Hacker News: Levitating

New comment by Levitating in "Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet"

Levitating — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:13:03 +0000

"...uncovered the graves of nine skeletons dated to the early 1300s. Five, including Skeleton 150, dated to the 1300s."

That seems like a contradiction.

New comment by Levitating in "Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out"

Levitating — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:05:15 +0000

How much good data can you get out of twitch?

New comment by Levitating in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

Levitating — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:52:17 +0000

That's not my experience

New comment by Levitating in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

Levitating — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:51:08 +0000

> The name was registered in 2009 because it was the shortest URL possible: a zero, a dot, two letters. Seventeen years later the zero means something else.

Did the zero ever mean anything? It's still a 3 character domain regardless if the first character is a zero.

New comment by Levitating in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

Levitating — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:58:20 +0000

But we don't all use Facebook, Facebook found its niche of tech-illiterate people to abuse.

The population is a wide demographic and it would be nice if companies didn't try to exploit parts of it.

New comment by Levitating in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

Levitating — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:41:36 +0000

Meta could help the situation, for instance by providing fact-checking tools and banning rage-bait creators.

Instead they have removed those tools and are paying these creators. So it's not just consumers to blame here.

New comment by Levitating in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

Levitating — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:38:06 +0000

A lot of channels got bought by private equity. YouTube is saturated with similar content so creators have to resort to clickbait to keep up. AI has allowed creators to increase their efficiency writing scripts.

I don't know what you believe Google changed about YouTube, but I believe it has just made itself worse.

New comment by Levitating in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"

Levitating — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:18:24 +0000

Often the actual token would just hold a link to a jpeg. With all the consequences of link rot.

New comment by Levitating in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

Levitating — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:02:16 +0000

I don't see how this is any different from how traffic cameras are used. Hot take, but as long as the systems aren't abused by law enforcement I don't see the big deal.

New comment by Levitating in "ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound"

Levitating — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:08:41 +0000

Depending on your country you might be able to buy a ZX spectrum for a reasonable price. Their through-hole circuit boards are very repairable and there's a some videos on YouTube explaining how to properly troubleshoot them.

I've personally had a lot of fun repairing one I bought on catawiki.

New comment by Levitating in "A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig"

Levitating — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:10:01 +0000

GTK4 memory usage is ludicrous

New comment by Levitating in "Winding Down Artichoke Ruby"

Levitating — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:43:35 +0000

I did some digging into Artichokes sourcecode to get inspiration for making a Ruby like language in Rust. But I found the codebase a bit complicated and ended up taking more inspiration from mruby instead. It's deeply segmented into different crates like many Rust projects are.

New comment by Levitating in "Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner""

Levitating — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:57:47 +0000

In this case it has nothing to do with AI

> these are largely crypto mining rigs making this noise

New comment by Levitating in "Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner""

Levitating — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:55:41 +0000

This reminds of a video[1] from More Perfect Union about another (the same?) crypto mining facility in Texas.

[1]: https://youtu.be/m7_WDzPyoqU

New comment by Levitating in "Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History"

Levitating — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:39:47 +0000

In Europe you can take the train. Although for whatever reason it's priced similarly to airplane tickets but obviously has far longer travel times.

A lot if not most airplane traffic is holiday related, and only a handful of rich people actually get to enjoy it. There's no need for it.

New comment by Levitating in "Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History"

Levitating — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:39:35 +0000

In Europe you can take the train. Although

A lot of

New comment by Levitating in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

Levitating — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:53:23 +0000

That's exactly what the California's Digital Age Assurance Act does but that wasn't well-received either.

The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30B in rocket launches

Levitating — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:10:33 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/the-space-force-is-now-seeking-to-buy-up-to-30-billion-in-rocket-launches/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026602

Points: 6

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New comment by Levitating in "Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy"

Levitating — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:52:01 +0000

I love space trading games like EV and Elite. Can I follow your progress somewhere?

New comment by Levitating in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

Levitating — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:52:25 +0000

> Did I miss anything?

Steam has had good built-in streaming for a long time.