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Zee2··on What even is an OS now?
There could be some interesting actual OS design innovations for new permissions, access control, and sandboxing systems that are designed from the ground up for these "conjurable" experiences (or even OS components themself).

Finding some balance between access and safety for vibe-conjuring parts of the OS in a way that's still powerful but won't accidentally nuke or corrupt itself.

Zee2··on I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears
This is covered in Claudeish, had to stop reading. I have to read enough of this at work...

>What sits behind them is a calibre I had to solve the way a real one is solved, and this is why I bother.

>A skeleton is a load-bearing machine with the metal taken away down to the last safe gram, so what is left is whatever carries a force, and no spoke is wider than its job.

>Running and buildable are different questions, and the second is harder.

>A drawn movement is a claim. Before anything gets a surface, I test it as a machine.

If this isn't Claude-prose then the author has been reading too much of it...

(oh, Pangram gives the entire thing 100%)

Zee2··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
iPhones still let you use certain contactless features (like Suica) even when the battery has "run out" (ie., the main OS has shut off). The reserve battery power is enough to run Suica, CarKey support, and FindMy.
Zee2··on I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
I’m certain the vapidity of the characters in Gatsby is entirely the point.
Zee2··on Copirate 365: Plundering in the Depths of Microsoft Copilot (CVE-2026-24299)
The idea of having the chatbot essentially red team itself is hilarious.
Zee2··on Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line
+1 on this - would love to have a more realistic timing mode where there are a few minutes of ambiance for travel sections in between station arrivals.
Zee2··on SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
Very first flight of a brand new engine type (Raptor 3) with totally reworked heatshielding/plumbing/sensors/control systems/etc.
Zee2··on “Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)
Giant tardigrades would have been fun. Serious, authentic space travelers... not so much on the cuteness factor, though.
Zee2··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
Alignment “appearing” better as model capabilities increase scares the shit out of me, tbh.
Zee2··on There Is a RAM Shortage
They’re a bit behind the curve. Prices are dropping.
Zee2··on Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)
What about Gitea? Hmm…
Zee2··on The three year myth
I have to say the same, but even as someone who isn’t really “relied upon”. The best asset for my own independent well-being has always been knowing which way the wind blows and sailing in that direction.

I have to imagine if there was some internal Polymarket-esque platform I’d be a rich man... (facetiously speaking) Unfortunately knowing the way the wind blows is not as much of an asset to those in charge.

Zee2··on Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit
The kerning on this makes me itchy. Everything seems oddly spaced.
Zee2··on Scott Adams has died
"Everything expanding at the same rate" sounds vaguely similar to the truth that what we feel as gravity (standing on earth) is us and everything around us accelerating upwards from the center of the gravity well - and what we feel as "pressure" on our feet is from the earth "holding us up" (in crude terms). So, it sounds crazy but it's not too distant from the truth.
Zee2··on Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
This is super cool. Would love to see a Z80 simulator set up with these examples to play with!
Zee2··on Hydraulic press flips coin onto its edge on the 11,175th flip after 147 hours
You know, I'm no hydraulic press expert, but I'm pretty sure that isn't a hydraulic press.
Zee2··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
If you read the release, it explicitly does not include the likenesses of human actors. Only animated and illustrated characters are included. (Although, that does cover animated/illustrated versions of characters that are typically portrayed by human actors...)

This is almost certainly due to the photographic/human likenesses of actors being under an entirely separate license and royalty contract than pure IP from Disney.

Zee2··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
The ping-ponging is certainly a Gen1 problem. (My Gen1 does this.) Gen1 was essentially an off-the-shelf Mobileye unit, and the performance was, as expected, not good.

Gen2 autonomy stack is completely unrelated to Gen1, and from what I hear is a completely different level of reliability.

(also - this presentation covered yet another, unrelated, gen3 autonomy stack, which shares none of the hardware or models with the existing gen2 stack, either.)

Zee2··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
I think the revenue source times number of people using Plex for audiobooks as a total market value for Rivian is approximately zero.
Zee2··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
That was specifically for their existing Gen2 highway assist expansion. Not the Gen3 custom silicon full autonomy that they were discussing for the rest of the presentation.
Zee2··on Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps
Seems like the search is based only on the transcript/dialogue - not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some CLIP/embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.
Zee2··on YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019)
That is something that Macs do at the system level (if you were experiencing this on a Mac)
Zee2··on Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create
This is super cool, and exactly what I’d want! Although I just tried creating a Drop (twice) and it didn’t seem to work.
Zee2··on The day my smart vacuum turned against me
This is AI-written.

- Ten em-dashes

- "not just A, but B"

    - wasn’t just a vacuum cleaner; it was a small computer on wheels
    - they didn’t merely create a backdoor; they utilized it
    - they hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device
- incessant bullet points/markdown-style formatting

- And an overly dramatic/promotional tone

Obviously the image is AI as well, but /shrug

Zee2··on Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
Oh boy. Is this not essentially a neuralese CoT? They’re explicitly labelling z/z_L as a reasoning embedding that persists/mutates through the recursive process, used to refine the output embedding z_H/y. Is this not literally a neuralese CoT/reasoning chain? Yikes!
Zee2··on Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?
This is almost certainly LLM generated.

Six flowery “from-to”s in one article:

>from beginners to seasoned professionals

>from seasoned backend engineers to first-time data analysts

>from GPU acceleration and distributed training to model export

>from data preprocessing with pandas and NumPy to model serving via FastAPI

>from individual learners to enterprise teams

>from frontend interfaces to backend logic

And more annoyingly, at least four “not just X, but Y”.

>it doesn’t just serve as a first step; it continues adding value

>that clarity isn’t just beginner-friendly; it also lowers maintenance costs

>the community isn’t just helpful, it’s fast-moving and inclusive

>this network doesn’t just solve problems; it also shapes the language’s evolution

And I won’t mention the em-dashes out of respect to the human em-dash-users…

This stuff is so tiring to read.

Zee2··on Kirkwood Gap Facts for Kids
The fact that the first ad on the page (for me) is a scam for "Free Robux!" is hilarious.
Zee2··on Apple A19 SoC die shot
It’s still my strongly held belief that things like this are one of humanity’s grandest achievements.
Zee2··on Dan Brown: The human species has never created a technology it hasn't weaponized
I’ll give it a shot. Zippers/velcro are critical for most modern military gear. Elevators are used to increase the storage capacity for warplanes on aircraft carriers. Thermometers (well, any temperature sensing device) are important for many weapons systems, guidance computers, etc. Wind turbines… hmm, the infamous Stuka siren was basically a wind turbine welded to the side of the plane!

(This is mostly facetious)

Zee2··on Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max
From my experience every hotel integrated charger is barely 5V 0.5A, much less PD or anything else. Parent comment was talking about the integrated usb chargers in rooms, if I’m understanding correctly (hence the need to still bring their own)
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