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mkl··on Private Jet plane crashes in Florida
CBC article says vertical speed was 30,000 feet per minute, which is 550km/h or 150m/s.
mkl··on Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
GVS5H, which this is based on, was discussed here a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228167
mkl··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Unfortunately all the license links there give 404 errors, but if you look in the file tree the licenses are there as described.
mkl··on I'm building LYNX, an open-source DAW inspired by FL Studio, free,cross-platform
It is a direct question, not an insinuation. The comment was dead, and I thought they should have a chance to adjust.
mkl··on I'm building LYNX, an open-source DAW inspired by FL Studio, free,cross-platform
Is this comment AI? That goes against the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
mkl··on Colorfigures
The text files include a Python script, which the AI will execute to perform the skill.
mkl··on PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
FYI the box with the tool you've selected (where you upload and set parameters) is way too small on mobile. By scrolling you can use it, but you can only see a tiny bit of the interface at a time. Firefox on Android.
mkl··on Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
Not when you're prioritising sensationalism over accuracy. Everyone's heard of HTTP, but hardly anyone's heard of brotli.
mkl··on Butlerian Jihad
Hardly odd; it's intentional. There are quite a few backwards and anagram words and names in the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
mkl··on Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone"
Production company doesn't bother backing up hundreds of days of work, blames irresponsibly used AI for its own failure.
mkl··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
The phrase probably wasn't uttered by anyone it's attributed to: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/. Even "the time" is unknown.
mkl··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
Fascinatingly bizarre. More info: https://ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/rotten-boroughs/
mkl··on The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients
Why not? If they have a mic that can pick up sound from the side it would be fine.
mkl··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
There's some info in the README, including:

> Coder: a coding version with half of the experts removed. It reaches 91% of the full model's SWE-bench Verified score (measured by its authors) and fits 32 GB of RAM.

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata#which-model-should-i-pick

mkl··on Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
Formatted so I can read it (on mobile...):

  <script>
    let count = $state(0);
    let dialog;
  </script>

  <button
    onclick={() => {
      count++;
      dialog.showModal();
    }}
  >
    :)
  </button>

  <dialog bind:this={dialog}>
    <p>
      Hello, I was clicked {count} times
    </p>
    <form method="dialog">
      <button>Close</button>
    </form>
  </dialog>
The inline onclick handler doesn't seem super readable, but the rest is fine.
mkl··on The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
Not an idle complaint. My library's search isn't fuzzy enough for the misspelled name to work.
mkl··on cp: -r or -R?
-a

Not sure why you wouldn't want to preserve timestamps, links, etc. by default.

mkl··on The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
*Bhattacharya
mkl··on FLUX 3 Image
The accordion folds and the coins are a bit messed up too.
mkl··on Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo
Those are years, not page counts, right? The article mentions "millions of records", but I'm not sure how big a record can be.
mkl··on Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
Citation? Wikipedia has a clear Greek etymology:

> Alexander, originally from the Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from αλέξειν aléxein meaning "to ward off, keep off, turn away, defend, protect" and ἀνδρός andrós, genitive of ἀνήρ anḗr meaning "man".

> Meaning "Defender, protector of man"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander

mkl··on What a Massive New 728-Foot-Wide Crater Means for Future Moon Bases
> previously unseen lunar crater that’s a whopping 728 feet across, more than twice the length of an American football field.

For the rest of the world, it's about 222m.

> objects the size of monster truck tires

FFS, just use metric! Apparently that's about 1.7m.

mkl··on The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
It takes about 5 seconds to open Wikipedia and type "TLA+".
mkl··on Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
*best, not better
mkl··on Jensen Huang says the junior developer problem ends in two years
I think this is overly optimistic; it assumes universities reacted instantly and pivoted to teaching coding with AI as soon as it was feasible. In actuality, university curriculums cannot change quickly, and AI capabilities are changing much faster. In my experience, some students are using AI to write code, but then have no idea what's going on. The "skill" of typing "Write a function to do [basic thing]" will not make them AI-native or help them in the workplace.
mkl··on OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
Is it any good at autoformalisation? I think it's likely to take focused fine-tuning to get something small enough that is still good at that.
mkl··on OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
Lots of people are talking about that, and have been for a while. Autoformalisation is clearly going to be a big deal, so mathematicians have been discussing it seriously, and using it where resources allow. A fine-tuned distilled model that could do it on high-end consumer hardware could really help.

Edit: There's also quite a bit of learning needed to use the tools, and to understand enough to confirm that the theorem being verified is what you think. And of course a lot of maths can't yet be expressed in Lean as the foundations haven't been built up enough.

mkl··on OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
Kevin Buzzard. https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/flt-anthropic-h..., discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568667
mkl··on GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
They're not claiming controlling robot arms with language models is a sensible or efficient thing to do, they're trying it to see what happens.
mkl··on Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners
The official list is at https://improbable.com/ig/winners/?amp=1#ig2026 but Ars Technica has a lot more detail.
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