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I am on Plus subscription and see Terra and Luna in Codex, but no sign of Sol. Will it be available only on Pro plans?

> Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027.

I have not seen such pessimistic future prediction from any of major consumer electronics producers yet.

terramexon Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

Humanoidal robots make sense when they need to operate in spaces designed for humans bodies. Cars are designed and built to be used and serviced by humans, especially their interiors so you need humanoid robot to automate building them. Car exteriors are not built for humans to interact with so they are already being built by specialized robots.

terramexon Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K

> Then again, maybe you, kind reader, can try this out on your Speccy - and tell me if it works?

It does, here is 'Statue' loading and running on Belarusian 'Bajt' ZX Spectrum clone: https://youtube.com/shorts/0LaItots33Q?feature=share

terramexon Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All

I run Gemma 4 26B-A4B with 256k context (maximum) on Radeon 9070XT 16GB VRAM + 64GB RAM with partial GPU offload (with recommended LMStudio settings) at very reasonable 35 tokens per second, this model is similiar in size so I expect similar performance.

terramexon A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

Link to HN guidelines with following quote pasted below:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

terramexon ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

5x more usage than in Plus is 100$

20x more usage than in Plus is 200$

I see this when I try to upgrade my Plus subscription.

terramexon Apple Debuts iPhone 17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)

> Thread is an IPv6-based, low-power mesh networking technology for Internet of things (IoT) products.

> Often used as a transport for Matter (the combination being known as Matter over Thread), the protocol has seen increased use for connecting low-power and battery-operated smart-home devices.

> Thread uses 6LoWPAN, which, in turn, uses the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol with mesh communication (in the 2.4 GHz spectrum), as do Zigbee and other systems. However, Thread is IP-addressable, with cloud access and AES encryption. A BSD-licensed open-source implementation of Thread called OpenThread is available from and managed by Google.

terramexon Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars

Omoda 9 (SUV) is sold in Europe only as plug-in hybrid with small-ish 1.5L 143HP engine + 394HP electric (145km of pure electric range, 35kWh LFP battery).

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

terramexon Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second

Mistral uses them for Le Chat, it is really fast.

https://chat.mistral.ai/chat

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/mistral-le-chat

terramexon The NBA Apple Vision Pro App Now Has a 3D Tabletop View

There was unofficial Lapz app ( https://www.lapz.io ) on TestFlight but got taken down after complaint from F1: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24301420/apple-vision-pr...

I watched few races on it and it was pretty great. You logged in with your F1TV account and could set up streams around you plus there was 3D view of the track with current positions of cars on it, you could look at car and pinch and driver view opened in pop-up window attached to car model. Couple times I noticed a car stopped on track before it was shown on main broadcast.

terramexon The future of Rebble

> It boggles my mind that others didn't follow suit.

Most fitness smartwatches (Garmin, Coros, Wahoo) used the same display technology for years, called it MIP displays. Nowadays they are switching to OLEDs.

https://garminrumors.com/amoled-vs-mip-in-garmin-devices-a-d...

terramexon Starship Flight 7

Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground):

https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662?t=HdHF...

https://x.com/realcamtem/status/1880026604472266800

https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115

Moment of the breakup:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

terramexon They have not been trained for this

> It was also revealed that the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) had, in October 2022, submitted a case against Newag regarding the abovementioned software manipulation incidents to the prosecutor's office in Nowy Sącz, which initially downplayed the incident until said findings publicly came to light, after which, the investigation was taken over by the regional prosecutor's office in Kraków on suspicion of crimes committed under Article 269 §1 and Article 286 §1 of the Polish Penal Code.

> The Sejm's [Sejm is "the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland"] Parliamentary Committee for Combating Transport Exclusion subsequently convened three hearings regarding the abovementioned allegations on 17 January, 27 February and 26 March 2024, whose participants included representatives of the Dragon Sector team, Newag, railway operators and members of the Sejm.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newag#2023_revelation_of_softw...

I could not find any later updates in polish media.

terramexon They have not been trained for this

There was much, much more discussion here, e.g:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788360

& more

terramexon Perhaps acquiring Pixelmator is about competing with Creative Cloud

> The only software that I can think of that Apple offers as subscription

iPad versions of Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro are subscription based and these are latest pro apps Apple released.

terramexon New Mac Mini with M4

How good are modern external hard drives? Is it worth paying for more internal SSD storage or is it more reasonable to get high quality USB one?

terramexon How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works

It changed last week with iOS 18 release: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/11/ios-18-repair-assistant...

terramexon Instagram Is Not a Cigarette

"the title" vs. the <title>

terramexon Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Lvl 3 is supposed to support other models and providers in the future too. I hope it will support every server with simple, standard API so I can run self-hosted LLama 3 (or whatever will be released in next 6-12 months).

terramexon Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

> Why even open any other app?

This was my first thought when I saw Rabbit r1 - will all of us become backend developers just glueing various API between legacy services and LLMs? Today seems like another step in that direction.

terramexon Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

> Wouldn't this reduce sales for Grammerly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)#Sherlocked...

> Sherlocked as a term

> The phenomenon of Apple releasing a feature that supplants or obviates third-party software is so well known that being Sherlocked has become an accepted term used within the Mac and iOS developer community.[2][3][4]

terramexon Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

Reflective LCD with backlight is called "transflective LCD" and they have been in use for years: https://newhavendisplay.com/blog/transmissive-vs-reflective-...

terramexon Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

Tomorrow (today in some timezones) is Global Accesibility Awareness Day: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Accessibility_Awarene...

terramexon Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports

There is emulator hack for Goldeneye that add WASD + mouse support and I heard that it works great.

https://github.com/Graslu/1964GEPD/releases/tag/latest

terramexon Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

Requirement was always there, just not enforced due to „technical issues”.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231207163847/https://store.ste...

> „Requires 3rd-Party Account: PlayStation Network”

However, making it purchasable from countries not supported by PSN accounts was big error on their part.

terramexon Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich

https://archive.ph/62rUw

terramexon 2023 was one of the safest years in commercial aviation

> Not a single fatal accident was recorded involving a commercial jet. Not one.

> the only deadly crash was that of an ATR turboprop

Turboprops are not jets.

terramexon Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

They don't "train on log₂(3) bit". Gradients and activations are still calculated at full (8-bit) precision and weights are quantised after every update.

This makes network minimise loss not only with regard to expected outcome but also minimises loss resulting from quantisation. With big networks their "knowledge" is encoded in relationships between weights, not in their absolute values so lower precision work well as long as network is big enough.

terramexon Starship's Third Flight Test [video]

If onboard computer would sense that Ship is going somewhere it should not be it would trigger FTS (Flight Termination System) and destroy it with debris falling into Atlantic Ocean (exclusion zone was there as well).

Once Ship finished burn it simply had to land in predicted landing area in Indian Ocean, it did not have enough fuel on board to significantly change trajectory even if computer went crazy.