Hacker News: poly2it

Australia probes mystery space balls that washed up on beach

poly2it — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:00:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jyydr7jnjo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796334

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

New comment by poly2it in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

poly2it — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:32:14 +0000

In this case all teachers have also learned from each other.

New comment by poly2it in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

poly2it — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:29:04 +0000

A lot? I would be kind of interested if there were any known figures. Do companies want to be implicated in AA-cooperation in any capacity?

New comment by poly2it in "Klara and the Sun Essay Contest – $1k Prize – AI Use Allowed"

poly2it — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:33:12 +0000

Klara and the Sun is such a great book. Kazuo Ishiguro captured the intersection of technology and society in a way which can appeal to both to humanists and technologists. It was especially interesting to read his interpretation of partial sentience, learning and understanding the world from the lens of the artificial friends.

New comment by poly2it in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

poly2it — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:34:55 +0000

What inspired you to attempt pursuing butchery?

New comment by poly2it in "A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML"

poly2it — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:38:00 +0000

For some reason I find Claude's writing often has an oddly condescending tone when it tries to be empathetic.

Pyrite64: N64 game-engine and editor using Libdragon and tiny3d

poly2it — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:18:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/HailToDodongo/pyrite64

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707032

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by poly2it in "Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together"

poly2it — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:05:45 +0000

I don't understand why a photosensing pixel is meaningfully worse for privacy than the devices we already have. I mean, sure, you might not as easily be able to cover up your camera with tape, but even then a better solution which should be implemented anyway is a physical decoupling.

And as I stated above, I doubt this is meaningful for spying capabilities. Micro cameras are likely more suitable, for better or worse.

New comment by poly2it in "Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together"

poly2it — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:01:02 +0000

Phone screens without notches, laptops which can have larger cameras for better video calls, VR gear with better eye tracking, digital mirrors and more. I'm sure there are less obvious applications.

New comment by poly2it in "Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together"

poly2it — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:15:11 +0000

Can you be more precise about what scenario you are envisioning?

New comment by poly2it in "Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together"

poly2it — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:11:50 +0000

Is this really as detrimental to privacy as other comments claim? There are already very small cameras which can be used for adversarial purposes. This technology could be useful for many utilitarian purposes.

New comment by poly2it in "Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?"

poly2it — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:12:53 +0000

Question: are OÜs particularly beneficial even for non-Estonians (EU), and in what way?

New comment by poly2it in "Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606"

poly2it — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:44:47 +0000

I think that was Citra emulator. Protect Dolphin at all costs!

Nintendo (among other creative corporations) do not seem to realise that invite to play creates an attachment to the product that is deeper than a license agreement, which is our shared cultural filament.

New comment by poly2it in "Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild"

poly2it — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:25:11 +0000

This is insanely promising. What a time to be alive!

New comment by poly2it in "In praise of memcached"

poly2it — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:16:32 +0000

I don't see how this is AI-written?

New comment by poly2it in "Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon"

poly2it — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:42:43 +0000

Does anybody have an understanding of when realistically there will be supply again? I've heard some positive sentiment about new developments in China, but that's not a market I am familiar with, and I haven't witnessed any effects of it thus far.

New comment by poly2it in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

poly2it — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:48:56 +0000

Did you go into tech because you love software or for the money?

New comment by poly2it in "Blogger defeats photographer's copyright claim"

poly2it — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:02:45 +0000

Do you search the name of the photographer every time you download a creative commons image? The vast majority of people simply do not care about copyright.

New comment by poly2it in "Steam Machine launches today"

poly2it — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:37:37 +0000

I would assume it also has to do with if not fundamentally manifesting from Steam being an organisation of technologists. They don't want to put out a project which has a worse operating system than their workstations.

New comment by poly2it in "Steam Machine launches today"

poly2it — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:26:52 +0000

No average pilot.