Hacker News: lorenzohess

New comment by lorenzohess in "iPhone Duo Teardown"

lorenzohess — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:53:40 +0000

> This is the most repairable foldable we've ever taken apart. But that's not saying much.

New comment by lorenzohess in "Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)"

lorenzohess — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:21:03 +0000

Bears,Beets

New comment by lorenzohess in "Higher Multipoles of the Cow"

lorenzohess — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:41:37 +0000

But has anyone ever analyzed the aerodynamics of a cow? Yet another point where SCA breaks down.

New comment by lorenzohess in "Restroom Archive"

lorenzohess — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:02:17 +0000

Public bathroom sinks are always way too small. Google Maps should integrate with this service to incentivize larger sinks.

New comment by lorenzohess in "A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'"

lorenzohess — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:45:46 +0000

> After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball, which is made entirely of force-carrying particles. > ... The discovery of glueballs would provide direct evidence that gluons can interact with themselves, researchers say. This is a key prediction of quantum chromodynamics

New comment by lorenzohess in "Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products"

lorenzohess — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:56:53 +0000

I can't really imagine that an LLM wrapper will be able to optimize designs well enough for this company to have many customers.

Claude has helped me with brainstorming, but I do all the CAD and optimization.

Would be cool if, in 10 years, the prompt to prototype pipeline was as simple, quick, and effective as this landing page alludes to.

New comment by lorenzohess in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

lorenzohess — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:00:18 +0000

> Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported.

This should make it easier to catch cheaters who use Claude, right? Unless everyone runs their artifacts through some watermark and metadata sanitizer?

New comment by lorenzohess in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"

lorenzohess — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:01:41 +0000

> An unreleased research version of Claude has improved on a longstanding lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the Riemann hypothesis. Drawing on extensive prior research by mathematicians over the past decades, it has increased this bound from 41.6% to 67.2%.

Distrofighter: The Linux distro and desktop brawler

lorenzohess — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:26:32 +0000

Article URL: https://distrofighter.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774761

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lorenzohess in "Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX"

lorenzohess — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:12:45 +0000

I still find Inkscape and svg + pdf_tex to be the easiest pattern.

Looks great for Tikz native though.

New comment by lorenzohess in ">400 AUR Packages Compromised with NPM post-install malware"

lorenzohess — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:13:22 +0000

AUR thread: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists....

Malware analysis: https://ioctl.fail/preliminary-analysis-of-aur-malware/

>400 AUR Packages Compromised with NPM post-install malware

lorenzohess — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:08:40 +0000

Article URL: https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509444

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by lorenzohess in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

lorenzohess — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:53:53 +0000

If I recall correctly, at an undistorted scale, the water would be so shallow that surface tension and viscosity would dominate, so the depths are exaggerated to keep the flow realistic.

More specifically, tidal flow obeys Froude similarity, not Reynolds. Matching the model's Froude number to the real Bay's requires enough depth for gravity waves and tides to scale correctly, which the vertical exaggeration provides.

But the distortion makes the flow too efficient, so copper strips are added throughout to achieve the right frictional resistance.