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New comment by rediguanayum in "Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029"

rediguanayum — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:25:54 +0000

Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day... giving itself until 2029 to prepare for this event.

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029

rediguanayum — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:25:54 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/google-bumps-up-q-day-estimate-to-2029-far-sooner-than-previously-thought/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533219

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by rediguanayum in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

rediguanayum — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:17:45 +0000

I took the Waymo from San Jose airport to home on the peninsula. It took the 101 highway back for the most part, driving very conservatively at 65-55 mph, and in the right most lane. It still has a few quirks though. When there aren't any cars around it will speed up to 65 mph, but at on-ramps, it will slow down to 55 and then speed up once past. It will get stuck behind slow drivers being in the right most lane and patiently follow them a few car length behind them. On the plus side, the lidar stack field of view as shown on the internal display seems to see pretty far down the highway.

New comment by rediguanayum in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

rediguanayum — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:18:57 +0000

Moon should be good too to see Aurora tonight: waxing crescent 1% https://www.moongiant.com/phase/today/

New comment by rediguanayum in "G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storm Watch for 20 January UTC-Day"

rediguanayum — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:45:22 +0000

Aurora should be visible in many northern US states and Canada: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-a...

New comment by rediguanayum in "G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storm Watch for 20 January UTC-Day"

rediguanayum — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:42:04 +0000

A G4 (Severe) geomagnetic storm watch is in effect for the 20 January UTC-day due to Earth-arrival of a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME blasted from the Sun on 18 Jan, in association with an energetic R3 (Strong) solar flare from a sunspot region near center-disk, and is anticipated to arrive at Earth as early as late 19 Jan EST to early 20 Jan. While the G4 Watch is out for the 20 Jan UTC-day, geomagnetic storm levels could range from G1-G3 (Minor-Moderate) upon CME arrival later on 19 Jan EST.

G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storm Watch for 20 January UTC-Day

rediguanayum — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:42:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-watch-20-january-utc-day

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682802

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by rediguanayum in "Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024"

rediguanayum — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:22:10 +0000

Presumably for SEO tactic of the gambling site?

New comment by rediguanayum in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

rediguanayum — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:32:17 +0000

Agreed completely. Part of this deal is that the Canadian auto market is no longer protected against Chinese EVs which substantially undercut the legacies. There is also news that the Europeans are making about to make a similar deal with China. Imagine what the United States economy will be like if Stellantis, Ford, or GM or all of them go bankrupt. 3-4 million in lost jobs alone.

Trump wants to tariff countries that support Denmark and Greenland. That's like all of the other NATO countries. What happens if NATO doesn't exist? No more bases to support Middle East operations and no more intelligence sharing.

It will mean more support from the Canadians and Europeans for moving trade to be denominated by Renminbi.

I don't think the Republican leadership has thought through the implications to the US with their deal with the devil.

New comment by rediguanayum in "[dead]"

rediguanayum — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 02:49:58 +0000

A British regulator said it had started a formal investigation into Mr. Musk’s chatbot over the spread of illegal images.

New comment by rediguanayum in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

rediguanayum — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:55:25 +0000

He's giving Italy and Italians fair warning that he will abandon the Italian market to avoid being subject to their laws, and I think it will go that way. I guess it's up to the Italians to find a replacement.

New comment by rediguanayum in "U.S. Defense Industry Dodged a Rare-Earth Shortage After China's Curbs"

rediguanayum — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:46:35 +0000

  * US military depends on samarium instead of neodymium magnets due to it's high heat tolerance.
  * For example samarium rare-earth magnets motors are used to control the fins of Tomahawk cruise missiles.
  * Due to tariff war, China cut off some rare-earth exports including samarium
  * Contractors got creative with sourcing about 100 tons of samarium from France and processing in Europe and United States
  * Future sources of samarium need to be discovered

U.S. Defense Industry Dodged a Rare-Earth Shortage After China's Curbs

rediguanayum — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:41:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/defense-industry-rare-earth-restrictions-china.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356426

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by rediguanayum in "Tiny chips hitch a ride on immune cells to sites of inflammation"

rediguanayum — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:01:24 +0000

A team of researchers led by Deblina Sarkar, an electrical engineer and MIT assistant professor, developed microscopic electronic devices hybridized with living cells. Those cells can be injected into the circulatory system with a standard syringe and will travel the bloodstream before implanting themselves in target brain areas.

Tiny chips hitch a ride on immune cells to sites of inflammation

rediguanayum — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:01:24 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/tiny-chips-hitch-a-ride-on-immune-cells-to-sites-of-inflammation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934098

Points: 4

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New comment by rediguanayum in "What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO"

rediguanayum — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:35:09 +0000

Not completely baffling. Intel made an attempt to create a Transmeta like hybrid software/hardware architecture at the time on one of their "VLIW" processors. It was an expensive experiment that didn't work out.

New comment by rediguanayum in "OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months"

rediguanayum — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:10:19 +0000

I don't think it's AGI, but rather video production. OpenAI wants to build the next video social network / ads / tv / movie production system. The moat is the massive compute required.

New comment by rediguanayum in "It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead"

rediguanayum — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:54:52 +0000

Good to know. I'm repeating what an EM doc told me available in her community hospital i.e. they only have Tamiflu and Paxlovid, which is why even if she did have access to Viral panels, they couldn't do anything more to treat those other viral infections.

New comment by rediguanayum in "It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead"

rediguanayum — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:36:00 +0000

Not a doctor but I know some- Viruses are notoriously hard to diagnose because they don't culture. Some big academic hospitals do have a virus panel where they use brute force PCR assay akin to many Covid-19 tests targeting different virus but they are very expensive hence not broadly available. Community hospitals will have the same diagnostic experience you have. At most they might be able to test for Flu or Covid but that's about it. Another reason is that even if you test positive, there is very little the hospital can do. For the most part, just tell the patient to rest and take Tylenol/Ibuprofen. The anti-virals are just limited to Flu and Covid.

New comment by rediguanayum in "Today is Stanislav Petrov day"

rediguanayum — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:04:26 +0000

Cheers to Mr. Petrov and to everyone alive that he saved.