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SJC_Hacker··on Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
Wiles proof of Fermats last theorem was over 100 pages
SJC_Hacker··on Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)
Yeah, the love doll companies already have voice synthesis and facial expressions. Full locomotion is the next obvious step
SJC_Hacker··on UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
GPS is generally jammed close to the target, to varying degrees. For intermediate guidance out of range of jammers it works fairly well
SJC_Hacker··on Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
How would we know it was correct?

If you feed an AI nonsense in its training data, it will generate nonsense

SJC_Hacker··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
California is a big state. The only true deserts are in the south east part of the state
SJC_Hacker··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
3dfx hardware didn’t run anything but Glide very well. It did run some OpenGL after iD twisted their arm, but it was a really crummy implementation

While ATI and Nvidia never tried to implement a Glide emulation layer, several hobbyists did and 3dfx shut them down with legal threats

Were there any legal barriers to ATI/AMD or Intel implementing CUDA or PhysX on their systems?

SJC_Hacker··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
3dfx had their own API which locked in game developers. This was far worse than anything NVidia has tried
SJC_Hacker··on PageRank explained
They used Stanfords existing infrastructure … I don’t think the grant they were on paid for it directly. Pretty sure the cluster was a resource shared by several labs
SJC_Hacker··on PageRank explained
It starts with seed URLs and fans out from there

Back in 1996, this could be done by hand

SJC_Hacker··on Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
China is their biggest customer
SJC_Hacker··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
But they won’t make the connection

Flashy beats functional nine times out of ten

Just look at the automotive industry

SJC_Hacker··on Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
You could do it but there would be no point, The only advantage over would be power consumption. And it would be quite expensive.

At the rate models are improving, it would be obsolete in six months.

SJC_Hacker··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
Use VS Code and download the git plugin. Tasks like that become super easy
SJC_Hacker··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
Which is why you use git command line for such tasks
SJC_Hacker··on Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data
It can be if necessary. It’s just the US refineries can deal with the crappy oil produced by places like the tar sands in Canada, where few other countries currently can
SJC_Hacker··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
With a crane and a good pulley system, a human should be able to pull that off inside of hour. Not all that impressive to me.
SJC_Hacker··on Fintech Engineering Handbook
When the bank owes you money, they round down.

When you owe the bank money, they round up.

SJC_Hacker··on Fintech Engineering Handbook
The only one who has to “agree” is the exchange. And it should be covered by the TOS
SJC_Hacker··on Fintech Engineering Handbook
Charge $0.995

Charge Actual $1.00

Refund $1.000

Alternately

Charge $0.995

ERROR CHARGE AMOUNT MUST BE ROUNDED TO NEAREST CENT

SJC_Hacker··on Fintech Engineering Handbook
Basically whenever you are acting as a custodian e.g., a bank. Then you have to be super careful.

No one cares if you’re mortgage calculator is off by a penny

SJC_Hacker··on Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
It is for coding interviews
SJC_Hacker··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Only for fair skinned individuals
SJC_Hacker··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Exactly at the equator the sun is directly overhead (90 degrees) at a single time point (close to 12 on depending on where you are within the time zone) every single day

The only thing that varies over the year is the path it takes to get there. At the solstices (summer/winter) the path curvature is maximal while t the equinoxes (spring/fall) it is a straight line.

SJC_Hacker··on A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading
More like cats enslaved humans
SJC_Hacker··on Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
Does that graph take into account capacity factor ?
SJC_Hacker··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
How do you know the actor is merely pretending ? Maybe they actually it?
SJC_Hacker··on Alan Greenspan has died
The argument is that on a hard money standard, the US government would simply not be able to spend as much as it has, because it would not ne able to print money as it has been doing.
SJC_Hacker··on Alan Greenspan has died
This was a wartime measure. The US went back to a hard money system soon after the civil war ended
SJC_Hacker··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Yeah my bd, the capacity factor was mor like 15% for solar PV (utility scale), according to their own data

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/china-bui...

SJC_Hacker··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
110 GW at a 90% capacity factor vs 430 GW at maybe 20% capacity factor
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