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cellular··on Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help
IRS should create a spreadsheet with irs forms so the user types in their numbers and the calculations are automatic.

An intern or 2 could do this for the entire nation to benefit!

cellular··on N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics
https://youtu.be/ByLhzd5biag

Commentary on close radius interactions. Very interesting wrt nuclear forces!

cellular··on How sea turtles learn locations using Earth’s magnetic field: research
If a magnet were attached to the turtle, would it lose its sense of direction?
cellular··on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
Those few smells of extremes (garbage /clean air) make me think they are saturating the sensors.
cellular··on The New AI Consciousness Paper
Consciousness is unprovably true.
cellular··on The New AI Consciousness Paper
Pain.

I haven't publicly stated this before now: Consciousness requires the ability to perceive PAIN.

All human learning is based upon the single kernel of pain (vs pleasure).

A newborn is hungry or cold and cried. It learned to cry. It learned to smile. Eventually, delayed gratification lead to less pain (more pleasure).

The rest is human history.

cellular··on Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths
I use a circular font I made in inkscape for outputting SVGs to GatorCAM for CNC.

Inkscape lets me adjust kern of each letter because the curve can cause letters to touch.

cellular··on Microsoft makes Zork open-source
Who's going to be the first to port to arduino + LCD?
cellular··on Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026
Yeah we don't even live under the sea, or populate Antarctica.

Those are thousands of times more hospitable than outside earth.

cellular··on Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
I call it "the broken dish threshold".

Once few enough dishes are broken, we will find robots useful in our homes! :)

cellular··on S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine
This looks like a good place to ask HN:

I've started with a solved cube, then turned 2 sides sharing an edge, alternatively (same direction) expecting the cube to get messed up but then returning to its solved state.

It never got solved! Maybe i didn't do it enough (i did it hundreds of times i think). Has anyone got an explanation?

cellular··on Free software scares normal people
This is why i developed GatorCAM for CNC.

FreeCAD is too complicated. Too many ways to accomplish the same task (nevermind only certain ways work too.)

So everything is simple and only 1 way to create gcode. No hidden menus. No hidden state.

cellular··on Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter
You may really like the PPS system which gives more life-like behavior. Here i got "hearts" beating to cause "blood to flow".

https://youtu.be/gaFKqOBTj9w

I became obsessed with these and made a few videos!

cellular··on Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
What are the white blocky pixels in the picture?

Why are they there?

cellular··on LLM Visualization
With weights on an actual model:

https://youtu.be/KSovbSkARYw

"Adding numbers. the green line are the weights.

At the top: the red circle indicates an incorrect answer. the green circle indicates a correct answer.

As the NN learns, the weights adjust and the green circle appears more often. "

cellular··on LLM Visualization
https://youtu.be/DTRNOJBIDMY

For multilayer back propagation.

Skips all the obtuse subscript jargon which differs in every text out there!

cellular··on What happens when 10k AI agents are left to self-govern in a virtual world?
This sounds like a Greg Egan novel...."Diaspora" i think.

Are your servers updating my uploaded consciousness in real time? Do you have funding for the next billion years to keep me online?!

cellular··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Someone create a website to emulate apk!
cellular··on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
"Tragedy of the commons" effect.
cellular··on Programming vehicles in games
I want a game like Autoduel (old apple2e game), but 3d with real physics.

That game was like Carwars pen and paper roleplaying.

That closest I've seen was Interstate76 from 1990s.

cellular··on Programming vehicles in games
Long ago i made a paper airplane simulation also in anger!

My inspiration was a fun game on 1980s intellivision!

That side view game had momentum and stalling airplane physics that aren't in any arcade game since that I've found.

Dogfights were hilarious because each player would risk stalling so they'd have more momentum to maneuver an attack.

Did you play that old game?

cellular··on Developer angry that App Store is removing game that hasn't been updated in 7 yr
Google forces old apps off their playstore because newer apps all have ads!

They make money on ads.

They don't want those 2016 era games occupying screen time because they don't serve up ads!

Have you tried playing a new game recently?! 1 minute of ads per minute of gameplay. I'm not exaggerating.

And the games are awful...you can't lose on half of them. They don't want you to get frustrated by losing and stop ad-watching.

RIP Android gaming.

cellular··on New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
It said his proof was basically by example. He proved more were possible.
cellular··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Btw fxtentacle...go grab a copy on me! Thanks for the kind word!
cellular··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Correct. This is only for 3 axis milling.

I'll have to keep an eye out for a bit like that. I usually use my 30 cent eBay bits with blue tape to avoid the frizzies. But i didn't want to hide the workpiece with tape in the video.

Wood be good to not have frizzies in the demo videos!

cellular··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Wow! More info please! That sounds cool!
cellular··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Vine borers got mine too. First time in a long time. I'm in central Texas.

But no hornworms or caterpillars this year. Very strange!

cellular··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Great to get experience in CNC! I've been working on how to market my GatorCAM for CNC. So I'll give you a copy! 2 birds!

It is easy to select multiple holes/pockets at once so if you iterate, you don't spend time redoing CAM! It does traveling salesman to solve for efficient paths which even the expensive packages don't get right. Calculates v-bit paths too.

On me: https://sites.google.com/view/gatorcam/home

cellular··on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
How is this differnent from Dr Nikodem Paplawski's tortion theory of the same?

It was featured on Event Horizon (john Michael godier)?

cellular··on Why the Ultrarich Are Unplugging from "Smart Homes"
You ask for permission to watch them work on YOUR house?!

I find it offputting if a mechanic doesn't want me watching him fix my car.

I want to be sure everything is done correctly!

If you want it done right do it yourself, or double check others are doing it properly!

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