Hacker News: MeteorMarc

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.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"

MeteorMarc — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:55:44 +0000

Nice, also note that ASML is a big investor in Mistral AI, which made the industrial AI ambitions already more credible. https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/asml-mistra...

New comment by MeteorMarc in "δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models"

MeteorMarc — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:58:06 +0000

On huggingface it was #3 paper of the day, which is neutral towards your hypothesis.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Teaching Claude Why"

MeteorMarc — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:53:01 +0000

Count the lessons below "We’ve learned four main lessons from this work:" and laugh.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case"

MeteorMarc — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:54:58 +0000

Nice to see serial comms supported. Are I2S and CAN on the roadmap? Do you see any sensor module suppliers support ArielOS?

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Statecharts: hierarchical state machines"

MeteorMarc — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:00:20 +0000

The title contains hierarchical, which does not come back in the post. You probably need hierarchy, otherwise state charts become unweildingly large.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

MeteorMarc — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:54:47 +0000

If you have serious pain, you probably need both of them.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

MeteorMarc — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:51:09 +0000

Where is the source? Tantalo does not produce photons, it is not like GaAs that you can pump and get stimulated emission. The Nature paper does not have laser in the title.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

MeteorMarc — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:26:46 +0000

Title is misleading. This is about integrated optics that can do "computation" on the frequency of laser input using all kinds of nonlinear optical effects.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

MeteorMarc — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:11:19 +0000

Interesting, qwen has the pelican driving on the left lane. Coincidence or has it something to do with the workers providing the RL data?

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Why It's So Hard to Fix an Electric Bike"

MeteorMarc — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:10:16 +0000

"Hardt has torn tendons in his own hand after accidentally triggering a cadence sensor that caused the wheel to spin out of control on the stand, even when the motor and battery were disconnected." Can anyone explain how this is possible?

New comment by MeteorMarc in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

MeteorMarc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:03:34 +0000

Are there any consequences for the Artemis 2 mission (ironic)?

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Some Unusual Trees"

MeteorMarc — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:33:56 +0000

Are you sure the Madagascar traveller's tree is not a camouflaged mobile network antenna?

New comment by MeteorMarc in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

MeteorMarc — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:07:38 +0000

It seems a bad idea in the first place for a public organization to award a single company a huge contract for both the software licences and all the consultancy and implementation efforts.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "How Block is replacing middle management with an AI "world model""

MeteorMarc — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:06:51 +0000

Maybe you can disrupt some markets, but do not expect a strong position in the value chain if you depend on external AI providers that can extract all gained wisdom from your calls and have more execution power.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely?"

MeteorMarc — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:20:23 +0000

So, this proves that cloning induced defects do no grow exponentially. Any small defect rate would grow enormous after 58 steps. Accidentally, 58 is close to the myth with the double number of grains on a chessboard.

New comment by MeteorMarc in "2025 Turing award given for quantum information science"

MeteorMarc — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:07:15 +0000

Really curious, not a critique: apart from the idea of the possibility of intrusion detection due to the quantum nature of the communication link, what is special about the protocol that is mentioned?