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New comment by yigithan in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

yigithan — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:25:23 +0000

I think this makes a lot of sense if he puts all the effort into Optimus and makes it a really good robot. Once you have a really good robot, you do not need the car to self-drive, the robot can drive any car (or truck). I know it is very hard, but as we should have learned by now Elon loves very hard problems and this is exactly in his wheelhouse. It may all have been in his plans considering how he was very opposed to LiDAR and tried to base the system on vision alone.

Additionally, to take another step toward AGI, you need vast amounts of real-world data. Optimus can provide that, much like Tesla cars have for driving data.

New comment by yigithan in "Tell HN: HN was down"

yigithan — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:55:54 +0000

I stopped using google.com for Internet access check, I now use HN.

New comment by yigithan in "Red Alert 2 in web browser"

yigithan — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:10:35 +0000

I love the whole Command & Conquer series. As others have pointed out, even though the graphics were 2D and pixelated, the soundtracks would really draw you into the atmosphere. I cannot describe how good it felt to play these games during school breaks, sometimes until dawn. These games were the sole reason we upgraded the RAM on our PC whenever a new one came out. I bought the bundle from EA a couple of years back and still play it occasionally. This will be my son’s first PC game too.

New comment by yigithan in "Test"

yigithan — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:25:55 +0000

Right, for new email leaving them empty would work. This is for when you reply to a thread.

New comment by yigithan in "Test"

yigithan — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:52:05 +0000

To avoid accidentally sending an email in Outlook, I once learned a useful trick: add a nonexistent email address, like sdfsdf to the To or CC field. Email would not be sent until you removed it. Lo and behold, one day I entered sdfsdfsdf, and it resolved. Someone of course was using this as a test group name.

New comment by yigithan in "Thomas E. Kurtz has died"

yigithan — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:20:45 +0000

I, too, learned programming in BASIC. I wrote many programs, really useful ones, too. My mom is a pharmacist, I wrote a simple program to calculate price of some of the items they prepared. I wrote a flashcard like program to study foreign language, a quiz program to learn license plate codes in Turkey. I wrote screen saver animations, random circles, yin and yang, drawing flags. It was an amazing feeling as a child. I’d never looked up who created it, either. Now I know: Rest in peace, Thomas Kurtz!

New comment by yigithan in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

yigithan — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:19:22 +0000

Facebook once allowed users to draw directly on a friend’s wall. For a friend’s birthday, I developed a tool that recreated an image pixel by pixel on the canvas. The entire process took about an hour to complete. I doubt anyone realized the effort behind the post, as to most, it probably just looked like a regular image upload.

New comment by yigithan in "Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2"

yigithan — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:37:55 +0000

>With Mac Virtual Display, users can even bring the powerful capabilities of their Mac into Vision Pro, creating an enormous, private, and portable 4K display, ideal for pro workflows

I think if Apple allows people to run an instance of MacOS on these devices like a VM (i.e. without the need to purchase a Mac, it looks like the CPU is M2 on these devices) that would be the killer feature. This will make the price more reasonable for people who are considering renewing their Macs.

I’d also want to be able to see the image on these devices live remotely e.g. on an iPad or TV similar to Quest 3.

New comment by yigithan in "Hyperloop One to shut down"

yigithan — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:19:35 +0000

Right, they can even do this for within city delivery. Imagine each home having a tube box, like a mailbox, that is vertically connected to the network of tubes underground. Small electric vehicles running through the tubes and carrying parcel from warehouse hubs to homes and even vice versa. Amazon Instant Delivery!

New comment by yigithan in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

yigithan — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 08:56:38 +0000

Luggage with four wheels. It is liberating in airports.

New comment by yigithan in "Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?"

yigithan — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 05:26:40 +0000

Technology to efficiently visualize any part of the body at atomic level in real time.

And, technology to efficiently cut the bonds between atoms in any visualized part of the body.

What would something like this require? What is missing? I would expect this to be the next step after MRI/electron microscopy and gamma knife.

If this existed, we wouldn’t need vaccines for Covid, we would just shoot the bonds of those ... . Also the same cure for cancer cells.

New comment by yigithan in "Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?"

yigithan — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:14:21 +0000

Morphological development of organisms. Mainly, how do cells form the shape of the organism and how do they specialize to different type of tissues? How do cells know where they are? What is the mechanism that puts the constraints on the shape of the body? I can understand mitosis but the rest from there is magic.

New comment by yigithan in "SpaceX BFR [video]"

yigithan — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:11:07 +0000

I guess it will be called rocket lag :)