HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

Shitty-kitty

216 karma · joined March 1, 2026

submissionscomments
Shitty-kitty··on Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't
The biggest problem with MOND is that it was hand-crafted with additional parameters simply to fit the data. What's missing is a reason or a mechanism by witch gravity stops following the inverse square. Scientists generally take a dim view of such theories.

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." John von Neumann

Shitty-kitty··on Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't
Unfortunately it is very common for people to spend 10 minutes using their "common sense" to find some simple explanation that seems to have defied the Scientist, rather then spend that time to read a quick article that explains the foundamentals.
Shitty-kitty··on Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't
It is notoriously difficult to observe the galaxy from the inside. We know much more about other galaxies then our own.
Shitty-kitty··on How Corruption Got This Bad
This is the reason why Congressional terms are only 2 years and why Senate elections are staggered. Of course nothing helps if the majority decides "f checks and balances"
Shitty-kitty··on DHS Claimed It Searched GrapheneOS Phone Wiper for Child Abuse Material. It Lied
This is most likely gonna end up on the Supreme Court docket. The defense is hoping that instead of making a judgment, they just punt it on a technicality such as this.
Shitty-kitty··on Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share
I only drive 300 miles a week. The problem is, I live in a apartment and there are no chargers at my workplace.
Shitty-kitty··on Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off
Time to feed my beloved pet snake.
Shitty-kitty··on Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made
Farming and domestication may have sounded boring even in the bronze age but I can assure you, without those we would still be hurling pointed rocks at each-other.
Shitty-kitty··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
The Hagia Sophia or the Sagrada Família took more then a lifetime to build but they were usable for their intended purpose, long before they were finished.
Shitty-kitty··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
Oxygen is a highly efficient electron acceptor. Anything requiring tons of energy to power a big brain will scarcely find a suitable replacement. The same properties that make it a good source of energy, also make it dangerous. Most of the metabolic stress comes from oxygen. It is a double-edged sword.
Shitty-kitty··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
This sounds like a plan to make rented properties a more liquid asset and make rent cheaper. Seems like a sound idea to me.
Shitty-kitty··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
The system was already set-up to their maximum benefit. Their corruption was in making sure nothing changed, no matter the clamoring of the vast majority.
Shitty-kitty··on Mistral Large 4
The open-weight models are a great boon to all American companies other than a handfull of Mega Corps in the A.I business. Care to explain how this is "economic warfare against the U.S"
Shitty-kitty··on So you think you could be an electrician?
Nobody should be debugging code by hand either but when all the tools fail, its time to get your hands dirty.
Shitty-kitty··on So you think you could be an electrician?
For effect. You want the client to feel that they got their money's worth and it wasn't something they could have done themselves.
Shitty-kitty··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
Most of it is oxygen. Oxygen is highly reactive so the same thing that makes it a good as source of fuel, also makes it poisonous. It is a double-edged sword.
Shitty-kitty··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
The stress has always been about food. Worrying about prey or a paycheck is the same thing.
Shitty-kitty··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
There are 2 stages. Growth, till ~20 and then it switches to aging.
Shitty-kitty··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
They are not talking about stress in the "mental health" setting, rather the metabolic one.
Shitty-kitty··on Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life
Because it is denser it sinks faster then it diffuses. You can see the same thing with LN2. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6zv5cdB813U
Shitty-kitty··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
A shitty developer can create a far worst experience on react then on native.
Shitty-kitty··on iPhone Duo
Easier to support one more aspect-ratio then two.

Unless these things start selling like hot-cakes (unlikely at the price) a lot of developers just might not bother.

Shitty-kitty··on iPhone Duo
A lot of people will look at this and say. Eh I already have an Ipad and a Imac why do I need a phone with such a large screen.

Their selling point is: Not having to switch from one app to another when Multitasking.

Shitty-kitty··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
The drivers for D3D and Vulkan are separate, so supporting both opens you up to a whole new slew of bugs.

Mesa is largely an Umbrella. While some of the code is shared by in large, AMD works on radv, intel works on vulkan-intel and of course Nvidia work's on its own proprietary driver rather then very limited NVK.

Many games are first released on PC and only ported if they get big enough. So there are no considerations for cross-platform support in the original development.

Shitty-kitty··on Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
More likely, it crawled-thru Construction permit listings.
Shitty-kitty··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
When a game glitches because of a driver bug, its the game developer that gets the bug reports (and the heat) and often has to isolate the problem to convince the gpu driver-team to fix it.

You may note that I specifically said "PC game developers" Your whole but consoles argument, completely misses the mark.

Shitty-kitty··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
Optimization and bug hunting makes supporting multiple graphics api's a pain. I really don't understand Apple's stubborn refusal to make vulkan drivers. Between Apple and the better performance on SteamDeck, I can see PC game developers seriously considering Vulkan over directx.
Shitty-kitty··on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
You are wrong about why open-source projects are banning AI contributions. While vibe-coded slop is obviously a pain, many are banning even their own well-known contributors from using A.I to write large parts of code due to legal concerns.

I'm sure the patent/copyright trolls care a lot about the "industry." It is still the early days but eventually they will come on knocking.

Shitty-kitty··on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
The problem often stems from the Patent Offices getting caught flat-footed with new tech. When the patent officers don't know enough about the field they are reviewing it is easy for things which are "obvious to experts in the field" or "overly broad" to slip thru and cause major headaches for everyone.
Shitty-kitty··on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
You don't know what code the A.I has been trained on. It may very well be reproducing actual Copyrighted material it has been trained on.

This is the major reason why most large open-source projects are banning big code contributions made with A.I

← PreviousPage 2 of 6Next →