Hacker News: zardo

New comment by zardo in "Pick and Place: Carbon Nanotube Nanoassembly Process"

zardo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:49:01 +0000

It sounds wrong. It's okay for it's placement to be off by thousands of times it's size?

New comment by zardo in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

zardo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:17:58 +0000

It doesn't have a nuclear reactor, it has two dozen natural gas turbines.

New comment by zardo in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

zardo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:54:24 +0000

YASA claims their integrated brake/wheel motor is lighter than comparable (supercar) disc brake systems.

New comment by zardo in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

zardo — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:05:49 +0000

As far as I know, he lost that value with honest bad decision making.

New comment by zardo in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

zardo — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:37:26 +0000

Though (at least to my knowledge) Zuckerberg doesn't have a history of abusing his authority to make deals that advantage other companies he owns at the expense of Facebook.

E.g. SpaceX buying up large numbers of Cybertrucks Tesla couldn't sell at MSRP, not even negotiating a good fleet sale deal.

New comment by zardo in "A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft"

zardo — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:32:34 +0000

Probably because there is no plan to develop a commercial plane.

New comment by zardo in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

zardo — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:14:13 +0000

Yeah it's bad when it's abused, so don't abuse it.

But not having operator overloading when dealing with vectors is maddening.

New comment by zardo in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

zardo — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:59:13 +0000

It's Starship that's supposed to do the landing on the moon. If the next few test flights don't go well it won't be ready for Artemis III next year.

New comment by zardo in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

zardo — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:11:15 +0000

You've mixed up the ship and booster.

New comment by zardo in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

zardo — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:54:08 +0000

As long as capital doesn't get involved in some kind of highly financialized spiral getting further and further divorced from the real economy, we should be good.

New comment by zardo in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

zardo — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:05:52 +0000

They're available. Though you probably shouldn't invest to heavily in gen1 (production) sodium-ion batteries. It's looking like they'll be obsolete pretty quick.

https://battery-tech.net/battery-markets-news/gotion-unveils...

New comment by zardo in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

zardo — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:51:06 +0000

Yeah, a van is the real sport utility vehicle.

And yeah, people hugely misunderstand needing 4WD. If you aren't off-roading it's not doing much for you.

New comment by zardo in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

zardo — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:46:02 +0000

Surely Waymo can afford a test track.

New comment by zardo in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

zardo — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:45:15 +0000

You probably haven't been driving in areas that flood then.

New comment by zardo in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

zardo — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:07:46 +0000

This is something that could be demonstrated rather than just argued.

Train an LLM only on texts dated prior to Newton and see if it can create calculus, derrive the equations of motion, etc.

If you ask it about the nature of light and it directs you to do experiments with a prism I'd say we're really getting somewhere.

New comment by zardo in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

zardo — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:38:43 +0000

Ford has had a similar design (sharing patents with Toyota) since the first Escape Hybrid in '04. But they never stuck with a high mpg platform, they're using it to build 34mpg small trucks and SUVs, not 60mpg cars.

New comment by zardo in "Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

zardo — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:00:30 +0000

> Another way would be some kind of 4d GS where one dimension is the focus distance.

That seems like the way to do it, someone has to be working on that.

searching...

https://dof-gaussian.github.io/

New comment by zardo in "Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

zardo — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:48:11 +0000

> Why would Iran not want to build nukes now? It would be suicidal not to.

I feel like we have enough examples to be clear on this now, would you rather your country be treated by the major powers like Libya, Ukraine, Iraq... Or like North Korea.

New comment by zardo in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

zardo — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:18:06 +0000

Yeah, a better comparison than the smartphone would be something like a table saw. You don't assume everyone has one, but it's not very unusual to have one in the garage.

New comment by zardo in ""Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage"

zardo — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:21:26 +0000

I feel like this should really be something people should lose their license over.

By deeming something not medically necessary they are (in my opinion) effectively practicing medicine. If they aren't qualified to practice that specialty, or aren't acting in the patients interest we should really be getting malpractice suits on them and stripping medical licenses.