase I’ve not had bug problems for a while and incidents get fixed automatically.

I monitor new features with an agent who checks recordings.

Most actually good features need still 20-30 iterations to design the userflow to actually be interactive, but then there is also another challenge to translate usage patterns into features and how to present functionality with the least amount of friction as possible.

How to efficiently run monitors without wasting your token spends. A best 'monitor' best practice would be nice.

Still this article was very helpful and gave me a lot of new ideas.

jwpapi··on Jev meets the Trolley Problem
Idk Jev doesn’t seem like a thinking model and more like a semantic matching.
jwpapi··on We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers
Or they use it as marketing wording to get liked by devs.., which is most likely given we know that’s typesafes usp
jwpapi··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
I mean i’m solodeving and on my github 30 commits a day is light green. Record probably was 280/day, but I’m not sure if every commit is merge to them. or if they just count PRs
jwpapi··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
I think they’re over reading code, but this almost sounds like they dont even read features/changes anymore. In theory I can imagine it. You have an agent to optimize a certain feature, you have an agent to clean up, you have an agent to develop a support strategy and so on.

They all would analyze data and suggest apple changes themselves.

Do you guys think that’s how it works? Is anybody already operating at that scale, how do you even validate stuff.

Like I think I could run my whole software now only on agents, but not sure how it would turn out.

jwpapi··on Gemini 4 Argon
I’m curious about your curiosity driven queries. Mind to share?
jwpapi··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
I‘ve been on both camps and been critized for it (see my comments), and now I think these are some of the most useless disussions on HN, as they are heavily skewed by all of our life situations.
jwpapi··on An AI agent's $20 Kalshi account, with an exact reward model
kalshi is to tough to be a market maker they have a 2% fee, PM doesnt have any. However MM is way more complicated than it looks like. There are very few small safe windows and informed traders are not stupid either.
jwpapi··on I'm sorry, but you still have to think
loool. I tried to find good words what icked me with the sentence, but you got it on point.
jwpapi··on I'm sorry, but you still have to think
I mean this sentence is just wrong. Coin Flips are 50/50 and I assume most decisions are not 50/50 and coding agents dont use high temperature so they don’t even very so much anymore. This sentence is a sentence to me that discredits a whole article because it’s just wrong.

Also practically it’s not a good way of seeing it. It would aim for the average solution of the problem which might not what you need, but its not a coin flip.

Idk these kind of sentences just stink to me.

jwpapi··on Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read
Which one do you think are the most useful to read?
jwpapi··on No Man Is an Island
I think there is high uncertainty of how the world will change. My personal plan has two arms.

1) Be at the top of applying AI. The frontier overestimates of how able the average person is of applying what’s possible now. I would hope that with my software I can make money for a couple of more years. I constantly test my ideas on how far I can scale them through AI and what angles could be not as easily replicated. I’m aware that the average knowledge is catching up and I’m not faster. One could argue that also the expectation of how a software works gets higher. So users have lower attention spans want customized landing pages and UX needs to be more visual intuitive. So part of the gain in downstream benefitting users.

2) You can argue very long about 1) and I have arguments for both sides. So far it works for me and the numbers are on my side, however on the other side my plan B or 2) in this case is getting ready for life outside. I’m going in front of the camera I’m improving my talking skills I’m try to learn to build things. If you want if all knowledge work is gone. It’s literally entertainment, work with your body, serving or selling. I personally like entertainment most of that.

I’ve been trying to predict and I’ve changed my mind often, so now I’m just saying I don’t really know how the world’s gonna change.

jwpapi··on Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught
Seems like a well thought through response and really smart changes.

I especially like that he’s allowing AI if it generates a better learning proof. That’s so considerate.

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