<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Gravityloss</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Gravityloss</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:22:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Gravityloss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Gravityloss in "Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've flown from Helsinki to Tampere, under 200 km, long long time ago. The cabin personnel had to push the refreshments trolley uphill and downhill the aisle as there was not much level flight portion. I don't really know why it even existed as a route. National carrier and I assume there was a subsidy involved. Back then there was not much security so there was a lot less overhead. Still, a direct train route and road exists and all, so it was very redundant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:13:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296750</link><dc:creator>Gravityloss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Gravityloss in "Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lots of places have water or mountains preventing car or train travel or making it go the long way around. Ferries are slow. Those would be natural applications for this. Tallinn-Helsinki city pair for example.<p>I wonder, if this can get approved or certified somehow now, if then modifications and improvements are relatively easy, as long as many aspects like the pilot interface stays the same. Battery technology improves constantly after all.<p>As an example, going from the current 200 km range to 400 could make it very useful in numerous regions certainly.</p>
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<p>That's absolutely incredible. I would never have thought of that. Thanks!</p>
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<p>And the actual word is French too...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:04:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244675</link><dc:creator>Gravityloss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Gravityloss in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There were designs to hurl masses from the Moon also with a sling. Massively less infrastructure than a linear mass driver.</p>
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<p>Sure. Many pines can survive forest fires. But some other trees don't or are short lived anyway. I never suggested trees live forever. But 100 years is not a long time for many.</p>
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<p>It's the asymmetry at play. It takes a few minutes to fell a tree. While it takes decades to grow. To grow an actually fully grown 100 year old tree is a multigenerational project.<p>How could you foster such things? There's always short-sighted people and generations, it's close to impossible to make this happen. I've seen it personally when relatives have felled century old yard trees planted by our ancestors, for no practical purpose. There is at least one foundation that attempts to preserve forest, with strict rules, which has received already some donated forests. But who knows how that can be corrupted over the time forest actually takes to grow.</p>
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<p>Well, because of this outage, I tried Kimi, and while the instant model works, K3 has "server issue".<p>Eternal September from here on, ie now the masses are using AI as much as me and we have supply crunch for the next 7 years....</p>
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<p>I at least can see English translated version of NHK here
<a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live_tv/" rel="nofollow">https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live_tv/</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://skepticalscience.com/nsh/?#">https://skepticalscience.com/nsh/?#</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068340">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068340</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:59:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://skepticalscience.com/nsh/?#</link><dc:creator>Gravityloss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Gravityloss in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many years ago had my first Gopro camera that seriously overheated, sent it for repairs, they said there was nothing wrong with it. It literally turned too hot to handle after taking a few clips and wouldn't work. I think there was some serious hardware issue that caused it to then drain the whole battery.<p>Gave the brand a second chance some years ago. Couldn't export my videos from the app, it always hanged. So I couldn't share footage. Apparently a common long standing problem on forums.<p>Woved to never buy anything from them again.</p>
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<p>I use AI myself so I definitely know how it tends to write. When I encounter that kind of writing somewhere, I initially give it the benefit of the doubt and continue a bit. But when the signs get too obvious, I tend to just stop reading.<p>It feels like the prompter is trying to trick me. They might for example have some simple agenda but they're trying to dress it up as some objective rational analysis with the help AI.<p>It would work better if the author told how the content was created, and even shared the prompt.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890159">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890159</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:46:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890159</link><dc:creator>Gravityloss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Gravityloss in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One can try putting themselves sometimes in the position of an old person. Let's say you have a heavy steel rollator with grocery bags hanging from the handles. You've spent an hour going to the store in the summer heat and are quite exhausted. Now try to enter your building. There's locked door that needs to be held open, and two thresholds, one for the platform in front of the door and one for the door. You can't go over the first threshold with your rollator as that would prevent the door from being opened.<p>Now, I think the assumed way to get in is to keep the door open with your body while simultaneously lifting the rollator over both thresholds. This requires considerable strength, as you have to reach far with a heavy weight. Maybe an athlete could do it. Not an old exhausted person.<p>An old person needs to first leave the rollator out, open the door and make it so it stays open with a hook. Involves crouching and working with your hands close to the ground. Then lift the rollator one by one over the steps and go inside. Then come back out and close the door.<p>A foot operated door stopper and a few slopes could probably ease that up tremendously.</p>
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<p>True! One can walk around and then observe some of the shape. They were behind glass. So no touching, which means there was some unresolved ambiguity.</p>
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<p>I saw a few of these black Anish Kapoor sculptures. The experience was worth the cost. The brain has a hard time processing it.</p>
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<p>I think it's an accurate description of a common way of thinking, though I wouldn't call it conservative in the global sense.<p>Another is some of the domestic manufacturing or hard tech movement people who present lofty ideals about jobs and sovereignty and so on. But there's a claim that when the surface is scratched a bit, it devolves into a want to keep their imported cheap input materials tax / toll free while introducing taxes and tolls to their foreign competitors' end products. I mean who would pay for domestic materials, they're much more expensive, there'd be no margin!</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.aerosociety.com/news/new-uk-stealth-fighter-demonstrator-takes-shape/">https://www.aerosociety.com/news/new-uk-stealth-fighter-demonstrator-takes-shape/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712570">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712570</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:51:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.aerosociety.com/news/new-uk-stealth-fighter-demonstrator-takes-shape/</link><dc:creator>Gravityloss</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Gravityloss in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It still seems to me designing applications or web services is so hard that it's just easier to hire thousands of people to do customer service and having people to come physically to do things. The average corporation's business application or web page is absolutely terrible and a lot of non-technical users simply can not do business with it. Ie it is a hindrance for the businesses core reason of existence. Do the QR code things show up in revenue tracking? Do they do A/B testing? I think I prefer to choose another restaurant if I see that, or not come again.<p>I think some small pizza shops have had proper simple web pages, probably because it's do-or-die for them and the person contracting the web page is the person also knowing very well how the business is doing. Also phone interactions are very fast and straightforward. It's sad to see them having to struggle with terrible card payment terminals and everybody trying to take a cut (credit card and delivery companies).</p>
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<p>A physicist can fill in but there might be some stuff made out of subatomic particles for example.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/swedens-vattenfall-picks-rolls-royce-smr-nuclear-power-project-2026-06-15/">https://www.reuters.com/business/swedens-vattenfall-picks-rolls-royce-smr-nuclear-power-project-2026-06-15/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589187">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589187</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
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