Why “Guess” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I'm going to guess if you did it on the video card and simply disabled those enhancements it would be considerably more energy efficient than doing it on the CPU as well which (…
by bartread · Oct 16, 2026
Portia jumping spiders are incredibly smart. People have done experiments where they place the spiders in a complex environment with food in a hard to access location and they b…
by bartread · Oct 16, 2026
In the video they claim the air is supersonic at exit, and point out the mach diamonds -- and I think they said 60 kilonewtons of thrust max, which is really a lot. So I think t…
by vessenes · Oct 16, 2026
My guess is - legal or not, Facebook might’ve calculated the consequences (aka, fines) and decided it is worth the cost. Most publishers will not have the resources to fight the…
by akudha · Oct 16, 2026
Ah, I see. Those "final drafts PDFs" are a bit confusing to google, I must admit. I guess I'd better save them once locally, properly titled, and reference those copies instead?…
by Joker_vD · Oct 16, 2026
I guess I noticed this recently. I dropped into a TPB mirror because I was being lazy and saw the 'recent' torrent feed was filled with .exe files, all the same size, in every c…
by kjs3 · Oct 16, 2026
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Guessing is the act of drawing a swift conclusion, called a guess, from data directly at hand, which is then held as probable or tentative, while the person making the guess admittedly lacks material for a greater degree of certainty. Read more on Wikipedia