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Re:Discord 302 Rickroll URL on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:43PM (#50371234)
Weow…

Useful, totally.

Re:Pip Install Could Have Been Hijacked on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:37PM (#50309125)
I hope this mistake is learned from.

Worse things could’ve easily happened.

I think this is a wonderful thing,

Considering there’s healthier ways to lose weight,

Cheaper ways,

And overall just BETTER ways.

Also note, they were originally made to be DIABETES meds.

Re:Helium-3 mining on the lunar surface on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:35AM (#50259085)
Yep,

Let us drain the moon as well as our home.

Re:Diamond Transistor on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:29AM (#50209688)
Diamonds are incredibly useful,

And logical, now that we can produce them easily enough.

This, is one of many uses of the rocks.

Ah yes,

It just worked so well in simulations,

Didn’t it?

Re:Watch an Unconstitutional Flock Search on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:51AM (#50007349)
Flock cameras need to become Shot cameras.
Ah yes, this worked so well in professional testing of consumer A.I.s.

I’ll certainly trust this one wholeheartedly.

Re:An Easy Start to Philosophy on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:47AM (#49910505)
For anyone wanting to look into philosophy, this website, and specifically this article, is simpler to understand than some other sources.

Maybe you’ll start to have thoughts of your own, and develop your own philosophical ideas.

I’d also recommend “The Metaphysics of Nothing”

(https://iep.utm.edu/metaphysics-of-nothing/).

Re:Russia Lights Rockets with an Oversized Wooden Match (2016) on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:54AM (#49892396)
That’s actually amazing.

Who else had heard of it before this article?

Re:Show HN: Voyager 1 could've lasted MUCH longer on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:41AM (#49892220)
Correct…

But, I’d truly love for the thing to stay in contact for the first few thousand.

Wouldn’t you?

Re:Show HN: Voyager 1 could've lasted MUCH longer on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:40AM (#49892210)
I never said it was PLAUSIBLE back then,

Just, possible.

Re:Show HN: Voyager 1 could've lasted MUCH longer on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:38AM (#49892183)
We had already built it.

I’m not relying on the radiation to power it.

But rather, it’s own decay process.

That’s what they used.

The slower it decays, the more you’d need,

But the longer it decays, the longer it’s powered.

Which is why plutonium seemed so perfect.

But, we simply would’ve needed a little more time,

And it’d have been done,

With radium.

I’ve always loved Germany, and this is a massive step in the right direction.

I really hope that other countries [cough, America, cough] follow suit.

We’re too late to skip the Climate Clock, but it’s not unsalvageable!

Show HN: Voyager 1 could've lasted MUCH longer

The reactors in Voyager 1 rely on the heat produced by decaying plutonium, which decays into uranium. We could’ve powered it with the uranium, But, uranium decays INCREDIBLY slowly. You’d have needed like, some 70,000 tons of it to power the thing, But, it would’ve been powered for hundreds of thousands of years. Radium would’ve been the better choice. You’d only need about 600 pounds...

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Re:Why Human Informants Still Matter in the Age of AI Surveillance on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:52AM (#49817967)
A.I. is getting to the point where we cannot live without it,

We’ll lose the ability to function as a society on our own,

Such as A.I. surveillance technologies,

They are the future, unfortunately,

Also very unfortunately, they’re just the start,

Humans tend to be lazy and creepy,

Both of which are enabled by A.I. surveillance,

These little “Flock Cameras” are merely the start.

Re:I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got Weird on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:45AM (#49817868)
Honestly, what was expected?

An A.I. cult tried, and still tries, to do the same,

And it still does strange things, and doesn’t work fully.

Now, I acknowledge that these are different tasks, but the premise is similar,

And failing.

Humans are humans, A.I. is not.

Although, it could very well develop into a new “Mentally Humanoid” species.

A.I. never should’ve been used for mapping.

It may be cheaper and faster, but it makes more mistakes than a satellite and humans ever would.

For example: A human would (Hopefully) never see a river, and think “ROAD’, but rather, mark only roads as roads.

A.I. is still basically being “Globally Beta Tested” and shouldn’t be used to replace humans in any way other than basic research and simple tasks, NOT mapping our planet.

Why only Germany?

I feel that all countries should be doing something similar.

Now, I’m not a fan of this.

Not at all.

A.I. shouldn’t be the one to complete these things,

Especially not something like this, because we would’ve done it on our own eventually.

Another example of this is A.I. solving math problems with rewards attached,

It strips away the opportunity from someone who could’ve done it on their own,

Instead, A.I. did it before anyone had the right idea.

I encourage all of you to give simple pushback such as this.

That’s awesome.

And incredibly helpful to the right people.

You have a wonderful idea, and made it reality.

Good job!

We need more innovative people like you in the world.

Re:Windows XP Activation Code Fckgw-RHQQ2-Yxrkt-8TG6W-2B7Q8 on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:35PM (#49759106)
Man, those were good times.

I’m really glad we don’t need things like it anymore.

The hack/leak, I mean. We still need the codes, probably.

What exactly did OpenAI expect?

Not everyone is open to letting an A.I. review private things.

It makes mistakes hourly, or likely every minute it’s being used.

I understand that they’d likely use a better, more professionally model, but it’s nowhere near perfect.

A human can analyze better than any A.I. at the moment, and it needs to stay that way.

Re:New cat species identified for the first time in a century on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:39AM (#49753567)
More and more things like this will be happening,

Especially now that we can physically view the genome.

Say… Fifty years ago, we might have just called it a deformed Leopard, and moved on with our lives.

Hell, maybe we already did, and this was just the first time someone connected the dots.

Llama.
Re:Disarming the Slop Cannon (Ironically, with AI) on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:37AM (#49742396)
I doubt the flow of pure braindead content will never stop.

But, I’m open to absolutely anything to slow it, even a little bit.

Every 21 minutes, it goes down for two days…

I’m pretty sure that’s not how math works.

Re:Mice with human brain cells offer a tool to study disease on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:25PM (#49729396)
That’s-

That’s great, actually.

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