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Previously: Physical Intelligence (robots), Meta, Google, Microsoft

My blog: https://james.darpinian.com/blog/

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Creator of See A Satellite Tonight: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/

Based in Palo Alto

Submissions

Memory Safe Context Switching

fil-c.org
212 points·by modeless·12 days ago·30 comments

OpenAI teases GPT-5.4: "sooner than you Think."

twitter.com
3 points·by modeless·4 months ago·2 comments

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

anthropic.com
735 points·by modeless·5 months ago·738 comments

Claude Opus 4.6. Our smartest model got an upgrade

twitter.com
1 points·by modeless·5 months ago·0 comments

As Rocks May Think

evjang.com
87 points·by modeless·5 months ago·82 comments

Physical Intelligence Sweeps Humanoid Olympics

generalrobots.substack.com
2 points·by modeless·6 months ago·0 comments

It's time to accelerate the development of antimatter for space propulsion

caseyhandmer.wordpress.com
20 points·by modeless·8 months ago·0 comments

Physical Intelligence: A VLA That Learns From Experience

pi.website
1 points·by modeless·8 months ago·0 comments

comments

modeless
·2 days ago·discuss
An hour or two of entertainment for $19.99 isn't outrageous these days. A trip to the movie theater can easily cost more.
modeless
·2 days ago·discuss
This is dangerously naive and misguided. They claim to want to avoid centralization of control but propose a world police state of AI regulation. Governments exerting this much control will only end in war and tyranny.
modeless
·3 days ago·discuss
Safari finally supports Web Push so maybe you can bypass all that nonsense.
modeless
·3 days ago·discuss
The rendering is a bit weird. It's disorienting to have the trains simultaneously underneath the map and occluding it. It also seems like the z-buffer is not being used correctly when rendering the train cars.
modeless
·3 days ago·discuss
It was obvious from the live demo that this thing still hasn't learned when to shut up. When it stops tacking on "I'm here when you need me" to every response that could have just been "ok" or simply silence, maybe they'll have something. I think voice remains OpenAI's most disappointing product.
modeless
·3 days ago·discuss
What is the actual per token price? The benchmarks look similar to Grok 4.5 also released today and priced at $2/M input tokens and $6/M output tokens.
modeless
·8 days ago·discuss
Requiring SpaceX to set up a token reseller just to meet the the ownership requirement does exactly nothing for "national security". It's pure graft for whoever gets handed ownership of the reseller and nothing more. In fact if blatant enough it could be illegal under the FCPA.
modeless
·8 days ago·discuss
Meh. I have gigabit fiber and it's enough for me right now. I could pay for 5 gigabit, but why? The last mile is almost never the bottleneck in my connection. 99% of the time it's upstream somewhere, with the only real exception being Steam game downloads. And my home network is gigabit ethernet so to actually get any benefit I'd have to upgrade a ton of my own hardware, the router and the switches and the NICs and even all the way down to the cables.
modeless
·9 days ago·discuss
That's crazy, $4,586 for 32 GB RAM? Asus is selling an X2 Elite Extreme laptop with 48 GB RAM for $1,699.99 and it's in stock at Best Buy today. What is HP thinking?
modeless
·10 days ago·discuss
> Don’t be like me! I wasted my entire life

That's not the argument being made here. The field is changing. I had a good career in graphics, my life wasn't wasted at all. That doesn't mean a college student would have the same experience starting today.
modeless
·10 days ago·discuss
Do people browse arxiv or monitor new posts like reddit or something? I only visit when I encounter a link to it or when I search for a specific paper.
modeless
·11 days ago·discuss
https://web.archive.org/web/20170814124609/http://largehardo...
modeless
·12 days ago·discuss
I'm aware of what you've said about this in the past. I'm expressing my disagreement. HN would be improved dramatically by a significant change in where this line is drawn.
modeless
·12 days ago·discuss
I don't think "appetite to discuss" should be a justification to override the guidelines against political submissions and discussion. There is far too much politics on HN and it leaks into unrelated discussions too. There are plenty of other places to discuss politics on the internet.
modeless
·15 days ago·discuss
Not generally, no. Capacitors usually store electrons in a conductor so they are free to move instantly. Movement of free electrons within a conductor is not considered a chemical reaction.
modeless
·15 days ago·discuss
> We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default. It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.

I'm very glad to see them say this explicitly and prominently.
modeless
·15 days ago·discuss
This scanner doesn't inject bubble contrast either. A nurse does it. Obviously a nurse could do that when you use the Midjourney scanner too...
modeless
·16 days ago·discuss
Yeah but my port is better because it supports phones/touch and gamepads and multiplayer over UDP and has better performance and a bunch of other small details.
modeless
·16 days ago·discuss
And Quake 3: https://thelongestyard.link/q3a-demo/

And Unreal Tournament: https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut

There's also https://noclip.website/ which, while not playable, has hundreds of levels from dozens of older games that you can explore freely. Including Half-Life 2, with more accurate rendering than this web port (which seems to be missing many shaders including character eyes).
modeless
·17 days ago·discuss
Both The Longest Yard and Facing Worlds can now be played instantly on the web:

https://thelongestyard.link/q3a-demo/ (instant, even works on phones)

https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut (scroll down and click Create on CTF-FACE)

They even have multiplayer support.

I hope someone ports UT2K4 someday so I can play ONS-Torlan.