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New comment by phantom_wizard in "Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers"

phantom_wizard — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:06:22 +0000

They did it to themselves. I'm sure we will read books about their failure and the replacement of Google search with chats and llms. The outcome is quite peculiar, because those chats are a blessing but should we really give them our data away. Scary what they will do with it. It was already scary enough with Google.

New comment by phantom_wizard in "David Lynch has died"

phantom_wizard — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:35:30 +0000

Sad news, he was a genius creator - I like to think about him as Salvador Dali of our times. For sure his works will be remembered.

New comment by phantom_wizard in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

phantom_wizard — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:33:33 +0000

I am reading a book about it right now and as I learn more it seems too crazy and unbelievable to sustain (and im quite gullible person), especially part about living on full ocean in small boats with no food, water and heat, in extreme cold, still travelling those 100s of kilometers.

New comment by phantom_wizard in "We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video]"

phantom_wizard — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:07:10 +0000

This "company" is strongly connected with previous government and their prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki (company owner is his close colleague), they work more like organized crime than legal entity copying the Russians. Sometimes, but not often, they even make some assassinations and I'm afraid it may be so in this case.

There was a female deputy Magdalena Biejat, now a president candidate, who was trying to make some public inquiry but the deputies from other party prevented that.

It all works because the former ruling party organized around themselves some kind of semi-religious cult consisting of around 1/3 of nation, usually older people that oppose everything they don't understand.

New comment by phantom_wizard in "Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat"

phantom_wizard — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 06:39:17 +0000

Seems like cool concept, basically it's just solar furnace with extra steps - to me it is a bit nonsense that it is placed in Germany because there are far better locations on a globe like Chile with 10 times more solar energy per m2.

I am glad, however, that the idea of solar furnace is still being explored. Yesterday I was wondering if such installation could be put on a large ship vessel which would solve problem of year season. Also with our knowledge about tornado formations the ship could be put in places with max solar input.

You may not need anything more than HTML [video]

phantom_wizard — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:54:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuz-jLIo2g8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40759182

Points: 4

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New comment by phantom_wizard in "Introduction to Legion: life in the Roman army"

phantom_wizard — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:15:13 +0000

By the time they reach end of their suty, they had enough money to buy slave od even two, they didnt work on this land on their own - this depends on specific epoch though

New comment by phantom_wizard in "Go in the Devil's Name: When Isobel Gowdie Confessed to Being a Witch"

phantom_wizard — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:42:28 +0000

Trying to open article, but Access forbidden.