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New comment by f_allwein in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

f_allwein — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:57:28 +0000

Also, who carries a Bluetooth speaker on a plane? And for what purpose?

New comment by f_allwein in "Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial"

f_allwein — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:39:43 +0000

dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208304

New comment by f_allwein in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

f_allwein — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:32:37 +0000

No.

Takes decades to build/ projects run over time and budget/ where would you build?/ where would you store nuclear waste (bonus points for: in your region)?/ contributes little to global energy mix atm/ uranium is limited. Where do you get it from? Etc

Meet The Sad Wives of AI

f_allwein — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:08:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121410

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by f_allwein in "Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf]"

f_allwein — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:11:26 +0000

I have another one:

What is lost when you put any of these in an LLM?

Yes, we can get plausible sounding answers generated algorithmically. But these are great starting points for humans to develop their own thinking.

My university, LSE, asked all students to write exam essays by hand ~10 years ago. Wonder how it is done at Oxford today.

New comment by f_allwein in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

f_allwein — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:15:41 +0000

maybe “The Only Way to Win is Not to Play”

New comment by f_allwein in "How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple"

f_allwein — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:06:40 +0000

> Jobs saw the Apple Store not so much as a retail outlet but as a church for evangelizing to the unconverted. He wanted the world to know that Apple’s simple but powerful tools would give people access to whatever stirred their passions—photos, songs, movies—and help them create these things on their own.

New comment by f_allwein in "How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple"

f_allwein — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:59:15 +0000

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I really want to like the Vision Pro, but haven’t even tried it yet. Hope it will evolve into something good.

How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple

f_allwein — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:30:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-mutiny-noam-scheiber-apple-vision-pro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685704

Points: 16

# Comments: 4

New comment by f_allwein in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

f_allwein — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:12:41 +0000

„Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.“ Oscar Wilde

New comment by f_allwein in "The AI productivity take-off is finally visible (Erik Brynjolfsson)"

f_allwein — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:35:46 +0000

triple submission - could they be merged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037772

New comment by f_allwein in "Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse"

f_allwein — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:14:16 +0000

It is a global challenge. Climate change is caused by rich people in developed countries (the average Indian person causes very low co2 emissions). There are some good initiatives to mitigate climate change, but so far, it is too little, too late. The US taking a back seat does not help either.

New comment by f_allwein in "Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse"

f_allwein — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:24:04 +0000

Here’s the science: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/possible-nort...

„Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key system of ocean currents that also includes the Gulf Stream, could shut down after the year 2100.“

New comment by f_allwein in "Climate Change Economic Models Omit Shocks, Likely Flawed"

f_allwein — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:28:12 +0000

I like the original title, „ Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn“. Why edit it?

New comment by f_allwein in "Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?"

f_allwein — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:51:37 +0000

Still available in Germany („Rechenschieber“), eg https://www.wissenladen.de/products/der-rechenschieber

New comment by f_allwein in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

f_allwein — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:15:43 +0000

Maybe it should be „forked“

New comment by f_allwein in "I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)"

f_allwein — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:58:25 +0000

> In Apple Calendar it's not possible to see the full year, and still have some visibility into which events are happening on the individual days

It‘s weird in general how tools/ websites seem to avoid putting too much information on a screen (see also: event listings, …). Why is that? Most people have big screens nowadays, so it would be feasible to have a view like the one described here, at least for desktop calendars.

New comment by f_allwein in "SETI@home is in hiberation"

f_allwein — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:18:22 +0000

on the other hand, WETI still seems to be up, so you could contribute there.

http://weti-institute.org/

New comment by f_allwein in "2025 was the third hottest year on record"

f_allwein — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:35:55 +0000

Don’t live like a rich person in a developed country - they’re the only ones whose co2 footprints are too high.

New comment by f_allwein in "Apple Creator Studio"

f_allwein — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:41:50 +0000

Power tip: replace the Word docs with Markdown.