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Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:26AM (#50114424)
Gas expanding faster than the speed of sound is called a shockwave - and the Mach diamonds are essentially the expanding gas shockwave “bouncing” back and forth as it hits the atmosphere, forming a standing wave of high and low compression zones.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:31PM (#50076390)
Re:What even is an OS now? on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:46PM (#49850966)
There could be some interesting actual OS design innovations for new permissions, access control, and sandboxing systems that are designed from the ground up for these "conjurable" experiences (or even OS components themself).

Finding some balance between access and safety for vibe-conjuring parts of the OS in a way that's still powerful but won't accidentally nuke or corrupt itself.

This is covered in Claudeish, had to stop reading. I have to read enough of this at work...

>What sits behind them is a calibre I had to solve the way a real one is solved, and this is why I bother.

>A skeleton is a load-bearing machine with the metal taken away down to the last safe gram, so what is left is whatever carries a force, and no spoke is wider than its job.

>Running and buildable are different questions, and the second is harder.

>A drawn movement is a claim. Before anything gets a surface, I test it as a machine.

If this isn't Claude-prose then the author has been reading too much of it...

(oh, Pangram gives the entire thing 100%)

Re:Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:30PM (#49470033)
iPhones still let you use certain contactless features (like Suica) even when the battery has "run out" (ie., the main OS has shut off). The reserve battery power is enough to run Suica, CarKey support, and FindMy.
Re:I like 'em thick OR: an apology to my English teachers on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:36AM (#49384989)
I’m certain the vapidity of the characters in Gatsby is entirely the point.
The idea of having the chatbot essentially red team itself is hilarious.
+1 on this - would love to have a more realistic timing mode where there are a few minutes of ambiance for travel sections in between station arrivals.
Re:SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:16PM (#48243176)
Very first flight of a brand new engine type (Raptor 3) with totally reworked heatshielding/plumbing/sensors/control systems/etc.
Giant tardigrades would have been fun. Serious, authentic space travelers... not so much on the cuteness factor, though.
Re:System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:51PM (#47681209)
Alignment “appearing” better as model capabilities increase scares the shit out of me, tbh.
Re:There Is a RAM Shortage on Saturday April 04, 2026 @03:07PM (#47642223)
They’re a bit behind the curve. Prices are dropping.
What about Gitea? Hmm…
Re:The Three Year Myth on Sunday February 15, 2026 @01:48AM (#47021588)
I have to say the same, but even as someone who isn’t really “relied upon”. The best asset for my own independent well-being has always been knowing which way the wind blows and sailing in that direction.

I have to imagine if there was some internal Polymarket-esque platform I’d be a rich man... (facetiously speaking) Unfortunately knowing the way the wind blows is not as much of an asset to those in charge.

The kerning on this makes me itchy. Everything seems oddly spaced.
Re:Scott Adams has died on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @08:42PM (#46611275)
"Everything expanding at the same rate" sounds vaguely similar to the truth that what we feel as gravity (standing on earth) is us and everything around us accelerating upwards from the center of the gravity well - and what we feel as "pressure" on our feet is from the earth "holding us up" (in crude terms). So, it sounds crazy but it's not too distant from the truth.
Re:Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB on Monday December 29, 2025 @01:53AM (#46418121)
This is super cool. Would love to see a Z80 simulator set up with these examples to play with!
You know, I'm no hydraulic press expert, but I'm pretty sure that isn't a hydraulic press.
Re:The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora on Thursday December 11, 2025 @08:22PM (#46239771)
If you read the release, it explicitly does not include the likenesses of human actors. Only animated and illustrated characters are included. (Although, that does cover animated/illustrated versions of characters that are typically portrayed by human actors...)

This is almost certainly due to the photographic/human likenesses of actors being under an entirely separate license and royalty contract than pure IP from Disney.

The ping-ponging is certainly a Gen1 problem. (My Gen1 does this.) Gen1 was essentially an off-the-shelf Mobileye unit, and the performance was, as expected, not good.

Gen2 autonomy stack is completely unrelated to Gen1, and from what I hear is a completely different level of reliability.

(also - this presentation covered yet another, unrelated, gen3 autonomy stack, which shares none of the hardware or models with the existing gen2 stack, either.)

I think the revenue source times number of people using Plex for audiobooks as a total market value for Rivian is approximately zero.
That was specifically for their existing Gen2 highway assist expansion. Not the Gen3 custom silicon full autonomy that they were discussing for the rest of the presentation.
Re:Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps on Friday December 05, 2025 @10:20PM (#46170326)
Seems like the search is based only on the transcript/dialogue - not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some CLIP/embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.
Re:YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019) on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @03:10PM (#46126161)
That is something that Macs do at the system level (if you were experiencing this on a Mac)
Re:Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create on Sunday November 09, 2025 @01:08AM (#45863342)
This is super cool, and exactly what I’d want! Although I just tried creating a Drop (twice) and it didn’t seem to work.
Re:The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:05PM (#45584143)
This is AI-written.

- Ten em-dashes

- "not just A, but B"

    - wasn’t just a vacuum cleaner; it was a small computer on wheels
    - they didn’t merely create a backdoor; they utilized it
    - they hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device
- incessant bullet points/markdown-style formatting

- And an overly dramatic/promotional tone

Obviously the image is AI as well, but /shrug

Re:Less Is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @12:07PM (#45517690)
Oh boy. Is this not essentially a neuralese CoT? They’re explicitly labelling z/z_L as a reasoning embedding that persists/mutates through the recursive process, used to refine the output embedding z_H/y. Is this not literally a neuralese CoT/reasoning chain? Yikes!
Re:Why Is Python So Popular in 2025? – The PyCharm Blog on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @03:38PM (#45442309)
This is almost certainly LLM generated.

Six flowery “from-to”s in one article:

>from beginners to seasoned professionals

>from seasoned backend engineers to first-time data analysts

>from GPU acceleration and distributed training to model export

>from data preprocessing with pandas and NumPy to model serving via FastAPI

>from individual learners to enterprise teams

>from frontend interfaces to backend logic

And more annoyingly, at least four “not just X, but Y”.

>it doesn’t just serve as a first step; it continues adding value

>that clarity isn’t just beginner-friendly; it also lowers maintenance costs

>the community isn’t just helpful, it’s fast-moving and inclusive

>this network doesn’t just solve problems; it also shapes the language’s evolution

And I won’t mention the em-dashes out of respect to the human em-dash-users…

This stuff is so tiring to read.

Re:Kirkwood Gap Facts for Kids on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:59PM (#45369143)
The fact that the first ad on the page (for me) is a scam for "Free Robux!" is hilarious.
Re:Apple A19 SoC die shot on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:54PM (#45352626)
It’s still my strongly held belief that things like this are one of humanity’s grandest achievements.

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