Hacker News: simulator5g

New comment by simulator5g in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

simulator5g — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:19:06 +0000

It's not sugar, they use synthetic sweeteners. I started getting gout symptoms after picking up a Celsius habit, then quit that without making any other changes, and the symptoms went away.

New comment by simulator5g in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

simulator5g — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:43:56 +0000

It can, that's part of why these newer planes cost billions of dollars per unit. Assuming the plane is still controllable though. Usually in that case you wouldn't eject, but its technically possible. There was a case where a US pilot ejected on accident and their plane landed itself.

New comment by simulator5g in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

simulator5g — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:55:05 +0000

Yes, there is a harmful meme in the world of IT/power users/devs/old people, that says you should never install updates. They are sort of right in that the updates often reduce system performance and introduce bugs, but they also patch bugs and, more importantly, security issues. A lot of avoidable hacking incidents happen because of unpatched systems.

New comment by simulator5g in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

simulator5g — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:45:25 +0000

That is an unfortunate case you described, but also, git gud and write tests in the first place so you don't need to refactor things down the road.

New comment by simulator5g in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

simulator5g — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:31:43 +0000

This is against ToS and they will be shut down eventually

New comment by simulator5g in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

simulator5g — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:52:28 +0000

Yes and there have been documented cases of translated malware. Sometimes its done a little sloppily and there is other evidence that points to the origin being in another country that doesn't speak the language its written in. But even then, you can't really prove they didn't just use a residential VPN or whatever.

New comment by simulator5g in "Author of 'Why Nations Fail' warns U.S. democracy won't survive AI job-pocalypse"

simulator5g — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:48:18 +0000

US democracy died in 2001, this is old news.

New comment by simulator5g in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

simulator5g — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:00:25 +0000

That's the reality of modern war. Many countries are likely planting malware on a wide scale. You can't even really prove where an attack originated from, so uninvolved countries would also be smart to take advantage of the current conflict. Like if you primarily wrote German, you would translate your malware to Chinese, Farsi, English, or Hebrew, and take other steps to make it appear to come from one of those warring countries. Any country who was making a long term plan involving malware would likely do it around this time.

New comment by simulator5g in "Iran oil revenue soars as it's the only exporter out of Hormuz"

simulator5g — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:28:15 +0000

It makes sense. Israel is using the US to provoke Iran into attacking the US, so that the US can attack Iran in response, claiming that they are defending themselves.

New comment by simulator5g in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

simulator5g — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:38:31 +0000

You can't exactly pull some brain matter out to send to the lab, which makes research very difficult.

New comment by simulator5g in "Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:43:06 +0000

The redactions are definitely overused. There’s some pages almost entirely redacted. It would be more effective to write a shorter sentence with some mystery than to just block out a large portion of a verbose page.

New comment by simulator5g in "Honda is killing its EVs"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:39:01 +0000

Actually it does do that. They sell your driving data to your insurance company & government.

New comment by simulator5g in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:12:35 +0000

I don't believe that even a high end home/office printer can produce better quality prints than the best offset lithography practices.

One reason that offset lithography has better quality is because of the ink, which can be mixed for a specific print job (called spot colors). Regular CMYK printing cannot achieve the color space that spot colors can.

Another reason is that typical offset lithography processes produce images with 2400 DPI, and it can go even higher than that. The highest DPI I've seen on a inkjet printer was 1200.

Digital printers, as in the fancy inkjets used to print at scale, can also use spot colors and I wouldn't be surprised if they could do more than 2400 DPI. They are giant machines that cost millions of dollars.

New comment by simulator5g in "MacBook Neo can be modded to run faster, but you probably shouldn't"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:00:18 +0000

That's a very un-Apple idea. Their philosophy is that the user shouldn't have to think about things like thermals. You buy the system that can handle your workload. They don't want you buying the cheap option and hot rodding it.

Maybe this makes more sense in 2026 with the focus on local AI models, but I think Apple would prefer to sell high end desktops AND high end laptops to people who want both portability and maximum performance.

New comment by simulator5g in "MacBook Neo can be modded to run faster, but you probably shouldn't"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:56:49 +0000

On the other hand I see a very hot bottom case as an engineering problem that Apple solved by not using a thermal pad. Sometimes higher clock speeds don't really mean much for the user experience. For example I can set my gaming laptop to run in eco mode, or turbo mode, and the performance with simple tasks like web browsing is roughly the same. In these sorts of situations, its better to let the chip slow down a bit to preserve my thighs.

New comment by simulator5g in "The psychedelic that distorts hearing"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:42:18 +0000

LSD + MDMA taken together can also distort your hearing. Some time after ingesting this mixture at a party, I heard an extremely strange sound, like something out of a synthesizer. I asked some other people (some sober, drunk, etc) what that sound was and they all agreed it was a completely normal sounding ambulance siren. I didn't believe it so I recorded a video to listen to the next day, and it was indeed just a normal siren.

New comment by simulator5g in "Analysis of Endocrine Disruptors and Hazardous Additives in Headphones"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:37:16 +0000

Another reason to spend thousands on an audiophile speaker setup. Huzzah!

New comment by simulator5g in "Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:28:36 +0000

The World's First Central Sloppressing Unit

New comment by simulator5g in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:16:56 +0000

That statement is not surprising to anyone who has taken LSD. However I would be surprised if the pharma version works as good as the original.

New comment by simulator5g in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

simulator5g — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:13:38 +0000

There's a divide in the marketing language vs the research language on this topic. Marketing says some handwavy statement like "Zoloft stabilizes serotonin levels", but the research on the topic basically says that we assume that's how it works based on what we know about the brain & the drug, but we don't actually have proof of the mechanism.