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LorenDB··on Tesla Roadster
Out of curiosity, how do you define flight? To me, I think the Roadster flew because it clearly maintained powered propulsion after leaving the ground. Sure, it only flew for a few seconds, but it's not far from the Wright Bros.' first flight.
LorenDB··on Tesla Roadster
Sounds like it was just compressed air (rechargeable on the fly). Impressive if true.
LorenDB··on Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Problem is, where do you take a company like this if you want peace of mind that the new host country won't immediately try to pass a similar law?
LorenDB··on Meta VR Glasses
Most other VR headsets don't put their entire weight on your nose and ears.
LorenDB··on UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
More than testing. That is their primary on-orbit link method for Starlink satellites as of 2.5 years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming...
LorenDB··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
Knowing Jared Isaacman, he won't let MSR die without a fight. It wouldn't shock me to see NASA consider Rocket Lab's MSR proposal; they had submitted a pretty affordable proposal some time ago.
LorenDB··on Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
Sorry for the late reply. They require you to unplug the entire drive and plug it back in to properly recognize a new disk.
LorenDB··on Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
FWIW, it turns out that all USB floppy drives nowadays are made in the same factory, and all of them are kinda glitchy. Go buy an older model on eBay instead of buying new.
LorenDB··on I resigned from Anthropic today
My thoughts exactly. While the corpus of human-generated data contains both good and bad data, I suspect the majority of it leans towards humans enjoying life and trying to be decent people. If that is your training set, it becomes less likely for ASI to extrapolate "kill all humans."
LorenDB··on Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise
How about building another fab first?
LorenDB··on Ox Alpha
Sounds like this could be GLM 5.3 vision. Reports said that outputs were identical to base GLM 5.3.
LorenDB··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
I've heard that DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 has frequently assumed that it has vision capabilities and then resorts to inventing text-based image analysis tools when it finds that it actually can't see. In that case, this is a great upgrade for the model.

Anecdotally, I had to tell 0731 to refrain from viewing screenshots since it kept breaking its sessions by trying to read images.

LorenDB··on Git at any scale
Cursor's entire schtick is providing AI coding tools. I'll give you one guess as to what they probably used for the diagrams.
LorenDB··on Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
Toyota TSS3 is in fact encrypted; openpilot users who have TSS3 have to manually extract decryption keys from their cars to be able to talk on the CAN bus.
LorenDB··on US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat
Presidential security is a fascinating topic. See also the presidential motorcade's operating procedures: https://people.howstuffworks.com/presidential-motorcade.htm
LorenDB··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
Ah, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out :)
LorenDB··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
What is the other company that you would never work for?
LorenDB··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Yes, but even the cheapest providers on OpenRouter are charging at least 10x what DeepSeek does for cached input tokens, which is where DeepSeek gets most of the cheapness.
LorenDB··on MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt
More precisely, originally submitted in 2025 but wasn't merged until this year
LorenDB··on DConf 2026 in London
I would assume OP is asking if you would attend a DConf in San Francisco.

By the way, big fan of D even though I don't get to use it much. Appreciate your work!

LorenDB··on A Discord Alternative – Echoed
Well, I do hate the stupid upsells, but the entire Discord UI just feels... off. I can't really place a finger on it, but I just don't like it. (Maybe there is a bit of a UX nag causing these feelings as well? I'm not sure.)
LorenDB··on A Discord Alternative – Echoed
Why do all the Discord alternative apps try to 1:1 clone Discord's UI? Half of my dislike of Discord stems from its UI.
LorenDB··on MAI-Cyber 1
Open weights, please? Otherwise Cisco's Antares models are more interesting to me.
LorenDB··on Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
Looks like this may have been based on the nillerusr Source engine, which is based on a 2020 leak of the Source sources. nillerusr's engine has also been used to port some Valve games to Android.
LorenDB··on Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
Certainly this will never go wrong in any possible way.
LorenDB··on FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
Yes, that is true. I just felt like this article hyped this one specific case as the financial ruin of all Americans, whereas I don't particularly care if a few cents of my taxes were spent suboptimally.
LorenDB··on FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
Yeah, at $340,000/yr, this situation is costing individual Americans less than 1 cent per person per year. Nothing more than a rounding error.
LorenDB··on 1-Bit LLM in the Browser
18.8 tps on an 11th gen mobile i7 here.
LorenDB··on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month
Investors clearly aren't familiar with rocket launches. SpaceX scrubbed their Starship launch last evening so they could fix an engine issue. SpaceX stock immediately crashed. Even worse, Rocket Lab, an entirely unaffiliated company, had its stock plummet after the SpaceX scrub.
LorenDB··on Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price
SpaceX would be launching these on Starship, which has a much lower targeted launch cost.
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