Happy Thanksgiving y'all! Also grateful for this community!
Readit Newsvavooom commented on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving · Posted by u/prodigycorp
vavooom commented on Hacker News – The Good Parts smartmic.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/smartmic
Wow. That is very not intuitive. It's like an anti-pattern.
Good to know though, thank you!
I appreciate it, as it helps me to not 'favorite' many comments, but only those that actually strike me as worth saving when they are so detailed as to be a post of their own!
vavooom commented on Show HN: Wordle but you have to predict your score before playing boring.game/invite/SRhyUS... · Posted by u/boringgame
I liked it!
vavooom commented on Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear... · Posted by u/rbanffy
"The company will separate out valuable isotopes such as Strontium-90, which has fuel applications in marine and aerospace engineering, and use neutrons to transmute the rest into shorter-lived isotopes"
From Wikipedia, it looks like Strontium-90 can be used in "treatment of bone cancer, and to treat coronary restenosis via vascular brachytherapy". Pretty cool.
The link should probably be: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/what-llms-kno...
I applied this query with 4o and yes, quite a thorough historical recounting. Really weaves together all those "random" questions one asks an LLM into a surprisingly (and somewhat scary) encompassing of one's self.
vavooom commented on Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills · Posted by u/charleszyong
What a unique and fun build! So curious to hear about what ways it can be programmed and used for personal projects.
One of my favorites (only great if you read the site contents):
Assuming this references Reinforcement Learning? If so... valid
vavooom commented on Land under the country's largest cities is sinking washingtonpost.com/climat... · Posted by u/vavooom