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New comment by dnemmers in "B.C. residents baffled as shape floats through night sky"

dnemmers — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:39:20 +0000

That shape seems to be implied to be a ‘circle’ or ‘sphere’, although I can imagine a Triangle or Square object being equally scary.

“residents, including this CBC reporter, reported seeing a large, white shape slowly move across the horizon before disappearing from view.”

Actually, now it just sounds like they’re talking about a cloud…

New comment by dnemmers in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

dnemmers — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:26:30 +0000

I’m guessing there’s some UX metric out there, that if they pre-load downloading the model, the user is more likely to stick with trying things out; rather than have them wait for a hefty download to complete.

New comment by dnemmers in "Diamonds Suck (2006)"

dnemmers — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:13:39 +0000

Seems like once a decade should be fine for a repost?

New comment by dnemmers in "Diamonds Suck (2006)"

dnemmers — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:12:54 +0000

There’s plenty of good uses for diamonds, overpriced jewelry non-withstanding:

“The superiority of diamond in so many diverse industrial applications is attributable to a unique combination of properties that cannot be matched by any other material.”

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-c...

New comment by dnemmers in "Shares in Japanese toilet maker Toto soar on AI-related pivot"

dnemmers — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:05:16 +0000

“Despite being better known for its bidet washlets that have defined the Japanese toilet globally, Toto is also the world’s second-largest producer of electrostatic chucks used in the manufacturing of Nand memory chips.”

CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail): Linux Kernel LPE

dnemmers — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:25:35 +0000

Article URL: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/04/cve-2026-31431-copy-fail-linux-kernel-lpe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970355

Points: 2

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New comment by dnemmers in "Ubuntu's AI Plans Have Linux Users Looking for a 'Kill Switch'"

dnemmers — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:56:18 +0000

https://archive.is/SayeR

New comment by dnemmers in "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus"

dnemmers — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:53:23 +0000

https://calculusmadeeasy.org/1.html

New comment by dnemmers in "Why Birds Were the Only Dinosaurs to Survive Mass Extinction"

dnemmers — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:49:24 +0000

https://archive.ph/sSMa2

New comment by dnemmers in "Louisiana Advances One of the Country's 'Cruelest' Anti-Homeless Bills"

dnemmers — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:47:54 +0000

If you’re wondering why you’re getting downvoted, we’d like to hear from you, not Gemini.

New comment by dnemmers in "Humanoid robot beats human world record in half marathon"

dnemmers — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:25:23 +0000

Is this the new Steam-drill vs John Henry?

New comment by dnemmers in "Ukraine Moves to Replace Frontline Soldiers with 25,000 Ground Robots"

dnemmers — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:19:08 +0000

Human soldiers will continually be seen as the weak link in the kill chain. As technology improves, fewer and fewer humans will be in command, until they start to ‘command’ themselves, and it’s game over.

New comment by dnemmers in "US Draft Update: Major Tech Company Urges Universal National Service"

dnemmers — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:16:49 +0000

Not sure why Newsweek buried the lede…the company is:

“Palantir”

New comment by dnemmers in "When U.S. Air Force discovered the flaw of averages (2016) [pdf]"

dnemmers — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:33:48 +0000

I understand the story is about numerical averages, but they never seemed to bring the it back around to why the planes were crashing?

New comment by dnemmers in "Should you feed child guests dinner?"

dnemmers — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:36:55 +0000

Let’s try the title again:

“Should you feed dinner to guests, who are children?”

I read the original through a few times trying to parse out how we were feeding children to guests…

New comment by dnemmers in "KLM cancels 160 flights due to fuel shortage"

dnemmers — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:45:21 +0000

It looks like quite a few international airlines (most?) hedge their exposure, and some have even been increasing lately:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-airlines-have-he...

New comment by dnemmers in "Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent"

dnemmers — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:47:35 +0000

I have to imagine this is a short-term spike in value from speculative ‘AI’ investors, and the stock will tank in the short-mid term after the rug gets pulled.

New comment by dnemmers in "Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)"

dnemmers — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:07:53 +0000

I read ‘helping the litigation’ to mean they both may have been involved in the same crime, and they mean to stop collusion after the fact, before trial concludes?

New comment by dnemmers in "A New Kind of Hybrid Car Is About to Hit America's Streets"

dnemmers — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:48:09 +0000

This feels very similar to what Edison Motors is doing for the trucking industry. Electric powertrain with on-board generator.

https://edisonmotors.ca/

Vladimir Putin Singing Blueberry Hill

dnemmers — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:57:14 +0000

Article URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_singing_Blueberry_Hill.ogv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731194

Points: 2

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