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New comment by ycombinete in "Martian chaos terrain"

ycombinete — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:21:16 +0000

At first I thought perhaps it was a non-h20 liquid, since that would explain the frozen bits on the bottom.

Bit apparently it’s more banal, and sediment doesn’t need a river or a liquid at all. It’s any kind of deposit. So wind can deposit sedimen, volcanic ash is sediment glaciers deposit it etc.

New comment by ycombinete in "Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]"

ycombinete — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:15:37 +0000

Ironically you can now have Gemini summarise YouTube videos for you within the YouTube app/website.

New comment by ycombinete in "Coltrane's Tone Circle"

ycombinete — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:31:57 +0000

Audio doesn’t seem to play on Safari, iOS.

New comment by ycombinete in "The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings"

ycombinete — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:11:40 +0000

You just solved a decade/s old personal mystery!

I randomly saw an episode of some show with these doozers maybe 20 years ago, and I have occsionally remembered them and wandered who they were ever since!

New comment by ycombinete in "Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented"

ycombinete — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:15:42 +0000

From the link in your parent: "Jeffrey passed away five weeks after the surgery at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center."

New comment by ycombinete in "Chess Atlas"

ycombinete — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:58:01 +0000

It's only a Bishop in a small number of cultures, and is still called Elephant more often than not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(chess)#Name_translatio...

New comment by ycombinete in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

ycombinete — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:06:14 +0000

This one drives me particularly crazy.

New comment by ycombinete in "Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents"

ycombinete — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:45:37 +0000

One can imagine overzealous parents tactically causing a scene to nullify a match result.

New comment by ycombinete in "Show HN: Bodily Oddities"

ycombinete — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:25:52 +0000

I used to have something like this as an adolescent/teenager, but while I was awake. It’d feel like my whole body became enormous and numb, and if I closed my eyes I’d see cascading geometric shapes collapsing in on themselves, and it would feel like I was falling constantly.

So I’d just slowly put my head on the desk and ride it out until I was returned to my body

New comment by ycombinete in "A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming"

ycombinete — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:10:07 +0000

> [sic; British]

Is a remarkable bit of trolling.

New comment by ycombinete in "Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance"

ycombinete — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:24:47 +0000

Fair enough. I suppose it could change how one even enters the water.

New comment by ycombinete in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

ycombinete — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:02:19 +0000

I think the first step is to be wealthy and have no kids. That way you have tons of free resources, and tons of free time, and enough free space.

I know plenty of people with enough friends to fill a little LAN like this. And setting one up is fairly cheap, if you don't want to build a house just for it, (a few switches and some cables); but not many adults I know have enough time or free enough calendars to get together for such an event more than once a year.

New comment by ycombinete in "Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance"

ycombinete — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:13:45 +0000

Surviving a fall from a bridge is not survivorship bias.

New comment by ycombinete in "2026 Hugo Awards"

ycombinete — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:52:14 +0000

That's what I was thinking! I was sure my parent meant GoT.

But there can't be many metrics at all where GoT beats out HP for the title of "biggest fantasy series of our time".

New comment by ycombinete in "2026 Hugo Awards"

ycombinete — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:35:45 +0000

What is the biggest fantasy series of our time?

New comment by ycombinete in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

ycombinete — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:22:24 +0000

That's a global thing. Postal services are very expensive public services. Low hanging fruit for cost savings.

New comment by ycombinete in "Simulacra and Simulation"

ycombinete — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:31:06 +0000

I always enjoy the moment in The Matrix where Neo flops a hollowed out copy of this book open, to fish out some illicit mini-disc he’s storing in it.

New comment by ycombinete in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

ycombinete — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:45:06 +0000

Are you yourself attempting to influence AI by writing the same comment over and over again in this thread?

New comment by ycombinete in "How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks"

ycombinete — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:45:33 +0000

It's the irl version of being accused of hacking in Counterstrike.

The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

ycombinete — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:03:26 +0000

Article URL: https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48801159

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