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I just want to thank the submitter. This is the type of internet that I really miss. A very smart person who's a good writer, proud of their interests and obses

I just want to thank the submitter. This is the type of internet that I really miss. A very smart person who's a good writer, proud of their interests and obsessions.

ipnon 5mo ago
Yes, to paraphrase Jobs, I'm only interested in the intersection of Technology Avenue and Liberal Arts Street.
ks2048 5mo ago
I disagree. Comes off as an arrogant guy rather than a curious scientist. What will it take to get this before you die? What are physical limitations to shrink things more and more and to speed things up more and more? He talks about solar, but what are the physical limits and how can we get there? I think there's interesting physics here, but this sounds like just a rich guy craving more power.
danpalmer 5mo ago
Geohot is famous for not being as smart as he makes out. Famously said he'd go to Twitter when Musk bought it and help Musk fix search, because "how hard can it be". Then left in shame 3 months later having achieved nothing except figuring out that It's A Bit More Complicated Than That(tm). Comma does some cool stuff, if relatively entry-level, and this post is good napkin-maths and was a fun read, but there is so much more depth and a hundred ways in which this post is wrong or over-simplified to the point of near irrelevance.
- petesergeant 5mo ago
  > Geohot is famous for not being as smart as he makes out That someone isn't as intelligent as they think they are doesn't place an upper bound on their intelligence.
  - danpalmer 5mo ago
    That someone thinks they can personally "fix search" in a few months at a multi-billion dollar social network that just fired half its engineering staff, however, does.
    - diogocp 5mo ago
      What if someone thinks they can personally fix the loading time of a multi-billion dollar game, while having no access to its source code? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
      - danpalmer 5mo ago
        The difference there being that they did. The GTA fix shows humility, literally the first sentence of the "recon" section is "First I wanted to check if someone had already solved this problem". Geohot wasn't interested in if anyone had tried and failed to "solve search", or why it might be a difficult problem. He assumed that Twitter were a bunch of idiots. The whole approach of the GTA fix author is curious and humble. Very low ego.

I just want to thank the submitter. This is the type of internet that I really miss. A very smart person who's a good writer, proud of their interests and obsessions.

ipnon 5mo ago

Yes, to paraphrase Jobs, I'm only interested in the intersection of Technology Avenue and Liberal Arts Street.

ks2048 5mo ago

I disagree. Comes off as an arrogant guy rather than a curious scientist. What will it take to get this before you die? What are physical limitations to shrink things more and more and to speed things up more and more? He talks about solar, but what are the physical limits and how can we get there? I think there's interesting physics here, but this sounds like just a rich guy craving more power.

danpalmer 5mo ago

Geohot is famous for not being as smart as he makes out. Famously said he'd go to Twitter when Musk bought it and help Musk fix search, because "how hard can it be". Then left in shame 3 months later having achieved nothing except figuring out that It's A Bit More Complicated Than That(tm). Comma does some cool stuff, if relatively entry-level, and this post is good napkin-maths and was a fun read, but there is so much more depth and a hundred ways in which this post is wrong or over-simplified to the point of near irrelevance.

petesergeant 5mo ago
> Geohot is famous for not being as smart as he makes out That someone isn't as intelligent as they think they are doesn't place an upper bound on their intelligence.
- danpalmer 5mo ago
  That someone thinks they can personally "fix search" in a few months at a multi-billion dollar social network that just fired half its engineering staff, however, does.
  - diogocp 5mo ago
    What if someone thinks they can personally fix the loading time of a multi-billion dollar game, while having no access to its source code? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
    - danpalmer 5mo ago
      The difference there being that they did. The GTA fix shows humility, literally the first sentence of the "recon" section is "First I wanted to check if someone had already solved this problem". Geohot wasn't interested in if anyone had tried and failed to "solve search", or why it might be a difficult problem. He assumed that Twitter were a bunch of idiots. The whole approach of the GTA fix author is curious and humble. Very low ego.