You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200k on Alibaba

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/you-can-buy-a-diamond-making-machine-for-200000-on-alibaba/

by ksec • 2 years ago

53 35 2 years ago

Looks like whoever writes for Ars likes to read HN — this was mentioned in a comment here yesterday, then published in Ars today. Nice one, Animats!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41492001

ehnto• 2 years ago

Quite surreal seeing the comment and just hours later seeing the article it sparked.

generalizations• 2 years ago

If the stylometry website [1] was still online, we could probably figure out which user the ars author is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

diggan• 2 years ago

Assuming they have A) written somewhere with one user that they are a writer at Ars and B) have written more about other things with another account

Most likely they're just a lurker though, like most, and then stylometry wouldn't help :)

schmorptron• 2 years ago

The article directly attributes it to him! Was that edited in after you wrote your comment?

peterldowns2• 2 years ago

I think it always attributed Animats correctly, I just wanted to point it out sounce it hadn't been remarked upon yet.

ksec• 2 years ago

In the old days, most if not all media would avoid mentioning or linking directly to HN. I think it was post 2016 they stopped doing that.

xnx• 2 years ago

The article is a combination of this HN comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41492001 and the post it relates to.

oneearedrabbit• 2 years ago

This is curious. It took approximately 19 hours to turn a HN thread into an article. What does this tell about the speed of information?

Out_of_Characte• 2 years ago

That its a slow news day

JKCalhoun2• 2 years ago

Great, so now we're going to see a glut of diamonds on Etsy now.

marssaxman• 2 years ago

you mean like this?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1382479348/1-mm-to-5-mm-diamond...

JKCalhoun2• 2 years ago

Ha ha, I guess I'm slow.

a96• 2 years ago

How far is the Diamond Age?

synergy20• 2 years ago

Artificially made diamond is said to be more authentic/pure than real diamonds due to machines like this, time to stop digging the ground.

lm28469• 2 years ago

I don't think authentic is the best adjective here, but otherwise yes

evilkorn• 2 years ago

Blood would probably be a better one.

kyledrake• 2 years ago

It will be fun to watch the diamond monopoly go in reverse and argue that imperfect diamonds are the best.

D13Fd• 2 years ago

It's already there. I've been trying, and failing, to convince my wife that we don't need a $7,000 "real" diamond for a ring she wants, and that a <$1000 lab-created diamond is better. Not only is it cheaper, but it's likely less flawed and doesn't support a company with unethical practices.

She is convinced that she nonetheless needs the $7,000 one or at least a used "real" diamond for reasons I cannot comprehend.

dynisor• 2 years ago

It's already happening, there was even a huge ad campaign

https://nationaljeweler.com/articles/12184-steven-singer-jew...

ashtonbaker• 2 years ago

The "Not a Simple Operation" section really stands out for its GPT writing style ("While [pro], it's important to note [con]", "In short...").

davely• 2 years ago

The reason that ChatGPT and other LLMs use such language is because they often find it in the corpus of text they’ve ingested. It’s a frequent pattern in writing.

So, I don’t necessarily think that’s an immediate red flag. To be sure, I guess you’d need to go back and look at the author’s previous stories and compare writing styles.

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

[dupe]

Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488353

waltbosz• 2 years ago

Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode in which thieves steal $1 million of gold. Then to avoid capture, they enter suspended animation capsules and sleep for 100 years. Only to awake in a world where gold can be manufactured and has no value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Van_Winkle_Caper

specialist• 2 years ago

How far off is additive manufacturing of diamond (forms)?

Here's 1st hit from my noob quick search.

Advance in additive manufacturing of 2D materials at the atomic and close-to-atomic scale [2024] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41699-024-00456-x.pdf

ben_w• 2 years ago

DIY-ing one of these has been on my to-do list since I learned about CVD in, oh, 2009 or so.

For entirely predicable reasons, everyone I've lived with has said "NO!" to the idea of me leaving a hacked microwave oven running continuously for a month while filled with a mixture of methane and hydrogen.

tim333• 2 years ago

Vapour machines seem to start cheaper like this for $30k https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Diamond-Growing-MPCVD...

Not that I know anything about them.

You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200k on Alibaba

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