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New comment by pantalaimon in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

pantalaimon — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:15:32 +0000

UAE would be happy to pay for it

New comment by pantalaimon in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

pantalaimon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:53:14 +0000

Maybe we can use the goop from those self sealing bike tires to have self sealing space station modules

New comment by pantalaimon in "ESP32-S31"

pantalaimon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:08:22 +0000

But it's the same scheme as STM32, EFM32, GD32, …

New comment by pantalaimon in "Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)"

pantalaimon — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:25:54 +0000

> In the lobby they had a PDP-11 right next to the Eastern Bloc clone with its Cyrillic writing.

Those are still standing in the lobby of the Computer Science Department of FU Berlin (Takustraße 9)

You are probably referring to Zuse Institute Berlin which is the building right next to it.

New comment by pantalaimon in "Dav2d"

pantalaimon — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:03:28 +0000

I'm not quite convinced a 25% reduction in size is worth effectively obsoleting all devices that have hardware decoders for AV1 but will struggle to decode AV2

New comment by pantalaimon in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

pantalaimon — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:08:22 +0000

The methane is not mixed with oxygen when it's still in the rocket tank, so it can't all explode - most of it will just burn off.

It's still a big boom, but not anywhere close to what world occur with optional mixing.

Starship's Twelfth Flight Test

pantalaimon — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:41:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214558

Points: 120

# Comments: 108

New comment by pantalaimon in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

pantalaimon — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:53:35 +0000

I mean there was this CCC [0] talk two years ago where they managed to get access to the poorly secured location data of all the cars, including historic movement patterns.

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-vo...

How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China

pantalaimon — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:24:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027995

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pantalaimon in "ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is"

pantalaimon — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:10:31 +0000

I would have expected a LEGO version of the SMEE machine

Iran war drives up circuit board prices, according to report

pantalaimon — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:13:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Iran-war-drives-up-circuit-board-prices-according-to-report-11276894.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960813

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant

pantalaimon — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:08:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/1-4-GW-Huge-battery-storage-at-former-Grohnde-nuclear-power-plant-11277367.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960778

Points: 66

# Comments: 89

Sonic: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control

pantalaimon — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:28:27 +0000

Article URL: https://nvlabs.github.io/GEAR-SONIC/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923715

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pantalaimon in "GPT-5.5"

pantalaimon — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:20:23 +0000

> A perturbation of the the activations that made Claude identify as the Golden Gate Bridge.

Great, now we've got digital Salvia

New comment by pantalaimon in "Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45"

pantalaimon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:56:17 +0000

If NATO still exists by then.

New comment by pantalaimon in "Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45"

pantalaimon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:55:31 +0000

It's ridiculous that the German government now has to officially state "Please ignore the letter of the law, we didn't mean it that way."

New comment by pantalaimon in "The Orange Pi 6 Plus"

pantalaimon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:57:05 +0000

I thought RK3588 had pretty good mainline support, what's the issue with this board?

New comment by pantalaimon in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

pantalaimon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:21:42 +0000

Same with Ic - Ich

New comment by pantalaimon in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

pantalaimon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:09:25 +0000

It's pretty annoying that you need vendor specific APIs and a large vendor specific stack to do anything with those NPUs.

This way software adoption will be very limited.

New comment by pantalaimon in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

pantalaimon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:39:27 +0000

I don't know anyone who goes through the trouble to spoof their user agent and I know plenty Linux users.