<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: londons_explore</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=londons_explore</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:10:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=londons_explore" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And you'll have to pay taxes on it despite it being unsellable.<p>Screw those things up, and those taxes will bankrupt you because they can exceed all your other earnings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:16:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458188</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458188</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Siri AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I gave some LLM's my password manager and some credit cards to try to do this sort of thing lately.<p>They failed most of the time.    Simple things like finding the right password for Gmail sometimes was out of reach.   Anti bot techniques sometimes stopped it.<p>Impressively, sometimes they'd successfully write hugely complex bash or python scripts to do tasks on web pages they hadn't managed to do with the browser automation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:11:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458135</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "'Unbelievably Stupid' Tourist Charges Yellowstone Bison Herd"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So guy scares bison off road so he can drive along road.<p>I don't see what's wrong.      This is what I do with cows a couple of times a year when cows are sleeping on the road.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:46:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457939</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Getting together a group of owners with 3% ownership by value or 3% by voting rights both seems do-able, and I'm sure would be done of there was a serious case of mismanagement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:21:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456801</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We all know this is the first political position.   They'll walk back half of it, and what remains will appear to be a compromise, but was what was intended all along.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:31:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453258</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My personal photography blogging business has a market cap of a trillion dollars too.<p>I have 1 trillion shares, and I sold 1 to a mate for a dollar.<p>Total company revenue is like 50 bucks a month and profits are nil.<p>Can I be in the S&P 500 too?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:21:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423415</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems obvious to me that this should be a built in functionality of the kernel.<p>The kernels job is to manage resources - and GPU ram is one such resource, and it can be used for many of the same uses as regular ram.</p>
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<p>Previous lumafield blog posts have been full of amazing graphics and knowledge.<p>But this one seems to be "state the obvious" and "recant political talking points with no new evidence".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377742</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377742</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it actually cost that much RAM, they would almost certainly add extra things to the API to manage cache lifetime.    Ie. A 'please cache this for X minutes' flag, or a setting for a single re-use cache (the most common use case)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:41:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367972</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The providers must have a more efficient approach.    Most cache every request for 12+ hours, and they certainly can't spare 100GB of ram per request for 12 hours.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:14:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367406</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except the providers also cache the parsing of the prompt (the KV cache), and that has substantial cost savings (easily an 80% saving on typical coding use cases).<p>That caching is done server side and not passed to the client.     Which in turn means they still need state management on the server side, although it perhaps doesn't need the same level of global replication and availability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:12:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367383</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations.<p>And more importantly forces them to sell the rest of the market.<p>Who will be on the other side of these trades?   I suspect the stock market is not sufficiently liquid for all of that to happen in a single day without the rest of the market seeing a significantly depressed price, and index holders effectively gifting value to everyone else by effectively pre-announcing their large trades.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:24:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367082</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dithering in time seems like the best solution to this problem.    Delta sigma modulation per pixel can be done reasonably easily.<p>Changing at 30Hz I doubt a human can tell the difference between slightly blue and slightly yellow.</p>
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<p>As an employer, I want AI to be fully allowed for assignments, and the assignments to be made trickier to compensate.<p>Let's train people to use all the tools available to solve the hardest problems, rather than solving toy problems with a slide rule.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:01:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361139</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Outside the apple ecosystem, AV1 is supported nearly everywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 04:49:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343121</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty sure this is beyond copilots abilities...   It's really bad at any kind of binary analysis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 04:43:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343085</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which probably allows them to skirt legal liability...<p>After all, a computer with the date set to 2021 will still function...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 04:41:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343074</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would like to see approaches to recovering data from fragile disks by placing the inner disk on a flat surface and using some kind of imaging technology to measure the magnetic fields - perhaps an electron microscope could do the job at low enough field strengths?<p>Using this I imagine it might be possible to not only read the disk data, but perhaps even previous versions of data that has been overwritten.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 05:03:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332762</link><dc:creator>londons_explore</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by londons_explore in "Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Photo reproduction should be the target here...<p>And it looks like the software support needs work too - the obvious way to do it is being done able to import a jpeg or png to project or wrap onto the surface, a bit like texture maps in video games.</p>
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<p>Seems doubtful that this security will be very strong.     It won't be hard to spoof an official client.</p>
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