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New comment by slybot in "Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal"

slybot — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:19:36 +0000

ASCII-rendered visuals looks pretty decent.

After reading the first sentence, I cannot stop imagining some Rust people cannot stop salivating at the prospect to a version saying, "written in Rust", "safe", etc. ~

New comment by slybot in "Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear"

slybot — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:53 +0000

> It's been cheaper than nuclear for a while now, it was only a matter of time.

AFAIK the latest research contradicts to this [1], can you give some links if you have for this?

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192...

New comment by slybot in "I will no longer upload to NEW"

slybot — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:29:47 +0000

GR resulted in Proposal E, Choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI. Clearly stating: "Any such automated process should be overseen by a human who remains accountable for its behavior and output."

New comment by slybot in "There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek"

slybot — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:55:03 +0000

As it should be.

New comment by slybot in "US Bars Microsoft, Indian Firms from Visa Program in Blow"

slybot — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:51:53 +0000

Excellent news. Ethnocentrism is gone wild in such certain big tech, what I would call as "ethnic nepotism". It seems more problematic with Indians.

New comment by slybot in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

slybot — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:15:48 +0000

This is very interesting from pairwise comparison perspective. Infact, humans are better at pairwise preference scoring rather than estimating a score from single input [1]. In regular dating apps, the profiles are presented one by one which makes it more recurrent comparison based on the experience rather than in pairs.

In the news, it is not detailed but what would be interesting is to profiling automatically, given a somewhat larger pool of participants. Where certain number of pairs during the setup is presented to the new user and asked to make pairwise choices to build the preference profile over.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016816992...

New comment by slybot in "PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022)"

slybot — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:02:12 +0000

PDF's are not Presentation Document Format. Should be "Portable".

New comment by slybot in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

slybot — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:11:47 +0000

I use daily a Japan exclusive model, LIW-M700D (https://www.benswatchclub.com/blog/casio-lineage-liw-m700d-r...), and lucky enough to be in range of DCF77 signal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77). Hard to believe, it was less than 200 euros.

New comment by slybot in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

slybot — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:39:40 +0000

> Every possible product name is carefully checked to avoid undesirable meanings in other languages, political or religious affiliations and fit into our global profile

If I remember correctly, they had a desk named "JERKER" in early 2000s.

New comment by slybot in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

slybot — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:30:08 +0000

Am I the only one who cannot read the date on the blister pack even fully zoom in my phone?

If that is the full quality image given to the model, I think it's not surprising that the model confused with 03/2022.

New comment by slybot in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

slybot — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:18:20 +0000

3 years ago; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638229

New comment by slybot in "Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey"

slybot — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:27:42 +0000

The language is not the problem here, I also cannot understand ancient greek. Let aside the casting, it impose a modern morality instead of the original moral arguments. The movie portrays Odysseus in a completely different manner. Homer's Odysseus is intelligent, deceitful, resilient, cruel... While in the movie Nolan's "modern" themes served rather than Homer's original.

I don't know if I am the only one, but it feels like trying to rewrite a historical epic with someone's own themes. I don't say one is better or worse, but it just doesn't feel right.

New comment by slybot in "Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey"

slybot — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:44:34 +0000

In this context, the book itself is the history rather than the story as a foundational western narrative. The movie diverge in many grounds from the book, and it is sad that most people will only watch the movie rather than read the original work.

New comment by slybot in "WhatsApp to let people chat with usernames"

slybot — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:32:35 +0000

Advertised as "Private way to connect" by new head, then WhatsApp is new Telegram?

New comment by slybot in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

slybot — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:07:56 +0000

Nive work! I solved all five puzzles and only annoyance was the quite a few singular+plural forms in the same puzzle. I expected all unique words.

New comment by slybot in "The Cypherpunk Library"

slybot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:00:38 +0000

Yes, did you? Anything Cypher, punk or cypherpunk inside that you can point out?

New comment by slybot in "The Cypherpunk Library"

slybot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:59:47 +0000

They do call themselves, "Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê" (PKK) which literally means Kurdish Workers Party. It doesn't mean whether they call themselves terrorist or not; USA, UK, EU, NATO and many others call that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party

New comment by slybot in "The Cypherpunk Library"

slybot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:57:18 +0000

This is a work written by the terrorist organization leader after incarcerated on 1999. While this carefully selected piece doesn't, the larger work of five volumes named "Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization" goes into the manifestation of his terrorist movement.

New comment by slybot in "The Cypherpunk Library"

slybot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:14:30 +0000

Funnily, this small library features works outside of it's domain, including a manifesto from PKK terrorist organization leader..

New comment by slybot in "Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems"

slybot — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:55:53 +0000

This comment has a tone of external reviewer, while appearantly your profile shows you are affiliated.