soupspaces
Re:Ask HN: Are we losing our engineering literacy?
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:27PM (#49685729)
I think it's got to do with ownership. The less you own it the less you can tinker with it.
Re:Glacier Mice
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:32AM (#49490224)
If they don't know about tapioca pearls, please keep in mind they resemble fish eggs.
Re:Are Crows Our Friends?
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @02:31AM (#49487485)
Was he consistent with his timing? Perhaps so were the birds with their necessities. Or his travel route intersected a convenient location for them. More birds, too, makes a collective vendetta unlikely. Birds tend to be indiscriminate when the world is their toilet.
Re:Are Crows Our Friends?
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @02:22AM (#49487438)
Something as simple as stepping on a twig, brushing on grass, the crumpling of a plastic or some kinds of clothing can be enough. It makes sense, since their bodies are much more fragile and distance is easy. Their ears are almost like ours internally, with different structure.
Declinism
Polyglot (Computing)
Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated out...
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:46AM (#49431661)
Miraculin
Re:Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:09PM (#49414812)
Got some propagating waves https://hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io/?layers=5&tempo=0...
Claude is your insider threat now [video]
The Last Generation of Mathematicians? [video]
Re:Making LEDs at Home [video]
on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:31AM (#49397773)
Simple!
Biomimetic reconstruction of butterfly wing nanostructures for radiative cooling
Helmholtz Resonator [video]
Re:Helmholtz Resonator [video]
on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:47AM (#49387301)
Lip sync a bit off on this one... (AI)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38678415 (2023) used to reduce traffic noise
Re:XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:34PM (#49368049)
Try browser zoom
Moral Disengagement
How to Solve a Grid-Based Logic Puzzle
Re:AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:12AM (#49341527)
Follow the tokens
Re:Olo (Color)
on Monday August 17, 2026 @06:02PM (#49338298)
I'd heard of weasel words but now that you mention it they do tend to be rather wiggly
Re:How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:27PM (#49334577)
So, like closing intrusive popups before and blockers, then.
Collatz with 6 Wang Tiles
Wolfram Demonstrations – Unsolved Problems
Inverse Problem
Re:What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:52AM (#49318194)
After an answer, try asking it why, over and over. It's a machine to give answers, not explanations. A magic 8 ball. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307396
Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @08:57PM (#49315802)
tmux tealdeer zoxide
Re:AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @08:52PM (#49315763)
Euler would like a word. Maybe it's our institutions.
S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y: serf-hosted speech to text AI assistant
Re:Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to tr...
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @05:18AM (#49309037)