Hacker News: _air

New comment by _air in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

_air — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:09:23 +0000

It's funny to pick a birth year from our era and think of how history will represent us:

Martha was born in the countryside near Short Pump, in 1993 CE. Her village holds about 300 people. She makes her home in a timber-framed detached house. Martha has neither brothers nor sisters. She eats mostly wheat bread and maize, pork and dairy, and potatoes and garden vegetables, with apples in season, and coffee, soft drinks and snack foods too. She knows her letters. Her height is about 171 cm (5 ft 7 in).

The Capital Cycle Theory

_air — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:13:07 +0000

Article URL: https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/the-capital-cycle-theory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351066

Points: 19

# Comments: 2

New comment by _air in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

_air — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:33:28 +0000

Switzerland is ranked 67th in country population density. For reference, the United Kingdom is ranked 48th and the United States is ranked 183rd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

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