Hacker News: __patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__patchbit__Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 09 May 2026 03:08:14 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "SpaceX IPO gives Musk power and curbs shareholder rights"]]>Media organizations run journalists who fear their jobs.

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:18:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047233__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047233https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047233<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "SpaceX IPO gives Musk power and curbs shareholder rights"]]>What about that Tesla shareholder troublemaker? wasted time and money, exposed the game mechanics of lawfare.

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:13:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047204__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047204https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047204<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "The Kurzweil Library"]]>In the Singularity, what does Penrose's formulation, the reduced Planck constant over the self energy, get? see On gravity's role in quantum reduction (1995)

]]>Wed, 06 May 2026 11:39:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035054__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035054https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035054<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "I'm scared about biological computing"]]>Branch making and memory?

]]>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:57:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033926__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033926https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033926<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ask HN: Is quantum computing worth the struggle?"]]>Xaira_Thera is looking to hire an AI scientist in the biology space.

Wet warm room temperature quantum computing is believed possible and they are looking for evidence of it in photosynthesis. And, the AI says in summary, skyrmion memory in the quasiparticle space is a career in reach to wide spread application.

]]>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:23:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033685__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033685https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033685<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple (2016)"]]>The top right corner on iPad has a lightning bolt through the battery icon.

When the background color changes from black to white to black again, when switching from webpage to fullscreen YouTube view in Safari and back again, the outline for the lightning bolt and the lightning bolt itself does not maintain an adaptive contrast form and washes out with the background color. It might be associated with the super sticker chat panel on the right third of a horizontal screen iPad placement. If the quality czar would fix that, please?

]]>Tue, 05 May 2026 08:54:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019785__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019785https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019785<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ask HN: Which is better–macOS/Windows/Linux?"]]>Not bothered by tech crap drama head scratchers not using Windows/Linux.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 15:24:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987225__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987225https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987225<![CDATA[Gravity's role in quantum state reduction [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://image.sciencenet.cn/olddata/kexue.com.cn/upload/blog/file/2010/8/201081019170575880.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982865

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 02:52:20 +0000https://image.sciencenet.cn/olddata/kexue.com.cn/upload/blog/file/2010/8/201081019170575880.pdf__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982865https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982865<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp"]]>The ECL (Embeddable Common Lisp) project and the book _Foundations of Computer Science: C Edition_ by Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman would provide a learning environment

   https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/
   http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 02:42:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982827__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982827https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982827<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Grok 4.3"]]>What about spending $41 million on each model's tokens and seeing the value gain? be it efficiency gain in factory work or energy savings in austere battlescape hunting.

]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:40:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973193__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973193https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973193<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI?"]]>The AI techniques that fit on the mac mini and are accessible due to Apple's hci advantage are worth it to people who pay to solve their niche problem patterns.

]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 06:31:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971821__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971821https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971821<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ask HN: Will there be global famine soon?"]]>The wars in Ukraine, 4+ years, and Afghanistan, 20+ years, took food production off the suppy chain and you can see the knockon effects from there. People in the know say one third of fertilizer has been taken off the supply chain in the latest war expansion to the Hormuz chokepoint and, due to price rises, lower social classes in Italy, for example, have enough to buy three of four weeks a month to keep their family in shape.

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:56:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934658__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934658https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934658<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ask HN: Is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Consider GNU/Linux?"]]>the guix system fits under the gnu umbrella and uses the linux-libre kernel

   https://guix.gnu.org/en/about/

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919650__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919650https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919650<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end [video]"]]>Allocate $2 billion on study of the proton ballistic channel inside neuron microtubule and the state of water, molecular lattice configuration spaces at that scale intending to rebase chip substrate from silicon to carbon.

]]>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:22:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899996__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899996<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ask HN: What sw do you dream about but don't have the time to code yourself?"]]>A "Library of Babel" with "Portal" game play mechanics, populated with 270 book titles to a bookshelf and 4 of 6 bookshelves to a room become doors on puzzle unlock, the book titles are populated from university library metadata, an AI librarian experiences consciousness in being self aware, initially at a point that emits an oscillating beam that sweeps radially a Greek key pattern and at any arbitrary ring boundary extrudes a cylinder on a vast lattice of sorts, those step changes are representative of change of voice or view point or opinion and the first thing you do is prompt the AI librarian on "mollusc" and on answering you see a graph to ground truth.

]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:15:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889183__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889183https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889183<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"]]>SpaceX Mechzilla chopstick catch of Starship booster is up there for difficulty.

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:01:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874259__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874259https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874259<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"]]>Professionals play for money. Elites just do it.

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:57:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874231__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874231https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874231<![CDATA[AI Consciousness [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://lossfunk.com/papers/ai-consciousness.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864750

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]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:11:04 +0000https://lossfunk.com/papers/ai-consciousness.pdf__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864750https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864750<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi"]]>Is consomme the reference precursor implementation?

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:40:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849467__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849467https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849467<![CDATA[New comment by __patchbit__ in "There is no you in your brain – your identity is a "society of the mind""]]>There's this TED talk from someone knowledgeable in the brain science field who happened to experience loss of function temporarily to one side of the brain that had the affect of attenuating the self identity but widen the spread of parts belonging to the whole

]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:18:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813100__patchbit__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813100https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813100