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smallnix··on What China is up to in the Arctic
https://archive.is/0EAd6
smallnix··on Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed
> Was it in danger of being knocked down?

Abolishing the listings mechanism in favor of an ad-hoc protection mechanism (when destruction is imminent) seems worse.

smallnix··on The Waymo World Model
> It’s kind of crazy that they have been slow to create real products and competitive large scale models from their research.

I always thought they deliberately tried to contain the genie in the bottle as long as they could

smallnix··on LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
> Computer science has been advancing language design by building higher and higher level languages

Why? Because new languages have an IR in their compilation path?

smallnix··on How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users
This touches the toupet fallacy: "I never saw a large company fail to grow large because of deferred scaling"

Friendster might fit though: https://highscalability.com/friendster-lost-lead-because-of-...

smallnix··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
Even that would be wrong. Von der Leyen was strong armed into her position by Merkel and the other heads of states, overruling Timmermans nomination.
smallnix··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
Isn't every AI datacenter chip manufacturer critically dependent on EU (ASML)?
smallnix··on Self Driving Car Insurance
If the car that did a hit-and-run was operated autonomously the insurance of the maker of that car should pay. Otherwise it's a human and the situation falls into the bucket of what we already have today.

So yes, carmakers would pay in a hit-and-run.

smallnix··on Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
E.g. with stuxnet they got to the air-gapped machines by letting worms loose on the network of suppliers, targeting technicians laptops.
smallnix··on What happened to WebAssembly
> no technology could recognize that.

Perhaps require monitoring of the arm muscle electrical signals, build a profile, match the readings to the game actions and check that the profile matches the advertised player

smallnix··on Why users cannot create Issues directly
Sounds like it could be fixed by making it configurable to hide all issues without a certain tag (or auto-apply a hiding tag) for the issues "landing page".
smallnix··on Happy Public Domain Day 2026
Interesting that EU is becoming stricter than US with growing life expectancy.

Life + 70 can mean the work is protected 120 years (publish at 40, dies at 90)?

smallnix··on Gemini 3.0 Deciphered the Mystery of a Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf's
I know experts who deciphered this. But I will not tell you their names.
smallnix··on Exe.dev
Agree, I finally found information via

Homepage -> blog -> docs -> "all docs" button:

https://exe.dev/docs/list

Which has an about and pricing etc.

That is very counterintuitive to just find out what this is.

smallnix··on Show HN: Python SDK – forecasting with foundation time-series and tabular models
Before picking this I would benchmark on my existing data using e.g. https://unit8co.github.io/darts/index.html#regression-models
smallnix··on I'm tired of Hacker News slop
> Herman

Who or what is that?

smallnix··on Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot
In oauth2: when I /1 associate a random uuidv4 for each new flow with my user (server side), /2 stick that uuid into the state parameter, and then /3 look up my user with this on callback-endpoint execution. Isn't PKCE in that case redundant?
smallnix··on The Graffiti Question
Well, I wouldn't love Batman in my apartment either.
smallnix··on Classical statues were not painted horribly
Unlike the article, your comment, does not provide evidence beyond "sniff test". The article brings up paintings of statues, which is an interesting data point.
smallnix··on Classical statues were not painted horribly
And an article "experts are trolling public" creates more attention than "experts stick to evidence and aren't artists"
smallnix··on How getting richer made teenagers less free
> the risk

What is the risk really? I mean put in numbers.

smallnix··on US Tech Force
> at the Department of Defense

*Department of War

smallnix··on Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price
TL;DR: inside trading /s
smallnix··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
> Acronyms are abbreviations for meaningful names.

I think often words are added to allow for a memorable name, such as crispr

> When Mojica and Jansen struck up a correspondence, they began tossing around catchy names for the patterns, and on Nov. 21, 2001, they settled on CRISPR—an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.

https://nautil.us/the-unbearable-weirdness-of-crispr-236685/

smallnix··on I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
That's not the point of the article. It's about Claude/LLM being overconfident in recreating pixel perfect.
smallnix··on A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia
What is the difference between "storing carbon" vs. "trapping carbon"?
smallnix··on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
Do you mean cause Thiel says he based the core of his beliefs on Schmitts teachings, a fervent nazi? Don't get the connection otherwise.
smallnix··on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
I recommend to read the source:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-...

smallnix··on How to Attend Meetings
The flow diagram for yes/no attend meeting is missing to weigh the estimated impact you can make against other meetings.

Even if I can contribute real value to 20 meetings which I am invited to, I can't attend all of them.

smallnix··on Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts
> Who's to say there isn't something out there we haven't discovered yet

Occam's razor? We should work with as few assumptions as possible to get a model with the largest scope. Otherwise we get stuck with a hard to falsify mess.

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