This looks awesome - my son loves gears, and my wife and I have been talking about buying him a 3D printer soon. Thank you!

You are a great writer - thanks for putting this together!

I think the average human would do a far worse job at predicting what the HN homepage will look like in 10 years.

That one got me as well - some pretty wild stuff about prompting the compiler, starship on the moon, and then there's SQLite 4.0

You can criticize it for many things but it seems to have comedic timing nailed.

Needs a dang archetype, who merges similar posts.

that is a great idea.

thanks! love the app, it's really fun, and surprisingly engaging, despite knowing that it's all AI nonsense

What an awesome piece of technology. I've been wanting to create something similar, just on the technical merits. We have some pretty amazingly capable technology these days, but so much of it relies on IP infrastructure, which is fine when things work and you are either aligned with your government, or live in a society where there are strong checks and balances on government overreach.

Exactly. With Chat Control being revived again in the EU, various VPN bans being proposed in US states, and ID verification rolling out seemingly everywhere, this kind of tech may end up being more useful than people expect. If it works in the extremely adversarial environment of a warzone, it should work fine here.

How is this a solution to Chat Control and EU law? If this is used, governments will simply demand Apple and Google get the app declared forbidden, which both have done to apps for many reasons.

Worse: they might demand a list of people who have it installed (and this violates the Chat Control law of course).

Even worse: this app turns out to be written by a security agency or scammers and starts exploiting people.

If they are demanding a list of people who have apps installed, you have two options: lie down like a dog or get in the streets and fight. If you think it’s going to get to that point, you need tools like this even more.

The thing that I really like about the approach taken by OP is that it AFAIK is broadcast-only, up to a certain radius. The hard part in mesh networking is routing, and broadcast sidesteps that

I think you're misreading the situation. As far as I can tell, Russia has every reason to want to continue engaging in heavy cyber-criminal activities. I don't think this is the virtuous Kremlin turning a blind eye. This is a classic case of deception. Look at my left hand, so you don't see what my right is doing.

They see it as asymmetrical warfare, I know that; but if US would let US cyber criminals steal millions of Russian and Chinese credit cards or some other PII, I would perceive that as distasteful and not as a form of counterintelligence.

Considering that America has allowed hundreds of billions of dollars of money belonging to individuals in Russia to be stolen, I do not see the validity of your argument.

It was caused by unprovoked and illegal invasion of neighbouring country, that's tit for tat. They also seized assets of Nazi Germany when Hitler decided to go full yolo.

These are just words, excuses that hide the fact that they illegally stole funds that did not belong to them.

Can I read more about the seizure of German bank accounts? As far as I know, they (USA) continued to sponsor Germany until 1944. (through various branches.)

Some Swiss banks serviced Nazi accounts until 2020 and did not see any problems in this.

A tit for tat would have been Iraq had seized American assets in response to the US invasion and the theft of Iraq's gold assets.

Remind me, when did Russia invade the USA or the EU?)

I'm inclined to think you're right, but I can't figure out one thing - the command module (apparently) in Apollo 13 got down to 38F without active heating. That's much colder than standard data centre rack temps.

In the example of a data centre, there would be considerably more heat generation than 3 astronauts, but, I would like to understand more. 38F is cold, so heat is clearly lost not as slowly as we might think.

The Apollo passive radiators can dissipate ~2500 Watts into space. With most systems shut down, only ~500 Watts was coming from the remaining systems and the astronauts bodies.

Cool, thank you. So I read this as fundamentally, the heat they dissipated far exceeded the heat they produced. Do you mind opining on what similar figures would be with modest passive radiators and a typical data centre rack heat output?

No idea what the passive radiators might look like (50x the size of Apollo?), but an Nvidia GB300 NVL72 uses 120,000 watts.

Anecdotally, I think you should disregard this. I found out about this issue first via Reddit, roughly 30 minutes after the onset (we had an alarm about control plane connectivity).

One nit, while I think Notion's data model is probably superior to that of Google Docs, I don't think their data model is what allowed them to succeed. Much stronger, I think, is their execution.

I would think their data model choice _is_ part of the execution?

Exactly like Google docs couldn't be Notion because Google tried to build Microsoft Office online, but Notion tried to build lovable without AI and accidentally made a better Google doc.

Sure, like a transmission is part of a car. No car could work without one, and a bad one makes an otherwise good car bad. However, a great one can’t make an otherwise bad car good.