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Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•1m ago•0 comments

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/
1•HotGarbage•1m ago•0 comments

AI UX Playground: Real-world examples of AI interaction design

https://www.aiuxplayground.com/
1•javiercr•2m ago•0 comments

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•3m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
2•sohimaster•7m ago•0 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
2•harshalone•7m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•12m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•13m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•15m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•15m ago•1 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
7•c420•16m ago•1 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•16m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
3•HotGarbage•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•17m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•18m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
3•surprisetalk•22m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
3•TheCraiggers•23m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•24m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

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12•doener•24m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•25m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•27m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•27m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
3•elsewhen•30m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deterministic NDJSON audit logs – v1.2 update (structural gaps)

https://github.com/yupme-bot/kernel-ndjson-proofs
1•Slaine•35m ago•0 comments

The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

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2•mooreds•36m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

I Think I Found Something Weird About Physical Constants

https://quantummarmelade.substack.com/p/i-think-i-found-something-weird-about
15•obius_prime•2mo ago

Comments

obius_prime•2mo ago
If anyone wants to collaborate or has questions or just wants to tell me off, my email is SylvanGaskin@gmail.com All are welcome. I'd tell myself off but ive done that already and it didn't help, i'm still doing this shit and cant seem to stop... maybe i need an intervention. XD
dmfdmf•2mo ago
Interesting post. I noticed that your Optimal: L=2997mm is the same four leading digits as the speed of light 299792458 m/s.

I always thought there was a connection between geometry and the math and physical constants. Once I was thinking about Einstein's equivalence principle between gravity and acceleration and his elevator-in-space argument. He claimed that there is no experiment that the man in the elevator could do to determine if he was in a gravity field or accelerating rocket. It occurred to me that all he had to do was wait because the rocket could not accelerate at 9.81 m/s forever. So I did the math lightspeed/acceleration of gravity = 30559883.59 sec = 353.7023 days for 86,400 sec/day or 96.9% of a year to get to c. Just a coincidence, they say.

obius_prime•2mo ago
Holy... i hadn't noticed the speed of light thing!...collab with me if you like. i'm super stoked for engagement , even if someone disproves it all. :) TY!
RyanCavanaugh•2mo ago
If you overlay 30 prime number frequency waves plus 30 more even frequency waves, you're going to have an enormous number of local peaks.

Look at a chart of sin(x) + sin(x/2) + sin(x/3) + sin(x/5) + sin(x/7) + sin(x/11) + sin(x/13) + sin(x/17) + sin(x/19) + sin(x/23) + sin(x/29) + sin(x/31) + sin(x/37) + sin(x/43), you can find a local peak close to practically any number; the chart is effectively entirely composed of peaks.

It's extremely unsurprising that you would find peaks near mathematically relevant numbers, since there are peaks near any number whatsoever. You could pick ten random numbers out of a hat and fine tune those to 99.999%+ accuracy as well using the same scaling procedure.

RyanCavanaugh•2mo ago
I modified hamilton_perfect_finder.py to have new values:

# Target constants CONSTANTS = { 'fine_structure': 131.11, 'phi': 1.9, 'pi': 3.6, 'e': 2.4, 'sqrt_2': 1.1, 'sqrt_3': 1.2, 'sqrt_5': 2.5,

Best results: L = 3017.391610 s = 0.042000 Average: 94.848564% Minimum: 82.509479%

  Constants:
    sqrt_2                   : 100.00000000%
    sqrt_3                   : 99.99236291%
    phi                      : 99.93928922%
    pi                       : 99.89806320%
    e                        : 99.88623436%
    sqrt_5                   : 99.85340314%
And this is before any fine-tuning of the parameter set!
obius_prime•2mo ago
Fucking sick! Dude, this is awesome you ran the code! I'm truly humbled if this is real.
obius_prime•2mo ago
You're right — that script (hamiltonian_perfect_finder) IS a parameter search tool. It will find matches to whatever targets you give it. That's not the core claim. The core claim is in the white noise tests and the basic resonance chamber: with FIXED geometry and RANDOM input, the same constants keep appearing. We're not searching for them — they emerge. Try running topology_wave_generator_tests.py with white noise input. No parameter optimization. See what ratios appear without being told what to look for. The question isn't 'can we fit these numbers' — it's 'why do these specific numbers keep showing up when we're not looking for them?
obius_prime•2mo ago
Ran hierarchical analysis. At 1% tolerance, 23% of ratios match algebraic combinations of constants (harmonics, products, ratios). 77% unexplained. We're not finding constants everywhere — we're finding a specific ~23% algebraic structure. The breakdown: 16% are harmonics (2φ, 3π, etc.), 13% are ratios between constants (π/φ, e/√2). This is a coherent algebraic system, not random peak-picking. Interestingly, the 77/23 split approximates Menger sponge geometry (74/26). Whether that's meaningful or coincidence — worth investigating.
verzali•2mo ago
Is this something that you have generated with Grok? Have you spent some time yourself to study the math and physics of vibrations and waves before publishing this?
obius_prime•2mo ago
Have you engaged with the material?