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Re:SS27 Color Stats on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:05PM (#50328616)
Not to be confused with the SS-27, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2PM2_Topol-M
Re:SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:29PM (#50247585)
We will see the day your toothbrush has more compute than the original IBM PC.
Uncertainty about Netherlands supermarket hack continues. Stockprice stable: https://live.euronext.com/nl/product/equities/NL0011794037-X...
Re:The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites on Thursday October 01, 2026 @09:00AM (#49921035)
Maybe that is the reason the initial Hubble did not have focus on infinity? Ok, very speculative, but the link comes to mind immediately.
Re:Using any C++ library in Godot on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:11AM (#49890741)
So, what profiling support is available to find the critical parts of your GDscript or C# code. Before needlessly jumping into c++ hassle for performance reasons? Tfa addresses functional reasons, which is ok.
100km is the height where meteoroids ablate. You must mean 100k miles and even there the largest meteors start to become visible.

Indeed at the bottom tfb quotes heights of 190-250km for model calculations.

Re:Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:43AM (#49736836)
No, they are just grumpy.
Re:A warning about 'model welfare' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:59AM (#49728083)
Later on he cites an Anil Seth paper that makes the same unproven suggestion of substrate dependence of consciousness.
Re:An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:29AM (#49695747)
I assume some of the solutions are stable against small perturbations, while others are not. That would be interesting to see.
Re:Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:01PM (#49599818)
Could it be the reboot thing is legacy code from Windows 1.0? Wait, then Gates himself was at th wheel.
Re:I asked astra to make playable 4D chess on Sunday September 06, 2026 @09:20AM (#49586301)
It feels unnatural that a white bishop can move to black squares.
See https://www.quantamagazine.org/theory-of-fluids-enters-the-2... if you want to know what the Navier Stokes equations are about.
Re:Timeline of the Far Future on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:10AM (#49521509)
Strange to start with a clause that is irrelevant to the rest of the page.
Decrypt later, I suppose.
In addition, there also is the issue of tick borne encephalitis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis
Does this classify as hybrid warfare?
Re:The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground on Sunday August 09, 2026 @12:18PM (#49232775)
The plastic structure could easily give problems at extreme environmental temperatures due to thermal expansion. Saw this recently at a local parking lot, laid by non-professionals.
Mass surveillance based on social media is prohibited in The Netherlands and presumably other European countries. However, running specific profiles on police owned ANPR camera's could be declared a proportional breach of privacy and thus legal.
This is really worth a read. Although the origin is an airblast, ground structures and soil is evaporated too into an inhomogeneous plasma. The relative fast cooling adds to the crystal formation.
Re:Painting with Gaussians on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:59AM (#49184682)
Intriguing and nice writeup. This however tries to encode all the hidden painter's knowledge. Would it be easier to generate realistic images from paintings and use these pairs to finetune an image generation model?
Re:How Arsonists used cats to spread Italy's wildfires on Sunday July 26, 2026 @02:12PM (#49060740)
Re:General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian on Sunday July 26, 2026 @10:17AM (#49058479)
Wait, can we have a vote to not link HN contributions to dynamic pages!
Nothing on recharging the battery in the landing phase, so room for improvement.
Re:JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:42PM (#49024523)
Many languages have json marshalling and unmarshalling in their standard libs, e.g. C#, golang, python.
Would it even be possible to ban open weight models, given all the ways they can be used in finetuned models or online services, also in 3rd countries?
I think the questions are sufficiently suggestive to induce hallucinations. Still a lot of manual work to check all these claims.
Re:Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:11AM (#48957378)
My son remarked: because they produce shit.

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