Hacker News: cpncrunch

New comment by cpncrunch in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

cpncrunch — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:05:00 +0000

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New comment by cpncrunch in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

cpncrunch — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:08:00 +0000

Read the article….this is a completely different effect.

Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real by asking the atoms themselves

cpncrunch — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:06:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/quantum-physics/physicists-confirm-negative-time-is-real-by-asking-the-atoms-themselves

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216070

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by cpncrunch in "Google's AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes"

cpncrunch — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:25:20 +0000

Never used it, but maybe theres an option you need to tick? Or try asking some ai thing how to get it working :)

Google's AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

cpncrunch — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:54:46 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/googles-ai-studio-now-lets-anyone-build-android-apps-in-minutes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201259

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by cpncrunch in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

cpncrunch — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:16:31 +0000

This isnt an insurance product though. Its “insurance”, aka extortion.

New comment by cpncrunch in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

cpncrunch — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:22:26 +0000

Not 4 years though.

New comment by cpncrunch in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

cpncrunch — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:26:59 +0000

No, they have a patent so they would be in a hurry to publish if the results were good.

From the comments in the article above, it sounds like it may have failed it's primary outcome (autism symptoms). They only say there was significant benefit for "average of all symptoms", but it isn't clear if that is the same thing.

New comment by cpncrunch in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

cpncrunch — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:35:25 +0000

Study completed in 2022, but still no results posted or study published.

New comment by cpncrunch in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

cpncrunch — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:01:53 +0000

I would say the main downside is not knowing what all your code does, and where to find any particular function.

After the initial coding is complete, will you need to use AI to fix bugs? Presumably that is both slower and more expensive than doing it by hand when you know exactly where to look?

New comment by cpncrunch in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

cpncrunch — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:43:22 +0000

But even if coding time is reduced by half, is that worth the downsides? Coding has never really been a major percentage of my time.

New comment by cpncrunch in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

cpncrunch — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:48:34 +0000

Are you really saving any time at all using AI at all then? If you have to write the architecture for it, write all the rules you want it to follow, check everything it's written, and then reprompt it because it's not how you want it?

New comment by cpncrunch in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

cpncrunch — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:06:19 +0000

No, we just shouldnt be confusing speculation as fact.

New comment by cpncrunch in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

cpncrunch — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:17:40 +0000

We don't have evidence of that either.

New comment by cpncrunch in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

cpncrunch — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:58:33 +0000

Do we have any evidence of higher-ups making bets?

New comment by cpncrunch in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

cpncrunch — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:52:40 +0000

Any evidence of that?

New comment by cpncrunch in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

cpncrunch — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:57:37 +0000

Yes working now.

New comment by cpncrunch in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

cpncrunch — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:23:46 +0000

Its a cloudflare gateway timeout, so not working for anyone on any browser right now. Seems like a contradiction if cloudflare cant cache what is presumably a static site.

New comment by cpncrunch in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

cpncrunch — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:59:33 +0000

Yes, I used to agree with that, but have since given in and accepted that most companies (except mine and a handful of others) will spam all customers who buy a product without asking them first.

It's a little irritating, although I reserve full enmity for the spammers who I've never interacted with ever.

New comment by cpncrunch in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

cpncrunch — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:40:02 +0000

Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk email. Marketing is only spam when it isn't previous customers, or people who have specifically opted in.