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by ur-whale 10mo ago
Funny how HN is usually ripe with folks crawling out of the woodwork to defend IP ownership as a fundamentally important principle, both on moral and economic grounds. Yet, as of 08:37:36 MST Monday, 5 January 2026 there isn't a single
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> If anything this is a very strong argument for a completely decentralized domain name system. As you probably know, this is a very old idea, dating back almost from the birth of bitcoin [1] [2]. Real shame it didn't take off. [1]
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
I must say: 1) Hugely enjoyable content - as usual - by Michael Stapelberg: relevant, detailed, organized, well written. 2) I am also an X11 + i3 user (and huge thanks to Michael for writing i3, I'm soooo fast with it), I also keep t
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
So ... meaning Cadova has an underlying Mesh model, like OpenSCAD ... I wonder how they pull off proper filetting and curves.
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
Regarding the geometry engine, the README says: Cadova uses Manifold-Swift, Apus and ThreeMF. First I hear of those. Curious to see how those compare to things like OpenCascade.
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> I love code-based CAD. So do I. A lot. But wait until you try to pair it with an Agentic AI, it will simply blow you away. Until, that is, you realize LLM's have strictly no sense of how 3D geometry works, but still, it's ama
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
Did I claim anywhere that his early work wad bad? Nope. The contrary as a matter of fact. But the facts are: 1) nothing worth talking about since the LSTMs 2) most of the reasons why he's been visible in the last 20 years is because of
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> but going from non-success to pariah, what is the need? Not sure "need" is the appropriate word here. Grab anyone in who has worked on AI in the last 30 years, and pronounce the word "Schmidhuber" and watch the face
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
I'm not criticizing the article at all. In fact I am generally ignorant on the topic of who invented the transistor, nor do I in general particularly care about who invented what. The quest for academic fame is something I've alwa
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
I wish Jürgen Schmidhuber would switch back to actually doing AI research instead of having become completely obsessed with "who invented what" because he feels like he has somehow been academically "robbed" at some poin
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
OpenAI is exactly what happens when a company finds itself in such a far, far away blue ocean strategy that there are no more traditional "economic anchors" (to call it that) to reason with. It usually ends in blood and tears, for
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> However, as Bitcoin's security inevitably weakens over the coming years due to diminishing miner rewards (denominated in BTC), Says you, without a hint of a rationale backing your argument. It seems to me that the historical hashi
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> Why not automate them? Because building psychopathic AI's is - at the moment - still frowned upon.
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> Every time I hear people claiming India and China now not using dollar and the end of dollar’s dominance, I feel it’s coming from mostly clickbait headlines I would encourage you to actually take a gander at the history of reserve curr
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
Highly unpopular opinion here and I'm going to get downvoted into the ground (who cares), but ... this has been a very long time coming and has very much been a self-inflicted change. My bet is that it will end up being a very good thi
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> Intellectual property exists. A problem in an of itself. I'm very glad AI is here and is slowly but surely destroying this terrible idea.
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> I have never been able to understand how things like FreeCAD lay out their UI. I'm 100% with you there. One of the most utterly confusing UI I've had to deal with. And I suspect the answer is : the FreeCAD devs don't eit
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> https://pythonscad.org/ Thanks for this, didn't know about it. How does that compare to solid python 2? https://github.com/jeff-dh/SolidPython
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
OpenSCAD is great, and I use it all the time.Especially these days if you combine it with an LLM agent like codex and start vibe coding objects (see my other post on this). However, there are a number of limitations that are truly and deepl
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
SDFs are very neat up until the point where you need to build parts that have very precise specifications. Something like two precisely interlocking gears with a tooth geometry with a profile that's the developed curve of the opposite
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
OpenSCAD is kinda of neat, especially if you pair it with something like codex to build objects. And then, you discover that those darn LLMs have absolutely no spatial intuition. None. It is seriously frustrating: one the one hand you can
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
Not sure I understand the last sentence: > The fundamental challenge in AI for the next 20 years is avoiding extinction.
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
I meant at a global level (think as if you're attacking all wireguard users, not a single one)
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
One meta thing I've always wondered ... Are multiple implementations of the same protocol good or bad for security? Probably naively, I'm thinking: - diversity: good - doubling the attack surface: real bad What do the
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> Question: with copyright and authorship dead wrt AI, how do I make (at least) new content protected? Question: Now that the steamboats have been invented, how do I keep my clipper business afloat ? Answer: Good riddance to the broken i
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
> I can't think of any car that's ever been sold whose design was optimized to spy on its users and trick them into buying to things and agreeing to contracts they didn't want. Just give it a couple of years.
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
Who the fuck still watches content on an effing TV in 2025?
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
There are alternative search engines to Google, in particular some where base censorship is not so easily enforced: https://yandex.com/search/?text=sci-hub
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
Score one more for CAM (computer assisted math) and automated proving tools. In a world where your academic colleagues will only pay attention to your paper if it comes with a Lean or Coq proof (or at least an MM sketch), we would not be in
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by ur-whale 10mo ago
And now that Italy has built a tax haven for HNWI [1], the faster commute will IMO make business boom. https://nomoretax.eu/italy-a-new-tax-haven/

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