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New comment by jabron in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

jabron — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:06:43 +0000

Huh, not sure where I got the 86 number from, because I did check a primary source. Probably a mixup with a later number that included annexed territory.

If you're interested: https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/werksansicht/57050/59/einze...

New comment by jabron in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

jabron — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:11:30 +0000

Germany's population in 1938 was higher. Around 86 million.

New comment by jabron in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

jabron — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:46:12 +0000

It's indicative of how little Microsoft cares in addition to the issue of plagiarism. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's had to read Microsoft documentation recently.

New comment by jabron in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

jabron — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:14:47 +0000

I'd argue that "assumptions", i.e. the statistical models it uses to predict text, is basically what makes LLMs useful. The problem here is that its assumptions are naive. It only takes the distance into account, as that's what usually determines the correct response to such a question.

New comment by jabron in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

jabron — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:03:17 +0000

So you read the CI result, implement a fix and stage + commit your changes in ~10 seconds? You might be superhuman.

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

jabron — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:01:07 +0000

Amazon

New comment by jabron in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

jabron — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:01:07 +0000

What does that mean? You got feedback from the CI within 30 seconds and immediately pushed a fix?

New comment by jabron in "I went from literature/language to Rust systems programming in under a year"

jabron — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:56:28 +0000

Well that's not true.

> I tend to over-comment my scripts out of habit—no AI tools were involved here (nor elsewhere in the code). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662378

New comment by jabron in "Map of all the buildings in the world"

jabron — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:04:53 +0000

They've used a vision transformer to estimate building heights from monocular aerial photographs, so they're guesses at best. Calling this a map is a stretch.

New comment by jabron in "Meta Segment Anything Model 3"

jabron — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:18:48 +0000

What do you mean "bounding boxes"? They were talking about captions and embeddings, so a vision language model is required.

New comment by jabron in "Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub"

jabron — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:49:13 +0000

Comparing Nazi Germany and the PRC in any way is certainly an interesting choice, considering they're the one major power in the world that actually doesn't have a recent history of invading sovereign nations.

New comment by jabron in "Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network"

jabron — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:26:46 +0000

What does this even mean?