felineflock

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felineflock··on What happens when companies replace managers with AI?

Yes, that would be my hope as well. But we all know what happened to Agile.

felineflock··on A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned

Any chance golf ball dimples in the wings would make it better?

In a golf ball, the dimples create a turbulence in a layer of air around it but results in higher lift due to smaller vortex and less drag.

felineflock··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

It was basically "** you" delivered with the power of 1024 middle fingers (512 pages times both hands).

felineflock··on The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

I think it is all normalized into positive vector space [0, 1] using min-max.

felineflock··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

> I object, as a non-American paying Anthropic customer, to being surveilled and then having it justified in a press release?

You genuinely think you're not already being surveilled? And that Anthropic is somehow responsible with just a few words in a press release? In what world are you living in and how is the rent there?

felineflock··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

That reasoning sounds confusing: are you actually in favor of US gov's surveillance on Americans?

If not, then why are you punishing that company for refusing to deal with the US gov?

Or is it just because they worded their opposition in a certain way that you dislike?

felineflock··on America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out

So you think only one party did that??? Only one party protects billionaires??? Wow that's funny!

felineflock··on America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out

And a cyberattack would justify another war and extra powers of emergency. Perfect!

felineflock··on America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out

No, it is more like Reps 75% and Dems 90%, ±5%.

felineflock··on Victorian Engineering Connections Diagram from the Brunel Museum

Diagram is in the first link on the page: http://victorianengineeringconnections.net/

felineflock··on Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

Some of those look like thongs.

felineflock··on Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

Good job! Looks amazing! It is a great way to call attention to content.

felineflock··on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

A modern version of the old dongle seems to be the FIDO key (commonly known by the brand Yubikey), although it is for a different purpose than copy protection: anti-phishing/MFA authentication.

Has that been defeated yet?

felineflock··on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

I did something similar decades ago: ran on debug with and without the dongle, then compared the execution path to identify where exactly it deviated. Then replaced the "jump" with "nop" to prevent it from branching out when the dongle was absent. This was with an early version of Visual C++ and I knew only a little 8086 Assembly.

felineflock··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

xcancel? What is the purpose or benefit of providing a free mirror to x? Doesn't it end up sparing the x servers and causing their costs to decrease?

felineflock··on List of individual trees

I clicked expecting some catalog of data structures but it was a pleasant surprise.

felineflock··on Apple Creator Studio

That Synth Player and Chord ID seem to be killer features on Logic Pro. Are they recent additions? Do they work well?

felineflock··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

LOL, you live in California? The past affordability you are talking about was not universal. There were plenty of people happily buying homes after moving out of CA to other states.

Anyhow, interest rates are the root cause now. Who in their right mind would do the trade I've described?

felineflock··on Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card

It may seem irrelevant for some, but I wonder: will they still offer the laser-etched titanium card instead of plastic?

felineflock··on ChatGPT Health

"Medical attention is all you need."

felineflock··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

The root cause for the low affordability seems to be that most people don't want to sell a house purchased at 3% interest and have to pay for a new one at 6%. That and zoning restrictions too contribute for the lack of supply.

felineflock··on Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait

Reads very much like the Drudge Report, just needs the same diagramming style.

felineflock··on Cat Gap

The cat gap is due to the long time it took for the mutant descendants of Noah's cats to get to America.

felineflock··on An SVG is all you need

"SVG Considered Harmful"

https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudforce-one/research/svgs-the-...

felineflock··on Making a Small RPG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqEMSzFDTLg

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2015/10/12/raytheon-dis...

felineflock··on Étude in C minor (2020)

Bytebeat is kinda cool:

https://dollchan.net/bytebeat/#4AAAA+kUli10OgjAQhK/Ci3R3XXTb...

felineflock··on Less Is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks

A model 10,000x smaller is smarter than DeepSeek-R1, o3-mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro

felineflock··on Markov chains are the original language models

Have you tried to sequence the 2D bitmap in a Hilbert space-filling curve before applying the Markov chain?

felineflock··on New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death

I couldn't get to the PDF.

Here are articles commenting some of the content:

https://nrc.canada.ca/en/stories/worlds-first-ultraweak-phot...

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-emit-a-visible-light-that-va...

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-emit-faint-extinguishes-death....

felineflock··on EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel

Hey, would someone either downvote or upvote this comment? I am currently sitting at 666 karma and don't want that to persist, even less so in a post about the Antichrist!

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