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Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:28PM (#50279512)
I have a surface pro 4 and absolutely like touch. The combination of an actual keyboard and touch is very efficient.
Re:Parser Combinators
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:56AM (#50141640)
I’ve always used parser combinaties in Haskell and I’ve never seen the things you describe. I guess in Haskell one always directly apply the parts to the function you want (ie an AST node constructor).
Re:Show HN: Indigene – native plants for where you stand
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:50PM (#50107428)
> i think for an experienced developer using claude the app itself would be easy to build
Maybe. But if everyone has to vibe code this themselves, it would be a hugely inefficient endeavour. Better to share these projects and help others!
Re:The Aaronson Oracle
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:49AM (#50086907)
I remember a rock paper scissors AI decades ago that did something similar.
Re:BB(10) > Graham's Number
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:05PM (#50076927)
> you can't have upper bound without breaking Turing and solving halting problem
Not in general, no. But for a fixed n, you can. For example, people have settled the exact value of BB(5).
Re:BB(10) > Graham's Number
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:10PM (#50076075)
First, an upper bound would be more useful to understand BB. But second, out of all large numbers, does this one give any information? We’ll have to see. The fact in itself is useless.
Re:BB(10) > Graham's Number
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:06PM (#50076005)
I don’t think such a bound in itself is interesting, unless the proof reveals some strategy to prove more. There are infinitely potential bounds to BB(n), why is this particular case BB(10) > G useful for understanding fast growing functions?
Re:I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:55PM (#50075857)
Oh, as soon as you add tls to your subdomain, the bots come. It’s instant.
Re:Thunderbird for iOS
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:53PM (#50075815)
It does have S/MIME, I think?
Re:What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reli...
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:30AM (#50030584)
They mean a different statement, a different theorem. You have to understand that translating a theorem written in English text to lean code is also a non trivial step.
Re:“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:49AM (#50002536)
But it has. Think of design patterns and other programming paradigms (logic programming, functional programming, etc).
Re:Open source 160 sound visualization experiments
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:14PM (#49996638)
As someone who grew up with Milkdrop, these seem a bit dull/minimalistic.
Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:48PM (#49995367)
Not only that, we also have code comments and standalone documentation.
Re:To Grieve, or Not to Grieve?
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:16AM (#49943215)
You still need a mathematician to check the statement of the theorem.
Re:Show HN: I spent 10 months building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS ...
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:22PM (#49869356)
Can’t you just open a folder inside your Dropbox folders? Then it should just sync, right?
(That’s how I use zettlr, but with nextcloud instead of Dropbox.)
Re:Show HN: I spent 10 months building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS ...
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:21PM (#49869341)
Indeed, and also:
> and like most I used Apple Notes.
Most people i know that write more then just some notes use obsidian, zettlr, … or one of many other markdown editors.
A comparison with existing apps would be nice.
Re:Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:06AM (#49783964)
The caption on the close up says: “Details preserved on both face, face in the back in focus”. But it seems to me that a lot of detail is actually missing! On the later pictures you see a lot of skin “imperfections”, which looks much better. The 18 pro picture is way too smooth!
Re:Faster NumPy in the Browser
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:38AM (#49773812)
Wouldn’t it be just as easy to keep Fortran alive with ai?
Re:The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands
on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:37PM (#49758397)
I agree. But it’s cool to explore these things and if it’s the first time someone sees it, that’s nice!
Re:C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:54AM (#49756220)
But if you program a for loop computing the sum from 1 to n, this also gets replaced by a constant (unless you build in debug mode). Why would an empty loop be different?
Re:Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:50PM (#49743415)
Yes. A lot is not accessible if not logged in.
Re:Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:49PM (#49743402)
Doesn’t help with scrapers though. They use a unique IP for each query.
Re:Online Z3 Guide
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:18AM (#49739160)
Sometimes you can use SMT for “theorem proving”. It is a rather broad term. I don’t think they added something much different than what they already had.
Re:A Beginning for Mathematics
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:41AM (#49709552)
With human proofs, I have some trust in process behind it.
Re:A Beginning for Mathematics
on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:23PM (#49703389)
The recent proof of Fermats Last Theorem is interesting: it is (iirc) 13 million lines of lean code. And type-checking takes 5 hours or so on a pretty beefy machine. I cannot independently verify the proof, and I have to take Anthropics word for it that it actually type-checks.
Re:Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:44PM (#49646668)
I looked in the AppStore for “symmetry draw”, and there are at least 10 such apps.
Re:Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:48AM (#49573443)
Wouldn’t a lot already be in leans mathlib?
Re:Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:41PM (#49569291)
Most systems i have seen are way beyond a 100 lines. And their GitHub repository contain many issues, often soundness bugs. (Granted, many get fixed very fast.)
Re:Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:40PM (#49569268)
This is a crucial point. There have been many bugs in Lean (and in other proof assistants for that matter). Proof assistants work well on human input, because it was created with a certain intent.
We simply don’t know what those 13M contain and whether it “makes sense” and doesn’t trigger Lean bugs. (There are “independent” lean verifiers, but historically they contained the same, or similar, bugs.)
Re:We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:22AM (#49475005)
I guess it’s submitted for the method rather than the result.