LandStander
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:21AM (#50071317)
How feasible is it to have a local, FOSS, encyclopedic LLM for question answering and basic help with common technical tasks? I feel like that would be enough for me.
Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @09:09PM (#49266658)
FTA Modafinil
Free Trade Agreement Modafinil?
Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:43AM (#49164428)
why did we start with main+tail rotor helicopters? Nowadays 4-rotor quadcopters appeared and have taken over
The quadcopter advantage is in it's mechanical simplicity, but having fewer longer blades is better for aerodynamic efficiency(at the expense of max airspeed). This matters less at RC scale, but at full size, even an all-electric helicopter will likely have more range than a quadcopter with the same batteries.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite eve...
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @11:02AM (#49098473)
That's why I repurpose or discard all of my old socks every time I Invest in a new set. I do this about every two years. I rotate them for uniform wear. I've successfully eliminated the possibility of mismatched socks.
Re:Marble Fountain
on Sunday November 09, 2025 @02:35PM (#45868432)
This is a great example of a good use case for 3D printers. The smooth marble run action combined with the interwoven organic forms would be a huge PITA to fabricate with any other method I can think of, even if your just making one.
Re:I Analyzed Chord Progressions in 680k Songs
on Thursday April 17, 2025 @09:09PM (#43723929)
The song is "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendes
Re:Oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74
on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @10:08PM (#42384322)
OneZoom.org has a nice common ancestor search feature. Here are the results for albatross and crocodile:
https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Archelosauria=4947372?otthome=...
Re:The Most Desperately Needed Airplane Is Back in Production
on Sunday September 15, 2024 @08:07AM (#41546994)
I remember as a young kid, it was the closest I could find to the Sea Duck from Tail Spin.
Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days
on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:43AM (#38151542)
I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be:
year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision)
The current date-time, to the second, would be 2023/308/342.65
The days, like the years and second-based units, are 0-indexed.
There are 100 seconds in a hectosecond, and normally 864 hectoseconds in a day.
And to go with it, I'd advocate either a "3-on, 2-off", or "6-on, 4-off" work cycle, depending on the nature of the work, or even just personal preference. This way, today(308) would obviously be on a "weekend" either way.
Re:Short Film: "One Revolution per Minute"
on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @12:50PM (#37754391)
Water mined from the moon might be much cheaper by the time something like this is built. That being said, a giant sterile swimming pool seems like an odd feature for an interplanetary spacecraft. I'd rather see a well-balanced aquatic habitat, if anything.
I'm wondering if this post was inspired by the recent comic from SMBC:
Re:Thoughts about the impact of long peace
on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:44PM (#36261305)
Paintball.
Re:The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence
on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:35PM (#34395304)
If you'd prefer a more concrete explanation, here's a video that explains the operation of an old mechanical "harmonic analyzer" in great detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyYflzRVu6M
I still think of it every time Fourier analyses comes up.
Re:Hackaday 2022 cyberdeck contest winners
on Sunday October 23, 2022 @01:41PM (#33308699)
That PERSEUS-9 is a thing of beauty.
Re:Could solar-powered headphones be the next must-have?
on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:23AM (#33244464)
I like this idea. To take it even further, I propose this wire terminate to a sturdy cylindrical plug which can rotate 360 degrees. Furthermore, if the signal were to be analog, it would allow universal compatibility with all other analog sound devices. I think this could be revolutionary.
Re:Robo-Ostrich Sprints to 100-Meter World Record
on Friday September 30, 2022 @03:03PM (#33039215)
Many zoos and aquariums conduct scientific research, and may have breeding programs for endangered species.
Re:The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition
on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:02PM (#32927135)
Concerns of spyware are precisely why those switches exist.
Re:Faster, Meaner, Deadlier: The Evolution of “BattleBots”
on Sunday September 18, 2022 @11:22AM (#32888282)
Then you just get modern warfare miniaturized. I guess that could be fun to watch if well presented, but I've been thinking it would be cool to just have a bigger, more rugged battlebox that demands more versatile movement, rather then having everyone just trying to hug the metal floor as closely as possible.
Re:The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating h...
on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:38PM (#32681907)
So you don't like seafood?
Re:After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his...
on Saturday August 20, 2022 @03:12AM (#32529945)
Isn't it always
Re:A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:59PM (#32524816)
I thought this was going to be about the Teensy boards. https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
Re:Dolt is Git for Data
on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:23AM (#31848733)
I blame font designers.
Re:What is the web revival?
on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:38PM (#31554997)
now where do you find those 'under construction' giffies?
Re:After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pi...
on Friday May 13, 2022 @09:36AM (#31367411)
I've been using a dongle in my car(an older model with no bluetooth), and it is quickly wearing out my phones usb port. Keeps falling out. The headphone jack was a lot more resilient.
Re:Your real biological clock is you’re going to die (2018)
on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:59AM (#31122390)
I don't want true immortality, but it would be momentous if we could significantly extend people's active lifespan. Imagine if 100 was the new 50, and 200 was the new 100.
Re:I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”
on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:00PM (#31117742)
I feel like there's a bit of a paradox here. The more I internalize how easy it is for us to be overconfident in our intelligence, the more confident I feel in my intelligence...