Hacker News: _fs

New comment by _fs in "Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map"

_fs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:12:01 +0000

I have a fondness for map making and I enjoy your style regardless of digital or physical media. Have you ever created an article on your process? I'd be interested in reading about your flow.

New comment by _fs in "Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map"

_fs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:08:01 +0000

I do not think there are any hand drawn maps. From what I can tell, its Adobe fresco with digital watercolor and digital copic pens. Still looks great, but there is a lot of confusion on the process.

New comment by _fs in "The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work"

_fs — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:17:13 +0000

I still return to O3 often. I enjoy metal detecting and O3 has been excellent at identifying unknown finds. It will spend 5-10 minutes in python adjusting the photo, zooming, cropping and manipulating it to get a better understanding of the object. And it's guesses, though not perfect, are often spot on. Newer models will never manipulate the photo and usually give a "guess" within 30 seconds. The guesses coming from the newer models rarely are even in the ballpark of the item.

It will be a sad day when O3 goes away.

New comment by _fs in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

_fs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:52:18 +0000

Do you think that this is not happening here?

New comment by _fs in "Our Experience with I-Ready"

_fs — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:00:54 +0000

Thank you for this excellent idea. I tried this today. Plugged in my daughters favorite games, asked claude code to develop some web games based on her own preferences. Coded up 3 web games that she has now been playing for almost 45 minutes, practicing her multiplication tables. I refined them to allow server side stats, so I know which games she is playing, where she is in her practice, and utilizing spaced repetition. She has never been able to sit down and work on i-ready for more then 15-20 minutes at a time at home. Big win. I choose exactly what she is learning and practicing, she gets tailor made games that appeal to her.

New comment by _fs in "US orders 2,200 Marines to Middle East"

_fs — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:23:12 +0000

they are likely going to try to take Kharg island. Trump suddenly started talking about this as a target in the hours preceding the announcement of the deployment. He gives away everything that the US is about to do if you pay attention to his truth social posts.

New comment by _fs in "Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps"

_fs — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:19:07 +0000

Funny how this pops up on hacker news today. I have been working on an off and on again project in the same vein. But instead of sanford maps, I have been ripping and downloading GLO surveys. I now have about 3TB worth of 200k+ mid 1800 surveys done by the USGS (GLO at the time). My next step was to create a method of presenting this data. Do you think that your OHMG would help me here?

Its a similar problem that you faced, stripping off the extra image data from the map, then overlaying them on a base map. I might have a slightly easier time, since these surveys mostly line up to existing township/ranges of the PLSS, not at individual house/street level like the sanborn maps. I've manually done the process many times, most in ArcGIS, but have used a few others (like oldmapsonline). Your site was new to me, and the presentation looks great.

Here's an example of the type of survey I'm working with. https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/maps/06317a09-5426-41e0-aa8...

New comment by _fs in "Greenland Crisis"

_fs — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:17:04 +0000

Its the latest manosphere talking point. Pretty much a repeat of saying all protestors are paid by George Soros and the Clintons.

Man got $2,500 whole-body MRI that found no problems – then had stroke

_fs — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:11:40 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/man-got-2500-whole-body-mri-that-found-no-problems-then-had-massive-stroke/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619832

Points: 2

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New comment by _fs in "Sora Update #1"

_fs — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 02:26:16 +0000

is it still invite only? I tried downloading the app to give it a whirl, but apparently you need a code to even open the app

New comment by _fs in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

_fs — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:30:54 +0000

A school's budget is tied directly to attendance. Less students = less budget.

New comment by _fs in "Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations"

_fs — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:50:38 +0000

You say that as if Palantir does not already have all this information ready for AI analysis today.

New comment by _fs in "M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued"

_fs — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:19:03 +0000

Air alarms are going off in Hawaii. Still a few hours away, but they are not joking around. Saying it can wrap around all the islands and hit anywhere

New comment by _fs in "Texas has banned talking on college campuses at night. Seriously"

_fs — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:33:10 +0000

This you? What made your stance on this subject change?

  fuzzbazz 10 months ago | parent | context | prev | next  [–] | on: Brazilian court orders suspension of X

  How can you even have democracy without freedom of speech?
  How can you freely choose who to vote without free exchange of information?

New comment by _fs in "[dead]"

_fs — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 03:52:19 +0000

> There are times you can politicize an issue. A flood that killed a bunch of young kids at a summer camp is not one of them.

This is the same argument that is made after every single school shooting in America. How dare we seek solutions after tragedy. Lets just stick to thoughts and prayers

New comment by _fs in "They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering?"

_fs — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:15:32 +0000

https://www.cnn.com/travel/robotic-exoskeleton-hiking-china-...

New comment by _fs in "GM says new battery chemistry will enable 400-mile range EVs"

_fs — Tue, 13 May 2025 17:25:40 +0000

Some vehicles EPA miles are way off while others are spot on.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...

New comment by _fs in "Kennedy promises to find environmental causes of autism"

_fs — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:54:58 +0000

AFAIK, there are several reasons for the increase in autism diagnosis, but a few key ones people forgot about...

1. DSM IV, the old way, had a separate diagnosis for many autism related disorders. Think Asperger's, pdd-nos, etc. When DSM V was released, many separate diagnosis were umbrella'd in to autism spectrum disorder. The old disorders simply disappeared and are not made any more.

2. Getting an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis opens up a huge amount of insurance and educational leeway. You go from qualifying for general therapy to intensive support therapy, classes, and more. At school, with the diagnosis, you get expanded help for kids that are really struggling. So there is a strong will created by parents and educators to try to get that diagnosis. When you are struggling, this extra support can really help everyone, the kids, teachers, and parents.

These two points alone may account for a lot of the increases we are seeing. I don't know why they are never mentioned by media and the skeptics.

New comment by _fs in "Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market"

_fs — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:17:50 +0000

  New trade routes and spinning up local production will take time (likely longer five years) so the consumer will pay a price.

The main issue I see is that in 3.5 or possible 1.5 years, a new president ( or laws passed through congress ) will just vacate all Trump executive orders, tariffs in included. So that $100 million you invested in a new factory that is 3/4 built? Sorry, tariffs are gona and now you are out $100 mil. Why would any corp assume that risk?

New comment by _fs in "Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week"

_fs — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:59:22 +0000

I wonder if you shared that opinion when it was on the way up as well. Because the P/E ratio has been lopsided compared to other auto makers for years.

Or, are you perhaps skewed in your own opinion due to your near constant support of the american conservatives in your previous posts and comments.