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Re:Where the Romans Fought (interactive map) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:56PM (#50236418)
Pretty cool
Re:PCB Edge USB C Connector Library on Sunday October 26, 2025 @02:34AM (#45709593)
Very clever packaging of a connector
>Why not frame things from the perspective of rewarding good performance?

This guy knows marketing. Agreed it would not have been as controversial

Re:GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @06:02PM (#42705116)
Imagine being an engineer on the Siri team, must be so demoralizing.
Re:Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @10:58PM (#42513020)
Never crossed my mind to self host my own music streaming server, great idea!
Re:Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential on Thursday December 19, 2024 @05:02PM (#42466159)
The correct solution is 10.7Pwh. We are often exposed to 'Peta' when dealing with data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

Re:Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare on Saturday December 07, 2024 @01:51PM (#42351853)
On the transponders off point, I imagine soon we will have enough satellites such that we can map every object on the surface of the earth (specially something as large as a boat).

Could even see it through clouds using radar.

Re:Starlink Direct to Cell on Sunday November 24, 2024 @06:26PM (#42231534)
Meh lines the pockets of Tim Cook. Hard pass.
Re:Starlink Direct to Cell on Sunday November 24, 2024 @06:25PM (#42231528)
I see a lot of surf cams online, are those usually custom hardware?
Re:Starlink Direct to Cell on Sunday November 24, 2024 @06:25PM (#42231525)
Interesting idea. I can build this and open source it. I imagine there is equivalent hardware over LTE already?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Sunday October 27, 2024 @11:36PM (#41967629)
I am teaching myself how to build a robot quadruped (aka 'robot dog') from scratch, including an ML controller to make it move in animated ways.

I'm also documenting every step of the process and uploading it to YouTube, which means I am also teaching myself how to edit videos :)

If anyone wants to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55VZ7oDEoRnXKSYTiGlN...

Re:Ask HN: MagSafe Equivalent for Wall Outlets? on Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:06PM (#41939777)
This is an awesome reply, thank you so much for explaining this, and for the links!

Ask HN: MagSafe Equivalent for Wall Outlets?

I am looking for a similar experience to Magsafe connectors, but for anything that plugs to my wall outlets. I find constantly connecting and disconnecting devices that share outlets (in my bathroom alone I have an electric toothbrush, a hair blower, and an electric shaver) and I'd really wish it was as easy to disconnect and connect as my Macbook Air's Magsafe adapter.Now, I looked around and...

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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:08PM (#41831601)
I just quit my job at a SaaS. What am I doing with my life... The SpaceX team just caught the biggest rocket in history with a giant arm, we all need to dream bigger!

Ask HN: AI is smarter than the average person but feels like nothing's changed?

Primarily asking because I'd like to hear different perspectives, perhaps I am missing something.Arguably, since OpenAI released the o1 models, LLMs are now 'smarter' than the average human when measured by IQ (I'm going by this study [0] which sets o1 at a 120 IQ).What I am trying to wrap my head around is why has this not changed our entire world much? Sure, if you live on Twitter, a lot of...

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Re:My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @06:58PM (#41782647)
I find that this is the best advice for life, not just making your own games. Do what you're most excited to do :)
I think so? I'll check with the city of Redwood City / San Mateo county. Good call!
Just ordered one, wish there was one for microplastics too (and whichever other contaminants that I'm not aware of).
Is there any cheap way to test the quality of my water? I did some Googling around, looks like there are services that will do this for a fee but didn't look particularly affordable.
Is that a bad thing? They claim that incarcerated workers receive the same pay as their civilian colleagues. IMO seems like a positive.
Microsoft already has Github Copilot. I always thought OpenAI would eventually acquire them (they already hold a stake in them).
Never heard of these guys, do they even have a product?

Regardless, team looks promising. Former CTO of Github, supposedly the guy who incubated Copilot.

Re:Poolside Raises $500M for Coding AI on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @01:55PM (#41723294)
Never heard of these guys, do they even have a product?

Regardless, team looks promising. Former CTO of Github, supposedly the guy who incubated Copilot.

Never heard of these guys, do they even have a product?

Regardless, team looks promising. Former CTO of Github, supposedly the guy who incubated Copilot.

Re:How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:05PM (#41651297)
Genuine question, what would you use instead and why?
I'm keeping this project moving, this time around we designed the shoulder joint and torso, and got the shoulder moving for the first time (so now each limb has 3 working actuators).

Previous posts:

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482886

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41535312

There are many good extensions with somewhat similar features, the ideal extension might come down to personal preference but I've been building double.bot [0] after spending months using Github Copilot and running into the same bugs over and over (wrote about it here [1]) and I think we've done a good job at building the ideal extension for professional developers.

[0] - https://double.bot/

[1] - https://docs.double.bot/copilot

Can I ask why? I personally have been coding with LLMs since the davinci-003 days and don't see myself going back.

Granted I am biased, I am the co-founder of Double which is an extension for VS Code. But that's also why I'm curious to hear why are you against extensions (maybe we can learn from your experience).

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