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y-curiouson America.gov

So it’s a domain issue? I don’t think you’re proving much. Mexico can start calling itself America too, but we know how that will go

y-curiouson Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

There is no recovering from this stat drop to the person you’re responding to. Well done. 45k pre trump is surprisingly high

y-curiouson America.gov

Why does it matter to you what America calls itself? Serious, good faith question. India tried to change its name to Bharat, everyone still calls it India.

y-curiouson Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

I went on Spotify to check out these playlists. I very quickly found that they have “corn” playlists that abuse the fact that you can upload videos for podcasts. A few are a screen recording of a windows Home Screen with a tiny video player in the corner playing adult videos. I had a laugh, nature always erm finds a way

y-curiouson Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

Actually it’s a footgun gate

y-curiouson How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

Lowering the barrier to proof of concepts for personal projects is a beautiful thing. I don’t love AI but I’m 100% playing the cards I’m dealt.

y-curiouson Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

Agreed. Next diagram I make I’m taking a photo of a whiteboard and letting AI figure out relative positioning

y-curiouson Two-tier encryption in the UK

Well in the article they explicitly said they can’t turn off ADP by design, so no luck. But I’m all for making the politicians suffer the consequences of their own decisions.

y-curiouson AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

But then what will I do for work? :(

y-curiouson Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

Key word is “recently”: seems like every law from states outside of CA were enacted in 2026. It seems too early to tell if they’re successful

y-curiouson Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan

I have, uh, heard that running a seedbox and dealing with the various -arr annoyances is very easy now that you can have Claude code SSH into the seedbox.

y-curiouson Brood War Bench

I’m a little bummed it did have map hack on. Would love to see this play “legit”. It really reminds me of my pastime, chess. When you play bots, if you don’t mess up early, it can often feel like you’re winning in the early game even though you’re just hanging yourself slowly with the rope it’s giving you.

y-curiouson Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Yeah gulags and other forced work camps also come to mind. But I guess this is a larger scale in terms of man hours

y-curiouson How not to solve Jane Street's ASIC puzzle. Kinda

“No, I never looked anything up” Ok Claude

y-curiouson Show HN: A chess analyzer that runs in the browser

One suggestion, can you not pull the annotated game from lichess using their stockfish? It might save you a lot of time and double work

y-curiouson The Nature of Dance

I’ve always felt so awkward and uncomfortable the whole time in these situations. It’s a huge shame because I’m very social orally :/

y-curiouson The Nature of Dance

Why are there less leaders generally? That is not intuitive to me since it feels like men generally want to fill that role in any context. Are there just less male dancers?

y-curiouson Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

Yes, unfortunately. I have met people that love AI videos (my in-laws being the closest to my bubble) and defend them as enjoying creativity.

Many people with niche and nostalgic tastes loved that music AI that got sued to oblivion recently.

For the record, I revile both as well. But for every person eating salad, there’s someone subsisting on McDonalds.

y-curiouson How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

P=NP is for when both AI shops decide they want to go bankrupt LOL

y-curiouson How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

I don’t know because I use Anthropic, but I would eat my hat if this was on by default.

y-curiouson Jellyfin 12.0

Understood, so you have a virtual “home lock” on your phone that is actually a media unlock or whatever. Clever :) I also didn’t know HASS = home assistant

y-curiouson Splash-free urinals (2025)

Sorry, they use A and B as controls. They are not good at preventing splash

y-curiouson Jellyfin 12.0

Hello Mantis. Question: what do you do with the books? Is there kindle integration somehow?

y-curiouson Jellyfin 12.0

What do you mean by door lock, where does the code show up?

y-curiouson Jellyfin 12.0

For people that don’t know, Infuse lets you use Jellyfin on Apple TV and it’s very helpful for day purpose

y-curiouson Splash-free urinals (2025)

Direct link to the designs (c and d, with d being practical). Great paper honestly.

https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/512223725/pgaf087...

y-curiouson IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

I don’t understand who the target audience of these ads is. For most people, including myself, this is like seeing an ad for “New and Improved Time Machine! (Untested)” or “Magic Beans - Indica”.

y-curiouson Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

If this is a spam campaign, it’s not a very effective one. I think you’d do well to apply Hanlon’s Razor here

y-curiouson Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Then it’s not a benchmark. I think his thesis is solid: if neither pelicans nor bicycles stick out, it follows that there isn’t special attention being given to them by the labs