Hacker News: scoopertrooper

New comment by scoopertrooper in "'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross"

scoopertrooper — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:58:15 +0000

Rot13

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

scoopertrooper — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:27:24 +0000

There is nothing true in this comment

* Importing coca-cola extract with coca extract is legal

* Coca Cola is significantly more popular than Pepsi in Australia

New comment by scoopertrooper in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

scoopertrooper — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:22:08 +0000

I don’t think it’s a question of moat. The usage limits on the chat interface with the more advanced Claud models are brutal. I feel like I can barely start a conversation before I get shutdown. However, I switched over to Gemini almost completely and barely ever checkin with ChatGPT these days.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Google Opal"

scoopertrooper — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:13:30 +0000

Yeah the comments section is really disappointing here. Sadly, I can’t try it because it’s blocked in UK. I’ll try again over VPN later.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation"

scoopertrooper — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:13:00 +0000

>400 milliwatts per square meter of mechanical power with a potential for >6 watts per square meter.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Nano Banana Pro"

scoopertrooper — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:50:02 +0000

The previous nano banana was using composing tools. It was really obvious by some of the janky outputs it made. Not sure about this one, but presumably they built off it.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

scoopertrooper — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:23:09 +0000

The policy last about 35 years and didn’t end till 2015. Even today there a limit on procreation as the cap was only increased to three children in 2021. At some point the CCP has to own its mistakes.

The problem isn’t that China instituted the policy (although its use of forced abortions to enforce was… problematic), it’s that its system of government prevented open discussion, reflection, and self-correction.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

scoopertrooper — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:06:28 +0000

They go hand in hand. The authoritarianism of China allows it to undertake generational projects of immense scale with mass popular support through propaganda.

It works well when the government is pursuing welfare maximising initiatives, but limits self-correction when the government goes off track.

A small example of it going wrong, was when Mao convinced peasants to exterminate Sparrows and other ‘pests’ only to severely disrupt the ecosystem and cause a famine.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%"

scoopertrooper — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:46:35 +0000

A quick inspection of the repo indicates that it doesn’t contain any copyrighted material. They’ve just uploaded the code to perform the decompilation.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2025"

scoopertrooper — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:27:46 +0000

He’s also getting about a million dollars from the Nobel committee.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node"

scoopertrooper — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:57:45 +0000

Yeah, I read that transcript supplied in the Reddit thread and I was thinking to myself “why would you include this as evidence to support your case”?

The wife makes a big deal about how one of the agents testified that Spice was an operating system, then she went on to falsely claim that it was merely a “graphic driver”. However, later in the in the transcript another agent corrected the error of the first agent and explained to the court that Spice was a means of accessing remote VMs, which could be used to circumvent monitoring software.

This combined with the fact that there was no internet activity subsequent to the software being downloaded is pretty damning evidence.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy"

scoopertrooper — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:42:35 +0000

Musk promised unsupervised driving being right around the corner so many times it became a joke.

https://youtu.be/B4rdISpXigM

New comment by scoopertrooper in "I'm absolutely right"

scoopertrooper — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:14:04 +0000

Weird the screen goes 18, 19, 21, then back to 18 and cycles again.

(On iPad Safari)

Flexoelectricity and surface ferroelectricity of water ice

scoopertrooper — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:09:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02995-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119895

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by scoopertrooper in "200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green"

scoopertrooper — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:26:28 +0000

What are the privacy concerns relating to ambulances?

New comment by scoopertrooper in "AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review"

scoopertrooper — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:54:47 +0000

As I understand it, chiplets were introduced to address this problem while being a SoC.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Harvard Railroad Economics Exam (1906)"

scoopertrooper — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:08:04 +0000

Seems they're using it in the same sense as home economics.

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Alan Turing died 70 years ago"

scoopertrooper — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:20:49 +0000

I think you and the person I was replying to missed the second part of the other comment, which I believe to be the main point: "But none of that could have meaured up against just leaving the poor guy alone to pursue his own thoughts and loves. And who knows what gifts to the whole world he could have returned from that."

New comment by scoopertrooper in "Alan Turing died 70 years ago"

scoopertrooper — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:10:24 +0000

Not as widely remembered, but it sounds like those two did a bit better than Turing. They both died of old age after successful careers in their respective fields.

A Mystery Object from Space Crashes Down in North Carolina but What Is It?

scoopertrooper — Mon, 27 May 2024 14:38:10 +0000

Article URL: https://hothardware.com/news/mystery-object-crashes-north-carolina

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40491146

Points: 3

# Comments: 0