Why “fact” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
The fact that people are (as you mentioned) repurposing old iPads - and Kindles - means there is demand for it. And the real competition for these are things like the "Tuya WiFi…
by nl · Oct 14, 2026
This is a cool attack from a technical POV, no doubt. But what I want to talk about is trust . The big selling point of crypto has always been that fiat currencies, governments…
by jmyeet · Oct 14, 2026
If you're referring to this part: > This does mean that concurrent changes can conflict, but Claude can typically fix these conflicts faster than humans can even identify them.…
by nickg-anthropic · Oct 14, 2026
Sam Altman "joking" at our expense? The resentment is well earned, and the fact HN users keep bringing it up to this day means the 2018 article was not unhinged enough. Dang als…
by matheusmoreira · Oct 14, 2026
A company with (I'm guessing) less than 2500 developers need to make tens of thousands of merges every day? And they somehow had a team of 7 Claude baby sitters handle this enti…
by vhantz · Oct 14, 2026
But their stingers are barbed, unlike wasp stingers and other stinger types which are smooth. Barbed stingers seem specifically designed to lodge in elastic skin (that is, skin…
by ButlerianJihad · Oct 14, 2026
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A fact is a true datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance, or an occurrence in the real world. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by careful, repeatable observation or measurement by experiments or other means. After accounts of knowledge of facts such as that in 2002 by epistemologist Angelika Kratzer being applied to Gettier problems, according to Paul Boghossian, the Enlightenment-era consensus justified true belief definition of knowledge in which knowledge encompasses facts is the "standard, widely accepted" one, though with Bernecker and Dretske (2000) arguing that "no epistemologist since Gettier has seriously and successfully defended the traditional view." This is despite wide, though not universal, agreement among analytic philosophers that the first two criteria of the definition are correct, i.e., that knowledge implies an agent accepting a true proposition. Read more on Wikipedia