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marcd35··on Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
this is awesome! website is extremely fast and responsive, well done.

crazy to think how much technology is orbiting around the planet and not bumping into each other.

question - is James Webb intentionally making a heart shaped orbit? :)

https://imgur.com/a/kHkGLBa

marcd35··on Dots: Always-on agents
I’d disagree with this being targeted toward normies. Reread the release. The first demographic in their copy is toward developers:

“ Turn feedback into tested fixes You’re a developer working on an app. Your dot watches customer feedback for recurring requests, scopes smaller improvements and bugfixes, builds and tests them, and brings you complete PRs to review with attached videos showing the changes.”

marcd35··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
theres a popular thread on claudecode or claudai subreddit that proves 20x isnt really 20x. apparently its a marketing gimmick and the recommended solution is two 5x plans > 20x at greater than half the cost of the 20x
marcd35··on Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)
this is awesome. can you open source it so i can fork it and add some enhancements like exposure/contrast adjustments etc?
marcd35··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Its mostly used with Codex so you can give finer control over task delegation.

its definitely worth learning the different strengths and weaknesses for each one and which you should use for planning/building/testing/documentation updates etc.

No point in burning excessive tokens using a high tier/expensive reasoning model like Sol/Xhigh if just updating a readme file.

marcd35··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
Sounds interesting!

https://greatquestion.com/careers just redirects to https://www.greatquestion.com/coming-soon though

marcd35··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
Reddit has already begun the effort to start poising the well - https://www.reddit.com/r/poisonai/
marcd35··on Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
That’s an interesting point and we have not really had a reliable dataset to qualify individuals as “professional gamer/streamer” vs a hobbyist.

Their content publication history should be a good metric for establishing our future subjects and departed ones as engaging in above average gameplay for each specific genre.

I’ve always found it fascinating that I could recall essentially turn by turn navigation of WoW classic routes in which I spent countless hours. I’ve always thought about trying the memory palace technique and using those routes which would probably work well.

marcd35··on How to read more books
agree with all the above. i usually throw on brown noise/moving water youtube videos since the frequencies cancel out most distracting noises. one of my fav ambient music channels is obsidian soundfields on youtube.

another trick recommended by Huberman is wearing a hoodie and reading in front of a blank wall. this will will restrict your visual field and not get distracted by passing cars, light reflections, etc.

i think the biggest "trick" to follow through with reading is the screening process at the outset. ask yourself - why do i want to read this? what do i hope to learn from it/get out of it/etc? am i reading it just because other people are talking about it? answering some of these questions should help you follow through when you 'get stuck' or lose interest, which you can then review the initial reasons why you picked it up in the first place. should also make it easier to put down/ DNF

marcd35··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
probably not. the engineers dont even know how these things work (see: black box) so how could you even prove that its not doing what it's 'supposed' to be doing?
marcd35··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
so not only are the sycophantic, hallucinatory, but now they're also proven to be schizophrenic.

neato.

marcd35··on Music for Programming
yeah but see the problem with abba is i just wanna get up and dance and not do any work
marcd35··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
> 250,000 wasted API calls per day

How much approximate savings would this actually be?

marcd35··on I'm OK being left behind, thanks
I agree with this point. There is absolutely a 'left behind' gap that is under-explored.

My last job was a cable technician - making house calls to fix wifi, satellite tv, phone issues. Mostly elderly residents. The majority of them all were computer and phone illiterate. They were slow adopters to the fast-moving technology and many of them did not know how to operate their devices after we (UI/UX/hardware/software engineer 'we') removed them.

I wonder if this also has contributed to the elderly lonliness problem - sure its probably mostly related to physical companionship, acceptance of aging, etc, but the world that they knew (in general and the technological world they grew up in) is no longer recognizable.

marcd35··on Kagi Small Web
I'm one of the contributors for the Obsidian RSS reader (https://github.com/amatya-aditya/obsidian-rss-dashboard) and one of my first contributions to the project was adding in the Kagi RSS feed to the discover page!

It refreshes every 5 hours and shows you the most recent blogs published on Kagi. Check it out!

marcd35··on We Will Not Be Divided
about as much as all the people who signed the petition to stop/slow the rate of ai advancement - nothing other than pointing to it in the future when all has gone to shit and say, "told you so"
marcd35··on Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access
cool. now do something about the hundreds/thousands of people getting rate limited on Antigravity even after upgrading their plans, even on their $250 /month plan.

