Hacker News: Jabbles

New comment by Jabbles in "Midjourney Medical"

Jabbles — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:35:10 +0000

This is comparable to datacenters in space. We have no idea whether:

a) it is possible to construct such a scanner

b) the results of a scan would be able to diagnose anything

c) the false-positive rate would be low enough to make this useful

But it is probably very good as a source of speculation to hype the valuation of the company, because iff the above issues are solved, then this could be very valuable.

New comment by Jabbles in "SpaceX S-1"

Jabbles — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:03:55 +0000

If any company can put profitable data centers in space, it will be SpaceX. But I doubt that any company can. The difficulties of the physics and engineering of cooling seem like they will always outweigh the advantages of keeping your data center on Earth.

I am annoyed by the insistence that the value of this company comes from something that no one has been able to show is possible yet without multiplying it by the obvious risk factor. And they seem to have got other companies like Alphabet[1] and Anthropic to publicize the idea, to give it more credibility.

I do not want my pension to automatically buy shares at $1T, but it looks like it will have no choice.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/science/google-spacex-talks-explore-...

[2] https://spacenews.com/anthropic-to-consider-using-spacex-orb...

New comment by Jabbles in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

Jabbles — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:03:21 +0000

> Engineers at google have publically stated that the models are too big and are far from their potencial

Can you link to a source?

New comment by Jabbles in "Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters"

Jabbles — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:51:51 +0000

Please fix your graph so the names of the models are readable

New comment by Jabbles in "Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency"

Jabbles — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:11:23 +0000

> CEFR B2 which is fluent

That certainly is controversial. I don't think many people would consider anyone who is fluent to only be B2.

New comment by Jabbles in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

Jabbles — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:56:05 +0000

It has $40B in liabilities.

[PDF] https://www.airfranceklm.com/sites/default/files/2026-02/202...

New comment by Jabbles in "As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating"

Jabbles — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:52:34 +0000

Talking in terms of "carbon" is misleading. Methane is much more potent than CO2. I don't know why you think methane is broken down at the same rate as it is added.

- Cattle release methane

- Forests are burnt to make room for crops/grazing

- Fertilizer for crops for cattle produces nitrous oxide

I do not claim this adds up to 60%, but to suggest it is zero is incorrect.

New comment by Jabbles in "String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof"

Jabbles — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:07:32 +0000

re 2: special relativity is not general relativity - large elements will not provide testable predictions for a theory of everything that combines general relativity and quantum mechanics.

re: "GR environments (such as geostationary satellites)" - a geostationary orbit (or any orbit) is not an environment to test the interaction of GR and QM - it is a place to test GR on its own, as geostationary satellites have done. In order to test a theory of everything, the gravity needs to be strong enough to not be negligible in comparison to quantum effects, i.e. black holes, neutron stars etc. your example (1) is therefore a much better answer than (2)

New comment by Jabbles in "$1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI"

Jabbles — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:38:13 +0000

Well according to the FT article that this article is based on:

a) it's $800B

b) this is the largest such selloff since April

https://archive.ph/bzr5G

New comment by Jabbles in "Why is Japan still investing in custom floating point accelerators?"

Jabbles — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:18:08 +0000

> They explicitly stay around just weeks away from being able to perform a nuclear weapons test

Do you have a citation for "weeks away"? Wikipedia only says "within one year": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapons_progr...

New comment by Jabbles in "SQLite's File Format"

Jabbles — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:31:56 +0000

> poorly designed storage layer, poorly designed column formats, and a terrible SQL implementation

Is this opinion shared by others?

New comment by Jabbles in "Pixel 10 Phones"

Jabbles — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:18:05 +0000

This is like using a 6-fingered person in an AI imaging advert.

New comment by Jabbles in "Pixel 10 Phones"

Jabbles — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:17:47 +0000

https://imgur.com/a/sDJTiyK

That 100x zoom looks a bit... sloppy...

The car has one wing mirror and the rear tire is wider than the front. Edit: this might be real, see child comments.

Is there someone who knows more about cars who can confirm that this is in fact, not real?

New comment by Jabbles in "Pixel 10 Phones"

Jabbles — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:23:44 +0000

> For instance, when you're calling an airline, it can automatically find your flight details from your email and display it during your phone call.

Is this really the best example usecase they can think of? How often does an individual call an airline? I'm sure in aggregate they get a lot of calls, but I don't think I've ever had to.

It just seems really weird that this is the top example of on-device AI. The other examples mentioned, like "finding the right photos to share with a friend", seem more relatable.

New comment by Jabbles in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

Jabbles — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:02:01 +0000

Like https://support.google.com/docs/answer/15820999?hl=en-GB ?

New comment by Jabbles in "What went wrong for Yahoo"

Jabbles — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:32:21 +0000

"Facebook’s board would have forced Zuckerberg to take it"

Doesn't Zuckerberg have majority control?

New comment by Jabbles in "Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short"

Jabbles — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:03:07 +0000

Those are points (2) and (5).

New comment by Jabbles in "The US has a new most powerful laser hitting 2 petawatts"

Jabbles — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:56:10 +0000

https://archive.ph/w5yDx

New comment by Jabbles in "I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs"

Jabbles — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:30:10 +0000

Unfortunately this work is now cited by Wikipedia, so expect the confusion to spread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(music)#Usage_and_trends

New comment by Jabbles in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

Jabbles — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 22:29:56 +0000

This conversation is about billionaires, not the top 1%.