Hacker News: quux

New comment by quux in "Instrument clusters are now paid extras in two Hyundai models"

quux — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:46:09 +0000

Because there's a speed display along the left side of the center display. Teslas have been doing this legally for years.

Even before Teslas, I had a Toyota Yaris that had a center mounted instrument cluster a few years ago. I guess it makes it cheaper/easier to sell into both left hand drive and right hand drive markets.

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

quux — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:10:41 +0000

https://archive.is/3J3iw

New comment by quux in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

quux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:57:48 +0000

Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747038

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. and It's Manmade

quux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:06:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/science/spudcells-synthetic-cell.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747038

Points: 46

# Comments: 8

New comment by quux in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"

quux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:56:59 +0000

No, I don’t think so, because the egg still needs to be fertilized by a sperm cell to develop into an embryo.

Now if the sperm cell were from the same donor I don’t know what would happen

New comment by quux in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

quux — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:13:03 +0000

You don't eat it, don't be silly.... you stick the poop up your butt

New comment by quux in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

quux — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:12:37 +0000

It's not people using stolen cards, it's people feeling shame or regret after making an intentional purchase and using chargebacks to "undo" the purchase

New comment by quux in "The Burning Man MOOP Map"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:55:46 +0000

It was a bit more Kamban-ish

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:54:42 +0000

2023 came pretty close to your nightmare scenario

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:36:33 +0000

We called it "Continuous Improvement Man" because by the 3rd round of building our camp we had the process really dialed in

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:29:25 +0000

To paraphrase Captain Malcom Reynolds: "My days of not taking Burning Man seriously are definitely coming to a middle."

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:26:26 +0000

The natural tension between chaos and order is one of the things that makes Burning Man so interesting.

New comment by quux in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

quux — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:12:27 +0000

Worth noting: Plants, living or dead, are banned from Burning Man because they turn into moop really easily, but some always end up there anyway

New comment by quux in "Waymo in Portland"

quux — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:46:22 +0000

That's kind of a beautiful vision

New comment by quux in "Google Flow Music"

quux — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:33:00 +0000

My prompt was "give me the most generic playa house beat you can imagine" and I gotta say, it nailed it

New comment by quux in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

quux — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:08:04 +0000

I just bought my brother 6 months of pro so he could use Claude code. How do I request a refund

New comment by quux in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

quux — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:05:20 +0000

It must, if it now outputs more tokens than 4.6's tokenizer for the same input. I think the announcement and model cards provide a little more detail as to what exactly is different

New comment by quux in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

quux — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:04:14 +0000

If only there were an Open AI company who's mandate, built into the structure of the company, were to make frontier models available to everyone for the good of humanity.

Oh well

New comment by quux in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

quux — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:02:52 +0000

> Adell was just drunk enough to try, just sober enough to be able to phrase the necessary symbols and operations into a question which, in words, might have corresponded to this:

TIL Asimov predicted the Ballmer Peak in 1956

New comment by quux in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

quux — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:38:57 +0000

This is a useless benchmark now a days, every model provider trains their models on making good pelicans. Some have even trained every combination of animal/mode of transportation