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New comment by jonah in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

jonah — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:20:15 +0000

No.

Low fire clay fires at 1060°C+ and high fire clay at 1222°C+.

[Corrected to both be Centigrade]

New comment by jonah in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

jonah — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:17:15 +0000

In general, gaffer's tape is the superior product, but for this use case, I'm thinking that duct tape with its solid backed film and thicker adhesive might be more airtight.

New comment by jonah in "A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025)"

jonah — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:15:15 +0000

"This result is, to the best of our knowledge, the tightest known bound on papal visits required for complete national infrastructure repair in the literature."

You don't say? I suspect the only.

New comment by jonah in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

jonah — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:38:11 +0000

I was recently trying to get models to generate a 3D fortune cookie. Claude in three.js and Gemini in openSCAD. Neither really got the concept or could get very close at all. It's a surprisingly complex shape I guess.

New comment by jonah in "Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone"

jonah — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:52:12 +0000

QRP is the keyword you may be looking for. 9W, battery powered, SDR shortwave transceivers. There are inexpensive and expensive versions.

Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz

jonah — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:59:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wionews.com/world/iran-to-take-full-control-of-all-7-undersea-internet-cables-passing-through-strait-of-hormuz-1778361695047

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091203

Points: 52

# Comments: 52

New comment by jonah in "Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions"

jonah — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:19:12 +0000

IIRC, these were all in one book that I read as a kid. I wish they had credited it so I could find a copy to give as a gift.

Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash

jonah — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:34:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952480

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jonah in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

jonah — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:35:45 +0000

I was looking to see if BZR referred to a 3rd party ad network. I didn't find anything, but apparently someone has replicated OAI's system and you can run insert it into your own LLM.

GH: system32miro/ai-ads-engine

New comment by jonah in "Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch"

jonah — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:43:01 +0000

There are many species of milkweed and they're not all the same to the butterflies. Try to grow the ones that are native to your area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias#Ecology

https://www.growmilkweedplants.com/map

New comment by jonah in "Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch"

jonah — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:01:31 +0000

You should only be planting native species whatever they are for your specific area.

Why Silicon Valley Is Turning to the Catholic Church

jonah — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:53:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/silicon-valley-catholicism-ai-leo/686948/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902361

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by jonah in "MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code"

jonah — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:54:52 +0000

It matters legally.

Different countries allow unlicensed use on different frequencies. Look up which is correct for your location.

New comment by jonah in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

jonah — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:36:57 +0000

They have plenty of running/driving mules out there already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6_9_HHLOSY

(Not for sale yet though.)

New comment by jonah in "Tennessee is about to make building chatbots a Class A felony"

jonah — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:15:05 +0000

But datacenters are fine?

https://www.datacenters.com/locations/united-states/tennesse...

New comment by jonah in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

jonah — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:10:40 +0000

I'd highly recommend watching Perfect Day by Wim Wenders. It's a really sweet film.

"Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself." -- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27503384/

New comment by jonah in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

jonah — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:14:53 +0000

That's a really effective way to get a group of people to do horrible things. Break it up into small pieces where each one isn't that bad in and of itself.

New comment by jonah in "The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House"

jonah — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:38:57 +0000

Too bad Winchester didn't become an architect.

Julia Morgan, Winchester's contemporary, was the first woman to obtain an architecture license in California in 1904 and had a very prolific career throughout the state including her most famous - Hearst Castle - commissioned in 1919.

New comment by jonah in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

jonah — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:32:50 +0000

The general public will self-host it's built in to your next phone or laptop straight out of the box or maybe from the App Store.

New comment by jonah in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

jonah — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:28:35 +0000

Sure, but compare this to "turn[ing] off" combustion engines a mere four years after commercial adoption rather than 162 years later (now). Back then, going back to horses wouldn't have been as big of a deal as it would be now.