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New comment by subroutine in "I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs"

subroutine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:09:49 +0000

You prefer to browse amazon using a mobile web browser over the native Amazon app? Why?

New comment by subroutine in "Fox to buy Roku"

subroutine — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:32:02 +0000

Why would this be more likely? The current remotes already have a Netflix button, a Hulu button, a Sling button and a Disney+ button. Roku sells dedicated buttons on their remotes to the highest bidder.

Google releases fitbit air specs

subroutine — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:56:31 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/googlehealth/thread/438625393/unleash-your-creativity-and-style-we%E2%80%99re-releasing-the-google-fitbit-air-tracker-specs?hl=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405795

Points: 3

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New comment by subroutine in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

subroutine — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:42:39 +0000

Oh shit, you got me! In all seriousness, you are not doing yourself any favors if this is how you typically debate a topic. I expect more from a HN netizen.

New comment by subroutine in "Microsoft doubles down on controversial quantum computing claims"

subroutine — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:28:56 +0000

Until you look; then it collapses to one or the other.

New comment by subroutine in "Microsoft doubles down on controversial quantum computing claims"

subroutine — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:26:01 +0000

In theory, quantum computers could provide dramatic speedups for certain linear algebra operations (eg. matrix inversion, eigenvalue estimation). The catch is that many NN training algorithms need all the data to be stored in qRAM so the QC can access matrices efficiently. Loading in a massive dataset will likely be more difficult than the computations, eliminating the quantum advantage. This is analogous to having an extraordinarily fast processor attached to a slow af hard drive inside a neutrino storm.

New comment by subroutine in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

subroutine — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:59:41 +0000

A good thing for anyone who isn't a Nazi simp or a fan of authoritarian takeovers and imperial rule.

New comment by subroutine in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

subroutine — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:46:07 +0000

The U.S. Navy did not blockade Japan or “prevent oil being shipped” by closing the seas. The U.S. imposed an oil embargo and froze Japanese assets after Japan expanded its war in China and moved to invade other pacific countries. Surely you can understand why that was a good thing.

New comment by subroutine in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

subroutine — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:34:56 +0000

Why would you post such nonsense given how easy it is these days to determine bullshit? By the time of Pearl Harbor, Japan was formally aligned with Nazi Germany. Japan, Germany, and Italy signed the Tripartite Pact in Sept 1940 creating the Axis alliance. Pearl Harbor happened in Dec 1941, so Japan had been formally tied to Germany for more than a year.

“The American navy closed international waters.” Not in the Pearl Harbor context. Before Pearl Harbor the U.S. was not conducting a naval blockade of Japan that closed international waters. The U.S. cut off Japan from US oil in July 1941. That is not the same thing as the U.S. Navy closing the Pacific.

“The USA blockade was the reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.” False. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because it wanted to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet while Japan seized the "Southern Resource Area”, especially oil-rich East Indies, Malaya and other regions in the pacific. The U.S. oil embargo might have played a small factor, but that wasn't a US-only thing; various countries were increasingly unwilling to sell oil and other resources to Nazi-aligned Japan while they were attempting to conquer China and most of the Southeast Pacific.

New comment by subroutine in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

subroutine — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:50:44 +0000

And let's also not forget that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, within the city isn't legal either.

New comment by subroutine in "Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]"

subroutine — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:56:07 +0000

Why would disinformation about a technology used to recover a pilot have any bearing on public socio-political views about the war? Eternal September is becoming increasing real on HN.

New comment by subroutine in "Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]"

subroutine — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:40:58 +0000

Because not everyone has a transmitter, but everyone has a heartbeat?

Though in this case the pilot likely had a transmitter and that's exactly how they found him.

New comment by subroutine in "Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]"

subroutine — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:28:38 +0000

Because the NY Post ran an article that said

"The CIA used a futuristic new tool called “Ghost Murmur” to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned. The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic signal of a human heartbeat"

Note, I agree that it was probably some novel beacon technology. Just answering your question about why people are debating whether it was a device that could detect a human heartbeat from long range.

New comment by subroutine in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

subroutine — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:15:18 +0000

Are you asking if the 10 seconds it takes AI to generate an image is more costly to the environment than a commissioned graphics artist using a laptop for 5-6 hours, or a painter who uses physical media sourced from all over the world?

New comment by subroutine in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

subroutine — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:55:26 +0000

Has anyone tested the system from the other end... sending a prompt and getting a response?

New comment by subroutine in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

subroutine — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:50:05 +0000

Copy?

New comment by subroutine in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

subroutine — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:44:08 +0000

Gmail is free. How much customer support resources should someone reasonably expect a company to dedicate towards their free-of-charge services?

New comment by subroutine in "Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft"

subroutine — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:33:20 +0000

Some items on thingsverse provide .obj files; like the king in this chess set...

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1078513/files

or this army tank...

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4618182/files

(n.b. under the main image viewer click the "files" tab to explore individual files/extensions)

New comment by subroutine in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

subroutine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:00:28 +0000

Oh duh, you are absolutely right. I thought you were saying they never released GPT-2.

New comment by subroutine in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

subroutine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:15:35 +0000

I'm confused. From what I can tell GPT-2 was released in 2019...

https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2

https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/model_card.md