joebig
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:25AM (#50323647)
This is cool and all, but what I see is an Anthropic model harvesting (again) human output and curation. That is the part providing almost the entire value of this aggregation wrapper. What I would have preferred to see the model undertake: is somehow imbibe the median Hacker News user persona (if there is one, the reccs did serve as a proxy for that in this case) and work with YouTube API to surface a list of videos with low viewership or traction, but serve the custom taste of this audience at high SNR. I know talk is cheap, but the latter to me is a bicycle and sewing machine, while the former a neatly raked sandpile.
Double Trouble (From Macbeth)
3D-printed, alcohol-powered, Einstein-Szilard absorption refrigerator [video]
Put AI to Work for You
Re:The Experiment review – easily the most disturbing thing on British TV
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @01:04AM (#50228488)
Related but tangential: look at the comments. https://youtube.com/watch?v=vfAkBlyIOCw
Colin C. Adams' the Knot Book
Autodesk internal discussion about Softimage [video]
Re:Autodesk internal discussion about Softimage [video]
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @03:50PM (#50224494)
I'd apologize (disclaimer: yeah, it's a meme video), but kinda on point pertaining to the topic it handles circa 2008. Fun. That's all. (Ok, maybe not for German speakers).
Mary Founded a Church That Rejected Medicine and a Pulitzer-Winning Newspaper
Re:Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica ...
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:41AM (#50192001)
Reg. 2: What is the time window within which they need to secure the said contract once laid-off, failing which they'll be required to leave the country?
Insects as unidentified flying objects (1978) [pdf]
How Rome First Came to Be Built
Wearable Bioacoustics for Two-Way Communication Between Humans and Cetaceans
LLM01: 2025 Prompt Injection
Hug Machine
Bluegill Prime and Starfish Prime Tests of 1962 [video]
A Review of Waterjet Cutting Research Towards MicroAWJ and Waterjet Digital Twin
To Bee or Not to Bee Hairy: A Quantitative Analysis of Pilosity Among Melissodes [pdf]
Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:04AM (#50072862)
Learned recently that lot of our initial knowledge of neural cells structure and functioning was derived from working with giant squid neurons which permitted work/observation of structures an order larger than their mammalian counterparts. What aspects of real neurons would you list as particularly "amazing" (I know they seek out connections and such) ?
How to Win a Nobel Prize
Re:Whatever became of holography? (2011)
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:43PM (#50050698)
More substantially: cropping areas of the amplitude plot in freq space reduces detail but preserves overall image identity.
Re:Whatever became of holography? (2011)
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:41PM (#50050683)
That's Fourier space f**kery for you.
Re:ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for ...
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:42AM (#50040982)
Anything actionable to be able to function reasonably to hold down a day job? Genuinely asking.In your experience or in the article?
The Emergence and Development of Scientific Thinking During the Early Years(2021)
Re:The Lightbulb Computer
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:49AM (#50040157)
Imagine downvoting John effing Nagle. However my humble opinion is that sometimes revisiting, if not reinventing, the wheel is beneficial in light of accrued epistemic benefits (or for the fun of tinkering with a cutesy creation) . Not for patenting, of course. Besides, the bulb form-factor is not too different from cctv cam ceiling installations.
Re:Abbe's Diffraction Theory of Microscopic Perception (+ Intro to Fou...
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:02AM (#50031320)
Appreciate you responding. It's OK.
Monowitz Concentration Camp
Re:Abbe's Diffraction Theory of Microscopic Perception (+ Intro to Fou...
on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:48PM (#50027001)
Thanks. If you don't mind, I happen to have an unrelated query: Is there any potential in a hardware that permits simultaneous sonication and centrifugation of a biofluid specimen?
Re:Abbe's Diffraction Theory of Microscopic Perception (+ Intro to Fou...
on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:41PM (#50026332)
Liquid gold! recording here my genuine opinion of this video.