Hacker News: manyatoms

New comment by manyatoms in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

manyatoms — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:56:35 +0000

This seems like a careful way to send a message to US Congress about what they're enabling.

New comment by manyatoms in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

manyatoms — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:53:21 +0000

That doesn't feel like a topic that impacts trade/mobility deals at the international level

New comment by manyatoms in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

manyatoms — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:50:04 +0000

It says a lot psychologically to take a 'domestic' flight instead though, gives people more of a sense of togetherness

New comment by manyatoms in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

manyatoms — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:45:10 +0000

Trump isn't going to mess with Australia.

Fox News is owned by a guy who grew up in Australia.

New comment by manyatoms in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

manyatoms — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:01:03 +0000

How does this compare to vectorware? (https://www.vectorware.com/blog/)

New comment by manyatoms in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

manyatoms — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:00:20 +0000

not to worry, they have an 'AI generated summary' box too

New comment by manyatoms in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

manyatoms — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:34:25 +0000

Try firefox, as chrome puts restrictions on what adblockers can do

New comment by manyatoms in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

manyatoms — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:41:39 +0000

So when is the FBI raiding OpenAI?

New comment by manyatoms in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

manyatoms — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:43:51 +0000

My long term guess: A&OAI will move away from being interference providers to just training models and then licencing the models for local use

New comment by manyatoms in "Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds into food"

manyatoms — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:23:19 +0000

is there a lot of mineral oil out there? what motivates the suggestion of this particular precursor?

New comment by manyatoms in "Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force"

manyatoms — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:32:17 +0000

How did they not already have one before? Surely every big company does this?

New comment by manyatoms in "Show HN: Replacing HTML/CSS/JS with Rust"

manyatoms — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:16:42 +0000

This is great!

New comment by manyatoms in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

manyatoms — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:41:42 +0000

> In Arkansas 20% of people tested on a big free testing day were sensitized to the galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose molecule

What effect does this have on the person?

New comment by manyatoms in "Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)"

manyatoms — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:20:31 +0000

Say if we have a pi laying around, could we emulate this?

New comment by manyatoms in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

manyatoms — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:44:18 +0000

or even just re-planting different types of trees

New comment by manyatoms in "Rent collections are down in New York"

manyatoms — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:27:39 +0000

So say they do get evicted eventually, what are their chances of getting the next rental?

New comment by manyatoms in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

manyatoms — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:06:04 +0000

Unless what you're getting is really explicitly spelled out in a contract, you should flatly assume that they're doing whatever they like whenever they like.

New comment by manyatoms in "Court Records Should Be Free"

manyatoms — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:17:16 +0000

> The problem is - we are all required to abide by the law. And the law is at least partially determined by precedent established by previous court cases. But those cases are behind a paywall.

In 2026, this is similar to having secret laws, as your LLM might not have a subscription or know to tell you to get one

New comment by manyatoms in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

manyatoms — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:06:35 +0000

Feels like the title of a blog post someone will write

New comment by manyatoms in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

manyatoms — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:01:09 +0000

I'm sure this person's manager knows that having trouble getting PRs reviewed can (but not always) be a signal of a deeper problem. It could be that no one one the team knows the domain, it could be that no one like the person, but most likely it's that the PRs are frequently bad and no one wants to bother.