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New comment by phasefactor in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

phasefactor — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:50:43 +0000

Correct, it was switching to unlimited lending instead of one lend per physical book that got them in trouble.

New comment by phasefactor in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

phasefactor — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:48:23 +0000

Easier to send them through a duplex scanner (or put them in a flatbed one if they are fragile). Cheaper than buying the automated ones with the page turning robot arm.

I have done it at home for my books since the mid-00s.

New comment by phasefactor in "Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code"

phasefactor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:36:01 +0000

Creating the python extractor at all was sort of bizarre. The argument given was that it is too difficult for a developer to spin up a whole dev environment just to compile a tool, but the C extractor is a single C file that only depends on the C standard library and zlib.

This feels more like your mom likes to wash dishes by hand and you have a known good dishwasher that needs to be plugged in, but instead of plugging it in you build a new one that you tested a couple times and it seems to work but who knows? At least you saved yourself all the work of plugging in that other dishwasher?

Still a cool project to publish the source code, but the python port side quest seems pointless.

New comment by phasefactor in "Objective metrics that change the most as we age"

phasefactor — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:09:56 +0000

The training kicks in and my knee-jerk reaction to not one of the graphs starting at zero is to discount the trustworthiness of the entire article, whether that is well deserved or not...

New comment by phasefactor in "IBM Quantum Computing Summer School Registration Open"

phasefactor — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:02:33 +0000

Registration is now open for Qiskit Global Summer School 2026: A decade on the cloud—the latest entry in an annual, global program designed to help students, researchers, and developers build practical skills in quantum computing. The two-week event will run from 13–24 July 2026.

IBM Quantum Computing Summer School Registration Open

phasefactor — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:02:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/qiskit-summer-school-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292955

Points: 3

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New comment by phasefactor in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"

phasefactor — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:44:53 +0000

Love it, the article referring to a statement by a LinkedIn spokesperson: "The first part of that statement is false, as you can see from the screenshot above. Given the obvious untrustworthiness of that half of the statement, we didn't bother wasting any time trying to evaluate the second part."