Hacker News: Zee2

New comment by Zee2 in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

Zee2 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:30:43 +0000

iPhones still let you use certain contactless features (like Suica) even when the battery has "run out" (ie., the main OS has shut off). The reserve battery power is enough to run Suica, CarKey support, and FindMy.

New comment by Zee2 in "I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers"

Zee2 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:36:16 +0000

I’m certain the vapidity of the characters in Gatsby is entirely the point.

New comment by Zee2 in "Copirate 365: Plundering in the Depths of Microsoft Copilot (CVE-2026-24299)"

Zee2 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:01:39 +0000

The idea of having the chatbot essentially red team itself is hilarious.

New comment by Zee2 in "Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line"

Zee2 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:21:40 +0000

+1 on this - would love to have a more realistic timing mode where there are a few minutes of ambiance for travel sections in between station arrivals.

New comment by Zee2 in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

Zee2 — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:16:49 +0000

Very first flight of a brand new engine type (Raptor 3) with totally reworked heatshielding/plumbing/sensors/control systems/etc.

New comment by Zee2 in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

Zee2 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:49:10 +0000

Giant tardigrades would have been fun. Serious, authentic space travelers... not so much on the cuteness factor, though.

New comment by Zee2 in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

Zee2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:51:23 +0000

Alignment “appearing” better as model capabilities increase scares the shit out of me, tbh.

New comment by Zee2 in "There Is a RAM Shortage"

Zee2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:07:42 +0000

They’re a bit behind the curve. Prices are dropping.

New comment by Zee2 in "Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)"

Zee2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:35:12 +0000

What about Gitea? Hmm…

New comment by Zee2 in "The three year myth"

Zee2 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:48:24 +0000

I have to say the same, but even as someone who isn’t really “relied upon”. The best asset for my own independent well-being has always been knowing which way the wind blows and sailing in that direction.

I have to imagine if there was some internal Polymarket-esque platform I’d be a rich man... (facetiously speaking) Unfortunately knowing the way the wind blows is not as much of an asset to those in charge.

New comment by Zee2 in "Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit"

Zee2 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:24:12 +0000

The kerning on this makes me itchy. Everything seems oddly spaced.

New comment by Zee2 in "Scott Adams has died"

Zee2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:42:54 +0000

"Everything expanding at the same rate" sounds vaguely similar to the truth that what we feel as gravity (standing on earth) is us and everything around us accelerating upwards from the center of the gravity well - and what we feel as "pressure" on our feet is from the earth "holding us up" (in crude terms). So, it sounds crazy but it's not too distant from the truth.

New comment by Zee2 in "Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB"

Zee2 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:53:06 +0000

This is super cool. Would love to see a Z80 simulator set up with these examples to play with!

New comment by Zee2 in "Hydraulic press flips coin onto its edge on the 11,175th flip after 147 hours"

Zee2 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:33:52 +0000

You know, I'm no hydraulic press expert, but I'm pretty sure that isn't a hydraulic press.

New comment by Zee2 in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

Zee2 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:22:09 +0000

If you read the release, it explicitly does not include the likenesses of human actors. Only animated and illustrated characters are included. (Although, that does cover animated/illustrated versions of characters that are typically portrayed by human actors...)

This is almost certainly due to the photographic/human likenesses of actors being under an entirely separate license and royalty contract than pure IP from Disney.

New comment by Zee2 in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

Zee2 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:05:26 +0000

The ping-ponging is certainly a Gen1 problem. (My Gen1 does this.) Gen1 was essentially an off-the-shelf Mobileye unit, and the performance was, as expected, not good.

Gen2 autonomy stack is completely unrelated to Gen1, and from what I hear is a completely different level of reliability.

(also - this presentation covered yet another, unrelated, gen3 autonomy stack, which shares none of the hardware or models with the existing gen2 stack, either.)

New comment by Zee2 in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

Zee2 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:02:52 +0000

I think the revenue source times number of people using Plex for audiobooks as a total market value for Rivian is approximately zero.

New comment by Zee2 in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

Zee2 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:59:23 +0000

That was specifically for their existing Gen2 highway assist expansion. Not the Gen3 custom silicon full autonomy that they were discussing for the rest of the presentation.

New comment by Zee2 in "Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps"

Zee2 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:20:30 +0000

Seems like the search is based only on the transcript/dialogue - not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some CLIP/embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.

New comment by Zee2 in "YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019)"

Zee2 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:10:42 +0000

That is something that Macs do at the system level (if you were experiencing this on a Mac)