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LeoPanthera··on Show HN: Hallucinopedia
I honestly forgot that Grokipedia existed. Did anyone ever use it?
LeoPanthera··on California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
They permanently closed their Modesto and Hughson canneries in early 2026, and voided 20-year contracts with around 70 California cling peach growers.
LeoPanthera··on California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
Del Monte was killed by COVID. Canned food sales spiked and they thought that would last, but it didn't.

The specific peaches referred to in this story are "Cling peaches", which can only be canned, they aren't sold fresh. But modern supply chains mean fresh peaches of other varieties are easily available, which has reduced the demand for canned.

They'll probably replace the trees with almonds, pistachios, and walnuts.

LeoPanthera··on IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
That's a feature, not a bug.
LeoPanthera··on Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes
> Surely that's the "same as a battery but you can use petrol on long journeys"

Not really. The petrol drivetrain takes up so much room there's no space for a large battery, so the much smaller battery will only take you a short distance if you used it alone, plus now it's much less efficient because you're carrying around a heavy engine with you.

LeoPanthera··on Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes
Ignore the "EV" part.

B = Battery

H = Hybrid

PH = Plug-in hybrid (Same as a hybrid but you can charge up the hybrid battery at home)

LeoPanthera··on Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
You can just add "be brief" to the prompt to replace the entire plugin. Same results.

https://www.maxtaylor.me/articles/i-benchmarked-caveman-agai...

LeoPanthera··on Do_not_track
The most useful part of this page is the list of optout commands to stick in my shellrc.

Is anyone maintaining a more complete list of those?

LeoPanthera··on Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
I'm honestly surprised that Tesla never took advantage of all the cameras in all its cars to do some kind of mapping project. I always thought that was incredibly valuable data. Sort of an automatically crowd-sourced street view.
LeoPanthera··on Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations
If a customer hasn't taken their flight yet, they are a creditor.
LeoPanthera··on Ask.com has closed
I have a tiny bash script that picks four random common words from the list of the 10000 most common words on Wikipedia and tries to ping <word>.com for each.

It's quite rare to find an unregistered one.

LeoPanthera··on Artemis II Photo Timeline
It's partly because everything's in focus. We're not used to seeing images with such enormous distances.
LeoPanthera··on SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
"List of artificial objects on the Moon"

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

It's a lot more than you might think, and I couldn't find a comprehensive list of the non-spacecraft objects, some of which are hinted at in the first paragraph.

LeoPanthera··on Ti-84 Evo
What calculators are you guys using that aren't in academia anymore and don't need the "exam approved" limitations?

Or are we all just using software on our computers now.

That would be sad.

(I've had a Casio fx-991EX on my desk for a few years, that replaced a broken Casio fx-991ES. Though designed for academia, its operation is burned into my brain at this point.)

LeoPanthera··on Grok 4.3
I do say it on every (or most) of the posts I see. There actually aren't that many. I also don't read HN every day.
LeoPanthera··on Grok 4.3
This is barely on-topic so I'll keep it ultra-brief: I believe it is unethical to financially support Elon Musk. I won't do it, and I'm sad that so many do.
LeoPanthera··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
What do you mean, I watched that HBO show, so I'm an expert now.
LeoPanthera··on Cursor Camp
Truancy is a crime in many countries, including the USA.
LeoPanthera··on Claude for Creative Work
There's a bug in today's version of the Claude desktop app which means the settings pages cannot be scrolled. If you're running it on a laptop, some settings are off the bottom of the screen and now inaccessible.
LeoPanthera··on L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility
Wordgrinder. https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder
LeoPanthera··on L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility
See also Wordgrinder, a text-mode word processor. (As distinct from a text editor.) https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder
LeoPanthera··on GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
This is at the very least debatable. The site they took down contained multiple videos of animals being tortured and killed. Not all decisions are simple black and white.
LeoPanthera··on GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
This comments reads sarcastic, but it makes a serious point. GoDaddy has an extremely poor reputation. At some point you must accept that choosing companies like that is your own mistake.
LeoPanthera··on Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex
I don't think I've ever /resumed a Claude Code session even once. What do people use that for? The way I use it is to make a change, maybe document the change, and then I'm done. New session.
LeoPanthera··on Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games
Which still exists in many European countries.
LeoPanthera··on Claude Opus 4.7
Did they get rid of the option to clear the context and work just with the plan, in plan mode? I always used that and it worked well. Now it seems to be gone.
LeoPanthera··on Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan
Have you considered paying your way through the wall?

If you're not willing to do that, it's "uncivil" to pirate their content, wouldn't you say?

LeoPanthera··on Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan
Currently only in the USA. You can read a few articles for free, then there is a $9/month or $50/year subscription.

It includes the website, the live streaming BBC News TV channel, and a library of documentaries.

LeoPanthera··on Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
I wrote it with my brain. :(
LeoPanthera··on Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
This is not a serious proposal and we should not treat it as such. And I apologise in advance for the length of this comment.

"IPv4 is a proper subset of IPv8. No existing device, application, or network requires modification. 100% backward compatible."

This cannot be true. Section 5.1 states that IPv8 uses version number 8 in the IP header Version field and the header is 8 octets longer than IPv4's. Any existing IPv4 router, switch ASIC, NIC, host stack, or firewall that sees a Version=8 packet will fail to parse it (most will drop it). Backward compatibility is logically impossible when the wire format is different.

The spec simultaneously demands sweeping new machinery everywhere: new socket API (AF_INET8), new DNS record type (A8), new ARP (ARP8), new ICMP (ICMPv8), new BGP/OSPF/IS-IS, mandatory certified NIC firmware with hardware rate limits, mandatory Zone Servers, mandatory OAuth2 on switch ports, mandatory persistent TCP/443 to the Zone Server from every end device, and a new IANA version-number assignment. "No modification required" is contradicted on nearly every page.

IP version 8 is already historically assigned (it was PIP, later folded into the IPv6 effort). The draft's IANA request ignores this.

The ASN model conflates identity with location. ASNs are organizational identifiers assigned by RIRs, turning them into the 32-bit routing prefix means an organization cannot change providers, multihome with provider-assigned space, or use PI space the way networks do today. Every organization that wants public IPv8 connectivity must now hold an ASN - roughly a 1000x increase in ASN allocation.

The /16 minimum injectable prefix rule eliminates essentially all of today's BGP traffic engineering and most multihoming patterns.

Cross-AS Cost Factor (CF) requires every AS on Earth to trust the metrics injected by every other AS, including a "economic policy" component. BGP is policy-based precisely because ASes do not trust each other's metrics, this has been understood since the 1990s.

The Zone Server kitchen sink (DNS + DHCP + NTP + OAuth + telemetry + ACL + NAT + WHOIS validation + PVRST root) concentrates a dozen unrelated functions into one box on one hardcoded address (.253/.254). This is an operational and security anti-pattern.

PVRST is mandated. PVRST is a Cisco-proprietary spanning tree variant, mandating a vendor-specific protocol in a Standards-Track draft is a non-starter for IETF.

The companion drafts (WHOIS8, NetLog8, Update8, WiFi8, Zone Server, RINE, routing protocols) are all by the same author, none have working-group review, and the core draft depends on all of them to function.

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