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t23414321on Almost everyone naturally turns left when walking – we still have no idea why

Because of small asymmetries of how the left and right leg is used the dominant one (which make first step) is stronger.

As a result, being lost in a forest you will not progress forward, but make a few km circle.

t23414321on UN General Assembly: Trump renames AI to Super Intelligence

For someone it's super intelligence, for someone else it's bullshit.

t23414321on Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

Happened to me, induced chemically when I experimented with lucid dreaming. It was to scary so I stopped it.

t23414321on Everything you do is being recorded

For me, for someone or against me ? Can you give it back to me: the records of the records and the records too ? If me is not for me - I don't pay for that but you steal, parasities. (same with LLMs)

t23414321on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

Thanks. I think it still could be fine ? I don't use Facebook - but I was able to download any video from Youtube, see no ads till adblockers and youtube-dl - and that's the race making things harder and unaccessible (yes, custom - but excesive DIY URL filtering rules only, same since ~2 years, are still enough to see no ads on YT, hope, that on Facebook too, and I can live with that).

t23414321on Falco: Tiny browser engine written from scratch in Rust

Handy tiny browser that works actually: https://github.com/ovsky/Ultralight-WebBrowser

t23414321on Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

[ the only 1 comment here actually about the drive :) ]

t23414321on Falco: Tiny browser engine written from scratch in Rust

I like the level of details on the README.

t23414321on EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

Then it is known that if you play to someone with small delay what he says he will be lost on both - so he can't think about and listen to what he is saying if it's not one stream.

t23414321on US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bgMl3NQwS4

Germany plays Russian anthem like you've never heard it before (Dec 12, 2021)

(did he cry ?)

t23414321on Wall-run (4k:c64,v20,c16,zx,PC)

That's Tron Light Cycles! ;)

t23414321on President warns of 100% tariff on countries implementing digital services tax

Which president ? - let me guess..

(there is a paywall)

t23414321on SPECS Augmented Reality Glasses

Can't find what's the resolution ?

Found that: The analyst noted the device lacks disclosed specifications for resolution, pixels per degree, brightness, and refresh rate. ( https://m.uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/benchmark-... )

And that: Sixth Generation 2026 - 46 degree diagonal field of view display with a 37 pixel-per-degree resolution (Wikipedia)

- is it 1702px diagonally = 1200 x 1200 px ??

t23414321on Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

Dimensions of monitor are: 315 x 254 x 16 mm - but what are dimensions of visible screen ? - is it enough to match A4 format 297 x 210 mm ?

t23414321on Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

If forms could evolve (self or own factors), multiply it by infinity to find 1 at least (as we are) ?

(aside of a a joke that the universe (with us as a part of it) is not evolving but computing a number (42 exactly) - which eventually may become real thanks LLM) [Lem:Dick .. (Adams)]

t23414321on Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

..dead by translation.

Solaris ? Do stars dream of being a Sun and what they can do about it ? (master SF)

- but is he talking about.. _frozen_ mass imagination (or snapshot hallucination) ??

- consciousness? - yes, lots of it is there, as of many other beings caught by _Language Models_

t23414321on Report on an Unidentified Space Station

it's fictional

t23414321on Bun in Rust is better than the original

I don't remember details, but there is one developer who's app is the top one - the competing 2'nd and 3'rd are his apps too but branded under different names :)))

t23414321on Designing Firefox for the Future

But not for this future that was there already.

It's for that future of Google profits when Firefox specials, developers and power users are long gone, I guess ? (Any new ?)

(So late I learned what that lizard wrangler inside job meant.)

t23414321on What Models? Helps Match Local AI Models to Your Hardware

What about MZ73-LM2 ~273GB/s: ~768GB DDR5 12/24 Channels (460 GB/s theoretical peak memory bandwidth) ?

DeepSeek .. ??

https://www.gigabyte.com/ge/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard/MZ...

https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/wp-perfor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=MZ73&sort=byDate...

t23414321on Vjekoslav Krajačić – File Pilot: Inside the Engine – BSC 2025 [video]

FilePilot is made by single developer, Vjekoslav Krajačić, public since Feb 2025:

..Next-gen file explorer Engineered entirely from scratch for light-speed performance, featuring a modern and robust interface

2.08MB size, handcoded and extremally optimized 'alternate universe'

£32 personal license, plan to offer Source Included as a separate purchase.

https://filepilot.tech/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZsgOOTYWadgPR-Ajxn86Q

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43091466

t23414321on FilePilot AI – local-first desktop file manager with optional AI summaries

That's wrong and untrue.

FilePilot is made by single developer, Vjekoslav Krajačić, public since Feb 2025:

..Next-gen file explorer Engineered entirely from scratch for light-speed performance, featuring a modern and robust interface

It doesn't use AI.

2.08MB size, handcoded and extremally optimized.

£32 personal license, plan to offer Source Included as a separate purchase.

https://filepilot.tech/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZsgOOTYWadgPR-Ajxn86Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUOOaXf9qIM File Pilot: Inside the Engine – BSC 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43091466

t23414321on Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?

If you like to be one of "AI coders .. carrying half-open laptops" I could let you do the same with the lid closed ?

https://www.businessinsider.com/coders-keep-laptops-open-in-... ;)))

t23414321on AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, & ice rinks

Such idiots (!): 'I got agents running' - like, they gonna close the lid and the agent will stop working.

t23414321on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

There is a lot of tributes to Bansksy - signed "3anksy" - he don't have to and didn't use to.

Banksy has some specific and not random sense, this one.. shallowly could be considered IMHO ? (..and being installed Banksy style too). Convenient. "Attributed" could be second-order too (Memex). ?

t23414321on Show HN: Aurora – a browser engine experiment in Rust

https://github.com/JohannaWeb/Aurora ??

- 10 files 180kB rust code seems to be enough.

t23414321on A New Way to Spray Paint Color

Yes, it looks like it doesn't spray true green but blue and yellow in pulses in a rapid pace.

t23414321on Claude mixes up who said what

Human interactions make anomalies in predicted chains..

t23414321on AI Code Is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers Are Looking the Other Way

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645976 AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against artist

>The fact the songs are AI is meaningless. She had songs. Someone else created a cover of the songs, claimed them as original, and distributed them. They get ISRC numbers and auto sync copyright claims through distribution. She needs to file suit against the claimants. The end. ?