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New comment by yread in "Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit"

yread — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:13:50 +0000

Tell that to Germany in 1917

Protesters cleared of damaging US plane at Shannon (2006)

yread — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:27:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/protesters-cleared-of-damaging-us-plane-at-shannon-1.791686

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736958

Points: 1

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New comment by yread in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

yread — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:20:44 +0000

or at least should be

New comment by yread in "SQLite Release 3.53.0"

yread — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:45:37 +0000

Fix for WAL bug, improved ALTER TABLE

SQLite Release 3.53.0

yread — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:45:37 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_53_0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703696

Points: 7

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New comment by yread in "Every GPU That Mattered"

yread — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:54:56 +0000

I had the 6600 GT, insane price-perf ratio, kept it for like 8 years

New comment by yread in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

yread — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:38:33 +0000

It's also not the first time humans are seeing the far side of the moon, Ronald Evans orbitted the Moon 75 times in the orbital module during Apollo 17 (and other ppl did before him), so he also saw it right? The only unique thing is that its the first mission where they dont really do anything more interesting than looking at the far side

New comment by yread in "Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas"

yread — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:59:19 +0000

Really cool, numerical stability can be tricky as errors can accumulate with each operation and suddenly 53 bits of precision is not enough.

Also nice to see an article thats not about AI or politics

New comment by yread in "Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE"

yread — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:12:02 +0000

war crimes don't have anything to do with Rome, Rome is only about prosecution by ICC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

New comment by yread in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

yread — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:36:20 +0000

Are there really that many small players? Aren't they all just subbrands of Xiaomi, Lenovo and Oppo?

New comment by yread in "Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks"

yread — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:57:57 +0000

On the plus side there is now quite a lot of drone on drone combat saving people's lives

New comment by yread in "CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI"

yread — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:33:14 +0000

Persuade someone to run a prospective trial and show the outcomes. Everything else is bullshit

New comment by yread in "Car Seats as Contraception"

yread — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:44:00 +0000

Jo, holt zemský ráj to napohled

New comment by yread in "Car Seats as Contraception"

yread — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:31:13 +0000

3000 eur/month/kid is in the Netherlands. You do get state support (~50% so it's still expensive) if both parents work enough hours.

New comment by yread in "Car Seats as Contraception"

yread — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:30:49 +0000

Daycare is like 3000eur/month for 3+ years. You can probably lease a double decker for that money

New comment by yread in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

yread — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:26:49 +0000

I work in research and people post their papers there. Signal to noise ratio is getting worse and worse though.. My "favorite" was probably an AI generated post (3 em dashes in one sentence, its not this.its that. And so son) about how bad AI is and how it hallucinates.

New comment by yread in "CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering"

yread — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:02:20 +0000

And why not, when linear regression works, it works so well it's basically magic, better than intelligence, artificial or otherwise

New comment by yread in "Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026"

yread — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:24:03 +0000

At this point you can stop worrying about downtime-free deployments so the devops becomes easier

New comment by yread in "How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]"

yread — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:19:02 +0000

The print gallery is just Aw^c in the complex plane

Rosneft's Drone Defense: How Russia's Oil Giant Plans to Shield Its Refineries

yread — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:37:50 +0000

Article URL: https://dallas-analytics.com/inside-rosnefts-secret-drone-defense-blueprint/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518841

Points: 2

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