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New comment by helsinkiandrew in "SpaceX Rented Out Computing After Own Teams Had Trouble Using It"

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:45:17 +0000

Gift article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/spacex-re...

SpaceX Rented Out Computing After Own Teams Had Trouble Using It

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:44:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/spacex-rented-out-computing-after-own-teams-had-trouble-using-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507899

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "The Broken Plate 2026: health of the UK food system"

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:08:09 +0000

The At a Glance summarises and is quite depressing reading.

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-06/BP...

> Healthier food remains nearly twice as expensive per calorie as less healthy food, and the gap is widening.

> Households with children in the lowest income quintile would need to spend 85% of their disposable income on food to afford the Eatwell Guide.

> Fast-food outlets make up 1 in 4 places to buy food in England, rising to over 1 in 3 in the most deprived areas.

> In an average English Reception class of 30 children, three will be living with obesity. In Year 6, this more than doubles to seven children.

> 10-year-olds from the most deprived backgrounds are over 1.5 times more likely to have short stature.

The Broken Plate 2026: health of the UK food system

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:03:27 +0000

Article URL: https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/broken-plate-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503054

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:44:02 +0000

Slop Jockeys? or would that be better for people passing off AI content as their own?

Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:54:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/12/artist-david-hockney-dies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501992

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)"

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:23:47 +0000

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:17:25 +0000

I'm not sure why people assume the coming AGI super agents will be infallible.

There's no sign that highly intelligent people can't be conned - Bernie Maddoff fooled leading scientists and CEOs working in finance. Software engineers and lawyers fall for pig butchering schemes and spoofed emails with altered bank details every week - so why would an AGI trained from human content be any different.

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:24:20 +0000

> Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible, getting excited by a much bigger world at reach

Perhaps people like this should be called "Bot Kiddies" or "Agent Kiddies" - in a similar way to "Script Kiddies" for 'hackers' using/doing stuff they don't quite understand

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "Humans prefer to walk anticlockwise, scientists find – but reason is unclear"

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:18:44 +0000

I remember studies on animals have shown the same but can't remember which. I found sheep at least do:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/who-knew-but-sheep-pref...

Humans prefer to walk anticlockwise, scientists find – but reason is unclear

helsinkiandrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:06:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/10/humans-prefer-to-walk-anticlockwise-scientists-find-reason-unclear

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500485

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

El Niño under way and threatens weather extremes, scientists say

helsinkiandrew — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:05:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75ylx7g00xo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489834

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

helsinkiandrew — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:27:11 +0000

> The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver (or zero?).

But presumably the images/models at ground level can be used to train/improve the general performance of Vantor's aerial (satelite based) navigation system so it works better elsewhere?

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "Robots are about to overtake armed soldiers as the deciders of war"

helsinkiandrew — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:54:01 +0000

Non paywalled story on other site:

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ground-robots-teste...

This "Ukrainian military equipment aggregator" site has some interesting related products: https://vpk-mac.com/en

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

helsinkiandrew — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:04:25 +0000

> How does that work if a digikey order takes 1-2 days, and ordering a PCB even longer?

In this case, Hardware hackathon means wiring up the digital or analog input/output pins of an Arduino/Raspberry pi to something and writing software to control/interface with it. Perhaps with a few simple components on a prototype board

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

helsinkiandrew — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:51:05 +0000

> Startups train embedding models. They build rerankers. They finetune and host small llms.

Isn’t that prohibited without permission from Anthropic: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12326764-can-i-use-my...

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?"

helsinkiandrew — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:27:19 +0000

Short sellers have become the biggest SEC whistleblowers if they discover suspected fraud - it’s a more lucrative and less risky than shorting:

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2d7d14lmtfwc1e...

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

helsinkiandrew — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:38:23 +0000

It was common for paintings/etchings to be made based on existing paintings in the 19th century - I'm guessing the painting link I gave was probably close to an original or source.

There's lots of similar images on the internet, this image on Alamy claims to scanned from a Victorian mechanical‑engineering book of the 1880s

https://www.alamy.com/an-old-engraving-showing-the-british-f...

Uber Opens London Waitlist for Wayve Robotaxis Ahead of Launch

helsinkiandrew — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:13:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-08/uber-opens-london-waitlist-for-wayve-robotaxis-ahead-of-launch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443861

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by helsinkiandrew in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

helsinkiandrew — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:19:44 +0000

It looks like a (modern or old) version of this print: "The Bermuda Floating Dock, In Tow of H.M.Ss Warrior and Black Prince and Terrible astern Leaving Porto Santo for their Voyage across the Atlantic, July 4th 1869"

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/library-archi...