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BiraIgnacioon Stop-motion movie Wildwood is a staggering masterpiece

Ah, sorry, not what I meant at all. But I get how it might look.

I just found it amazing work, 16-years-in-the-making! I can't think of starting anything thing that will take more than a few days to finish :D

BiraIgnacioon '500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds

I'm positively surprised with the price, most just-released games these days are pushing $100 USD.

And for the amount of work they seem to have put into it, it's probably a more than fair deal.

My kind of game, just I wish it wasn't fantasy. For some weird psychological reason I don't understand, I can't really tolerate fantasy themes for more than a few seconds.

BiraIgnacioon The genetic technique that finds almost every infection

Also

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-019-0113-7

BiraIgnacioon ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam

Right, the other case seems to definitely be happening

> 'Yikes': CoreWeave stock sinks after its bond yield touched 15%

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/yikes-coreweave...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090791

BiraIgnacioon There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world

Well, a lot of times companies, the people hiring, do really want to hire elite engineers.

But the problem is that they don't know how to recognize those types of professionals and don't even realize they don't know it.

And the problem can compound.

Companies think someone is an elite engineer because they come from a place "famous" for hiring elite professionals but that, in fact, is one of those that has no idea what an elite engineer is.

Perhaps, this is a hard problem. Or hard enough at least, if I'm being charitable and trying to excuse bad hiring practices.

BiraIgnacioon The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore

Agent Smith had it right

https://youtu.be/JrBdYmStZJ4

BiraIgnacioon Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B

This is wonderful, congrats to everyone at Verda!

BiraIgnacioon Wildlife corridor project is first Canadian finalist for Earthshot Prize

> What if wolves, elk and other wildlife could roam through protected lands from Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. to Canada's Yukon? A project to create such a massive 3,400-kilometre habitat corridor has become the first-ever Canadian finalist for Prince William's annual environmental prizes.

BiraIgnacioon Don't Just Say Hello

Do "just say hello". Be nice, life is short and relationships and people are a huge part of it.

BiraIgnacioon US coal 'biggest contributor by far' to rise in global emissions

Well then

> US scraps limits on emissions from coal and gas power plants

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmly433ke05vo

BiraIgnacioon Show HN: Jigsaw Haiku

That was fun, thanks!

BiraIgnacioon Gimlet's Series B

That's awesome, congratulations!

BiraIgnacioon Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

https://x.com/SpaceXAI/status/2095597264043717014

> We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning. We’d also like to apologize to our impacted compute partners.

BiraIgnacioon Grok outage

some common infrastructure ? Nvidia? CoreWeave?

BiraIgnacioon Matrox: Graphics for Professionals

TIL about yet another once great tech or innovation originated in Canada!

BiraIgnacioon Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

Congrats on the launch! Really useful tool!

BiraIgnacioon Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

Very cool paradigm, I wonder if it's easier to have processing moved/added to memory or have more memory in the CPU.

In either case, as you said, it would be having both data and compute closer than they are right now.

BiraIgnacioon A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken

Perhaps since the beginning of what we came to call society.

BiraIgnacioon Bhartrhari's Paradox

sounds like the paradox that _could_ illustrate Gödel's incompleteness theorems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_th...

BiraIgnacioon The turbulent AI era is here

> If someone had a credible plan for slowing down AI advances globally, I would likely support it. However, I don’t think that’s going to happen. The geopolitical and economic incentives are pushing too hard to go full speed ahead.

BiraIgnacioon PageRank explained

Related, fascinating foundational work

Citation index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_index

Shepard's Citations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard's_Citations

BiraIgnacioon Ask HN: What's the current best research/understanding of healthy weight loss?

I don't know about research but I find Huberman's podcast quite reliable and a useful starting point when I go doing my own research.

This one, for example

https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/essentials-lose-fat-with...

BiraIgnacioon Nutritional benefits of sourdoughs: A systematic review (2022)

> Statements of significance

> Scientific studies have already highlighted that sourdough fermentation can improve nutrient bioaccessibility or reduce the GI of bread; however, it remains unclear whether the effect of sourdough fermentation on cereals translates to beneficial effects in a clinical setting. Our systematic review reveals the difficulty in establishing a clear consensus with regards to the beneficial effects of sourdough per se on health and suggests that sourdough has great potential to produce a variety of functional foods; however, its complex and dynamic ecosystem requires further standardization to conclude its clinical health benefits.

BiraIgnacioon The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons

Or why are teeth so sensitive

> This convergent exposure of tubules to the surface in aglaspidids and Eriptychius is suggestive of a sensory function, as is the fact that dentine exposure is the most common cause of painful tooth sensitivity in modern taxa

BiraIgnacioon Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial

> Integer division q=(x/y) and remainder (of Euclidean division) r=(x%y) hardware operations are very sad on current hardware. Typically very long latency and poor throughput. In contrast floating-point division is pretty happy: shorter latency, higher throughput and often more execution units to perform the operation.

oh wow I missed when this started to happen

BiraIgnacioon "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

I'm not insulted. I actually agree with that even when I was doing some more "hardcore" low level system programming.

Figuring out what code to write and what not to write was always hard.

The code would come out easier the more time I spent thinking and designing and talking about it with others.

of course, YMMV

BiraIgnacioon USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

Jokes aside, I do honestly wonder what they expect to learn from this kind of analysis.

BiraIgnacioon Citadel Buys Situational Awareness's Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI

I didn't know buying other funds stock portfolio was even a thing. TIL

I guess it makes sense, wondering what Citadel will do with it...

BiraIgnacioon Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

> The flavour you want is polymer, single ion conducting solid state with an ion transport activation energy below 10kJ/mol at room temperature and no phase transitions from -40C to 80C.

what makes it so? I don't know anything about this subject, I'm really curious now about what the perfect battery would be.