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yencabulatoron Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

There's an artist's impression of the frigging thing in the whitepaper! It's very obviously a single enormous thing!

> Figure 3. A data center in Sun Synchronous Orbit, showing a 4km x 4km deployed solar array and radiators.

yencabulatoron Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

They don't expect to need the human element for very long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3m4z9CoXEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxCZmDTWros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pgIWMXxaT0

yencabulatoron Why building a Rust LSP is hard

I'll argue the default already is private.

  mod foo
  pub mod foo
  pub(crate) mod foo

clearly when you leave the visibility modifier out, the default is private.

yencabulatoron UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

I can think of 3 things:

1. You can partition an input file at any offsets, parallelize, and adjust partition boundaries to a valid offset independently.

Without the property, parallelization is hard.

This is how mapreduce has been used to process large text files, except at line boundaries.

Now, for this that might not be a useful enough property, given that we already do similar things for newlines, and UTF-8 guarantees ASCII is always recognizable and hence newlines are always recognizable.

2. It might have been more useful in the era of dial-up where we still had occasional corrupted bytes in the transmission.

3. It helps regain sanity if e.g. a background process outputs bytes that get interleaved at the tty. For example, cat a large text file, the write boundaries won't always align at UTF-8 boundaries, then have a background process output get interleaved in an unfortunate way. If it self-synchronizes, it'll knock itself back into sync after a small amount of garbage.

yencabulatoron UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

If it's just a general Transformation Format and Unicode will never assign those code points, it'd be just TF-8. I can think of a second way to expand that abbreviation.

yencabulatoron New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...

I kinda wish they had used

> This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

> What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

yencabulatoron Why building a Rust LSP is hard

Wildcard imports are a horrible idea.

(And anyone pushing to have a "prelude" for their library is making it worse. Please don't.)

Clippy `wildcard_imports = "warn"` is your friend.

yencabulatoron Why building a Rust LSP is hard

Of course it could just default to private, and if you wanted something you'd have to specify that.

yencabulatoron Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

"Undo" a "destroy" is just a bad metaphor okay?

yencabulatoron Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

Lots of humans have no inner monologue. I think mostly in abstract shapes, spatial relations, and interactions. If anything I find the idea of thinking in linear sentences limiting.

yencabulatoron Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

I've had a two different dogs do this independently by now:

They'll be laying down happily napping. Then they get up, walk to a different room, and some seconds later come back carrying a toy. They return to where they used to lay, lay down again, and put the toy on their front paws.

I don't know what else that was than the thought of wanting one of their favorite toys there for comfort. (Familiar-smelling things are comforting to dogs.)

yencabulatoron Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human

Meanwhile, the AI labs are saying with the models getting smarter skills etc should be less verbose and just let the model do the thinking.

yencabulatoron Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs

And then the agentic loop over the reviews will rewrite them into less obvious exploits.

yencabulatoron T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F

I have slept in a tent in -31 F, what is this "peak winter chills" you claim to speak of?

yencabulatoron Don't Just Say Hello

Phone calls are not the same communication mechanism as instant messaging. Look at the timestamps in the mock screenshots and think about holding the other person on the phone for that long before you say your second line.

yencabulatoron Everybody's Lost Their Minds

Ah yes complex global rollout being forced to production on an arbitrary rapid deadline is exactly the time when more code of unknown quality should be added to the system at the last minute.

yencabulatoron Replacing Pull Requests with Delta

I hope you never handle other people's data.

yencabulatoron Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

Better than calling encryption "scrambling".

yencabulatoron Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

The forgery path is downloading the leaked database of 153 million driver's license images, picking one with the right gender, rough age, weight and height, and printing a card with that text+barcode and your photo.

yencabulatoron Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

The mental model is that encryption is a locked box you can only open with the key.

yencabulatoron Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

> how to use the DMV's public key to check whether a California ID is real.

That's not what the signature guarantees, though. It says the combination of textual information on the card is *someone's* valid driver's license. The signature doesn't even cover the photo! It just limits the forgeries to using identities of real people.

Compare to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport that actually contains a digital photo, with a signature.

yencabulatoron Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

If you watch the Doom demo video, pay attention to the bars on the side. For every possible action, that's the likelihood it should take that action, for that iteration. They all update all the time. I thought that was a good visualization of how Jev differs from LLM generation.

yencabulatoron Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

Here's the previous generation, two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415754

And here's more technical information about this generation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443040

yencabulatoron My favorite sci-fi books about how we build societies and keep justifying them

Disclaiming its your site matters not on the site, but when you post on HN. Disclosing your bias is good manners here. And using HN for promotion is bad manners, your submissions are almost nothing but your own site, once per week.

yencabulatoron Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

All of those things are regulated too, at least in the US. No open fires on red flag days. Furnaces have product certification requirements.

yencabulatoron My favorite sci-fi books about how we build societies and keep justifying them

They're literally selling advertising space, though.

And you run the site, without disclosing that.

https://building.bookdna.com/author-membership/

yencabulatoron Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

> almost MIT license

No it isn't, it's just another source-available license, this time vibecoded so glhf.

https://github.com/panphora/htmlclay/blob/6f211a2fa1b7b0598d...

yencabulatoron Closing the IPv6 first-packet gap with GRAND

Generally IP does not make that assumption. If I remember right (it's too early), having to go through neighbor discovery combined with a switch doing some special processing on ARP/ND packets protects against identity hijacking in the LAN.

yencabulatoron Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley

Source criticism.

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

yencabulatoron Firefox 156 shows ads in the address bar (dubbed "Firefox Suggest")

https://web.archive.org/web/20260915141712/https://www.heise...

the whole relevant section is

> In Germany, France, and Italy, Firefox 156 displays localized Wikipedia suggestions and occasional sponsored results in the address bar. The feature is part of Firefox Suggest and supplements typed entries with relevant suggestions. According to Mozilla, these suggestions can be disabled in the Firefox Suggest settings.