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New comment by interestica in "FAA lifted National Ground Stop at 0119Z"

interestica — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:24:25 +0000

Bro was fighting for his life to not say AI:

"They were putting new equipment um and uh new um......technology"

New comment by interestica in "FAA issues national ground stop"

interestica — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:15:32 +0000

Press conference https://www.youtube.com/live/M1WhY3qcJjE?si=KUFvgHO-EepCi1v6

Notably, the problem was described as "routers overloaded with data". When directly questioned if this could be a cyber attack or rogue ai agent the Sec/Homeland responded "there's nothing completely certain now."

New comment by interestica in "FAA issues national ground stop"

interestica — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:06:50 +0000

Clearly they asked their new AI tool to "make air travel safer" and it found a zero-day to ground all flights.

New comment by interestica in "National Weather Service reports nationwide radar website outage amid FAA stop"

interestica — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 23:03:23 +0000

Maybe this is what caused the groundstop?

New comment by interestica in "Why You Should Expect an AI Crash"

interestica — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:56:58 +0000

At a certain point the entire economy is a cycle. These are like the....epicycles.

(...The design hack to make the geocentric models work. Maybe it's also a metaphor...)

New comment by interestica in "Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun"

interestica — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:48:52 +0000

It's semantics as well as a collision with our inability to work with gradients. We can look at two colours and can name the discrete ones - but when does red stop being red? When does a species emerge?

New comment by interestica in "Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun"

interestica — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:43:49 +0000

Yeah. The gas giants are clearly way different from rocky planets and we still keep them all under one taxonomical grouping. Pluto and other bodies should have been an extension of that: make them dwarf planets or whatever other classification you want. But they're still planets. Theres no "demotion" just a further categorization.

New comment by interestica in "Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep"

interestica — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 19:44:54 +0000

Leave community-built projects up just long enough to further foster those communities and reinforce interest in your products across long time spans....

Then crush them?

New comment by interestica in "United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers"

interestica — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:03:15 +0000

Only if they also ban them from chatting with me when there's a problem.

New comment by interestica in "Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h"

interestica — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:11:51 +0000

If Elon relented and added Lidar, it's probably because of the potential of a huge roving lidar-mapping network of Tesla cars with starlink as the supporting network.

New comment by interestica in "Queens Public Library under ransomware attack"

interestica — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 08:59:04 +0000

Hamilton, '24

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/library-cyber-impact...

New comment by interestica in "Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support"

interestica — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 23:07:13 +0000

Every time I see a Gaussian splatting post, someone brings up triangle splatting. So I think it's an inevitable pivot.

New comment by interestica in "What constant surveillance is doing to children and parents"

interestica — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 23:01:14 +0000

No it just normalizes being tracked as the price of admission to using these tools. So they'll keep the phones and accept being tracked and just hold onto a certain amount of anxiety and resentment. Woo

New comment by interestica in "Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers"

interestica — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:45:34 +0000

Disturbing that this pretty reasonable take was flagged.

The patent system itself has been a moat and we will see more and more reasonable submissions that will force a rethink.

New comment by interestica in "Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers"

interestica — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:37:43 +0000

Felony contempt of business model?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-busine...

New comment by interestica in "Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers"

interestica — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:34:57 +0000

You're saying I can't use a shell company acquisition as a means to shield certain technologies from my other agreements? Booo

New comment by interestica in "Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers"

interestica — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:28:25 +0000

You can get around it by reverse engineering it as long as what's sold doesn't violate that patent. Many companies have had to reverse engineer an existing patent to figure out what they can do instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_around

> Design-arounds are considered to be one of the benefits of patent law. By providing monopoly rights to inventors in exchange for disclosing how to make and use their inventions, others are given both the information and incentive to invent competitive alternatives that design around the original patent. In the field of vaccines, for example, design-arounds are considered fairly easy. It is often possible to use the original patent as a guide for developing an alternative that does not infringe the original patent.

Hinton Lectures 2026 Day 1 Livestream

interestica — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 23:48:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ef0ocEoBCs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50434062

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by interestica in "China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium"

interestica — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:00:07 +0000

> Talking about “thousands of tonnes” of nuclear waste is comically misleading when you realise how tiny the volume is.

You’re mixing mass and volume here. From what I can tell, their numbers were essentially right. Are you saying we don’t have thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste produced?

New comment by interestica in "Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia"

interestica — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:19:07 +0000

We have all lost functionality of a device we paid for after an update. You can’t fault a user for avoiding it. It’s the root that should be addressed.