Hacker News: Luc

New comment by Luc in "Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video]"

Luc — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:06:54 +0000

“This video is restricted. Please check the Google Workspace administrator and/or the network administrator restrictions”

Attention is all we have: A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality

Luc — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:34:28 +0000

Article URL: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/attention-is-all-we-have

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711352

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction"

Luc — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:08:53 +0000

This style of bookmark is rare so it follows it wasn't _necessary_. But with dense text it might be faster and perhaps less error prone than locating the right place in the text?

Scribe would change the margin size and line spacing, and the parchment would be a different size than the source, so the page breaks would end up in different locations in the text.

New comment by Luc in "Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction"

Luc — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:24:01 +0000

> [...] the maker was almost certainly a transcriber who used it to keep his place on the page and note the column he was writing in when he stopped. The wheel would be moved to the stopping point and the circle turned to the number of the column he had been writing in when he stopped.

It would make a lot more sense that the bookmark was placed in the source book rather than in the copy. I.e. the wheel would be turned to the source column they had been reading from.

Disintegration Fingerprinting: Tool to Identify Falsified Solid-Dosage Medicines

Luc — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:24:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.25333621v2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591027

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle"

Luc — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:57:55 +0000

'PowerPC DRC' appears to be the code in mame that translates PowerPC machine code into native host machine code (Dynamic Recompilation Core).

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/cpu/...

About ASCII art and Jgs font (2023)

Luc — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:51:14 +0000

Article URL: https://velvetyne.fr/news/about-ascii-art-and-jgs-font/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553265

Points: 35

# Comments: 6

The end of progress against extreme poverty?

Luc — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:05:00 +0000

Article URL: https://ourworldindata.org/end-progress-extreme-poverty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508175

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by Luc in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

Luc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:58:40 +0000

Yup, this is so much better!

New comment by Luc in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

Luc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:57:21 +0000

Maybe you want to take another look? It’s not subtle.

New comment by Luc in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

Luc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:21:26 +0000

Something else. Rigging is the ropes holding the masts and controlling the sails. There's a bunch of weirdness going on with that. Someone with an interest in sail boats will spot it easily.

Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-Assed App in 2026

Luc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:29:48 +0000

Article URL: https://pfandrade.me/blog/mac-assed-swiftui-app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444497

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

Luc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:42:27 +0000

The rigging on the surrounding ships is nonsensical. AI generated.

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/HMS_Psyc...

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

Luc — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:29:31 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31514

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433488

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

Luc — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:21:31 +0000

https://github.com/tripplyons/pokeemerald-wasm/

New comment by Luc in "Sweden is now America's most valuable tech ally. Most Americans haven't noticed"

Luc — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:58:07 +0000

Pangram.com rates it fully AI generated with high confidence.

New comment by Luc in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

Luc — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:11:13 +0000

But he then writes: "I want to be really clear that this is the schematic maximally cynical approach, is not what SpaceX is doing, and is not actually possible."

New comment by Luc in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

Luc — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:16:26 +0000

"Danish pension company Akademikir Pension has announced it will divest from Tesla due to ongoing concerns about labour rights, corporate governance, and Tesla CEO and co-founder, Elon Musk's behaviour."

https://www.europeanpensions.net/ep/Denmarks-Akademiker-Pens...

A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

Luc — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:35:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebooks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256450

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)

Luc — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:28:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163521

Points: 10

# Comments: 3