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New comment by ivandenysov in "Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)"

ivandenysov — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:21:22 +0000

Prisoner’s dilemma: margins are razor thin. If your fellow farmers use better seeds then you are forced to use them as well. Otherwise you won’t be able to match their prices without selling at a loss.

New comment by ivandenysov in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

ivandenysov — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:30:02 +0000

Who designs a signaling system where a ‘major disruption’ can be caused by a jumper cable applied at any point along potentially hundreds of kms? What about resiliency and fallbacks for something that critical?

Fear not! I’m sure the European Commission will promptly ban jumpstart cable ownership without a license.

New comment by ivandenysov in "Getting your hands dirty is good for you"

ivandenysov — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:01:49 +0000

Anecdotally not in Berlin, Rome, or Dublin.

New comment by ivandenysov in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

ivandenysov — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:39:02 +0000

The big bet is that the LLMs will get good enough to invent new frameworks or even branches of math. I hope it pans out. Otherwise we will get stuck in a local maximum for a while.

On the positive side We won’t get the cars, but our horses will be damn fast ;)

New comment by ivandenysov in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"

ivandenysov — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:39 +0000

> statistics can tell you absolutely anything you want them to say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Collins

New comment by ivandenysov in "Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?"

ivandenysov — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:28:15 +0000

> Debian is a large and complicated project: the release announcement for version 13 says it has 69,830 packages, which take a total of 403 GB of disk, and contain 1,463,291,186 lines of code. So, suitably, it is a large and complex poll.

Surely these are not just Debian-owned packages. Whatever Debian decides won’t apply to packages not owned by Debian

New comment by ivandenysov in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

ivandenysov — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:01:56 +0000

I started noticing a lot less annoying stuff like that after reducing my caffeine intake and overall stress level.

New comment by ivandenysov in "Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport"

ivandenysov — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:19:17 +0000

And Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines until 2022

New comment by ivandenysov in "EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements"

ivandenysov — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:56:38 +0000

> it must still undergo scrutiny by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.

I wonder what exactly that means. I hope the European Parliament won’t have to waste time voting on this.

New comment by ivandenysov in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

ivandenysov — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:49:08 +0000

I’d love to crowdfund this.

I’ve been on a hunt for a perfect blank t shirt. After trying 10 different models either the fit or the material is not up to my standard.

I wonder how automatable manufacturing of T-Shirts is. Not sure if it is possible to automate sewing on a collar for example. Plus from what I’ve read a tubular t shirt is worse than front and back sewed at the sides cause it tends to stretch and rotate in one direction with time.

Anyway: continuous knitting is more automatable but introduces limitations just like injection moulding does. But the benefit of having a perfect fit might outweigh those limitations.

What’s your take on all of this?

New comment by ivandenysov in "Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs"

ivandenysov — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:54:49 +0000

To calculate +/- 3/6/9 months I shift by seasons. 3rd month of summer becomes 3rd month of winter.

That works well cause all months live in a primitive memory palace in my head: an analogue clock face with July at 12 and January at 6. So shifting by 6 means rotating the clock hand from 11 to 5 and immediately visualising what month it falls on.

This might sound inefficient to an LLM but human brains had image processing before language.

New comment by ivandenysov in "Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones"

ivandenysov — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:14:47 +0000

Ukrainian P1-Sun interceptor FPVs were built specifically for this purpose. They are way cheaper than a Shaheed drone and have a practical ceiling of 5000+ meters according to wikipedia.

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/P1-Sun

New comment by ivandenysov in "Starship V3"

ivandenysov — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:45:33 +0000

Those goals can be achieved in parallel.

New comment by ivandenysov in "OpenAI misses revenue, is the AI bubble bursting?"

ivandenysov — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:57:10 +0000

This comment is a mandatory mention of Betteridge's law of headlines.

New comment by ivandenysov in "M5 MacBook Air Review: Not just more of the same–the same, but more"

ivandenysov — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:27:58 +0000

Oh wow: it was more expensive than MacBook Air

New comment by ivandenysov in "M5 MacBook Air Review: Not just more of the same–the same, but more"

ivandenysov — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:25:33 +0000

> Not since the polycarbonate MacBook’s retirement in 2011 has there been a notebook in Apple’s lineup with a lower price point than the MacBook Air

Wasn’t the 12-inch MacBook (2015-2017) exactly that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-inch_MacBook

New comment by ivandenysov in "iPhone 17e"

ivandenysov — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:02:27 +0000

Google recently released a smartphone without a camera bump: Pixel 10a.

New comment by ivandenysov in "Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective"

ivandenysov — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:01:20 +0000

Which approaches do you think work well?

New comment by ivandenysov in "UK High Court judgment on whether the Theft Act applies to Runescape gold pieces"

ivandenysov — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:01:35 +0000

Would shutting down the game server for good be considered property damage then?

New comment by ivandenysov in "No, it's not a battleship"

ivandenysov — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:25:22 +0000

As an example loitering munition with foldable wings is already fairly compact. 2x storage space savings might not justify assembly space and effort