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I am not a dinosaur expert, but the headline seems off. The actual paper linked from sci.news starts with this (citations removed):

> Diplodocids are known from deposits present in the U.S.A., Europe, South America, and Africa. According to the available evidence, the oldest diplodocid sauropod dates back to the Oxfordian of Europe, whereas the most recent ones are from the lowermost Cretaceous of South America and Africa.

It als says that "The European diplodocid fossil record is scarce and fragmentary," but that still sounds like evidence for Diplodocus in Europe, doesn't it?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/02724634.2026.271842...

Excellent. Now I not only have to check if the cited source actually says what the LLM claims, I should also verify if it made up the source itself.

Cool idea. Interesting that Indonesia, Poland and Monaco with very similar two-stripe designs have different compression rates (11, 14 and 17 respectively). Probably the aspect ratio that also gets encoded.

It’s also very shortsighted to stiff a customer like that. Why would I trust them with my data and ideas?

Yes. It’s all about consistency and user expectations.

Apple guidelines for example, which have been in place for 40ish years:

> Best practices: Support the default system-defined menus and their ordering. People expect to find menus and menu items in an order they’re familiar with. In many cases, the system implements the functionality of standard menu items so you don’t have to. For example, when people select text in a standard text field, the system makes the Edit > Copy menu item available.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

To me, the surprise is the other way around: why does a probabilistic process result in such a deterministic result? Not just for ChatGPT, but also for others (see my other comment)?

The game is very nice: https://bisecto.com/

Arghh.

What’s the chance that they told an AI to refresh the design? Since flossing is a fourth choice it doesn’t fit into the three-is-good raster. But of course it remains tracked because the task was to redesign the front.

This article from 2018 claims the same (and that Danish sounding names are rugs and floormats): https://www.worldnomads.com/in-the-news/the-hidden-message-i...

I wasn’t so lucky with my attempt for a Windows 11 driver for an old emaguc MT4 MIDI interface. It works on Macs, but no longer on PCs.

Claude worked for a while and then spun itself into a loop of making a mistake, correcting it, then making it again.

That was 9 months ago so perhaps I should try again.

Neat. Long Train photos from a still camera here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127920

Nice. Reminds me of Apple's OpenDoc (which seemed promising at the time, but a bit incomplete, and then discontinued when Jobs came back to Apple).

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

I‘ve seen reports of markdown-tags (##) flipping a pangram result from human to machine (with human written text).

But I don’t have a license to confirm.

Good to see more developments in this space. I quite like this service, which is a little further than Hetzner and has several models to choose from: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/ai-services

This is great and it makes me wonder why the algorithm isn’t standard for browsers as a built-in feature (also for word processors).

Sure, it takes a bit longer, but LaTeX pretty much instantly produces a PDF nowadays even for long documents. 30 years ago, I scheduled a coffee break for that.

I have seen a local theater advertising 70mm dual projection (but not mentioning IMAX) and another one IMAX. Will there be a difference?

Those are more sane numbers (unless you go by helicopter across the US).

Also found this intriguing in your source:

> London’s Air Ambulance crew made history in 1993 by performing the world’s first successful pre-hospital open-heart surgery at the roadside.

Here is a Swiss one that heats 6,000 apartments.

https://d4project.org/

> The data center delivers up to 1.7 MW of reusable heat – enough enough to warm 6,000 energy-efficient homes in winter or provide 20,000 five-minute showers every day in summer.

https://blog.siemens.com/2026/05/sustainable-data-infomaniak...

https://news.infomaniak.com/en/infomaniak-inaugurates-a-revo...

Also fairly decent at finding a specific slide from a year ago.

Looks deceptively simple. Is there a good source to learn more about how it works?

This looks like a custom Airtag which is great — but I cannot find where it exfiltrates data from an air-gapped system.

What did I overlook?

From the second linked article, this could be a motive:

> People who were using Census data to actually reconstruct records could no longer do so. Demographers admitted that this was common practice. It's also an open secret that this was done by political operatives as part of gerrymandering efforts.

https://desfontain.es/blog/banning-noise.html

2 I recognize, 1 not so much. Patents are usually filed as early as possible, because you risk losing priority to someone else. And you cannot file a claim on inventions that are in the public domain.

But then it takes a decade or so to develop towards approval. You work together with outside researchers who lend their credibility and get attractive publication possibilities in return. Those publications also help to raise awareness with doctors and investors. Since some company researchers are also authors, this does indeed work as an incentive and is helpful for recruitment and ultimately more successful products.

To the core of the article: why would anyone want to file a patent with AI as a (co-)inventor? It's a tool, and it cannot have any ownership rights. And even if it did, it would diminish your share of royalties.

Well they already know me. I make about one small payment per quarter in cash, everything else via phone, card or bank transfer.

So I don’t see the day-to-day difference with digital euro, except that the backend seems to have fewer intermediaries (and maybe lower cost for the merchant?). Also it would work in more than one country which is good.

Here is a more technical description: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12525-025-00822-7

I am still not quite sure how this would affect my day-to-day (private) payment experience transaction cost etc.

But is has strategic value for Europe:

> [...] European dependencies in critical technologies. A digital euro could mitigate these developments in the medium term if the infrastructure is mainly operated by European companies and if European payment service providers manage to achieve a leading position in the evolving ecosystem for digital euro services.

Some more: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/timeline/profuse...

Paper: https://orb.binghamton.edu/nejcs/vol8/iss1/6/

If they adhere to the RFC, yes: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8615/#section-3.1

And https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8615/#section-3

> Applications that wish to mint new well-known URIs MUST register. them, following the procedures in Section 5.1 […]

Of course this is all voluntary, but why would you risk a name collision with another project if the process is quite straightforward?

They are collected at this registry: https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/well-known-...

Try here for example: https://danskebank.co.uk/personal/products/current-accounts/...

Some pages do not work in Firefox, so I keep a copy of Chrome around.

It’s a bit like with Internet Explorer which back in its day was also needed for some stubborn sites.