Hacker News: Palomides

New comment by Palomides in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

Palomides — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:59:10 +0000

I meant something in-vehicle for ground vehicles, like an extremely simple extrapolation of current velocity and the extremely predictable trajectory of a plane, instead of depending on going back and forth over radio asking a very busy fallible human, but sure

even my cheap car has geofencing and automatic braking

I've worked on avionics professionally and I haven't crashed any of my planes yet...

New comment by Palomides in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

Palomides — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:39:39 +0000

an automated system that could check if a plane is about to land on a runway and show some kind of alert or red light is hardly a stretch of the imagination

New comment by Palomides in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

Palomides — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:22:24 +0000

france has a really strong tradition of comics, it's not just manga

New comment by Palomides in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

Palomides — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:45:45 +0000

this position assumes the surveillance state or megacorps would be satisfied with a zero knowledge proof based ID/age verification system, which is not at all obvious to me

meta could spend their billions lobbying for that, if they wanted to

edit: to be clear, I do think a government developed and maintained ZKP ID/age system is the best possible compromise, I just don't think we have any chance of getting it

New comment by Palomides in "Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens"

Palomides — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:46:08 +0000

calling the immune system simple and mechanical is completely wild, like half of americans have some kind of medically diagnosable immune dysfunction

New comment by Palomides in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

Palomides — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:58:45 +0000

you can use TAI (international atomic time, basically UTC without leap seconds) if you want to be serious about it

I'm a fan but it's rare for anyone else to agree!

New comment by Palomides in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"

Palomides — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:43:22 +0000

not GP but I've found the install and upgrade experience for OpenWRT on larger machines is not great compared to the alternatives and normal Linux distros, everything is biased towards the use case of occasionally flashing/configuring little systems

I still use it though, can't complain in terms of actual routing/switching

New comment by Palomides in "Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels"

Palomides — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:52:24 +0000

there's basically zero intersection between mainline linux version support timelines and android kernels as deployed on phones

New comment by Palomides in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse"

Palomides — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:46:26 +0000

it might actually be better to cool from the bottom, since the pads probably conduct heat better than the chip package material

I bet if you designed a custom board it could do a little better

New comment by Palomides in "Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism"

Palomides — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:41:10 +0000

why? I think having a stated policy on LLM use is increasingly unavoidable for FOSS projects

New comment by Palomides in "Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism"

Palomides — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:35:01 +0000

maybe? devs should weigh the feedback and decide what they think will best serve the project. open source is, especially, always in conversation with the community of both users and developers.

New comment by Palomides in "Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism"

Palomides — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:17:22 +0000

what if the users legitimately don't want AI written software?

New comment by Palomides in "Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt"

Palomides — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:05:15 +0000

you can get a 100Gb normal pcie card like a MCX416A for less than $100 if you're willing to flash them

New comment by Palomides in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

Palomides — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:42:01 +0000

you could make a decision informed by actual information, i.e. your blood levels

New comment by Palomides in "Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month"

Palomides — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:06:10 +0000

I'm very skeptical, but this is also something that's easy to compare using the original as a reference implementation, right? providing lots of random input and fixing any disparities is a classic approach for rewriting/porting a system

New comment by Palomides in "Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace"

Palomides — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:29:44 +0000

some ARM chips can do PCIe endpoint mode, and the kernel has support for pretending to be an nvme ssd https://docs.kernel.org/nvme/nvme-pci-endpoint-target.html

New comment by Palomides in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

Palomides — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:00:08 +0000

probably worth mentioning they discontinued the ICE Macan (and 718 Cayman/Boxster) in Europe?

also they put a dinky 2KWh battery in some 911s

New comment by Palomides in ""Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?""

Palomides — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:22:17 +0000

I think it's also that hardware costs are so easy to quantify compared to engineering labor and software dependency maintenance etc

New comment by Palomides in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

Palomides — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:46:59 +0000

mad men is fiction

New comment by Palomides in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

Palomides — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:08:16 +0000

>every "no-code will replace developers" wave actually creates more developer jobs, not fewer

you mean "created", past tense. You're basically arguing it's impossible for technical improvements to reduce the number of programmers in the world, ever. The idea that only humans will ever be able to debug code or interpret non-technical user needs seems questionable to me.