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mac3n
·4 days ago·discuss
> predicting the electronic ground-state energies of FLiBe molecular clusters

this looks like a problem for quantum annealing, rather than digital qbits. Maybe D-wave can help.
mac3n
·4 days ago·discuss
but, are they pear-shaped boffins?
mac3n
·6 days ago·discuss
search greatly improved in the past couple years. try it again?
mac3n
·6 days ago·discuss
pi^2 ~ 10, well known to anyone who used slide rules.
mac3n
·9 days ago·discuss
It: the McRib? cuteoverload.com? Ska? Art Deco? VB6? that Heisenbug? $3 gasoline? Nixon?
mac3n
·9 days ago·discuss
I've always disliked snake-case. Maybe it's because the teletype backarrow would have been a more useful character than underscore, but it got replaced by underscore sometime in the 1960s.
mac3n
·13 days ago·discuss
going in the opposite direction, as few as two

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preon
mac3n
·15 days ago·discuss
the AI app we knew we didn't need
mac3n
·16 days ago·discuss
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
mac3n
·16 days ago·discuss
Guess it went pear-shaped!

> Majorana particles, subatomic particles that scientists have not observed directly.

i expect they're looking for Majorana quasiparticles
mac3n
·18 days ago·discuss
As a graduate student, I used to rent my body to Science, by participating in medical school experiments. Nothing injected, but blood drawn.

I spent an afternoon in an iron lung, and a couple nights in the hospital, trying to sleep while med students messed with my air supply.
mac3n
·18 days ago·discuss
of course, you're also harvesting credentials from these laptops
mac3n
·24 days ago·discuss
"cattle, not pets"
mac3n
·27 days ago·discuss
Nothing beats coming home from work, chopping something into pieces, and setting it on fire.
mac3n
·29 days ago·discuss
been using this since System 7.

Still doesn't suck.
mac3n
·last month·discuss
> "Our hope is that our model can play a role in a thoughtful data-driven conversation about one of the most societally and personally important decisions any person can make,” he says.

good luck with that!
mac3n
·last month·discuss
Unisea Inn in Dutch Harbor AK

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g30980-d112936-Revi...
mac3n
·last month·discuss
http://knuthlab.org/courses/2025/AdvancedPhysicsLab/resource...
mac3n
·2 months ago·discuss
who could have forseen this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082#48087331
mac3n
·2 months ago·discuss
only started?