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You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200k on Alibaba
- peterldowns 2y agoLooks like whoever writes for Ars likes to read HN — this was mentioned in a comment here yesterday, then published in Ars today. Nice one, Animats! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41492001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41492001
- ehnto 2y agoQuite surreal seeing the comment and just hours later seeing the article it sparked.
- generalizations 2y agoIf the stylometry website [1] was still online, we could probably figure out which user the ars author is. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
- diggan 2y agoAssuming they have A) written somewhere with one user that they are a writer at Ars and B) have written more about other things with another account Most likely they're just a lurker though, like most, and then stylometry wouldn't help :)
- schmorptron 2y agoThe article directly attributes it to him! Was that edited in after you wrote your comment?
- peterldowns 2y agoI think it always attributed Animats correctly, I just wanted to point it out sounce it hadn't been remarked upon yet.
- ksec 2y agoIn the old days, most if not all media would avoid mentioning or linking directly to HN. I think it was post 2016 they stopped doing that.
- xnx 2y agoThe article is a combination of this HN comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41492001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41492001 and the post it relates to.
- oneearedrabbit 2y agoThis is curious. It took approximately 19 hours to turn a HN thread into an article. What does this tell about the speed of information?
- Out_of_Characte 2y agoThat its a slow news day
- JKCalhoun 2y agoGreat, so now we're going to see a glut of diamonds on Etsy now.
- marssaxman 2y agoyou mean like this? https://www.etsy.com/listing/1382479348/1-mm-to-5-mm-diamond-round-brilliant-cut https://www.etsy.com/listing/1382479348/1-mm-to-5-mm-diamond...
- JKCalhoun 2y agoHa ha, I guess I'm slow.
- a96 2y agoHow far is the Diamond Age?
- synergy20 2y agoArtificially made diamond is said to be more authentic/pure than real diamonds due to machines like this, time to stop digging the ground.
- lm28469 2y agoI don't think authentic is the best adjective here, but otherwise yes
- evilkorn 2y agoBlood would probably be a better one.
- kyledrake 2y agoIt will be fun to watch the diamond monopoly go in reverse and argue that imperfect diamonds are the best.
- D13Fd 2y agoIt's already there. I've been trying, and failing, to convince my wife that we don't need a $7,000 "real" diamond for a ring she wants, and that a <$1000 lab-created diamond is better. Not only is it cheaper, but it's likely less flawed and doesn't support a company with unethical practices. She is convinced that she nonetheless needs the $7,000 one or at least a used "real" diamond for reasons I cannot comprehend.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoThe value of real diamonds is in signalling how much money you're able and willing to burn. That's why their pricing makes no sense, and why the more expensive it is, the better.
- collingreen 2y agoThis is exactly it unfortunately.
- ashtonbaker 2y agoThe "Not a Simple Operation" section really stands out for its GPT writing style ("While [pro], it's important to note [con]", "In short...").
- davely 2y agoThe reason that ChatGPT and other LLMs use such language is because they often find it in the corpus of text they’ve ingested. It’s a frequent pattern in writing. So, I don’t necessarily think that’s an immediate red flag. To be sure, I guess you’d need to go back and look at the author’s previous stories and compare writing styles.
- ChrisArchitect 2y ago[dupe] Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488353
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- waltbosz 2y agoReminds me of a Twilight Zone episode in which thieves steal $1 million of gold. Then to avoid capture, they enter suspended animation capsules and sleep for 100 years. Only to awake in a world where gold can be manufactured and has no value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Van_Winkle_Caper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Van_Winkle_Caper
- specialist 2y agoHow far off is additive manufacturing of diamond (forms)? Here's 1st hit from my noob quick search. Advance in additive manufacturing of 2D materials at the atomic and close-to-atomic scale [2024] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41699-024-00456-x.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41699-024-00456-x.pdf
- ben_w 2y agoDIY-ing one of these has been on my to-do list since I learned about CVD in, oh, 2009 or so. For entirely predicable reasons, everyone I've lived with has said "NO!" to the idea of me leaving a hacked microwave oven running continuously for a month while filled with a mixture of methane and hydrogen.
- tim333 2y agoVapour machines seem to start cheaper like this for $30k https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Diamond-Growing-MPCVD-Reactor-Microwave-Plasma_1600738694811.html?spm=a2700.details.you_may_like.3.6e0a6b7b0F62Wz https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Diamond-Growing-MPCVD... Not that I know anything about them.