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thisisauserid··on Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
I know very little about this but why isn't it mamba-3? Isn't it... uh, more gooder?
thisisauserid··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
Just like when the official kilogram ("Le Grand K") was losing weight!
thisisauserid··on Crickets as pets
Fits in pocket, chirps for attention, low lifespan...

It's an analog Tamagotchi.

thisisauserid··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
My knuckles no longer crack when I'm in ketosis. I assume it's inflammation related but I've never heard anyone else mention this though.
thisisauserid··on "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
Almost all of us would agree if this was just better articulated:

"Code was never the hardest part."

There you go. Doesn't imply that coding is easy.

thisisauserid··on This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again
Dolphin tungsten mine in Australia.
thisisauserid··on Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
So they finally found a business model: the cause of, and solution to, cyber security problems.
thisisauserid··on U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
Roughly 40 percent of Canadians in the top 1 percent of earners have moved to the US.

https://thehub.ca/2026/04/03/can-anyone-solve-canadas-brain-...

thisisauserid··on Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]
It stops first? Maybe the bottom hit the seafloor?
thisisauserid··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Most of the people in tech I know that have interpersonal relationships and go out and look at a tree every once in a while are not often sad.
thisisauserid··on The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate
> This massive lie can best be summed up as “when it comes to climate change... we have more time.”

This time we have no more time but 25 years ago when we had no more time it was true?

Or we've never had more time?

thisisauserid··on Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way
The "Great Filter" answer to the Fermi Paradox.
thisisauserid··on Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer
I visual reminder that perfect compression is indistinguishable from random noise.
thisisauserid··on Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore
More like, Tell HN: advertisers don't need cookies to track you anymore!
thisisauserid··on What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
I believe they can make ANY software project the largest it can be!

This solution should look for more problems.

thisisauserid··on Diátaxis
Hypotaxis: arranging under

Parataxis: arranging alongside

Diátaxis: arranging across

thisisauserid··on Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages
Between one and three thousand years ago.
thisisauserid··on John Bell and the most obscure journal in physics
Bell proved that the universe is weirdly connected and that local hidden variables do not exist.
thisisauserid··on Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
Worst Feynman diagrams ever.
thisisauserid··on Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
> Here's a more natural flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points.
thisisauserid··on Flux 3
None within 24 hours of the announcement that show realistic human faces for than 3 seconds.
thisisauserid··on Flux 3
- Showed close to zero examples of people.

- Frivolous use of the term World Model.

- Claims 20 seconds of video, shows only jumpcuts.

Coming soon!

thisisauserid··on Google revenue surges on AI-driven boom in Cloud unit
Alphabet reported strong second quarter results, with revenue reaching 119.8 billion dollars, up 24 percent.
thisisauserid··on Does creatine make you smarter?
Article's answer to its own question:

It safely builds muscle and boosts cognition.

thisisauserid··on I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC
MPC for Multi-Party Computation, not for Model Predictive Control.
thisisauserid··on Gemini 3.6 Flash
Everyone wants to announce as late as possible (i.e., last) to chart the highest. Google is in a position financially to take a hit for these last few months.
thisisauserid··on Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)
And he had even more regret when he thought that his (terminal) brain tumor was caused by all the psychedelics he had done (though doctors assured him that was unlikely in the extreme).
thisisauserid··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
FinSlops.
thisisauserid··on The Annotated JEPA
LeCun's even newer paper takes a new approach to building JEPA, which he named Ada-JEPA: https://arxiv.org/html/2606.32026v1
thisisauserid··on Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church
A Byzantine lost city around the year 400 CE.
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