Hacker News: aurizon

New comment by aurizon in "Almost nowhere in California is building enough, according to the state"

aurizon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:48:33 +0000

self interest? Retiring/moving to a lower cost state/country?

New comment by aurizon in "Almost nowhere in California is building enough, according to the state"

aurizon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:50:07 +0000

Of course there are minimal new homes. Crooked/biased current home owners know that every new home built reduces(incrementally) the selling price of their home. So they infest local laws with restrictive limits on new homes (density, height, polydactyllic cats etc etc.) Here in Toronto they circulate questions and objection procedure forms that solicit objections - it is much the same in the USA. In California there are thickets of these rules. Many are racially based, but dare not say that, so they use creative word craft, size etc to exclude 'undesireables' by economic filtering by making huge lot sizes, large home sizes that are also single family(10-20 rooms etc). These are endless. Only a land/home crunch will break these down.

New comment by aurizon in "Generative AI Can Harm Teaching"

aurizon — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:45:28 +0000

AI can be an effective support tool for a teacher. Old way = 30 students, with teacher at the front explaining/showing/etc. Occasional questions/responses. Some are shy, some not following, many baffled, most silent. New way, 30 students each in their own alcove with dual 20 inch monitors and head phones with the same recorded explanation with AI all on their own time track so the AI can monitor responses and assess progress. AI has the smarts to query points to assess progressm and to present an alternate approach one or more times if needed, and escalate to a supervisory teacher/assistant as needed. Each student can progress at their pace, fast/slow. Poor students can be spotted and get added attention and faster ones can progress more quickly. The big problem today is lack of teacher one on one time, so many just languish, Some form study groups, others are auto-didacts and the book will do and too many drop out. The teaching community has a chance to embrace well implemented AI in the classroom. I hope they do better this time than they did with computers when they first entered classrooms in the late 80's. I recall in the early 80's when departments at U of T were not allowed to buy IBM and Apple PC's to perform modelling etc because the University had a large IBM system and we had to prepare programs, test them and them present them for the TSO system. (Time Shared Option) and the staff would run and return your batch/results the next AM. You would then assess data and fix it and run again(as there were frequent batch fails). Most of the grad students and post docs had access to IBM/Apple PC's and passed programs around, the early internet and sneakernet was in full flower. Eventually the UofT gave in to realty and soon every desk had a PC. Laptops -?? Not yet. We had luggables, Kaypro's and then Dells 25 to 40 poundsm CRT based 5.25 floppy, rare 5 Meg hard drives. High Schools had near zero computers, they slowly came in over 20 years. We had all manner of non standard ones, Commodore did bestm but the Gov of Ontario killed them by adopting their ICON system, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICON_(microcomputer) This was a form of graft for Canadian computer companies who would build and sell these and = $$$. Of course, it launched with fanfare, and fell from orbit ablaze all the way.

New comment by aurizon in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

aurizon — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:54:34 +0000

A retrospective analysis of what was the motive behind all this? Did they want an Adobe/Oracle type stranglehold/walled garden for max revenue extraction? Did they want to own any new things/ideas anyone invented by a rush to patent/copyright/?? It seems they did not anticipate the amount of fur that would fly and they should probably try to back away as gracefully as possible before they kill their own golden goose, if at all possible after the recent forks as vigourous fan driven forks can exceed their source forks?

New comment by aurizon in "Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway"

aurizon — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:00:01 +0000

I would not discount Musk. He is an intelligent man and will draw on the expertise of other intelligent people to assess the state of the current art, where it is going, and build to create an up to date fab as an extension of that curve with the latest TSMC equipment = 3-5 years with the assorted lead times. Remember what he did with rocket science? Threw the billion dollar one hit wonders out the window and created reuseable rockets with a high degree of high end printed metal parts involved. Sure he made a lot of scrap = the cost of progress. Now all the old iron is virtual scrap = reuseable is the path. As for orbital data centers?? Why there? What is the gain/loss assessment of terrestrial versus orbital data centers?? A ground fab seems doable. Orbital data centers is a high cost, zero sum game. No gain, huge added costs.

New comment by aurizon in "Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975"

aurizon — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:52:24 +0000

I remember Wayne well, W2NSD = never say die... He did well in ham radio magazines, and entered computer magazines running full speed with byte and others. His accountant advised him to put Byte in his wife's name for tax reasons. This later came back to 'byte' him when they divorced and she was adjudicated as the owner, but he never said die and went on to other things but never overtook Byte. I recall him at the Atlantic city hamfest, where the Apple launched. Woz and Jobs were there, at set-up and they had a problem, no solder or iron and a 74366 had failed when the card involved was pulled under power = failed. This was before there were low cost, low power 74LS366 were available cheaply. This part had to be desoldered and replaced. They had no chip, solder, iron or wick. John Ramsey had a booth there, so he lent them the solder iron etc and he was also selling a wide range of TTL parts = the rest is history. I also had a table selling diverse ham radio bits/pieces. Wayne was operating his magazine booth, more Wayne details here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Green

New comment by aurizon in "How Passive Radar Works"

aurizon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:05:41 +0000

Starlink can blacklist an area, but the frequent Tx/Rx emissions persist. Smuggled in terminals can be blacked once found. I am not sure how local areas discover/ID to Starlink/request blacklistimg works. I know starlink has upset many government internet rate extortion schemes in many countries in many Southern areas

New comment by aurizon in "How Passive Radar Works"

aurizon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:18:58 +0000

I wonder if the many Starlink satellites can be used for this? True, the signals are low and are steered, but the nature of steering creates many side lobes that will be useable in this manner. It would be a complex computational task with satellites in motion as well as ground stations transmitting on offset frequencies. I suspect various research/military labs are playing with this?

