<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: tliltocatl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tliltocatl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:42:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tliltocatl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "Will There Be a 7G?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What would really help is the easy provisioning of signal boosters.<p>But that's also a physics thing. Plain same-frequency boosters hamper frequency reuse on neighbor cells, so less bandwidth for you. And if boosters run on a separate band, you'd need to do frequency planning for them just like it's done for cells now.<p>Wireless is finicky, we should really avoid using it everywhere wired can be used instead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:07:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676659</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We wouldn't "release" that because there is simply no way to tell if it is wrong. The past redefinitions happened because previous definitions were too ambiguous rather than "wrong".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:23:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646343</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun fact: given that the meter is defined in terms of speed of light (and cesium frequency), "changing the speed of light" is a counterfactual impossibility, what is actually changing are some other fundamental constants.</p>
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<p>I think the drones don't use a complex encoder because latency.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:22:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639184</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Should have used TAI for internal timekeeping.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:50:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584863</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "Hang on to Your Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Screw average user.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:23:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532081</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "Creepy Crawlies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is server-rendered cgit pages, there are potentially quadrillions of unique. They are not cacheable.</p>
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<p>Nei. Please don't. Enough money wasted already.<p>If you want to jump on the bandwagon just build a semi fab. Lots of clean water, lots of electricity, lots of geologically stable ground, <i>lots of money</i> that can't be invested locally - can't see why that haven't been done already. And it will still be useful after the fad is over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:16:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352848</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "LLM City – 3D render of all Kimi K3's weights as 2.5mm tiles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get:<p>Visualization failed:<p>createProgram@<a href="https://magik.net/llmcity/:1098:115" rel="nofollow">https://magik.net/llmcity/:1098:115</a><p>MatrixRenderer@<a href="https://magik.net/llmcity/:1107:20" rel="nofollow">https://magik.net/llmcity/:1107:20</a><p>main@<a href="https://magik.net/llmcity/:1895:20" rel="nofollow">https://magik.net/llmcity/:1895:20</a><p>(IceCat)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:27:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337888</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Patents are designed to protect costly research<p>I'd argue that how they should have been, but the reality is quite the opposite. The patent framework is all about novel ideas rather than costly research, even though ideas aren't any valuable anymore - the easy stuff that is cheap to reproduce once the idea is known is already discovered.<p>Multimedia codecs and similar stuff are pretty patent-worthy (costly research) but their value is an exponential function of their adoption, and hence the unencumbered one always wins. Same with basically everything else.</p>
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<p>I think they already do that, except it's not 1980 so you don't fix the upper mask, you fix the lowest metal layer (the upper layer is very coarse and is only useful for power). But even a single mask is still quite expensive.</p>
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<p>Using LLMs for information retrieval is the most stupid thing one can do. Especially when old methods work much better.</p>
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<p>Nice idea, but the interface needs some polishing:<p>- In general, you are exposing too much of the internal object model to the user. E. g. nodes added by the user and nodes added during reconciliation might be same class internally, but the user don't care much about the latter.<p>- "Reconciliation" looks like a sure way to confuse everyone (e. g. made an equilateral triangle, why are my joints not exactly the same? Forgot to reconcile one).<p>- A button for automatically merging all attachments at a node into a joint would be nice (but that might require keeping a track on what got reconciled where).<p>- Would be nice to automatically adjust length ratio and reconciled offset for shallow connection angles.<p>- You have to tweak visibility settings to be able to select nodes, virtual links and attachments, that's a bit ugly. Would be nice e. g. to be able to select a virtual link behind currently selected physical link, or a node out of a list of nodes on the current link. Especially when adding a connection in the middle of a link - you have to select the link, then hide physical links. Perhaps only allow selecting valid/semantically meaningful elements in this modes, and highlight them so that they aren't occluded?<p>- Any way to exploit symmetry? That's a bit advanced, but if we are making a regular tetrahedron it's quite a chore to repeat every operation four times every time you have to readjust it. That's particularly desirable because when you one physically manufacturing the design, one'd like to know which parts are interchangeable.<p>- Make automatically assigned names shorter (i. e. J1 instead of "Joint 1") so that you could put them as labels on prints.</p>
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<p>>  Why would a developer using LLMs be hammering their own codeberg site?<p>Because a significant percentage of "developers using LLM" have no clue what they are doing?</p>
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<p>Hosting your code on a free server is not a universal right. It is a privilege.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:35:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047092</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Neurodivergency, or whatever you might call it, sucks, at least during childhood. Ten times so in a family-centered society. I had a mild enough case to grow up functional and independent, but if not for that… I totally see how one might chose a risky treatment even when fully informed. The problem here, it looks like the consent was nowhere informed enough, and the research team chose not to publish the case after it turned out a failure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:10:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028735</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TL;DR:<p>- The girl had a really rare genetic disorder, traceable to a single-base mutation, that result in intellectual disability. Her case was quite mild, she was verbal and only had a learning disability, other cases are often far more severe.<p>- They went for using adeno-associated virus as vector to deliver a CRISPR payload. It caused kidney and liver damage (AFAIUK due to immune response, not the virus itself? So hard to predict from an animal model.) which turned out fatal.<p>- The family paid a significant share of the research funding and some off-record financial favors to the research team.<p>- The research team's recent publication in Nature didn't mention the case at all (they basically chose keep silent about failures).<p>The whole story has quite some Flowers for Algernon vibes except real life is way more cynical and sad. And I disliked the book back when I read it because it felt like a weepie just for the sake of weeping.</p>
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<p>> with the caveat that there is NO private pay option<p>I don't think there is a society in the world that ever had that successfully executed in practice. I live in Norway, and even if the public heath system is probably as good as it gets here, I often use private providers for non-urgent things simply because waiting time can be up to six month otherwise.<p>And even if you somehow manage this on paper, you'll be very surprised on how markets work. They don't need legal recognition. They don't even need money. See: USSR. Health care was public and medics weren't even a particularly attractive profession because there were too much of them already. Still if you wanted to survive an appointment you'd better have a package of some deficit wares ready.<p>What denies public healthcare money  isn't "wealthy trying to cut public spending down". It's bureaucrats wanting their share of the pork barrel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:53:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983237</link><dc:creator>tliltocatl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tliltocatl in "ECC and DDR5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Corolary: submarine datacenters are much better than orbital datacenters<p>Yea, except datacenters also need connectivity. And submarine connectivity, while not particularly expensive, is quite vulnerable - even more so than on land.</p>
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<p>This sounds pretty similar to Java's array-of-templates problem. Is it really more of a problem than parent pointers?</p>
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