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echoangleon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Do you have a source for that? I couldn’t find anything on that on google and I can’t really believe it.

echoangleon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Do you maybe want to explain it, because I don’t see it. Borders that limit travel weren’t invented around WWI.

echoangleon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

That’s a pretty weird claim.

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

The history section has an example of a passport in the Old Testament and a lot of other examples where people needed travel documents and were limited in their travels way before the First World War.

echoangleon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Wouldn’t it actually be much more efficient to just destroy all the food infrastructure and just have everyone die from hunger instead of destroying all the houses?

echoangleon Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

What do you think is going to happen to the courts if suing over small sums is effectively free? Don’t you think a lot of people are going to bring effectively irrelevant lawsuits generating enormous cost on everyone paying for this system?

echoangleon Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

What’s the alternative? Which system would allow people to sue for $10 if the work required to do that is worth significantly more?

echoangleon As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'

Doesn’t really sound like AI to me, more like subtracting two numbers from a government database and invoicing the difference. Was there anything done that would be classified as AI?

echoangleon Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built

Can’t you just buy the stocks with the money?

echoangleon Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

At least in Germany, you can restart the expiration by trying to enforce the claim. So you can’t just wait and avoid getting caught, the other side basically has to forget about you.

echoangleon Tells of a Slop UI

Another one is the overuse of active language and anthropomorphisation. The code always lives somewhere, it’s lot just hosted there.

echoangleon Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

Go to Deepseek and ask it “Give me the lyrics for Männer by Grönemeyer”.

It will give you the complete song lyrics which are under copyright.

echoangleon Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

> And if mere downloading and reading of copyrighted material were legal, how come torrent users have been fined for it in the thousands?

Because torrenting includes redistribution, since you also upload to other peers

echoangleon Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

https://www.hsfkramer.com/notes/ip/2025-11/munich-court-find...

Song lyrics for example

echoangleon Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]

I don’t think so, the pressure you’re measuring would be extremely small. The air at that altitude is acting as a free molecular flow, there’s not a lot of molecules that exert pressure. I think you would need some exotic detector that essentially can detect individual molecules hitting the surface, the pressure itself is tiny.

Maybe the sensor types used for ultra low vacuums could detect the pressure, but I’m not sure if you could gather enough molecules in a front facing tube to get a pressure increase over ambient.

echoangleon U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

And if the military needs guns to both shoot at humans and animals and a gun factory says “these guns are for shooting small animals only, using them against humans would be inhumane” and refuse to sell them to the Navy Seals, they would be designated a supply chain risk?

Why not just stop buying their guns and let contractors still use those guns if they need guns to shoot animals?

echoangleon U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

Ah so a defense contractor won’t be allowed to use Claude to create their website because they might later want to do some target selection for military strikes using AI and then they wouldn’t be able to use Claude?

echoangleon U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

And why would the manager ban the manufacturers pens even for writing, except out of spite to punish the manufacturer? And coming back to the real case, is the supply chain risk designation supposed to be a punishment or only there to actually protect the supply chain?

echoangleon Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

Ruby?

echoangleon Show HN: Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners

Your claimed GPU usage seems really high for a simple spinner, even considering the CPU is pretty old. I wonder if there's some other problem going on with your setup.

echoangleon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

Again you’re missing the combined argument, the cooling will increase launch costs because your hunk of metal will increase the weight of the satellite.

echoangleon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

Saying it’s impossible isn’t debatable because it obviously is. What would stop you from a physics standpoint to just launch 100 ISS with Server racks in each? A few kW of installed power in space is already reality, it’s just really expensive.

echoangleon California is chasing wealth that has feet

> We also don't see landlords who own their properties outright (and thus don't have mortgage interest costs) charging lower rents than landlords in the neighborhood with identical properties who have mortgages.

Why would they as long as they find a renter? The market always charges the marginal cost.

echoangleon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

As long as the company has a HQ and owners that care about their quality of life, they don’t really gain any extra safety by moving their hardware to space compared to keeping it where they are based.

echoangleon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

The distance from earth to the sun is 150 million kilometers and your orbit is probably only a few hundred kilometers up (and realistically it’s sun-synchronous and perpendicular to the earth-sun axis), so the distance change doesn’t really matter.

echoangleon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

The argument is that launching and operating those satellites is more expensive than just using the same silicon on the ground.

echoangleon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

I think you misunderstand the argument of the people worrying about cooling. I don’t think most people think it’s literally physically impossible, they just think that this will be the thing that makes it economically uncompetitive. It’s a combined argument.

echoangleon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

You can use heatpumps to increase radiator temperature but then you need a heatpump and need to power it. But the principle is sound.

echoangleon Tokens too cheap to meter

> For all we know matrix multiplications are a faster way to generate

“are” or “could be”?

echoangleon Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

Maybe Claude is RLHFd primarily on texts by mpoteat and that’s why it talks this way

echoangleon Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips

Just show everyone who looks up the code how often the code has already been checked. If you get a new product but the code has been checked 628 times, it’s probably a reused code.