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Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:27PM (#50062546)
> Tao is a mathematician discussing complex fields which aren't math and he's showing his ignorance

Terence hasn't won a Nobel, but this reminds me of "Nobel disease":

"Nobel disease or Nobelitis is an informal term for the embrace of strange or scientifically unsound ideas by some Nobel Prize winners, usually later in life. It has been argued that the effect results, in part, from a tendency for Nobel winners to feel empowered by the award to speak on topics outside their specific area of expertise, although it is unknown whether Nobel Prize winners are more prone to this tendency than other individuals."

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

Re:The Cables That Connect the World on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:54PM (#49540723)
I'm so glad I came to the comments, I never would've seen this otherwise! Thank you!
Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @01:28PM (#47951559)
Super great analogy!
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:12PM (#47942130)
This is too funny. Thanks for sharing this tidbit!
Re:Seed of Might Color Correction Process (2023) [pdf] on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:49PM (#47225970)
This is so incredibly cool! Thank you for sharing!
Re:A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @11:00AM (#45901777)
This is incredible
It's a rendition of Sakura Sakura, one of Japan's most famous (if not the most famous) folks songs :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jqpFjsMtCb0

Re:The GitHub website is slow on Safari on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @12:47PM (#45042021)
This is actually unreal. Wow.
Re:Claude Code is all you need on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:20PM (#44868985)
> It's got infinite patience for performing tedious tasks manually and will gladly eat up all your tokens. When I see it doing something like this manually, I stop it and tell it to write a program to do the thing I want.

This is so funny. Thank you for sharing :)

This is so unbelievably funny. Thank you for sharing!
Re:The Egg (By Andy Weir) on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:46AM (#43535663)
I will never fail to be amused by people here and on Reddit who spend their calories diving into discussions about things they don't like to tell people they don't like them.
Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:55PM (#42892639)
+1, thank you js2!
> tiny dev

This has me dead. To the kiddo: great work, this is an amazing start.

Wow, TIL! Thank you for sharing!
Re:Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks on Monday August 12, 2024 @04:53PM (#41229210)
This is too cool. Thanks for sharing.
Re:Spot the Drowning Child on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @05:35PM (#40931736)
Until 1988, my college (Georgia Tech) used to mandate a required course for the entire student body called Drownproofing[0][1] :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownproofing

[1] https://www.isye.gatech.edu/news/surviving-drownproofing-101

Re:23words.com on Monday June 10, 2024 @02:58PM (#40637045)
I'm loving this one! Thanks for sharing :)
Just wanted to drop a quick comment to say Dr. Riedl was one of my favorite professors when I was at Georgia Tech. His Intro to Artificial Intelligence course was super fun and comprehensive and he's got exactly the right personality for it.
Taco Bell's has always made me laugh. The taco's face in the split second before falling on its face kills me.

https://www.tacobell.com/404

This is SUCH an awesome and wonderful document. Thanks for sharing!
I believe the parent commenter meant it as "I started working remotely at age 24, [some] years back" :)
Re:Gail.com FAQ on Monday January 09, 2023 @12:01PM (#34312590)
This is incredible. Thanks so much for sharing!
Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @01:01PM (#34151522)
You bagging the username "airtag" just to share this comment is so funny.

I think this is a great idea though and I didn't even think about "bring me back to my bag" - that's awesome :)

Re:Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text on Thursday September 29, 2022 @07:19PM (#33028679)
> It's scary to think about it but seems plausible—like if someone can make an app with Tiktok-like ubiquity of only AI content. Although to your point I imagine there will be so much nonsensical noise that curating will become a useful skill, it is today but even more so.

This just gave me a disturbingly vivid vision of exactly what you described. A seemingly likely future where everyone's in their homes scrolling endlessly on a TikTok-like app where there's literally infinite content being generated by the AI all the time, and as people like and dislike certain types of content, the AI just gets better and better at generating new videos...this is honestly kind of terrifying. I have no doubt this will exist one day, and that it'll print money for one company while billions of people are spending all their free time consuming it.

Stains from diet soda are also way easier to completely clean up due to the lack of sugar! I've seen Diet Coke/Coke Zero stains vanish from light-colored clothing within minutes.
I can't stop laughing at all the examples.
Re:Are you a baby? A litmus test on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:27PM (#30910955)
> I went through a phase of tongue-in-cheek "quantum planning", wherin I would give my friends a percentage on any plan I was invited to. So if I was asked to dinner I might just say "60%". Needless to say this didn't go down very well with people.

This is hilarious. I do think it's generally a good idea to communicate hesitation or any degree of unwillingness, I'm just laughing at how you convey it with this approach.

Re:Speaking Latin on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:17PM (#28530484)
This is awesome. Thanks so much for sharing!
Re:Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:54AM (#27592442)
I love that quote. :) Thanks for sharing.

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