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New comment by 420official in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

420official — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:10:27 +0000

The amount of things that would have to go wrong for the craft to get an accidental gravity boost and be ejected would be significant.

I feel like the original claim paints the whole thing as on a knife edge and barely achieved by virtue of not making a single mistake. In today's age with so many moon landing deniers and worse I feel like we should be specific about where the actual dangers challenges and unknowns there were here. In reality, the orbital mechanics are one of the simplest parts of the entire problem, at least when we're talking about a moon flyby

New comment by 420official in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

420official — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:22:19 +0000

You seem to intentionally be ignoring the original quote that any error may have caused them to be flung into space. This is patently false unless the one math error is pumping in hundreds of pounds more propellant and burning far longer than the scheduled burns. NASA would need to make a significant series of mistakes beyond orbital math for the "flung out into space" statement to be true.

They certainly could've gotten the return wrong but with a perigee of 119 miles they arent even in a stable orbit and likely could deorbit themselves using only rcs thrusters at apogee, or by just waiting a few orbits.

New comment by 420official in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

420official — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:27:15 +0000

I just did this to my MacBook not because of the sharp edge but because the pitting turns a sharp edge into a sawblade. Something about the grounding on on the frame when plugged in mixed with my sweaty hands leads to damage along this sharp edge on every MacBook I've ever owned.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/s/hbyVh5SJhw for another poor soul with the same caustic skin

New comment by 420official in "Show HN: AgnosticUI – A source-first UI library built with Lit"

420official — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:47:35 +0000

Very cool, I'm a big fan of web component libraries over vue/react ones. I did notice a couple places where mobile doesn't seem fully supported.

- Disabled outline buttons get a focus color - Dialog close modes all seem the same on mobile, click the backdrop to close. Maybe this is intended?

New comment by 420official in "Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation"

420official — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:28:04 +0000

What's your concern here? That she lead nonprofits? She seems overly qualified to run a separate nonprofit to me.

Why would the government dump any programming language for anything non security related, let alone for the actions of a third party nonprofit? PHP is still governed my a committee of approved voters like always, not by the PHP foundation.

New comment by 420official in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

420official — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:10:46 +0000

FWIW this was fixed in 2020

New comment by 420official in "The Waymo World Model"

420official — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:41:54 +0000

You're forgetting that they are also training with real data from the 100+ million miles they've driven on real roads with riders, and using that data to train the world model AI.

> there's probably no examples in the training data where the car is behind a stopped car, and the driver pulls over to another lane and another car comes from behind and crashes into the driver because it didn't check its blindspot

This specific scenario is in the examples: https://videos.ctfassets.net/7ijaobx36mtm/3wK6IWWc8UmhFNUSyy...

It doesn't show the failure mode, it demonstrates the successful crash avoidance.

New comment by 420official in "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"

420official — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:26:51 +0000

A well designed dark mode UI is just as readable as a well designed light mode UI. The issue is a lot of designers design light mode then just try to invert for dark mode rather than actually designing for dark mode. I'd imagine your post would exist for light mode if we had started with dark mode as the default.

New comment by 420official in "Distributed Denial of Secrets"

420official — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:52:08 +0000

What fundamental human rights are being lost by outing someone's ideology? I am not making a claim here, just asking for clarification.

New comment by 420official in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

420official — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 09:40:32 +0000

I agree with the rest of your point but I dont think its factual to say the majority of the country voted for trump. 77m/343m or ~20% of the country voted for trump, though I'm sure this is what you meant to say.

New comment by 420official in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

420official — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:33:29 +0000

Does this acquisition preclude implementing an s3 style integration for AWS bedrock? Also is IMDSv2 auth on the roadmap?

New comment by 420official in "Kiwi.com flight search MCP server"

420official — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:44:14 +0000

What makes this a better option than just using an API with well formed output?

New comment by 420official in "When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army"

420official — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:50:18 +0000

If all we did was supply arms to our allies who are under attack without making egregious profit off of it, then yeah I think folks would feel better about the MIC, but as you're well aware we are only granting small shipments of weapons along with big demands including currently asking Ukraine to give up it's land to russia. We also have a long history of giving weapons to sow chaos around the world leading directly to things like isis and others. Arguably worse than that, we're now using these military weapons to suppress liberty in American cities.

New comment by 420official in "When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army"

420official — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:40:49 +0000

Sure, I can agree that companies using gender dysphoria as only a way to increase profit is a bad thing, and I recognize that pharmaceutical companies are this way with _every_ drug and not just ones that benefit people. However I do disagree with the idea that people should be stripped of their right to free speech if you disagree with their statements, or stripped of their right to choose how to live their own lives.

I would offer that this is entirely different than the lack of choice we have in regard to how our government uses the military to "spread democracy at the point of a gun" while taking more and more of our tax dollars and liberty without improving our lives or tackling the problems that ordinary Americans face.

New comment by 420official in "US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data"

420official — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:24:44 +0000

The thinking is they will offer it at a high enough cost that they don't go broke. The problem is a lot of consumers, if not most, would be fine reading street signs or using mapquest.

New comment by 420official in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

420official — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:47:33 +0000

It's liquid propellant being vented, the fuel is under extreme pressure so when its released it immediately expands to a gas. I don't know that Honda has said what their propellant is, but it's probably liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

New comment by 420official in "A Song of “Full Self-Driving”"

420official — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:17:20 +0000

Waymo is firmly SAE self driving level 4 "automated driving" vs Tesla at level 2 "driver support". You're correct that waymo has operators that can jump in in the event something unusual happens, but the vast majority of the time the vehicle is operating autonomously within their defined area. All that is described by SAE level 4 where no human is driving while automatic driving is engaged.

https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update

New comment by 420official in "Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany"

420official — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:56:51 +0000

The 2025 model of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 has NACS and is my favorite alternative in terms of looks, features, and price. Rivian has been in a different price category so I have a hard time believing the $45k starting price.

New comment by 420official in "Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages"

420official — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:35:09 +0000

The author wanted to use languages that were new to them, if the author has enough familiarity with rust to have a vendetta then it probably isn't new to them.

New comment by 420official in "Show HN: I built open source file sharing solution using AWS S3"

420official — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:23:16 +0000

It really isn't that challenging to get going with JWT auth in AWS. Gitlab has pretty good documentation for how to use Gitlab ID tokens to assume roles that includes everything other than how to generate a JWT here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/cloud_services/aws/

And of course generating OIDC PKI JWTs is pretty easy and well documented elsewhere.

The harder parts in my mind are:

  - Updating this OSS project to serve a JWK from OIDC .well-known
  - Convincing people that this method of authn is safe and that those keys are securely stored