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New comment by Firaxus in "NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates"

Firaxus — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:10:02 +0000

I thought this was generally known?

I don’t have any familiarity with what’s considered the state of the art here, but I was wondering if the number of nand gates used is significant? So maybe this is neat because it uses less than was though possible?

Edit: looks like from reading some additional comments here that this isn’t particularly novel in that regard though…

New comment by Firaxus in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

Firaxus — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:43:30 +0000

By that expansive definition, any cloud software provider can do the same thing and so should also be a supply chain risk.

This whole fiasco is happening because the defense dept wanted to use anthropic models in a way not allowed in the existing contract. Anthropic stuck to the contract, and the def dept tried to be punitive about it.

If they can’t get what they want from the seller, fine go to a different seller, but the supply chain risk is just government overreach.

New comment by Firaxus in "Best LLM for every budget, updated daily"

Firaxus — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:12:00 +0000

Curious to hear more details about your harness and setup if you’re open to sharing.

New comment by Firaxus in "Best LLM for every budget, updated daily"

Firaxus — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:06:50 +0000

I don’t think they have 4.1 flash in the graph, fwiw

New comment by Firaxus in "Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence"

Firaxus — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:05:23 +0000

Unfortunately the general population are going to have to hurt more before they begin being open to those options, assuming they don’t try to kill ai in general.

New comment by Firaxus in "Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

Firaxus — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:35:59 +0000

I think the screen might be the same diagonal length but it looks wider overall…

New comment by Firaxus in "iPhone Duo"

Firaxus — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:19:13 +0000

I’m a little disappointed with how big it looks folded, I was hoping for a mini that could unfold…

New comment by Firaxus in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

Firaxus — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:18:18 +0000

Or it’s like being an engineering manager, where poor direction on your part results in the team chasing rainbows and unicorns in an attempt to please you. But sure, it’s the tool’s fault!

New comment by Firaxus in "Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets"

Firaxus — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:33:24 +0000

Anec-data, but I was in japan recently on my honeymoon, was in some big and small cities, and I was shocked at how fast people were driving on exactly these types of roads. I grew up in a neighborhood where the speedlimit is 20mph, which is slightly higher than this new regulation, so fwiw I think I can recognize when cars are going faster than that as they wiz by me.

So I’m pretty optimistic about this change, better than they way things are now at least.

New comment by Firaxus in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

Firaxus — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:22:31 +0000

One could argue that it’s all the centralization and monopolistic behavior which hinders tech development in the usa. So a breakup might have short term stutters but long term gains.

Jared Isaacman told his nomination as NASA administrator will be withdrawn

Firaxus — Sat, 31 May 2025 20:51:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/31/nasa-nomination-administrator-senate-isaacman/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146844

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New comment by Firaxus in "A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case"

Firaxus — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:31:35 +0000

The article mentions that apple had the opportunity to correct the record and did not.

These are multi billion and trillion dollar companies, they should be held to a high standard.

New comment by Firaxus in "A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case"

Firaxus — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:28:57 +0000

Yes, though fwiw steam provides (in my opinion) more benefits to gamers and games than the apple appstore does to generic apps trying to do all manner of things.

And additionally steam isn’t a walled garden, there is actual choice, and steam goes out of its way to be usable on multiple platforms. Very different situation to the locked down apple ios ecosystem.

New comment by Firaxus in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

Firaxus — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:22:13 +0000

Inflation, and the even hire steady increases in cost of living with wages lagging far behind; people have to spend a much larger percentage of their income just to sleep somewhere at night than people did in the 2000s, 1990s and 1980s.

This trend has been evident in the US since like the 1960s. If you would like to verify, try comparing median income levels and median cost of living levels for some of those year ranges.

New comment by Firaxus in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

Firaxus — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:36:08 +0000

It’s regulated, not illegal.

“Experts say the insurance landscape in California is particularly tricky because, in addition to the wildfire risk, the state has a law that adds extra approval measures, including board approval and review by the insurance commissioner, if an insurance company wants to raise the rate of insurance by more than 7%. That’s been in effect since the 1980s.” https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/05/what-homeowners-need-to-know...

New comment by Firaxus in "Random Thoughts about Unity"

Firaxus — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:09:32 +0000

Did you mean to say unity in your first paragraph? Your second paragraph suggests you’re using a different platform.

New comment by Firaxus in "NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025"

Firaxus — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:10:24 +0000

Here (with parent sources mentioned at the link) it is claimed that training costs 15 million, a bit more than a bit eh?

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/35431/how-much-doe....

New comment by Firaxus in "Batteries: How cheap can they get?"

Firaxus — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 04:55:55 +0000

As someone who is interested in getting some kind of back up battery at some point, ty for making a recommendation. But could you clarify what you mean by the kWH unit you used on 7 and 21? Seems like those should just be kW, a unit of power rather than kWh, a unit of energy.

New comment by Firaxus in "Historic, Powerful Hurricane Beryl to Hit Windward Islands"

Firaxus — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:34:19 +0000

From the article: "Hurricane Beryl took just 42 hours to go from a tropical depression to a Category 3 storm," according to meteorologist Sam Lillo. "This has been done 6 other times in Atlantic hurricane history. And the EARLIEST date this was achieved before was ... September 1,"

Historic, Powerful Hurricane Beryl to Hit Windward Islands

Firaxus — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:34:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2024/06/30/hurricane-beryl-category-4-barbados-islands

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839592

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