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New comment by divbzero in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

divbzero — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:02:43 +0000

A balanced answer that’s often true these days is: you’ve found that LLMs are impressively useful in some cases but fall dramatically short in others.

New comment by divbzero in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

divbzero — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:01:38 +0000

I totally missed the memo that Homebrew has supported Linux since 2019.

https://brew.sh/2019/02/02/homebrew-2.0.0/

New comment by divbzero in "πFS"

divbzero — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:53:21 +0000

> you basically need the same amount of data to represent the address of your data as the data itself

Almost like the other Borges work where “the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire”.

NASA's X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time

divbzero — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:42:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/x-59-first-supersonic-flight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456967

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by divbzero in "Show HN: Web Speed – A shared web-map registry for AI agents (MCP, open source)"

divbzero — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:27:11 +0000

Could we have this for humans too? Fast load, just the content please.

Latting Observatory

divbzero — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:43:19 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latting_Observatory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431873

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Brazilian court orders restoration of Fordlandia, Henry Ford's Amazon ghost town

divbzero — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:31:23 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/fordlandia-preservation-brazil-amazon-rainforest-henry-ford-370a0e6999447a20a525a66d8d081450

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332581

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ferrari's New Jony Ive–Designed EV Is Swathed in Glass and Aluminum

divbzero — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:25:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ferrari-ev-jony-ive-design/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276286

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading with A Cap

divbzero — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:51:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/5/20/fas-passes-a-grade-cap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222546

Points: 21

# Comments: 20

A new whale detection network launches in SF Bay, alerting ships in real time

divbzero — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:56:13 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/climate-marine-heat-wave-whale-boats-ai-5a12ce2ad68929a54ebac84ef2824ac0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203273

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by divbzero in "Google changes its search box"

divbzero — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:41:04 +0000

It’s diverged quite a bit from the original:

    
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        Search the web using Google!
        

        
        
        

        
        
        
        
        

        
        Index contains ~25 million pages (soon to be much bigger)
      
      
      ...

https://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.sta...

Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool

divbzero — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:29:34 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-launches-antigravity-2-0-with-an-updated-desktop-app-and-cli-tool/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199097

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by divbzero in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

divbzero — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:55:47 +0000

Some of Disney’s most valuable properties—ESPN, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars—were acquired. FiveThirtyEight may be smaller, but it should be in Disney’s self-interest to set things right and earn a reputation for being a good home for acquisitions.

New comment by divbzero in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

divbzero — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:20:46 +0000

It’d be amazing if speech-to-text could take into account context as well: Greek if I’m speaking Greek, Korean if I’m speaking Korean, or for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i) if I’m dictating code.

As the West Dries Out, a New Generation of Dams Rise

divbzero — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:41:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-15/colorado-builds-new-dams-in-a-race-with-the-west-s-megadrought

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165873

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by divbzero in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

divbzero — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:55:04 +0000

This is pretty impressive. My impression was that eGPUs simply do not work with Apple Silicon.

(EDIT: Apple agrees with my impression. “To use an eGPU, a Mac with an Intel processor is required.” And, on top of that, the officially supported eGPUs were all AMD not NVIDIA. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102363)

New comment by divbzero in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

divbzero — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:01:50 +0000

Not that I’m aware of? Most PhD grads not staying academia seems to be a long-running phenomenon. The number of permanent academic positions simply does not match up against the number of PhD grads.

New comment by divbzero in "Claude for Small Business"

divbzero — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:26:42 +0000

All of those tasks—planning payroll, settling books, forecasting, ranking, reminding—involve read access to financial operations, not write access.

New comment by divbzero in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

divbzero — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:18:32 +0000

Yes, and you can always embed HTML in Markdown for