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New comment by davoneus in "Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin"

davoneus — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:30:20 +0000

Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril-Sensitive Sungl.... Contacts.

They operate on the principle "what you don't know can't hurt you," they turn completely black and opaque at the first sign of trouble, so you can't see anything that might alarm you.

New comment by davoneus in "Why the AfD Wins"

davoneus — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:36:11 +0000

Grievance politics sells quite well. When AfD backers argue it's Western Germany's fault, it's easy for a lot of people to climb on board.

Heck, AfDs own platform argues there should be more Russian language in the schools and Russian cooperation across the board. That on its face says an awful lot.

New comment by davoneus in "Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates"

davoneus — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:02:57 +0000

The only game I've I've supported where I ended up buying licenses for friends and family. Lot of respect for them and their game.

New comment by davoneus in "Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware"

davoneus — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:32:04 +0000

The logical endpoint of the entire "the car as software" concept. Can't wait for the security vendors to start hawking "AV for your car"

New comment by davoneus in "Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny"

davoneus — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:33:42 +0000

What a puritanical response. By your argument, anything that could be abused is verboten. Feel free to live (and argue that way). I'll do the opposite. I'll trust to documented, well researched data rather than someone's "Trust me bro" reasoning.

New comment by davoneus in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

davoneus — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:41:56 +0000

I agree, but the shareholder mentality undervalues the heck out of that.

New comment by davoneus in "Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose"

davoneus — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:16:48 +0000

I'm glad to see the competition; nothing provokes meaningful change without it. Not surprised at Nvidia's blatant fabrications though; more of the same we've seen time and again (Superchip anyone, with 2+ year old designs).

New comment by davoneus in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

davoneus — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:45:23 +0000

Great article. Just reminds me of how much societies resemble a pendulum; swinging from one extreme to the other. And of course you have the problem that some people want to freeze it mid-swing, or worse tear the damn thing down completely.

New comment by davoneus in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

davoneus — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:52:33 +0000

LOL.. you are correct. Funny thing though... the 'Always Free' text is linked to a "/start-free/" action\page. One could argue that they are hedging their bets.

New comment by davoneus in "Don't tell the AI it's an expert programmer"

davoneus — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:43:38 +0000

I must admit, all my prompts start with this. Have to do some testing now.

Don't tell the AI it's an expert programmer

davoneus — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:43:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/ai_models_persona_prompting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497686

Points: 9

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New comment by davoneus in "Hitem3D: AI Image-to-Model Tested"

davoneus — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:59:50 +0000

I tried this a few months ago after seeing a Youtube video where a guy generated TTRPG miniatures using it. It was okay at the time, but nothing I'd depend on. Seems the author thinks the same.

Hitem3D: AI Image-to-Model Tested

davoneus — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:59:50 +0000

Article URL: https://all3dp.com/4/new-ai-image-to-model-generator-promises-perfect-stl-files-we-put-it-to-the-test/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063196

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by davoneus in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

davoneus — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:00:54 +0000

I don't find that at all. At work, we've no access to the API, so we have to force feed a dozen (or more) documents, code and instruction prompts through the web interface upload interface. The only failures I've ever had in well over 300 sessions were due to connectivity issues, not interface failures.

Context window blowouts? All the time, but never document upload failures.

New comment by davoneus in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

davoneus — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:52:45 +0000

No, SHOULD is defined in the RFC, not by colloquial usage. Google is on the wrong, regardless of their "safety" intent.

After all, linguistics is full with examples of words that are spelled the same, but have different meaning in different cultures. I'm glad the RFC spelled it out it for everyone.

New comment by davoneus in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

davoneus — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:24:57 +0000

Oat fiber. I've been taking 30g of oat fiber everyday for the past 3 years. Slugging it down in 8oz of warm water and 10g of nooch. Not only are my cholesterol levels fantastic after starting that regime, but very regular as well.

New comment by davoneus in "Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source"

davoneus — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:50:57 +0000

As does their recently published: Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible+Next

New comment by davoneus in "Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI"

davoneus — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:03:24 +0000

From personal experience I had half a dozen aunts and uncles (70+) mention the "Google AI thing" on their phones. Rather surprised me.

New comment by davoneus in "DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why"

davoneus — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:45:39 +0000

I've heard it was Sam Altman and OpenAI basically buying every wafer available from both Samsung and SKHynix at the start of October.

Neither company know of the other purchase until it was a done deal.

New comment by davoneus in "[dead]"

davoneus — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:52:05 +0000

"The Support Matrix also shows Cellebrite’s capabilities against Pixel devices running GrapheneOS, with some differences between phones running that operating system and stock Android. Cellebrite does support, for example, Pixel 9 devices BFU. Meanwhile the screenshot indicates Cellebrite cannot unlock Pixel 9 devices running GrapheneOS BFU."

Not surprised at all that an open-source, third party Phone OS is tougher to crack than the Google official version.