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New comment by cromulent in "Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020)"

cromulent — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:06:09 +0000

The calf muscle pump performs the same task in humans.

New comment by cromulent in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

cromulent — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:03:27 +0000

Fascinating. I had to read up on this. Apparently it was Ritonavir and polymorphism.

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

New comment by cromulent in "Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does"

cromulent — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:11:26 +0000

A friend of mine planted a small tree in one, after many months of notifying the local council. It was fixed very quickly.

New comment by cromulent in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

cromulent — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:09:48 +0000

The FT podcast series “Hot Money” season one explained a lot about this. Basically the payment card industry shapes what adult content is produced by governing the money flow.

https://www.ft.com/hot-money

Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded

cromulent — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:52:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m253033m4o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039246

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Google Says Prompt Injection Moving from Theory into Real Abuse

cromulent — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:29:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.searchengineworld.com/google-says-prompt-injection-moving-from-theory-into-real-abuse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006067

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by cromulent in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

cromulent — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:54:27 +0000

They have more usability problems than that. Driving Mercedes Benz hire cars a couple of times recently in UK and Ireland was a shock - they have the automatic gearbox PRND selector on the right-hand stalk, and indicators on the left hand one. I could maybe excuse that on a LHD car, but on an RHD car, it is infuriating. Using the windscreen wipers instead of indicating is a trivial low-consequence mistake, bumping into neutral is not.

New comment by cromulent in "Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team"

cromulent — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:16:28 +0000

(2012). Another article on the same doctor was discussed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957231

New comment by cromulent in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

cromulent — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:52:31 +0000

Regarding Claude: As I have unticked the "Help improve Claude" checkbox, I was under the impression that Claude did not do this.

https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023555-how-do-you-u...

Sorting Algorithms

cromulent — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:09:08 +0000

Article URL: https://tools.simonwillison.net/sort-algorithms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531459

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cromulent in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

cromulent — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:18:00 +0000

Thanks mate. If he can assault my ears, I can assault his nose, right. Or threaten to ;)

New comment by cromulent in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

cromulent — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:09:12 +0000

I had it happen to me, on a long-haul flight, in business class. I was shocked. I stood up to look at the guy after no-one did anything.

I told him that phone speakers "make me gassy" and then he turned it off.

New comment by cromulent in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

cromulent — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:13:09 +0000

BYD are about to launch an EV that charges from 10 to 70% in 5 minutes. As much as I recoil at a brand called "Build Your Dreams", that is quite compelling.

https://www.byd.com/us/news-list/DENZA-Z9GT-to-start-Europes...

New comment by cromulent in "Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer"

cromulent — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:49:33 +0000

Still trying to catch them. They keep drinking my cider and eating my chickens.

New comment by cromulent in "Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer"

cromulent — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:30:11 +0000

I have a Unifi doorbell and it takes great photos of the local badgers, foxes, and other wildlife. They are stored locally. Love it.

New comment by cromulent in "The MacBook Neo"

cromulent — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:38:55 +0000

I understand the need to join the conversations about the same topic. Thanks for keeping the URLs separate. Reading Gruber's long form considered article is very different to reading some second hand Asus executive "shock" comments.

New comment by cromulent in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

cromulent — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:10:51 +0000

The article has hyperlinks in it, e.g. to this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5786144/...

which comes from an ESP serving millions of users.

New comment by cromulent in "Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years"

cromulent — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:25:18 +0000

Placing anti-personnel mines is also not very effective in a pitched conflict.

The enemy will lose a few soldiers, but will then clear a marked path. The long term effects far outweigh any short-term advantage.

New comment by cromulent in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

cromulent — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:16:29 +0000

My understanding is that the DOD signed the terms of service, and are now trying to renegotiate them. Anthropic has declined to change the terms. This makes the government angry.

New comment by cromulent in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

cromulent — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:32:38 +0000

The telco would be the one collecting it first, I assume. It would be interesting for someone in the EU to request their data from their telco, and if it contains these precise locations, question the usage.