Hacker News: __patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__patchbit__Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:50:39 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Om Malik has died"]]>A handful of unsalted nuts consumed daily helps the heart.

]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:14:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681960__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681960https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681960<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Big AI labs are hiring philosophers"]]>I have asked a mathematician to "Define consciousness." who self identifies to be a third of each: poet and linguist, mathematician; the thought bubble offered so far along the mandering trail at resonance to "intrinsic computational consciousness" is a reflection on knowledge and work, randomness in the context of complexity theory.

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:49:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669872__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669872https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669872<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ask HN: Future of Programming?"]]>On a three panel glass setup, I'd like to see trees on the left, graphs on the right, the AI hyper explores those trees and graphs, on the center screen I'd like to see three areas of focus, the AI and me hyper explore summative representations, there's an open metaverse teaming aspect, when all three focus rings overlap the problem is solved to an engineering degree that holds water.

]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:39:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619370__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619370https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619370<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ask HN: If AI didn't exist, what would you be building today?"]]>Popper's 3 World ontological space for Artificial Conscious Intellect (ACI) in JAXA's Kirobi.

]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:07:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616393__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616393https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616393<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Is anyone still using Emacs?"]]>Shopping for ThinkPad T14 or P14 specs to run Emacs on NetBSD is a minefield.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:16:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610390__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610390https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610390<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"]]>Ask Claude to reprogram the Emacs graphics display engine to provide 3D wireframe object relations to see Popper's World abstraction navigating World 3 to 1 and backup.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:52:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606687__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606687https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606687<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "A Trillion Dollars Isn't Worth It If You Have to Be Elon Musk"]]>The SpaceX scrap and redesign to the SLC6 launch complex needs to happen to 60 year old USAF airframe designs. Scrap. Redesign. Retire the risk. It isn't the money amounts. It is the effects on gaming the reality under the Starlink and not the Starline business model.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:43:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605839__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605839https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605839<![CDATA[Cursor CEO omits information geometry contraints helping programming activity]]>Article URL: https://twitter.com/a16z/status/2066932717871301046

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566247

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]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:48:08 +0000https://twitter.com/a16z/status/2066932717871301046__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566247https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566247<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"]]>Millions of produced verified software engineered products in 45 minutes in the likeness of Oracle ERP or notepad++, helix are small potatoes when you see the unbounded ambitions of SpaceX in full.

The end point may squeeze quality of operations at the subminute time span for ground control environment seriously launching Starship rockets one an hour, for example.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:50:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565473__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565473https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565473<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says"]]>Aged out weapons design is a flying target.

War profiteers say motherhood statements about the crew but don't care.

60 years of new weapons design opportunities was pocketed in pork by the politicians bought and paid for.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:55:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546925__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546925https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546925<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "World’s nuclear arsenals expanded and upgraded"]]>The micromini swarm drone attack risk to deterrence on preemptive strike on stategic nuclear weapons installations is a rat meets dinosaur epochal defining moment if humanity survives to tell the tale.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:37:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537822__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537822https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537822<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Even more batteries included with Emacs"]]>Emacs is the AI acupuncture livecode needle probe into AI robotics. Pair it with Helix editor for the old and true, refresh new experience.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:13:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536895__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536895https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536895<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Forbes declares Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire"]]>Wind the clock forward from 2008 to the present and see the quality of vision improve point to point across the planet as SpaceX increases launch cadence to proliferate their Starlink and Starshield constellations. The Blue Origin LEO constellation is way behind in orbit stationed satellite counts and receives special attention from political friends for failing to meet contracted obligation, which is the standard for big American bureaucratic industry that is slow and stupid these days.

The effects are measurable.

]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:19:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512550__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512550https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512550<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"]]>SpaceX will cocoon the planet with next level new accelerated technology the way baseload grid electricity supply took 300 years to achieve.

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:55:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506528__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506528https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506528<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"]]>SpaceX almost has a full grip on the planetary consciousness extinction problem.

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:53:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500409__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500409https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500409<![CDATA[Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 – 1973)]]>Article URL: https://grokipedia.com/page/Lyndon_B._Johnson

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491456

Points: 1

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]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:11:57 +0000https://grokipedia.com/page/Lyndon_B._Johnson__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491456https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491456<![CDATA[Dean Rusk (1909 – 1994)]]>Article URL: https://grokipedia.com/page/Dean_Rusk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491295

Points: 1

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]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:01:10 +0000https://grokipedia.com/page/Dean_Rusk__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491295https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491295<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Leaker says new MacBook '100% confirmed' to get touchscreen"]]>Touch screen makes sense for MacBook to allow continuity in UX context switching between iPad and MacBook. More intuitive to touch control media play buttons and directly finger drag scrubber for quick interventions, with keyboard shortcuts a bonus for longer sessions.

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:56:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491215__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491215https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491215<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"]]>NetBSD on plain console.

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:33:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486249__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486249https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486249<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"]]>Apple could bridge the gap between Mac Mini Pro and HomePod Mini for the Neo to try experimental local AI configs in need of more memory and storage. The Vision Neo completes the three part environment system for students in biology or morphogenesis and robot design.

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:28:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486212__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486212https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486212