Hacker News: numpad0

New comment by numpad0 in "Prove you're human by winning a claw machine"

numpad0 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:32:15 +0000

Yeah, real claw machines straight up have tunable win probability controls(subject to local gambling laws).

but this is fun!

New comment by numpad0 in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

numpad0 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:19:16 +0000

Doesn't really matter.

New comment by numpad0 in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

numpad0 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:49:59 +0000

Backlights, battery, anything. Modern high performance CPUs need an external debug adapter to set up the board before they can be powered on(old supercomputers did too). Blobs running on a less-modern CPU handles that. The less modern CPU in RasPi is its GPU, but it can be other devices; it can be the modem, or a "security" sub-CPU.

IMO it's possible that the bigger issue is no one knows what's going on inside these devices. Maybe some of blobs aren't needed, or they can be readily replaced, etc., but no one has time to deal with it. This is probably a field that cheap brain-hours that LLMs just created could actually revolutionize.

New comment by numpad0 in "Every Frame Perfect"

numpad0 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:45:18 +0000

Slot machines has to have something always going on, overly dynamic Apple animations help with that. For regular UI animations, it helps normal users who struggle with sudden changes in screen contents, as well as helping to smooth out framerate and hide delays caused by API calls or backend processing.

New comment by numpad0 in "Every Frame Perfect"

numpad0 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:31:16 +0000

GGP's point is that broken in-between frames are everywhere, in films and animations, and this is a total nothingburger.

GP's point is that those frames aren't broken, but they're intentional and calculated, and so they're not even relevant here.

New comment by numpad0 in "Every Frame Perfect"

numpad0 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:35:51 +0000

... I wonder if we're seeing a downstream effect of Apple rejecting Flash on iPhone, triggering a slow collapse of Adobe empire. It seems that there are multiple concepts missing in conversations going on here.

New comment by numpad0 in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

numpad0 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:53:02 +0000

Yeah. LLMs, machine translations, CJK keyboards, they are all the same technology; faster cars to each others, not cars vs horse drawn carriages. It'll be surprising if they didn't directly apply any applicable learnings back to Google Translate.

New comment by numpad0 in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

numpad0 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:23:19 +0000

Weren't Tesla ACIM drive unit motors before Model 3 also magnet-free? I thought they used passive isolated bundles of copper wires and their reluctance as magnets.

New comment by numpad0 in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

numpad0 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:51:53 +0000

It's all the same, except LLMs are less precise with names.

New comment by numpad0 in "Surprise, pay $1000"

numpad0 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:12:18 +0000

... through snail mails?

JAXA/MHI H3F6 test launch(00:53 UTC/16:53 PST) [video]

numpad0 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:39:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSiaGTea1rc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498398

Points: 2

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New comment by numpad0 in "Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95"

numpad0 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:52:36 +0000

It's probably just old stocks and newly built surplus parts. People don't care too much about book values of unsold items in parts markets in China and/or third world Asian countries.

New comment by numpad0 in "Surprise, pay $1000"

numpad0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:04:49 +0000

It was one thing to use the line to call an ISP, which can be a company of its own, and another to use their Internet access on that call.

New comment by numpad0 in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

numpad0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:19:51 +0000

Most motors have N-S axis of magnets aligned tangential to the axis of rotation. Axial flux motors have N-S poles parallel to rotation. This allows motors to be thinner and wider as well as anyhow more lighter and sometimes easier made. Whether they make sense depends, it seems.

New comment by numpad0 in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

numpad0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:50:16 +0000

I think the only device that don't have that option is Vive Flow VR yoga goggles(???), which I happen to have, and suspect that someone at Apple fell in love with its concept. It just feels too similar if described in PowerPoint slides to the production Vision Pro.

New comment by numpad0 in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

numpad0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:47:40 +0000

Not really, most were wired with zero latency. Wireless adapters existed but didn't do local "reprojection" aka rudimentary warping to absorb pose differences between when the sensor data was captured and new frames is being rendered.

Current Wi-Fi based streaming pipe mp4 frames and swing it around. That's slightly different from static raw frame wireless solutions before Oculus Quest.

New comment by numpad0 in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

numpad0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:34:52 +0000

There are nevertheless viewers of such contents on iOS. They pass reviews so long the reviewer testing account only shows SFW sections that nobody uses. The users navigate from such sites to the App Store, and never the other way around, so there's absolutely no need for the app to have anything exposed to App Store.

New comment by numpad0 in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

numpad0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:13:23 +0000

I've come across some article on that in the past - they seem to put a pair of synchronized APS-C cameras or one with a stereo lens ahead of a 3Dio. The entire thing can be mounted on a balanced crane, and the male actor slides under the head like a contortionist. Very few, if any, seemed to use KU100 for that; they seem to be only used for "ASMRs"(not much to do with ASMR anymore)

New comment by numpad0 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

numpad0 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:57:05 +0000

I don't understand how businesses could trust cloud LLMs going forward with this ongoing "safety" paranoia. Building dependence on them doesn't feel like a sane strategic decision for users.

New comment by numpad0 in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

numpad0 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:53:28 +0000

Vive Flow is 189 grams btw