Hacker News: nxobject

New comment by nxobject in "Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI"

nxobject — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:41:15 +0000

I'd be amused if a sub-sub-agent organically decided to do it anyway - even if just for a notable figure that an LLM can identify with its weights alone. What are the controls? Who's going to keep Google accountable? Hah.

New comment by nxobject in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

nxobject — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:00:20 +0000

FWIW, since OP was, well, the OP:

https://dmitry.gr/?r=01.Myself&proj=06.Work

New comment by nxobject in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

nxobject — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:54:19 +0000

Somehow, “euroyuan” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

New comment by nxobject in "US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters"

nxobject — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:35:44 +0000

> If the meetings are open to the public then anyone can attend (i.e., "spy") on them.

It’s the systematic, motivated, and targeted collection of data that makes it spying. When the KGB takes photos of licence plates of people leaving a military base, we call it “spying”. Replace this with Homeland Security and a neighborhood organizing meeting.

New comment by nxobject in "Antiqua–Fraktur dispute"

nxobject — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:07:25 +0000

It's hilarious how this dispute captures the assumptions of each period... the 19th-century debate is completely unrecognizable.

New comment by nxobject in "Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386"

nxobject — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:29:09 +0000

Watch out for the scare quotes though - it actually did give me the opportunity to check: Finder 1.0 shipped with System file .97, and Finder 1.1 shipped with System file 1.1g - and it looks like “System Software 1.0” actually refers to Finder 5.2/System file 3.1!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS#System_1,_2,_3,...

New comment by nxobject in "Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386"

nxobject — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:26:44 +0000

If we’re going to be really pedantic, there was no “System 1” as TFA says as well anyway - I don’t think there was an actual “version 1” of the System File version 1, and most of the routines at that point were in ROM.

But an LLM would have caught that. Signs of a human touch?

New comment by nxobject in "Assembly Hall of Shame"

nxobject — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:08:42 +0000

> E.g. we can build a board around a MC68000 where we make it lock up forever in a bus cycle, waiting for a DTACK that doesn't arrive.

IIRC, early 68k Macs had processor upgrades hooked onto the 68k bus and did exactly this - an early boot driver run by the “actual” CPU coordinated handoff with the expansion CPU’s bootstrap ROM.

New comment by nxobject in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

nxobject — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:51:09 +0000

If you’re in the weird position of knowing more about the national labs than the AI lab scene (like I am), link to a TechCrunch profile:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tiny-startup-arcee-ai-buil...

My question is: why is this being run out of Argonne? Why not NERSC proper?

New comment by nxobject in "Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language"

nxobject — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:58:08 +0000

I’d really encourage you with Unicode support, as frustrating as of a side track it may be - I’ve had fun dogfooding my hobby languages by writing small web servers and CLI utilities. Even if it just generates part of your shell prompt!

New comment by nxobject in "NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements"

nxobject — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:48:37 +0000

Re: Bayer - the non-health industry side? I'm surprised NIH hasn't rolled out something like this earlier, to be honest, with their increasing emphasis on commercialisation.

New comment by nxobject in "NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements"

nxobject — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:47:00 +0000

Thanks - the program guide at the very bottom seems to have the most detail.

https://uidp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/UIDP-I-PhD-Schol...

New comment by nxobject in "NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements"

nxobject — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:44:25 +0000

Looking at the $$$ awarded -- that's interesting: $37k/year, and while there's a $22,000 "ancillary expenses" component, institutions administer it, and can use it like any other indirect cost $$$. Conversely, industry funders have to stump up at least $100,000/year per student.

New comment by nxobject in "NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements"

nxobject — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:37:04 +0000

If you want to skip the fluff, the actual funded program abstract here:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=2624416

Appropriately enough for a pilot, there's a structured usual cohort-mentoring and outcomes evaluation component.

(NSF brings 3 years of $$$, but as it is, it doesn't seem like attempt to nudge people screwed over by GRFP restrictions towards industry.)

New comment by nxobject in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

nxobject — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:47:28 +0000

Notoriously after Halo for Macintosh was canned, too...

New comment by nxobject in "Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data"

nxobject — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:21:00 +0000

This is incredibly superficial, but that’s the most thoughtfully laid out and typeset official report I’ve read in ages.

New comment by nxobject in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

nxobject — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:45:47 +0000

Better than a 2026 human, worse than a 2016 machine. You win some, you lose some, I guess...

New comment by nxobject in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

nxobject — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:13:49 +0000

This is a sleeper option, but 'xonsh' as a Python superset is a very pleasant experience, especially when you just don't feel like learning another bespoke language for the complex stuff.

I once had to scrape the output out of something hacked together by a grad student 10 years before me, scrape yet another hacked together application, do some fancy numerics, and then plonk it into a database. I did it without tears!

New comment by nxobject in "Codex Resets"

nxobject — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:55:15 +0000

We’re at the gamification stage of motivating people to use your product, eh?

New comment by nxobject in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

nxobject — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:45:00 +0000

> It sounds like, in this case, Apple has hard proof that documents were stolen.

Honestly, the proof is the least surprising part -- Apple's been paranoid about leaks for decades, even when the stakes have been lower.