Hacker News: fnands

New comment by fnands in "Jev-Leftpad"

fnands — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:42:27 +0000

funny

New comment by fnands in "Jev-Leftpad"

fnands — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:41:11 +0000

> MIT Licensed

Would have been funnier if it used the GLWTPL: https://spdx.org/licenses/GLWTPL.html

New comment by fnands in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

fnands — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:00:51 +0000

Yeah, the 4 and 7.3" prices are not bad, the jump to 13 is just large. That being said, the cost per area goes down, so it is also probably fair.

New comment by fnands in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

fnands — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:25:16 +0000

Very cool!

I wish E-ink displays were a bit more affordable. The 13 inch one is £229.50. Does anyone know why they are still so expensive, at least at large sizes?

New comment by fnands in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

fnands — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:22:24 +0000

Yaogan-50 for anyone asking.

Interesting. A bit conspiratorial, but hey. It would be a major provocation if so

New comment by fnands in "Cherenkov Radiation"

fnands — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:11:21 +0000

Oh, that's pretty neat.

New comment by fnands in "Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light"

fnands — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:45:16 +0000

Exactly! I visited HESS in Namibia last week, so Cherenkov telescopes are on the top of my mind right now.

New comment by fnands in "Planet Labs' open satellite feed"

fnands — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:22:19 +0000

It completely is. Planet names all their constellations after birds (Dove, Pelican, Tanager, Owl - SkySat was an acquisition, so not their naming convention) so they describe their constellations as Flocks. Nothing to do with the other company.

New comment by fnands in "How to survive boiling water"

fnands — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:16:33 +0000

> it was the bioburden load of a media component and water temperature used during compounding.

In English, please ;-)

New comment by fnands in "Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles"

fnands — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:11:54 +0000

In their defense, this probably looked really cool in 2000, when this was published (or at least, last updated).

But agreed, that lime green is horrendous.

New comment by fnands in "Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles"

fnands — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:03:14 +0000

From 2000.

Posting because he's retiring this year?

New comment by fnands in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

fnands — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:50:54 +0000

Data drift. The data you are doing real world inference on can start changing, meaning your model performance starts degrading, so the model needs to be retrained on new data (that you have to collect and prepare).

New comment by fnands in "Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator"

fnands — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:01:36 +0000

Delightfully cursed.

I wonder how consistent the breakdown voltages are between manufacturers? I mean, I am sure there is some spec, but is it not just a minimum in this case?

New comment by fnands in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

fnands — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:56:30 +0000

Not a lot of it is unsafe, I think they said 4%?

It's practically impossible to write safe Rust when you are calling external libs written in C/C++, like they do for the Javascript engine.

New comment by fnands in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

fnands — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:50:14 +0000

He never said impossible, just hard.

But how is this news? Memory safety bugs are one of (if not the) main source of bugs in C/C++ and also Zig, and Rust's main claim to fame is that it makes it easy to catch these issues at compile time. I feel his criticisms of Zig are fairly uncontroversial.

New comment by fnands in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

fnands — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:32:37 +0000

You can also take a Bildungsurlaub (educational leave, 5 days a year or 10 days every two years) and take a German course. For a two week course with private tutoring it's like 1k, which at your income level is not much. A lot of bureaucracy in Germany becomes a lot easier once you get over the B1 hump.

New comment by fnands in "Immich 3.0"

fnands — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:02:14 +0000

Good point. Will do so as well. I've been using it for about a year now on my NAS. I basically set it and forget it, and it has just worked.

New comment by fnands in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

fnands — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:32:43 +0000

What radar pipelines are you working on (out of pure curiosity here)

New comment by fnands in "I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]"

fnands — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:51:21 +0000

I'm pretty sure if he did that someone would complain that he is using people as free labour to increase his youtube revenues.

It's impossible to do anything on the internet without someone in the peanut gallery telling you you are doing something wrong.

New comment by fnands in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

fnands — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:39:48 +0000

That seems to be the way things are going.

Large general models have taken over in NLP, and (outside of embedded/low latency applications) it seems like they are coming for CV next.

So you should soon be able to have large generic model that can detect whatever for you.

It's already pretty much possible with open-vocabulary detectors like SAM3, where you could just prompt it with "Apple": https://ai.meta.com/research/sam3/