Hacker News: raldi

New comment by raldi in "Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing"

raldi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:07:00 +0000

Oh wow, no wonder I never found it; I was always zoomed way too far in.

New comment by raldi in "Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing"

raldi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:00:22 +0000

I’m aware of the map but I’m unclear on where the peak/ridge is.

New comment by raldi in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

raldi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:04:14 +0000

Could you transcribe the emoji? HN strips them out.

New comment by raldi in "Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing"

raldi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:00:32 +0000

I find it so hard to figure out how close Curiosity is to the peak/ridge of Mt Sharp and whether/when it seems likely to cross over to the other side.

New comment by raldi in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

raldi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:27:59 +0000

In what ways is Anthropic different from a hypothetical frontier lab that you would characterize as legitimately safe and ethical?

New comment by raldi in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

raldi — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:45:51 +0000

To me it feels more like learning to cook versus learning how to repair ovens and run a farm. Software engineering isn’t about writing code any more than it’s about writing machine code or designing CPUs. It’s about bringing great software into existence.

New comment by raldi in "We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy"

raldi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:35:38 +0000

"This is just a common publicity stunt."

"No, it is an exceptional publicity stunt."

New comment by raldi in "How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball"

raldi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:47:57 +0000

Clickbait antidote: by inventing the pitch speed radar gun after seeing campus police use one in 1974

New comment by raldi in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

raldi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:10:49 +0000

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

New comment by raldi in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

raldi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:44:33 +0000

Especially weird in this case since it’s such an over the top case of Submarine Marketing.

New comment by raldi in "Theodosian Land Walls of Constantinople (2025)"

raldi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:50:21 +0000

Supposedly they could fire it seven times a day, and had to soak it in warm oil in between to minimize thermal shock.

New comment by raldi in "I love my dumb watches"

raldi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:50:45 +0000

I don’t understand how you can say a smart watch isn’t, on top of all the smart features, also the best watch there is when it comes to keeping time. It keeps perfect time, always, even over DST changes, even when you change time zones. You never even have to set them!

Also your Apple Watch is defective if you have to charge it all night. I’m up to my third, I always wear it while I sleep, I only charge it when I’m getting ready for bed or getting ready in the morning, and the battery never runs out.

New comment by raldi in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

raldi — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:55:47 +0000

What evidence would convince you otherwise?

New comment by raldi in "Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019)"

raldi — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:34:13 +0000

Anyone got a direct link to or time index of the recording? I skipped around the video on the linked page but it was all music.

New comment by raldi in "Show HN: Web-based ANSI art viewer"

raldi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:03:23 +0000

This is very cool! And I say that as someone who was in iCE in the early 1990s ;)

The baud scrolling and SAUCE support are nicely done, and "drag a zip here" is top-tier magic, though when I tried dragging in an old iCE pack's zip file, it only showed one ANSI inside there; I was expecting a file picker.

Feature suggestions: "Show invisible text" toggle and an option to switch between 16-color background mode and 8-color background mode with blink support. You're already parsing the SAUCE which has an "iCE colors" boolean; you can use this to control the default for the latter setting.

Details: https://forum.16colo.rs/t/ice-colors-or-blinking-text/27

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job

raldi — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:52:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-breach-doge-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335572

Points: 624

# Comments: 279

To the Polypropylene Makers

raldi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:21:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HQTueNS4mLaGy3BBL/here-s-to-the-polypropylene-makers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295040

Points: 88

# Comments: 27

New comment by raldi in "The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist"

raldi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:37:43 +0000

The clickbait title refers to a day in fall 1995 when a Random House editor was told by his boss that the business could no longer afford to publish modestly-selling books (~10,000-40,000 copies), marking the moment when corporate scale killed the old risk-taking culture of publishing.

New comment by raldi in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

raldi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:23:47 +0000

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun

New comment by raldi in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

raldi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:05:20 +0000

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