Hacker News: joebig

New comment by joebig in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"

joebig — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:27:12 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489395. Related old submission by me. Did you guys know we have a neutrino image of the Sun? Remarkable stuff. The Japanese really led the groundwork on this one.

Conceptual Blockbusting [pdf]

joebig — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://muqithfiles.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/conceptual-blockbusting-a-guide-to-better-ideas-by-james-l.-adams.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982349

Points: 1

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Metafilter: 20+ years in, you think you know a site (2021)

joebig — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:20:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.carrietian.com/metafilter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956431

Points: 4

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New comment by joebig in "To grieve, or not to grieve?"

joebig — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:54:47 +0000

@dang, you perhaps have mistakenly favorite-d an inane comment (I've got showdead on). And yes, I want to be teacher's pet. Let me know if you hate me too (please don't).

Yves Meyer's wavelet transforms – The Abel Prize 2017 [video]

joebig — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:31:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fi6TdH9poU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942976

Points: 2

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New comment by joebig in "Drawing electricity from this sodium-water reactor prevents explosion, in theory"

joebig — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:31:05 +0000

Thanks for posting the link. Found it fascinating. I wonder if negatively charging the droplets would suppress the coloumbic explosion as envisaged here. In effect, generating a cell overpotential by applied external emf.

The Paris Bridge That Never Was (2014)

joebig — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:15:49 +0000

Article URL: https://parisianfields.com/2014/04/20/the-paris-bridge-that-never-was/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936004

Points: 1

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DIY X-RAY generator made of eBay parts

joebig — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:19:04 +0000

Article URL: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=2854.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894844

Points: 1

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New comment by joebig in "Claude partial outage"

joebig — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:15:55 +0000

The general drove on. "At the present time our chief bottleneck is the fact that missiles are limited in intelligence. The computer controlling them can only be so large, and for that reason they can meet the changing nature of anti-missile defenses in an unsatisfactory way. Few missiles, if any, accomplish their goal, and missile warfare is coming to a dead end, for the enemy, fortunately, as well as for ourselves.

"On the other hand, a missile with a man or two within, controlling flight by graphitics, would be lighter, more mobile, more intelligent. It would give us a lead that might well mean the margin of victory. Besides which, gentlemen, the exigencies of war compel us to remember one thing. A man is much more dispensable than a computer. Manned missiles could be launched in numbers and under circumstances that no good general would care to undertake as far as computer-directed missiles are concerned . . ."

Roaring Twenties

joebig — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:23:24 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882243

Points: 4

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Gut Feelings (2007) [pdf]

joebig — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:28:52 +0000

Article URL: https://hadinur.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gerd-gigerenzer-gut-feelings_-the-intelligence-of-the-unconscious-penguin-non-classics-2008.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868797

Points: 1

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Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

joebig — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:17:39 +0000

Article URL: https://cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866031

Points: 62

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New comment by joebig in "Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike"

joebig — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:32:36 +0000

There is some inaccuracy here I think. Decoherence means washing out of interference phenomenon, viz. you will observe no fringes in the double slit experiment with incoherent source pair (they switch so rapidly as to end up plain grey). What is erased or overwritten in tiny timescales cannot have a residual resultant or guiding gulley effect, or as you say, freezing the pattern/steric landscape in a preffered state repeatably. It would be tantamount to observing the fringe pattern with incoherent sources, for all timescales.

New comment by joebig in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"

joebig — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:19:18 +0000

Converse in good faith.

1986: How to Spot the Upper Class – That's Life – BBC Archive [video]

joebig — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:41:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK6w6MzMDhk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858792

Points: 1

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RF applications in particle accelerators (2024) [pdf]

joebig — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:48:51 +0000

Article URL: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2953465/files/2601.16760.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821529

Points: 2

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Dual Photography (2005) [pdf]

joebig — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:44:59 +0000

Article URL: https://web.ece.ucsb.edu/~psen/Papers/SIGGRAPH05_DualPhotography.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800341

Points: 2

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Leaping Sun Dogs (2016) [video]

joebig — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:38:31 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774167

Points: 3

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New comment by joebig in "Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'"

joebig — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:36:11 +0000

Appreciated. May I ask regarding the determination of the magnitude of correction to apply? Is it a case-to-case basis? In other words, is it very sensitive to the distance assumped for the LRDs?

Work, wages and apprenticeships: the lives of girls in ancient Egypt (2025)

joebig — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:19:48 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/work-wages-and-apprenticeships-sifting-for-clues-about-the-lives-of-girls-in-ancient-egypt-249581

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771332

Points: 4

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