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I contacted Bosch in 2020 about buying BML500P retinal projectors in bulk, but they postponed the sale for several months because they were in talks with a major undisclosed customer about potentially exclusive rights to the patent. I never heard back.
Re:Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker on Monday September 07, 2026 @04:45PM (#49602813)
It's so sad that 17MB was at some point considered a humungous update filesize and now we need 330MB of a web browser everytime we want to install anything.
Re:Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:30AM (#48395347)
Quoting the famous Science paper More Is Different [1]:

Knowing the laws of physics doesn't tell you how a brain, economy, or society works - because at every level of scale, genuinely new phenomena emerge that require their own science.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.177.4047.393

I cringe every time I see Claude trying to co-author a commit. The git history is expected to track accountability and ownership, not your Bill of Tools. Should I also co-author my PRs with my linter, intellisense and IDE?
Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font on Monday March 30, 2026 @04:05PM (#47579090)
That's very nice and I ended up with the same font I tend to use (Source Code Pro) vs the font I used before (Noto Sans Mono). Some features I'd love to see:

- An ELO-based version with many more variables, so that I can open the site from time to time and find more nice fonts

- Some global stats

- Not losing the leaderboard after reloading

- Spline Sans Mono

Maybe this is a bit US-centric, direct negative feedback is very common in many cultures, e.g. Dutch
Re:Levels of Agentic Engineering on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:40AM (#47337067)
...at least until we get real Test-Time Training (TTT) that encodes the state into model weights. If vast amounts of human knowledge can be compressed into ~400GB for frontier models, it's easy to imagine the same for our entire context
Re:The Brand Age on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:27AM (#47336871)
I also got the recommendation from here, happy to see I'm giving it back!
Re:The Brand Age on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:54AM (#47272992)
There is a fantastic book on this topic called "By Design : Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV" that cover the inception of modern brands. It's a very similar story to what happened to watches. The industrial revolution made quality clothing accesible for everyone, so the cloth appearance no longer was a clear indicative of status, so brands started placing their emblems on the outside of the fabric inside of the inside. At the time it was seen as gross, obvious and bad taste. Guess we had a century to normalize it.
Re: on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @10:03PM (#47256988)
Re:The United States needs fewer bus stops on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:15AM (#47164121)
Another big factor is that many areas of the US feature horizontal architecture instead of vertical ones (i.e. Los Angeles vs NY). A bus stop in those areas cover orders of magnitude less people given the same radius
Re:Qwen3-Coder-Next on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:25PM (#46873959)
Plus a long queue of yet-undiscovered architectural improvements
Re:There Is No Comfortable Reading Position on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:54PM (#46803528)
A cheap one from Aliexpress with only forward/backward keys
Re:Trinity Large: American Open Source Foundation Model on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:52PM (#46803517)
With such a high throughput because of sparsity, I'm particulary interested in distilling it into other architectures. I'd like to try a recurrent transformer when I have the time
Re:There Is No Comfortable Reading Position on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:23PM (#46683291)
Using an ebook and a bluetooh page turner solved it for me
Re:Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years? on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:28AM (#46643964)
And that Internet will still exist in 100 years
Re:Tell HN: HN Was Down on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @11:51AM (#46301962)
TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex
Re:You Can't Fool the Optimizer on Friday December 12, 2025 @12:09PM (#46246111)
Sorry, I meant 10**50; HN formatting removed one asterisk
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025) on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @08:35AM (#46204772)
This position has been closed
Re:Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:30AM (#46134265)
Yes (ᵕ—ᴗ—)
Re:You Can't Fool the Optimizer on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:24AM (#46134210)
To add to this, the low-level constraints also make this assumption noisy, no matter how smart the compiler is. On the CPython case, if you do `dis.dis('DAY = 24 * 60 * 60)` you will see that constant folding nicely converts it to `LOAD_CONST 86400`. However, if you try `dis.dis('ATOMS_IN_THE_WORLD = 10*50')` you will get LOAD_CONST 10, LOAD_CONST 50, BINARY_OP **.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025) on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:16PM (#46112595)
Stargazr | Lead Integration Engineer (Path to Architect) | Fully remote | https://stargazr.ai

We are a small startup (<10 employees, 3 developers, recently post-revenue) in the analytics and simulation space. We sit on top of ERPs and production systems to provide financial and operational analysis for project-based manufacturing (aircraft, robotics, automotive).

Our stack is Python (Flask and Pandas), Vue 3, PostgreSQL and Clickhouse. Our infra is simple self-contained EC2 machines. We operate with high ownership, letting you impact both technical and strategic decisions.

We are looking for a senior engineer (5-10+ years) to own our integration process. You must have hands-on experience building data ingestion pipelines and ideally a background in technical pre-sales. You will start by shipping these integrations and evolve into a Solutions Architect role as the system and team mature.

To apply, please send your CV and a short background to [email protected]

Re:Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:58AM (#46086640)
It looks AI-assisted, based on these two commits: * https://github.com/neberej/exposedbydefault/commit/503bd6519... * https://github.com/neberej/exposedbydefault/commit/16693ba17...

But to what extent should we care for such a small website? The AI witch hunt won't get us too far, and this new way of producing is only getting started. The loss of control to a non-deterministic black box is worrysome, but at some point non-vibe coded (hard coded? brain coded?) software might become less error-prone that vibe-coded

Re:GitHub Down on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @04:15PM (#45972201)
Same! The current self-hosted runner gets hung every so often
Re:What if you don't need MCP at all? on Monday November 17, 2025 @07:28AM (#45953015)
Things like OpenAPI have existed for 15 years now and they also offer standarization.

The value on MCP is not on its features or innovation, but on the rate of adoption it has had. Companies have now an incentive to open, document and standarize their APIs to enable this new distribution channel.