Hacker News: AtomicOrbital

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

AtomicOrbital — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:25:11 +0000

children are pack animals ... as a kid the neighborhood was full of children and all of us had freedom to walk or when older ride our bikes anywhere always in a herd ... this is still the case in that tiny one red light village ... challenge is due to globalization most of the factories within driving distance have shuttered so working age adults have moved to where the jobs are leaving that village dominated by grandparents ... same freedom exists yet without the density of kids

GPT‑5 derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity [video]

AtomicOrbital — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:27:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d899Ram9Bs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032160

Points: 3

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New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Show HN: Weird Clocks"

AtomicOrbital — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:54:26 +0000

years ago in Japan daylight and nighttime were each given 12 hours and clocks were made to adhere to this ... throughout the year as summer days grew longer and nighttime shorter their clocks adjusted to make an hour longer or shorter self adjusting

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

AtomicOrbital — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:20:57 +0000

all of government data including all laws especially tax law needs to be put online and optimized by ML

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink"

AtomicOrbital — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:27:38 +0000

spacex has cost advantage due to rocket lands back on launch pad not getting destroyed like all others

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

AtomicOrbital — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:45:35 +0000

take your abandon laptop which still runs and install Ubuntu on it ... you will see how easy linux is today ... there is no justification for microsoft windows in 2026

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "A History of Haggis (2019)"

AtomicOrbital — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:43:54 +0000

I've had haggis in the UK and it's absolutely delicious. interesting thing is if you go to an Arab butcher shop in Brussels they have essentially the same thing. they don't call it haggis but it's the same ingredients so the plot thickens as to the history, I think it's a universal treat

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

AtomicOrbital — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:32:26 +0000

after+30 years writing code in a dozen languages building systems from scratch I love vibe coding ... it's drinking from a fire hose ... in two months I vibe coded a container orchestration system which I call my kubernetes replacement project all in go with a controller deciding which VM to deploy containers onto, agents on each host polling etcd for requests created by the controller ... it's simple understandable maintainable extendable ... also vibe coded go cdk to deploy AWS RDS clusters, API gateway, handful of golang lambda functions, valkey elasticache and a full feature data service library which handles transactions and save points, cache ... I love building systems ... sure I could write all this from scratch by hand and I have but vibe coding quickly exposes me to the broad architecture decisions earlier giving me options to experiment on various alternatives ... google gemini in antigravity rocks and yes I've tried them all ... new devs should not be vibe coding for the first 5 years or more but I lucked into having decades of doing it by hand

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

AtomicOrbital — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:28:15 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KFvhpt8FN18 clear detailed explanation of the AWS outage and how properly designed systems should have shielded the issue with zero client impact

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

AtomicOrbital — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 09:55:20 +0000

Sounds like a replacement for slack is needed

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor"

AtomicOrbital — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 01:50:32 +0000

harbor is great ... simple to install ... it's the only container registry I ever use

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Elon Musk's Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla"

AtomicOrbital — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:31:30 +0000

US fed gov is long overdue for a hard reset ... Trump is not a politician so is not beholden to the deep state and/or neocons ... DOGE is exactly what is needed ... if you have done your homework to appreciate just how radically efficient Tesla, SpaceX, X and xAI are it's a gift to the USA tax payers to have Musk gut out the graft ... government is a monopoly with zero competition run by the non tech savvy ... Tesla is light-years ahead of ICE manufacturers and has an extremely deep bench ... Musk himself says cars will be a minor player in the Tesla portfolio

haters dumping on Musk rn are running scared so expect ongoing hit pieces ... that Wired article is tat ... Buckle up and be prepared to hear devastating reveals from DOGE soon

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Multiple Security and Privacy Flaws in DeepSeek iOS Mobile App"

AtomicOrbital — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:57:34 +0000

android also insecure?

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Show HN: Synthetic User Interviews"

AtomicOrbital — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:42:26 +0000

possible goal of your project would be to allow users even on your free level to get interviewed by your ML and receive feedback ... to me that has as much traction as being simply hiring manager focused

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "SEC fines 6 major credit rating agencies over failure to keep electronic records"

AtomicOrbital — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:06:36 +0000

These are the same ratings agencies who were paid enormous sums from investment banks to give their subprime asset backed security products AAA ratings in lead up to financial crash of 2007 .... pure corruption ... I know I was boots on the ground

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "The Fourier Uncertainty Principles [pdf] (2021)"

AtomicOrbital — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 02:24:50 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WfID6kk90

take a time series dataset like an audio file or stock ticker price over time ... give your self a healthy period of time ... for example a second of broadcast quality audio gives you 44,100 data points spread across that time period stored as information ... importantly this time series audio curve wobbles up and down as it's recorded over time ... in order to justify taking 44,100 audio samples per second (on the X axis) you must balance that by breaking up the granularity of your measurement of the up and down wobble (Y axis) by devoting two bytes (a bit depth of 16 bits) of memory storage per data point which gives you 2 raised to the 16 power distinct gradations of resolution

above defines the time domain representation of the one second of audio data ... now feed this dataset into a Fourier transform which will output the same information you started with but now in the frequency domain ... it will give you not 44,100 points in time but instead 44,100 distinct frequencies ... super cool side note you can feed this new frequency domain representation of the dataset into an inverse Fourier transform to rescue back the original time series audio

If instead of a second of audio we start with a fraction of that number this reduction of recording duration will compromise the frequency resolution of the data in the frequency domain giving it less granularity hence larger increments to the next frequency

New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Anger over sale of George Orwell archive"

AtomicOrbital — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:33:54 +0000

make it so number one

PLOS ONE study suggests Egyptian pyramids built using hydraulic lift

AtomicOrbital — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:55:18 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306690

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41172700

Points: 2

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New comment by AtomicOrbital in "Swiss firm Final Spark doing computation using biological neurons"

AtomicOrbital — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:42:10 +0000

site https://finalspark.com/neuroplatform/

Swiss firm Final Spark doing computation using biological neurons

AtomicOrbital — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:40:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/brain-power-swiss-startup-powers-computers-with-mini-human-brains/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40776628

Points: 1

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