New comment by aurizon in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

aurizon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:17:18 +0000

This has all happened before, back in the day we has spinners and weavers, then we got the spinning Jenny(Engine) and this made thread so cheap we needed to speed up weaving = machine weavers(AKA automatic looms) and we had people who hated them.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite We all know how that ended up. We have an analogous hand task = coding versus coding machines. They will probably eliminate 80-95% of coding, as the spinners/weavers went away, but there remains a residual artisanal spinner/weaver industry that carries on at a lower pace. In a similar way this machine code will have the coupled ability to make some code and then test it in use with it's own AI in a repeated/recursive way to make/test/improve code at a rate 10,000 to 1 million times faster than a human. Each module can then be tested in millions of interactively monitired ways to find/fix/kill bad modules. It can also pentest in a similar manner, assaulting a system with a blizzard of attack/reset hits to find any bugs etc. Each assault that works might use a human or AI to trouble shoot. This is like the old armored night, once he was unhorsed the peasants would have at him with needles at his his joints/eyes unless his fellows save him = gone. So this might well reduce low end jobs, but they will still need high end coders to eliminate all flaws in the armor of your code. I might be simplistic, but I see a parallel in sub 5 nm chip design where the design machines have eliminated almost all of the old hand work.

New comment by aurizon in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

aurizon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:35:01 +0000

Yes, the space is indeed deep/wide, but LLMs probably cull the herd as they proceed so they eliminate swathes as they go. Smart fuzzing in a way.

New comment by aurizon in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

aurizon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:44:02 +0000

This is a lot like the 50 million monkeys on 50 million typewriters will eventually write shakespeare... We have all heard this, pity the poor proof readers who will proof them all in a search for the holy grail = zero errors. In a similar way, LLM's are permutational cross associating engines, matched with sieves to filter out the dross. Less filtering = more dross, AKA slop. It can certainly create enormous masses of bad code and with well filtered screens for dross, we can see it can create passable code, however stray flaws(flies) can creep in and not get filtered, and humans are better at seeing flies in their oatmeal. AI seems very good at permutational code assaults on masses of code to find the flies(zero days), so I expect it to make code more secure as few humans have the ability/time to mount that sort of permutational assault on code bases. I see this idea has already taken root within code writers as well as hackers/China etc. These two opposing forces will assault code bases, one to break and one to fortify. In time there will be fewer places where code bases have hidden flaws as soon all new code will be screened by AI to find breaks so that little or no code will contain these bugs.

New comment by aurizon in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

aurizon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:56:57 +0000

I love the way they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with their actions

New comment by aurizon in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

aurizon — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:49:09 +0000

That's a 'snatch defeat from the jaws of victory moment'

New comment by aurizon in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

aurizon — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:28:43 +0000

Google is vulnerable in search and that already shows as we see a decline as many parallel paths emerge. At the beginning it was a simple lookup for valid information and it became dominant - then pages of pay ranked preference spots filled pages that obscured what you wanted = it became evil.

New comment by aurizon in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

aurizon — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:22:36 +0000

I wonder how the huge slug of memory that might now have to re-direct mid-ramp as this (and other AI pullbacks) ramify forward? Will Crucial re-enter the desktop market? Or will it create a slow/fast subsidence in memory? We will live in interesting times..

New comment by aurizon in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

aurizon — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:45:27 +0000

Get a 50 meter car

New comment by aurizon in "Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020)"

aurizon — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:17:12 +0000

Yes, urethane decomposes liberating longer chain organic acids which fluxes

New comment by aurizon in "Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020)"

aurizon — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:17:13 +0000

I used to work for Schenectady Chemicals in 1968 we developed solderable self fluxing polyurethane coated enamelled wire, it was an immediate hit and soldered well. Times have changed and I left them in 1978, but it might be an item to look for as I found it very handy.

New comment by aurizon in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

aurizon — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:21:23 +0000

AI is a house painter, wall to wall, with missed spots and drips. Good coders are artists. That said, artists have been known to use assistants on backgrounds. Perhaps the end case is a similar coder/AI collaborative effort?

New comment by aurizon in "What Singapore Teaches Us About Building Prosperity from Scratch"

aurizon — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:53:32 +0000

Looks like a detailed plan to be anti Russian. From news/web/blogs etc, Russia has steadily driven it's economy down-hill. It also is a plan for the common SF theme of belter colonies, stations. In most of these SF colonies corruption is rampant, de-facto autocracies predominate(the Company Store syndrome)