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soupspaceson Ask HN: Are we losing our engineering literacy?

I think it's got to do with ownership. The less you own it the less you can tinker with it.

If they don't know about tapioca pearls, please keep in mind they resemble fish eggs.

soupspaceson An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations

Was he consistent with his timing? Perhaps so were the birds with their necessities. Or his travel route intersected a convenient location for them. More birds, too, makes a collective vendetta unlikely. Birds tend to be indiscriminate when the world is their toilet.

soupspaceson An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations

Something as simple as stepping on a twig, brushing on grass, the crumpling of a plastic or some kinds of clothing can be enough. It makes sense, since their bodies are much more fragile and distance is easy. Their ears are almost like ours internally, with different structure.

soupspaceson MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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

soupspaceson Making LEDs at Home [video]

Simple!

soupspaceson Helmholtz Resonator [video]

Lip sync a bit off on this one... (AI)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38678415 (2023) used to reduce traffic noise

https://www.ciel-libre.nnx.com/old/ukplasto.htm

soupspaceson Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1

Try browser zoom

soupspaceson AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

Follow the tokens

soupspaceson Olo (Color)

I'd heard of weasel words but now that you mention it they do tend to be rather wiggly

soupspaceson How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

So, like closing intrusive popups before and blockers, then.

soupspaceson What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

After an answer, try asking it why, over and over. It's a machine to give answers, not explanations. A magic 8 ball. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307396

soupspaceson Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?

tmux tealdeer zoxide

soupspaceson AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

Euler would like a word. Maybe it's our institutions.

soupspaceson Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

Earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290521

soupspaceson AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph

Dynamic mode looking like something out of the LHC https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*Mx-...

soupspaceson How Claude's text watermarking works

Yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292932

soupspaceson AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

This is sophistry. Of course it's just an algorithm. But it's placed in the context of serving humans, which have their own rules and expectations. What's more, they're often run by a company which is also made by humans and may carry over implicit interests.

soupspaceson Simulacra and Simulation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15324818 (2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23154141 (2020)

soupspaceson Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

How about regenerative economics? I hate it.

soupspaceson Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Stay tuned!

soupspaceson Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

791K? Those are rookie numbers. Get yourself a can of compressed air and you'll be pushing millions.

soupspaceson Recycle – Floppydisks

With 46 of them you can make a nice bag https://www.instructables.com/Floppy-Disk-Bag/

soupspaceson Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

Auto rotate and auto scrolling would be neat.

Edit: also 2D https://www.github.com/AdamWhiteHat/RubiksCubeControlWpf

soupspaceson Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

The link in that discussion has a section about that

soupspaceson Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

what's the catch?

soupspaceson Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

Decades spent building tools to freely copy and fork each other’s code, only to arrive at a future where people pay tokens to do the same thing with added noise. Progress.