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New comment by eternauta3k in "Personal Encyclopedias"

eternauta3k — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:30:01 +0000

I like the idea, but I'm curious where to draw the boundary. If only I can read it, it can be my full recollection of everything. If I add my siblings, parents, cousins, etc, then some articles become painful or controversial (e.g. divorce, disease). Or I just ommit all the unhappy parts.

New comment by eternauta3k in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

eternauta3k — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:19:37 +0000

What would a universe with equal amounts of matter and antimatter look like?

New comment by eternauta3k in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

eternauta3k — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:40:59 +0000

And why is 650V special?

New comment by eternauta3k in "Is it a pint?"

eternauta3k — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:45:42 +0000

One thought I keep coming back to is the immense consequences of how our units of length, weight and volume were defined. Products are often sold with round numbers (1 liter, 0.5 liter, 1 kg, etc). If you could go back in time and fiddle with e.g. the definition of a pint, you'd see that reducing its volume would lead to people drinking less, until it's so small that people just order two pints.

New comment by eternauta3k in "Chest Fridge (2009)"

eternauta3k — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:16:57 +0000

You could just have a vertical fridge with "tub" drawers which individually contain the cold air.

New comment by eternauta3k in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

eternauta3k — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:43:57 +0000

Wrong thread?

New comment by eternauta3k in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

eternauta3k — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:42:02 +0000

Higher boots can prevent twisting your ankle when you're tired at the end of a long day.

New comment by eternauta3k in "Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File"

eternauta3k — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:01:31 +0000

I love it because it's horrible, but in real life I'd just put the options inside the script (which is what you do anyway when you're too lazy to import argparse).

New comment by eternauta3k in "Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables"

eternauta3k — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:56:04 +0000

A tasty Kwisatz Haderach full of vitamin C

New comment by eternauta3k in "XML Is a Cheap DSL"

eternauta3k — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:58:36 +0000

Interesting, Germany has been publishing its payroll tax algorithm in XML for a while: https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Datenportal/Daten/fre...

New comment by eternauta3k in "You gotta think outside the hypercube"

eternauta3k — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:00:19 +0000

Exactly, maybe spend a fraction of (the time you spent interacting with 3D objects) interacting with 4D objects and you might find it much easier.

New comment by eternauta3k in "Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings"

eternauta3k — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:34:54 +0000

First thing I saw was a Swastika. It was painted on an ex Nazi building, but still...

New comment by eternauta3k in "Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner"

eternauta3k — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:02:36 +0000

Could you go into more detail on why they are bad?

New comment by eternauta3k in "Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically"

eternauta3k — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:40:11 +0000

It shows that both Karpathy and the LLM have good taste in random seeds: the answer to life, the universe and everything, and ~1/(the fine structure constant)

New comment by eternauta3k in "The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me"

eternauta3k — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:51:05 +0000

This is something I keep thinking about: the spectrum between sainthood (selflessly hang out with the poor/uninteresting/selfish/etc) vs selfish optimization (becoming more interesting/pretty/rich/generous in order to have access to nicer people)

New comment by eternauta3k in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

eternauta3k — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:17:29 +0000

Kagi works quite well.

New comment by eternauta3k in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

eternauta3k — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:50:27 +0000

Mass surveillance is already here, and they can already use open models to do 80% of what they were planning to do with Claude.

New comment by eternauta3k in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

eternauta3k — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:42:24 +0000

Germany wasn't a fresh start. The de-nazification ended up being a bit of a joke and (AFAIK) the first governments were full of ex-Nazis.

New comment by eternauta3k in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

eternauta3k — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:28:03 +0000

Come On, Obviously The Purpose Of A System Is Not What It Does

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...

New comment by eternauta3k in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

eternauta3k — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:19:51 +0000

It's what your insurance gets from the hospital after they provided a service to you.