Hacker News: Blueskytech

New comment by Blueskytech in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

Blueskytech — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:55:30 +0000

Try this out

https://tysonberry-wogan.com/command-and-control-by-tyson/

Chinese Bismuth Transistor Breakthrough

Blueskytech — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:21:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-university-designed-worlds-first-silicon-free-2d-gaafet-transistor-new-bismuth-based-tech-is-both-the-fastest-and-lowest-power-transistor-yet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348278

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by Blueskytech in "A vegan cheese beat dairy in a big competition. Then the plot curdled"

Blueskytech — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 18:32:04 +0000

Lots of cheese has little or no lactose

New comment by Blueskytech in "High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan"

Blueskytech — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 01:14:11 +0000

This is my concern as well, I think the preponderance of LED lighting could be causing more Myopia because of less IR and perhaps UV

New comment by Blueskytech in "Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize"

Blueskytech — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 23:01:35 +0000

I have a friend who has been saved by this and I have two funny points.

CF makes you not process food correctly so you can eat a ton of food and not gain weight. After taking this medicine he was upset because his body started processing food correctly and he put on a bunch of weight initially.

This really is a life saving cure for most general genetic versions of CF but he also remarked that it’s great they found a cure now because it’s basically a white people disease and the amount of funding it got for a cure was likely going to come under scrutiny.

New comment by Blueskytech in "Private equity: A fee too far [pdf]"

Blueskytech — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 03:36:30 +0000

Thanks for explaining something in a simple way that gets to the root of the problem. Arguing about semantics is so common.

New comment by Blueskytech in "America Is Drowning in Packages"

Blueskytech — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:14:28 +0000

I work at USPS and rural carriers are paid on evaluated time. While some locations don’t get many packages because Amazon has taken the load off with their own contractors, many offices have to make multiple trips because of the package load which essentially means USPS workers in those rural offices are working for free on those second trips. The package load is a real problem.

New comment by Blueskytech in "Folic Acid Supplement Linked with Reduction in Suicide Attempts and Self-Harm"

Blueskytech — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:26:39 +0000

Additionally if you have Kidney disease you should take the Methyl-folate form because the generally available form of folic acid breaks down to cyanide as a byproduct.

New comment by Blueskytech in "FLAC 1.4.0 released – added support for 32-bit audio"

Blueskytech — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:23:32 +0000

Because if the recording goes past the clipping range for digital audio it still records the data and preserves it. 32bit recording has serious advantages because it’s much easier to record a hot input because digital clipping is not possible. You just need to pull the volume down on the recorded clip after the fact and there is no clipping.

New comment by Blueskytech in "FLAC 1.4.0 released – added support for 32-bit audio"

Blueskytech — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:19:56 +0000

I have a lynx hilo and it does 32 bit input. It’s incredibly nice for recording because if the input hits clipping range you can just lower the volume on the 32 bit recording after the fact and the recording is preserved. Lots of high end DACs have a 32 bit input output option because of this.

New comment by Blueskytech in "Making a 'sandwich' out of magnets and topological insulators"

Blueskytech — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:05:29 +0000

Bismuth is going to be the metal of the future, TSMC is also using it in their 1 nm process. As the uses for topological insulators make it to industry I think Bismuth is going to become a priority for companies to secure sourcing. China currently controls 75 percent of the supply.

New comment by Blueskytech in "Foreign money funding ‘extremism’ in Canada"

Blueskytech — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 04:28:20 +0000

The fact that this comment is being downvoted enough for it to have turned grey is why I never post about civil liberties on hacker news, who wants to lose karma? I guess I will do my part today and ask people to upvote reasonable posts like this so that perhaps chilling effects on speech will not increase through negative karma feedback loops.

New comment by Blueskytech in "More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’"

Blueskytech — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:00:14 +0000

This is a great analogy, I’m going to use this moving forward.

New comment by Blueskytech in "Windows 11 upgrade tool that bypasses Microsoft´s requirements"

Blueskytech — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 20:33:35 +0000

It may come to Windows 10 but AAC Bluetooth support with proper microphone switching is a huge upgrade. If you have Sony XM4 headphones the switch to 11 is worth it.

New comment by Blueskytech in "The press demands censorship in the US and decries it in Russia and China"

Blueskytech — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:37:37 +0000

The problem is once you give someone arbiter powers for determining misinformation it’s going to be used on something that is factual either on accident or intentionally. Logically you can either have full free speech or you support censorship, I’m not convinced there is a workable middle ground.

Chrome extension to close tabs to the left

Blueskytech — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 20:27:29 +0000

Article URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/close-tabs-to-the-left/gggbppgpkegkkgjpmlbedgbmgomecmoj

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28655947

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Blueskytech in "Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years"

Blueskytech — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:42:12 +0000

Just like everyone else seems to think, this is the monetization model I can get behind.

New comment by Blueskytech in "DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth"

Blueskytech — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:10:31 +0000

This quote seems real interesting: “ Romesberg thinks that these findings could raise questions about modifications of bacterial DNA that were thought to be epigenetic — that is, changes made to nucleotides after the DNA was synthesized, usually to influence gene expression. The Z substitution, he said, “shows that things that you might have thought were epigenetic might not be.””

New comment by Blueskytech in "A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn"

Blueskytech — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 21:55:47 +0000

While I am confident there is a rational scientific explanation for the hexagon of Saturn, it is undoubtedly an incredible synchronicity that the storm exists. Saturn being the sixth planet from the sun it has historically been associated with the hexagon within occult symbolism since well before humans could have verified such a storm exists. Truly a remarkable find and fact of our solar system.

New comment by Blueskytech in "Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever'"

Blueskytech — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 06:11:24 +0000

Page 10 of the slides had the study inclusion information I was looking for, participants of the study were only included if they had "acute" onset of covid symptoms within 7 days. Proponents of Ivermectin will push back on this study since advocates have been clear that it is only an effective treatment if used as preventative prophylactic or within the first few days of symptomatic response to infection.

https://dcricollab.dcri.duke.edu/sites/NIHKR/KR/GR-Slides-08...