Hacker News: CamelCaseCondo

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

CamelCaseCondo — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:13:08 +0000

There’s the problem: we want change without giving up the things we’re accustomed to. We’re locked in.

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

CamelCaseCondo — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:25:19 +0000

Which ullustrates that humanity has reached such numbers that the smallest collective change has an enormous impact.

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

CamelCaseCondo — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:13:24 +0000

This strikes me as weird. In 92/93/94 I was on packet radio, a ham equivalent of digital lora which used hopping to get you to neighbouring countries. Most had 1200 baud, some 9600. I downloaded executables from bbs’es over the air and chatted with likeminded folks. Around that time we also had the first guest lectures about software defined radio with proof of concepts. I find it impossible to believe that a bunch of amateurs in EU were more digitally connected than the folks this thread talks about. Without a monthly payment, mind you.

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

CamelCaseCondo — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:13:47 +0000

Cumulative Historical Emissions (1850–Present):

US ~537Gt

China ~312Gt

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

CamelCaseCondo — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:24:27 +0000

Elliott, Chris (2017). "Bandages, Bitumen, Bodies and Business – Egyptian mummies as raw materials". Aegyptiaca (1): 40–46.

https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/aegyp/articl...

Also:

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

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

CamelCaseCondo — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:30:05 +0000

We all just need a little more iodine in our sodium.

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon"

CamelCaseCondo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:48:43 +0000

Have you actually looked in that repo? No hardware source and a few things related to sdr or fpga but nothing that allows someone to build this.

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "China stands to benefit most from the war-driven energy crisis"

CamelCaseCondo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:30:01 +0000

Archive.ph:

https://archive.ph/vmLSo

(Title changed)

China stands to benefit most from the war-driven energy crisis

CamelCaseCondo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:29:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/06/iran-war-china-renewable-energy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664895

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon"

CamelCaseCondo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:16:24 +0000

Apparently it’s a way to attract attention and support. I’ve been following picoIDE which got some attention here on HN 4 months ago [1]. When asked then where the src is, the answer was in a few weeks. Fast-forward a crowd-supply campaign (no mention 4 months ago) to the tune of 350k and the repo is still empty.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949352

Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down

CamelCaseCondo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:17:38 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-03-31/News_and_notes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585161

Points: 47

# Comments: 9

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

CamelCaseCondo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:31:26 +0000

Wind is not a homogeneous movement, there are highways and slow lanes. Spores (as from fungi), pollen (from wind pollinators such as grasses) and dust-like seeds (e.g. from orchids) are ideal nucleation points for condensation. So when wind is forced up (because of changes in the terrain) these are the particles that get filtered out: either physically as precipitation or functionally by freezing.

For those interested, there have been a number of studies that put numbers on the action radius. When genetic manipulation of wind pollinators (e.g. wheat, corn and others grasses) came in vogue they needed to put a number on the dispersal of modified pollen.

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range"

CamelCaseCondo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:04:59 +0000

I’d like to add construction materials to the list of energy intensive products. Glass, bricks, rockwool and cement.

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm"

CamelCaseCondo — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:13:55 +0000

We still live in an age of deterministic computers. It’s the software that’s become fuzzy. (And since we’re on the subject: there’s no AI)

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results"

CamelCaseCondo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:37:42 +0000

From my personal experience, the article and the comments I read here they seriously undersold the reliability of rewriting. For any other RW medium (audio or video cassettes, even floppies) I remember ad campaigns by Sony, TDK, Philips, … on tv. But not for these.

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher"

CamelCaseCondo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:42:15 +0000

If you know the structure of the “tick”, you can apply the technique of a correlation receiver. It can dig up signals below the noise floor and is used in GPS reception.

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "Scientists detect a sudden acceleration in global warming"

CamelCaseCondo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:18:24 +0000

Publication:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...

Scientists detect a sudden acceleration in global warming

CamelCaseCondo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:17:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260309183208.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320409

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by CamelCaseCondo in "Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc"

CamelCaseCondo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:27:58 +0000

I did the same thing to evaluate random number generators by drawing pixels with the count value. You see a pattern, line or clusters? Bad generator.

Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse

CamelCaseCondo — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:18:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518268-shift-in-the-gulf-stream-could-signal-ocean-current-collapse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278003

Points: 6

# Comments: 0