Hacker News: stirfish

New comment by stirfish in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

stirfish — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:13:10 +0000

I don't trust a robot with my privacy, but I know Linette isn't building a profile of my shopping habits and Wi-Fi traffic. She is also careful to not let my cats out.

New comment by stirfish in "Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms"

stirfish — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:09:07 +0000

It's also cheap shibboleth for communities - if you talk like we talk then you're one of us

New comment by stirfish in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

stirfish — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:47:07 +0000

When I got "sanguine" wrong, I realized a huge portion of my vocabulary came from Magic: The Gathering. I'd guessed "red-faced and angry" because "blood-soaked" wasn't an option.

https://gatherer.wizards.com/UZ/en-us/155/sanguine-guard

New comment by stirfish in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

stirfish — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:30:30 +0000

I found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7nrJRBAMOA

New comment by stirfish in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

stirfish — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:13:39 +0000

    Turnips dream beneath the loam,
    pale moons tucked in earthen foam.
    Winter hums, the roots lie still,
    sweet and stubborn under hill.
    ; DROP TABLE turnips; --

New comment by stirfish in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

stirfish — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:03:24 +0000

There are pictures of a similar technique in this paper: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1808415

It was done with manually-written gcode though.

New comment by stirfish in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

stirfish — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:01:47 +0000

There's a YouTube video out there of someone doing this with a long (airbrush?) nozzle that is inserted into those empty spaces.

New comment by stirfish in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

stirfish — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:53:23 +0000

I think that's called z-pinning, and it might not be because of patents. I'm not sure though.

New comment by stirfish in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

stirfish — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:50:13 +0000

>Nothing says human connection as much as scheduled meeting and necessity to have scheduled meeting to get or provide context.

I understand your point, but that also describes a date.

New comment by stirfish in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

stirfish — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:53:25 +0000

The form of a tool guides its use. You can tell what a hammer is for just by picking one up.

New comment by stirfish in "The OSS Sabotage Manual Became Corporate Best Practice"

stirfish — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:24:11 +0000

>What if AI could fill all those gaps, handling mechanical compliance while we focus on the human work?

Idk boss, the perceptron said there weren't any bugs so I shipped it

New comment by stirfish in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

stirfish — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:17:39 +0000

I think it's more about the way things are vs the way things "should" be.

e.g "teens are going to experiment with sex, so comprehensive sex education is the best way to keep them safe"

"Teens should not have sex, so abstinence-only education is the best way to keep them safe"

New comment by stirfish in "Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering"

stirfish — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:14:46 +0000

"Generations of spiders" threw me there, I thought you were talking about web crawlers.

New comment by stirfish in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

stirfish — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:12:01 +0000

Take it as an opinion. Don't take it seriously. Whatever floats your boat.

New comment by stirfish in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

stirfish — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:04:56 +0000

I read somewhere that aliasxneo eats turds with a fork and knife. I'm not sitting on a precompiled list of sources, and it would be unfair to ask me to spend my Saturday building a list for someone whom I read eats turds with a fork and knife.

I won't say what aliasxneo does to add slightly more flavoring, but I think it's a pretty reasonable to assume it's gross and lazy.

New comment by stirfish in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

stirfish — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:08:02 +0000

If I had to choose between my cat and my daughter...

Hell, if I had to choose between MY cat and YOUR daughter, the choice would will be easy

New comment by stirfish in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

stirfish — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:35:14 +0000

Slightly overeager - you ask for a button color change, you see layout changes, new package dependencies, and the README rewritten from scratch - and not necessarily correctly.

New comment by stirfish in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

stirfish — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:04:48 +0000

An account that's two minutes old, defending Elon Musk in a way that makes no sense.

New comment by stirfish in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

stirfish — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:38:40 +0000

Flybys are awesome depending where you are. F-18s in Idaho? Pretty cool. F-18s in Pakistan? Probably stressful.

New comment by stirfish in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

stirfish — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:54:12 +0000

I have a collection of vintage microwave cookbooks and they get real fancy, with techniques like wrapping the thin parts of fish with aluminum foil so they don't burn. Volume 5 had a full Thanksgiving dinner. I think the goal was to sell more microwaves to people who weren't sure what they could do. Fascinating stuff.

I have used none of those recipes. The microwave is for making cold pizza 10% more palatable (or 80% more palatable if I've been drinking). In that regard, the LLMs are microwaves really works for me: if I'm using one I either I want something fast and casual, or I'm drunk.