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/c/antigravity/64

marcd35··on How to stop being boring
not OP and not sure of the book but if you're interested in material like this, check out Derek Sivers' work - usually revolves around stepping outside your comfort zone, exploring new ideas, etc.

https://sive.rs/n

marcd35··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
I think this decision is more defensive than "losing touch with their customers." The winds are shifting in other countries that are cracking down on social media use for children. Discord does not want to get caught in the shit storm of legal issues if they fail to comply. This is a proactive measure.
marcd35··on OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
ive never played before. i moved my guys around the map for 6 turns then they just disappeared. also cant figure out how to increase the scaling of the screen
marcd35··on Systems Thinking
HN comments: 53

Comments on actual blog post: 0

Why are people so afraid to leave replies on the author’s OC

marcd35··on Claude Opus 4.6
Doesn’t this just exacerbate the “black box” conundrum if they just keep piling on more and more features without fully comprehending what’s being implemented
marcd35··on A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
Proceed, but unwillingly
marcd35··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
Thank you for the blog post! I live in New England and always had the winter blues, always just assumed it was because of the weather but never acted on it.

About a week ago, there was a reddit post claiming it's actually geographically impossible for anyone where I live to produce enough Vitamin D naturally from the sun alone, due to the shorter days and lower angles throughout the day. I had no idea.

marcd35··on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
something about giving full read write access to every file on my PC and internet message interface just rubs me the wrong way. some unscrupulous actors are probably chomping at the bit looking for vulnerabilities to get carte blanche unrestricted access. be safe out there kiddos
marcd35··on 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
5 Million years ago would be insane... but what about..

5 BILLION years ago...

marcd35··on Television is 100 years old today
funny story - I had a job recently that installed DirecTV setups for mostly retirement communities. On almost every service call, I'd show up and 95% of the time, without fail, they'd either be watching Fox News, CNN, or CNBC. It was quite depressing to see 24/7 news stations had completely consumed their lives and became the majority of topics of conversation while I was there.

I eventually quit the job. I decided I didn't want to be a part of making our society worse by installing these devices that were causing manufactured outrage, hate, and selective truth telling.

Soon after I left, I found a book while thrifting that came out in 1978 called "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" by Jerry Mander. I laughed at the title and couldn't believe someone was already arguing for the detriments of TV before I was born. It's very well written and the points he makes are still relevant today.

From the wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimina...

Mander believes that "television and democratic society are incompatible" due to television removing all of society's senses except for seeing and hearing. The author states that television makes it so that people have no common sense which leads to...being "powerless to reject the camera's line of sight, reset the stage, or call on our own sensory apparatus to correct the doctored sights and sounds the machine delivers".

Mander's four arguments in the book to eliminate television are:

1. that telecommunication removes the sense of reality from people,

2. television promotes capitalism,

3. television can be used as a scapegoat, and

4. that all three of these issues negatively work together.

marcd35··on Qwen3-Max-Thinking
While Qwen2.5 was pre-trained on 18 trillion tokens, Qwen3 uses nearly twice that amount, with approximately 36 trillion tokens covering 119 languages and dialects.

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3

marcd35··on Qwen3-Max-Thinking
antigravity is solid and has a generous free tier.
marcd35··on Qwen3-Max-Thinking
i'm no expert, and i actually asked google gemini a similar question yesterday - "how much more energy is consumed by running every query through Gemini AI versus traditional search?" turns out that the AI result is actually on par, if not more efficient (power wise) than traditional search. I think it said its the equivalent power of watching 5 seconds of TV per search.

I also asked perplexity to give a report of the most notable ARXIV papers. This one was at the top of the list -

"The most consequential intellectual development on arXiv is Sara Hooker's "On the Slow Death of Scaling," which systematically dismantles the decade-long consensus that computational scale drives progress. Hooker demonstrates that smaller models—Llama-3 8B and Aya 23 8B—now routinely outperform models with orders of magnitude more parameters, such as Falcon 180B and BLOOM 176B. This inversion suggests that the future of AI development will be determined not by raw compute, but by algorithmic innovations: instruction finetuning, model distillation, chain-of-thought reasoning, preference training, and retrieval-augmented generation. The implications are profound—progress is no longer the exclusive domain of well-capitalized labs, and academia can meaningfully compete again."

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