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New comment by innis226 in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

innis226 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:18:08 +0000

But doesn't it hallucinate a lot? Does that affect your workflow?

New comment by innis226 in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

innis226 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:57:06 +0000

Nice, is this available in the API now as well?

New comment by innis226 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

innis226 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:09:40 +0000

I’m a PhD student in India, working in a nano fabrication group. In my group, all my seniors and alumni ahead of me have gone into industry. That seems pretty normal for experimental STEM. But I don’t think that means the PhD was wasted, or that the system only matters if people stay in academia.

This is especially true in fields like nanofabrication and semiconductor fab.

So I don’t see "most PhDs leave academia" as the main problem. The damage does not show up immediately, but a few years later you have fewer people who know how to work on hard technical problems from first principles.

Context, since this is HN and anonymous comments are cheap: I’m a current PhD student at one of India’s top technical institutes, not a professor defending the system from above.

New comment by innis226 in "What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting"

innis226 — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:02:59 +0000

The surrounding air becomes ionized. Since Earth’s atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, and ionized nitrogen often emits a purple glow.

New comment by innis226 in "Where the goblins came from"

innis226 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:04:54 +0000

I suspect this was intentionally added. Just to give some personality and to fuel hype

New comment by innis226 in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

innis226 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:13:11 +0000

People are gettingtoo hung up on the radiator math and completely missing the massive input advantage of AM0 versus AM1.5. On Earth you get around 1,000 Watts/m^2 (ideal), but in realtiy shave off 20–25% because of clouds and night time. In a sun-synchronous orbit, you’re pulling close to 1300 W/m^2, and that's 24x7. That is easily a 5x to 6x energy yield advantage per square meter of panel per day, and when you have that much surplus energy free from the vacuum, you can afford to brute-force the cooling problem by dumping massive wattage into active heat pumps to raise your radiator temps, effectively paying for the inefficiency of space cooling with the abundance of space power.

New comment by innis226 in "Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105"

innis226 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:13:18 +0000

Lol me too

New comment by innis226 in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

innis226 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:14:21 +0000

I've used dwm forever, switched to kde and realized i’d been maintaining my desktop more than using it. Drivers worked, screens behaved, no audio/mic hickups.

New comment by innis226 in "Ferroelectric helps break transistor limits"

innis226 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:21:40 +0000

Negative capacitance in a field effect transistor is not new. In fact this has been shown mire than a decade ago. The reason it won't make its way into modern chips is because the materials used to make the ferroelectrics aren't CMOS foundry compatible.

New comment by innis226 in "The Shape of a Mars Mission"

innis226 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:10:33 +0000

Just to play devil's advocate, Isn't he getting the ball rolling? Put aside his unrealistic timelines, at least he's trying to solve the rocketry part of the equation. I feel like this extreme hatred is unwarranted.

New comment by innis226 in "The Ipe extensible drawing editor"

innis226 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:43:56 +0000

I use ipe all the time. Perfect for making schematics for research papers.