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Urban Astrophotography

rodiger — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:12:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rodiger.io/p/urban-astrophotography

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095364

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New comment by rodiger in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

rodiger — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:01:14 +0000

It's a proxy for generalized reasoning.

The point isn't that LLMs are the best AI architecture for chess.

New comment by rodiger in "Rethinking how we measure AI intelligence"

rodiger — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:20:34 +0000

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New comment by rodiger in "In the Network of the Conclav: How we "guessed" the Pope using network science"

rodiger — Fri, 09 May 2025 18:28:46 +0000

Also the explicit survivorship bias... this would not be near the front page if their predictions were all wrong.

New comment by rodiger in "Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]"

rodiger — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:55:42 +0000

> "System structure mirrors organization"

Conway's Law is the general term for this concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

New comment by rodiger in "Android XR"

rodiger — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:00:44 +0000

I don't think most consumers are familiar with the iPhone XR. They know iPhone, and maybe iPhone X, but I don't think the naming will be an issue here.

New comment by rodiger in "Starship's Sixth Flight Test"

rodiger — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:28:18 +0000

Not true! The ISS has functioned as an outpost for science- 3,000+ experiments and counting

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/five-space-station-res...

New comment by rodiger in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

rodiger — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:53:44 +0000

This doesn't support your assertion- in fact it does the opposite. The definition(s) of inflation has changed over time. That does not make the current definition(s) less correct

New comment by rodiger in "Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer"

rodiger — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:15:00 +0000

Surprisingly, Nintendo has a long history of copyright-striking videos of folks playing their games.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/16/nintendo-enforces-co...

New comment by rodiger in "Digging into PlantStudio, a bit late"

rodiger — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:19:31 +0000

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesthetic

Definition 1-c:

> pleasing in appearance : attractive

New comment by rodiger in "Cofounder Mode: My tactical guide to finding a cofounder"

rodiger — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:32:38 +0000

Or literally 90% of the YC class in any given year

New comment by rodiger in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

rodiger — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:16:02 +0000

There's a difference between "doing an illegal thing as a product" and "lying to investors about your product"

New comment by rodiger in "80% of AI Projects Crash and Burn, Billions Wasted Says Rand Report"

rodiger — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:11:35 +0000

And in a hype cycle many many more projects get off the ground that normally, outside of a hype cycle, wouldn't have ever received the requisite funding.

New comment by rodiger in "There aren't that many uses for blockchains (2022)"

rodiger — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:12:09 +0000

Ideal condition speed vs congestion speed is a different thing- I'm not suggesting they don't face the standard scaling bottlenecks, but it is also true that under similar congestion conditions, the network will run faster as hardware improves.

SQL databases also run slower under high load, which is totally independent of faster hardware allowing for faster databases vs the baseline

Re: independent verification, I agree with you. It's not a great tradeoff. I'm not here to shill Solana as a panacea or anything of the sort, just pointing out clear inaccuracies from the OOP.

New comment by rodiger in "There aren't that many uses for blockchains (2022)"

rodiger — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:37:43 +0000

The "1-2%" number the author repeatedly cites is misleading at best. These fees do not scale with the amount transacted. BTC tranfers are currently ~$0.80 whether you're moving $1 or $100k, which is a unique feature.

> SQL databases will continue to get faster as hardware speeds up - but blockchains only tend to get slower, as the volume of transactions grows.

This is also misleading, as there are systems like Solana which prioritize speed of confirmation, and do indeed get faster as hardware speeds up. It also allows for sub-cent fees (again, not based on a percentage of the amount moved).

New comment by rodiger in "Nvidia and Salesforce double down on AI startup Cohere in $450M round"

rodiger — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:43:01 +0000

"Your margin is my opportunity"

A ton of companies are dumping R&D into designing their own chips with seeming success. Nvidia will be in tough company quite soon, but for now demand greatly outstrips supply.

New comment by rodiger in "Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes"

rodiger — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:56:22 +0000

The token-by-token responses are probably API, while the "instant" loads seem to be cached.

Probably using groq based on speed of response

New comment by rodiger in "Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]"

rodiger — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:31:58 +0000

Cash grab from their VCs is probably more accurate... I have zero doubt some incredible engineering has gone into the product.

However, from what I can tell they were searching for a problem to solve instead of coming with a distinct, compelling, articulable vision of what they wanted to build

New comment by rodiger in "Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]"

rodiger — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:39:42 +0000

At least it'll look nice on a shelf thanks to Teenage Engineering's good work :)

New comment by rodiger in "SETI scientists to devise plan for lunar listening station"

rodiger — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:22:27 +0000

What is a "full" Dyson Swarm?