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New comment by emiliobumachar in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

emiliobumachar — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:51:03 +0000

"size of a machine divided by the smallest critical engineered component of the machine"

Computer processors probably take that cake.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

emiliobumachar — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:11:23 +0000

"BotXPTO has been trained with the entire internet circa 2026" is arguably attribution enough.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

emiliobumachar — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:56:18 +0000

As I understand it, the anti-AI stance of open source software people in particular has nothing to do with AI learning from code bases, and everything to do with AI slop clogging all unrestricted community feedback channels.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake"

emiliobumachar — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:34:49 +0000

This is conflating two entirely different claims pretty hard:

- The old point that AI speech isn't real or doesn't count because they're just pattern matching. Nothing new here.

- That many or most cool posts are by humans impersonating bots. Relevant if true, but the article didn't bring much evidence.

That conflation brings an element of inconsistency. Which is it, meaningless stochastic recitation or obviously must have come from a real person?

New comment by emiliobumachar in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

emiliobumachar — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:15:19 +0000

Might be a tool against them. Note that Mt. Everest isn't on the list. If the Earth was flat, all the tallest peaks would be seeable from one another unless a specific peak taller than one of them was exactly in the way.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "Google Antigravity"

emiliobumachar — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:09:23 +0000

Semantically, it sounds like anyone who develops for a big company, normally an employee or contractor.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers"

emiliobumachar — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:35:41 +0000

Okay, I'm more then halfway through and still don't get what DSL is an acronym for. Any light?

New comment by emiliobumachar in "A Blacklisted American Magician Became a Hero in Brazil"

emiliobumachar — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:53:54 +0000

Hum, I remember it as "What about now, Mr M?" ("E agora, Mr. M?")

New comment by emiliobumachar in "Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect"

emiliobumachar — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:08:05 +0000

It wouldn't, but, if the vendor somehow made it require one, despite the very impressive technical feat, I'd feel cheated. Robbed, even.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect"

emiliobumachar — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:31:21 +0000

My toilet doesn't officially support crapping without an internet connection either. I'd argue that in both cases it's implicit unless very explicitly disclaimed.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy?"

emiliobumachar — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:46:15 +0000

Turning it over seems unnecessary. Good point overall, though.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

emiliobumachar — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:00:22 +0000

Might be a hardcoded date and time. Does the legit pager messaging network give the time? If not, continually powered digital clocks drift slowly.

Why no dialog-only subtitles?

emiliobumachar — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 07:36:43 +0000

I'm an English learner, and I like to have subtitles to aid my hearing comprehension in movies and series.

In both Netflix and Amazon Prime, I often (always?) have a single option for English subtitles, which are closed captions ("English [CC]"). These includes descriptions of sounds and music that make the experience less enjoyable for me, e.g. "[Omnious music]". I can't possibly be the only one, one of my favorite cartoonists mocked it [1].

I wouldn't doubt that those descriptions are actually preferred by deaf people, but I'd like an alternative for myself.

Before streaming services, I barely knew this problem. Cable TV happily gave me dialog-only subtitles.

What puzzles me is, making dialogue-only subtitles from the closed captions they already have should be extremely cheap. A dumb bot removing everything that has brackets would do a flawless job almost all the time.

So why don't they do it, as a selectable option?

[1]: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/subtitles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41472193

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New comment by emiliobumachar in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

emiliobumachar — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:21:15 +0000

Very cool concept, congratulations!

I do have two bugs to report.

1) I only see static until I fiddle with the mute button, which makes the image work besides working as expected. As soon as I change channel, all static again until I hit mute. I'm on Chrome over Windows using a corporate network.

2) The info button shows a reasonable email address, and, under "Support", the string "bc1q4s2f6df2cqa8stenwp8y5tlmd5pywy8dwqqxvh". I have no idea what to do with that string.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway"

emiliobumachar — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:32:41 +0000

Startup idea: online text editor that logs every keystroke and blockchains a hash of all logs every day. If you're accused of AI use, you can pull up the whole painstaking writing process and prove it's real.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "The secret D-Day scientists and engineers"

emiliobumachar — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:27:13 +0000

I find it contentful enough, but yeah, it doesn't get into the "how" of science and engineering at all.

New comment by emiliobumachar in "85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics"

emiliobumachar — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:14:46 +0000

Crap. Most of the substitutes have a bigger ecological footprint, even if you don't care at all about cost and comfort. Those reusable shopping bags need to be actually reused, several dozen if not hundreds of times, to be ecological. How many times have you used your last one?

New comment by emiliobumachar in "Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code"

emiliobumachar — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:41:58 +0000

Sounds unappetizing. Would you want to eat packaging if not for the - for now inevitable - digestion issues?

New comment by emiliobumachar in "Why is it so hard to build an airport?"

emiliobumachar — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:59:56 +0000

One can be surprised by the traffic increase. "When I moved here 25 years ago, there was one flight in the morning and one in the afternoon. Now it's every 5 minutes from 6 am to 10 pm and they're trying to extend it post 10 pm!"

New comment by emiliobumachar in "Why are shopping carts always broken?"

emiliobumachar — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:23:13 +0000

I'd classify that as "broken, but easily repairable". Maybe I'm a spoiled desk jockey, but if I'm "dismantling" anything that size and weight, I ain't just cleaning it.