Hacker News: MeteorMarc

New comment by MeteorMarc in "How Arsonists used cats to spread Italy's wildfires"

MeteorMarc — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:12:31 +0000

Already known method from ages ago, see https://www.ft.com/content/7408cc02-7004-11e9-bf5c-6eeb83756...

New comment by MeteorMarc in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

MeteorMarc — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:17:11 +0000

Wait, can we have a vote to not link HN contributions to dynamic pages!

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency"

MeteorMarc — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:23:56 +0000

Nothing on recharging the battery in the landing phase, so room for improvement.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)"

MeteorMarc — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:42:37 +0000

Many languages have json marshalling and unmarshalling in their standard libs, e.g. C#, golang, python.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

MeteorMarc — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:35:16 +0000

Would it even be possible to ban open weight models, given all the ways they can be used in finetuned models or online services, also in 3rd countries?

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

MeteorMarc — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:17:18 +0000

I think the questions are sufficiently suggestive to induce hallucinations. Still a lot of manual work to check all these claims.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

MeteorMarc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:11:20 +0000

My son remarked: because they produce shit.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made"

MeteorMarc — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:44:39 +0000

Not only the initial strength is important but also the susceptiveness to crack growth during many years of stress. No idea how this structure would perform on this aspect.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Designing and assembling my first PCB"

MeteorMarc — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:43:44 +0000

Yes, but not how to copy the paper design to the pcb with the marker pen. I am pretty sure a did the drilling after the etching.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Loss of Cognitive Flexibility, Not Memory, May Be Earliest Sign of Alzheimer's"

MeteorMarc — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:52:22 +0000

They can't just change the earliest sign of Alzheimer!

New comment by MeteorMarc in "The Particle Box – Kinetic Molecular Theory Simulator"

MeteorMarc — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:12:46 +0000

Relative pressure variations do not seem to depend much on number of particles, which seems counterintuitive.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

MeteorMarc — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:15:30 +0000

Previous discussion, related to grapheneos: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

MeteorMarc — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:19:14 +0000

Lets see if there will be any private investments unless gov guarantees fixed minimum price of MWh.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom"

MeteorMarc — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:42:03 +0000

Also see Schmidhuber's take on the Hinton + Hopfield Nobel prize: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/physics-nobel-2024-plagiari...

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"

MeteorMarc — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:56:32 +0000

Nice example how far you can come with little initial knowledge, a clear goal, some passion and an inquisitive mind.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

MeteorMarc — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:53:18 +0000

See the end of the article, after further research quantum gravity could be simulated on a quantum computer. The links between research on quantum computing and quantum gravity are fascinating anyway!

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

MeteorMarc — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:40:43 +0000

Could it be that CS attracts a different population of students in the current genAI era?

New comment by MeteorMarc in "They’re made out of weights"

MeteorMarc — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:24:01 +0000

Fermat's principle is an outcome of constructive interference of waves. It works both for classical and quantummechanical descriptions. E.g. check https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/U...

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Storing sunlight in DNA-inspired molecules, released later as heat"

MeteorMarc — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:39:04 +0000

It needs 300 nm UV light.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Map of music"

MeteorMarc — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:43:31 +0000

Interesting. Search bar does not work in Android duckduckgo browser.