Hacker News: _qua

New comment by _qua in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

_qua — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:03:45 +0000

I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.

New comment by _qua in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

_qua — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:06:39 +0000

Damn, that case took a long time to resolve. You know what they say about justice delayed...

New comment by _qua in "How to run Qwen 3.5 locally"

_qua — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:57:00 +0000

For roughly equivalent memory sizes, how does one choose between the bit depth and the model size?

New comment by _qua in "The Contagious Taste of Cancer"

_qua — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:22:45 +0000

Some infections cause cancer-like growths or masses though they're not actually cancer. Though off the top of my head none that I would suspect would survive a trip through stomach acid.

New comment by _qua in "Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI"

_qua — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:02:33 +0000

Would there be liability lawsuits for this happening on public land? Might it be more a matter of them not wanting to do body clean up once a week?

New comment by _qua in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

_qua — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:34:32 +0000

Interesting how the concept of a clean room implementation changes when the agent has been trained on the entire internet already

New comment by _qua in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

_qua — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:04:43 +0000

"...the requested warrants would permit law enforcement personnel to (1) press or swipe the fingers (including thumbs) of the subject to the fingerprint scanner of the devices..."

New comment by _qua in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

_qua — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:55:47 +0000

What do you think warrants are? You think they get a warrant and they say, "Can you put your finger on the device?" You say, "No," and that's it? If all they wanted to do was ask you, they would just ask you without the warrant.

New comment by _qua in "Usenet personality"

_qua — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:08:02 +0000

B1FF sounds like he would have been right at home on weird Twitter

New comment by _qua in "Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines"

_qua — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:19:49 +0000

Presumably they'd be doing inspections for the power company, who probably don't care if some minuscule amounts of power are consumed directly during operations.

New comment by _qua in "ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?"

_qua — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:52:54 +0000

Well, I've really love being protected from cookies. Has done wonders for my experience on the web.

New comment by _qua in "ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?"

_qua — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:25:14 +0000

If you lived in the US and you didn't like this product, you can just choose to not use it. What benefit do you as a citizen of Europe derive from having this withheld from you?

New comment by _qua in "ChatGPT Health"

_qua — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:52:10 +0000

You came in, you told a doctor that she ate a specific food and immediately got a rash and GI upset and the ED doctor did not diagnose anaphylaxis?

New comment by _qua in "ChatGPT Health"

_qua — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:35:18 +0000

> Most doctor advice boil down to drink some water and take a painkiller

Forgive my brusqueness here, but this could only be written by someone who has not yet been seriously ill.

New comment by _qua in "Eat Real Food"

_qua — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:29:44 +0000

The most important dietary intervention most people need is just eating less. The content of what they eat is secondary. It's not unimportant, it just matters less when you are still wildly overweight.

New comment by _qua in "A spider web unlike any seen before"

_qua — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:54:53 +0000

This is the first anti-fly paper take I've ever seen on the basis of morality.

New comment by _qua in "A spider web unlike any seen before"

_qua — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:31:49 +0000

I've never really understood the "spiders protect you from pests" argument. Yeah, sure they eat flies. But I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me and get stuck to some fly paper than have a spider drop from the door frame on an invisible silk thread and slam into my face, or run across my pillow. Maybe I have arachnophobia, but they're freaky little creatures that I don't want in my living space.

New comment by _qua in "We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)"

_qua — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:22:55 +0000

I personally think it's more of a https://c25k.com/ time of year.

DisneyResearchHub: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World [video]

_qua — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:11:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8OFMTteOo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344595

Points: 5

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New comment by _qua in "Generative Optogenetics"

_qua — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:34:50 +0000

This is cool but why is DARPA funding it?