Hacker News: _air

New comment by _air in "Dithering with CSS"

_air — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:42:49 +0000

Neat! Here’s orange guy In “camouflage”: https://imgur.com/a/9xpEG2a

New comment by _air in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

_air — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:36:09 +0000

Yeah, seems like a standard supply level to me.

"California’s inventory has averaged just over 20 days of supply over the last five years (2019–23), compared with the U.S. average of 21.6 days."

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63944

New comment by _air in "Cursor Camp"

_air — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:37:46 +0000

Grab a metal detector to the left of the volleyball court. Then hold it near the bottom left edge of the court

New comment by _air in "DeepSeek v4"

_air — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:09:29 +0000

Opus 4.5 was released on Nov 24 last year. It’s only been 5 months!

New comment by _air in "1D Chess"

_air — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:58:08 +0000

Black has no legal moves because of the knight but they aren't in check

New comment by _air in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

_air — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:49:43 +0000

"The amazing champions inspire boldly like brilliant genius and incredible legends admire splendid talent."

Hard to forget a sentence like that!

New comment by _air in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

_air — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:21:50 +0000

Do we have metrics for the uptime of other major services? Would be interesting to see if this is just a GitHub problem or industry-wide.

What's Your Hour in 'Silicon Valley Time'? (2015)

_air — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:52:49 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/backchannel/how-the-tech-press-forces-a-narrative-on-companies-it-covers-5f89fdb7793e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559995

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by _air in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

_air — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:48:15 +0000

This is awesome! How far away are we from a model of this capability level running at 100 t/s? It's unclear to me if we'll see it from miniaturization first or from hardware gains

Is this the world's first solid-state battery?

_air — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:53:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/858514/is-this-the-worlds-first-solid-state-battery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543284

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by _air in "I wrote the manual Karpathy said was missing for agentic AI"

_air — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:24:04 +0000

It would be nice if there were a domain specific language that could help with the internal consistency problem

New comment by _air in "The hardest working font in Manhattan"

_air — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:44:27 +0000

Getting hugged: https://web.archive.org/web/20250214221951/https://aresluna....

Pixar-style dancing lamp hints at Apple's future home robot

_air — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:52:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/607663/apple-smart-home-robot-research-video

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969847

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by _air in "Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion"

_air — Fri, 24 May 2024 00:55:48 +0000

Is Google losing significant web traffic to ChatGPT and others? I don't understand why else they'd test a product like this so widely.

Gemini 1.5 Pro

_air — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:12:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1758146022726041615

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383593

Points: 152

# Comments: 2

New comment by _air in "Should I use a pie chart?"

_air — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 23:12:23 +0000

If I zoom in closely, I think I see a yes. Seriously, some data looks great in a pie chart

New comment by _air in "Small biz owners scale back their office space or go remote altogether"

_air — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:33:07 +0000

http://archive.today/baKGL

New comment by _air in "Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth"

_air — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:17:10 +0000

Also: https://xkcd.com/1189/

New comment by _air in "The Married Introvert"

_air — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:59:14 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20231030201749/https://lukasrose...

The '640K' quote won't go away – but did Gates say it? (2008)

_air — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:00:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quote-won-t-go-away----but-did-gates-really-say-it-.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37947930

Points: 3

# Comments: 0