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New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

DontBreakAlex — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:48:19 +0000

I can already bring my regular bike in the office. The problem is when you're meeting with friends, going to a restaurant, well anything that's not commuting to work...

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

DontBreakAlex — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:33:06 +0000

YES! I moved to SF from Paris (where I spent my whole life before that) a year ago. I exclusively use lime instead of public transit because of how slow it is! Going from Folsom&8th to Mason&Girard takes 50 minutes! And you spend most of the time stopped! With a lime I can usually get there in 20 to 25 minutes. I would use my own bike that I use to commute to work if you could lock a bike without getting it stolen almost immediately.

Did GPT 5.2 make a breakthrough discovery in theoretical physics?

DontBreakAlex — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:42:21 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/dlouapre/gpt-single-minus-gluons

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081454

Points: 2

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New comment by DontBreakAlex in "xAI joins SpaceX"

DontBreakAlex — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:43:33 +0000

Radiators can only be made as long as desirable because there's gravity for the fluid inside to go back down once it condenses. Even seen those copper heat pipes in your PC radiator?

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "When Every Network is 192.168.1.x"

DontBreakAlex — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:14:51 +0000

Can we please just use ipv6? PLEASE

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Show HN: Ourguide – OS wide task guidance system that shows you where to click"

DontBreakAlex — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:36:04 +0000

Looks cool, I think you should try to target it towards the elderly. My 99 year old grandpa is capable of using a computer and browsing the web, but struggles whenever he gets out of the "usual flow" (accidentally removes the chrome icon from his taskbar, whenever the crappy web-based email he insists on using over thunderbird moves the add attachment button). I end up having to do teamviewer to show him what I can't explain over the phone. He would very much use an assistant that shows him what to do, especially if he can speak to it.

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density"

DontBreakAlex — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:48:19 +0000

Look, non-nonviolent communication is a valid form of protest (I know what I'm talking about, I'm french)

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

DontBreakAlex — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:43:22 +0000

I mean if your have a 750kw motor for each wheel, then they're probably always spinning when you floor it, so you also have enough torque to fully use your tires for stopping purposes

EDIT: Quick maths show that decelerating at 1g (basically what the best sport tires can do) in a 2000kg car at 300kph requires absorbing ~1500kw, so conveniently two of these motors.

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

DontBreakAlex — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:55:08 +0000

In europe, voting typically happens in one day, where everyone physically goes to their designated voting place and puts papers in a transparent box. You can stay there and wait for the count at the end of the day if you want to. Tom Scott has a very good video about why we don't want electronic/mail voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Life next to 199 data centres"

DontBreakAlex — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:08:20 +0000

I once visited a fairly large DC in the outskirts of paris (Scaleway DC5) and it was basically dead silent outside. I guess these large DCs are just build with absolutely no concern for noise pollution?

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Starcloud"

DontBreakAlex — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:42:20 +0000

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

> and even the nuclear decay (due to practical considerations the latter, as well as the atmospheric noise, is not viable except for fairly restricted applications or online distribution services)

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement"

DontBreakAlex — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:42:23 +0000

VFR = Vibe Flight Rules

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped"

DontBreakAlex — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:42:59 +0000

It tells a lot about echo chambers that the first article google showed me for "man charged for praying abortion" is the adf one and you presumably got the bbc one. Anyway, there's nothing to see here, the UK banned vigils in front of abortion clinics, he got charged for keeping a vigil somewhere not allowed, so no thoughtcrime involved.

Freedom of speech and banning vigils/demonstration is a different debate that we already have all the time...

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped"

DontBreakAlex — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:40:57 +0000

Apparently that is Anti-social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014. Article regarding the claim: https://adfinternational.org/en-gb/news/guilty-army-vet-conv...

> In its decision, the court reasoned that his prayer amounted to “disapproval of abortion” because at one point his head was seen slightly bowed and his hands were clasped.

I'm all for women's rights, but that's not how to do it

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary"

DontBreakAlex — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:24:32 +0000

I find it quite insulting that you seem to think that non-native english speakers are incapable of reading the outputs of LLMs to asses if it still means what they intended to say.

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Why is it so hard to get families to live in community houses?"

DontBreakAlex — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:57:10 +0000

Tell me you're american without telling me you're american.

> I know what Hip Young Urban Professionals Sipping Coffee On A Sidewalk Next To A Cafe Along The Seine Or Rhine Because Their Apartment Is To Small To Do Anything do the second they get money.

They buy a nice apartment on the southern bank of the seine because they're the only one that can afford it, cycle everywhere and enjoy the thousands of places you can go in Paris with their friends while sharing a babysitter because they can walk by their friends places to pickup their kids afterwards.

I moved to SF for work 6 months ago and I can't understand how you guys can "enjoy" living alone and depressed in your empty suburb.

Want to know who actually lives in the "american-style suburbs" of Paris? Poor people who have no choice but to live there

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)"

DontBreakAlex — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:21:31 +0000

Reach farther places? Move around heavy loads?

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Hyperspace"

DontBreakAlex — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:03:09 +0000

Well I do value software, I'm paid $86/h to write some! I just find that for $20/year or $50 one time, you can get way more than 12G of hard drive space. I also don't think that this piece of software requires so much maintenance that it wouldn't be worth making at a lower price. I'm not saying that it's bad software, it's really great, just too expensive... Personally, my gut feeling is that the dev would have had more sales with a one time $5, and made more money overall.

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "Hyperspace"

DontBreakAlex — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:08:32 +0000

Nice, but I'm not getting a subscription for a filesystem utility. Had it been a one-time $5 license, I would have bought it. At the current price, it's literally cheaper to put files in a S3 bucket or outright buy an SSD.

New comment by DontBreakAlex in "People who won't give up floppy disks"

DontBreakAlex — Sat, 11 May 2024 13:00:04 +0000

If it works, don't fix it