Hacker News: Ziggy_Zaggy

TX-10k Salvage Ship

Ziggy_Zaggy — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:19:06 +0000

"TX-10000 is the largest heavy-lift vessel ever built in the United States"

Link: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/2025/09/08/what-is-the-huge-vessel-in-gulf-at-pensacola-port-is-tx-10000/86046856007/

Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250914151032/https://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/2025/09/08/what-is-the-huge-vessel-in-gulf-at-pensacola-port-is-tx-10000/86046856007/

Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250914151612/https://www.pnj.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/09/08/massive-yellow-structure-in-port-of-pensacola/86048124007/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240445

Points: 1

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New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:03:46 +0000

With all the SWE in the mix, why not just roll your own media player...? It's not THAT hard. Same for movie player btw (and one solution can do both ofc).

HTML spec for media is pretty amazing these days, no real excuses outside of time.

New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:54:32 +0000

The federal service DOES have a pay-banding system (AcqDemo) that CAN support the extra compensation but it's currently NOT being adequately implemented. If the system actually implemented the next pay-band to be cover roughly pay-grade that covers the $100k to $250k income level that wasn't MGT focused and instead technical "do the work in a team setting" focused (NOT tech director - useless position - should be eliminated).

Also, the current pay-pool system is NOT effective bc MGT is NOT able and/or willing to fight for their employees who work to get a reasonable pay-bump and instead the game is always "can't pay my employees more than me or my MGT buddies".

The federal service culture insists on paying MGT positions more than technical higher-talent positions in over 80% of cases.

C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'

Ziggy_Zaggy — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:16:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/c_creator_calls_for_action/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43250618

Points: 1

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New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "'Obelisks', a new class of life living inside humans"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 01:20:54 +0000

"...new life forms are called Obelisks..."

'Obelisks', a new class of life living inside humans

Ziggy_Zaggy — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 01:20:54 +0000

Article URL: https://bgr.com/science/researchers-just-discovered-an-entirely-new-class-of-life-living-inside-humans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42904578

Points: 109

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New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:58:36 +0000

Perhaps we should consider the tech GTRI developed to study the situation?

Link - https://www.twz.com/air/militarys-recently-deployed-ufo-hunt...

New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "Wednesday UAP Hearing"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:15:46 +0000

UAP Hearing

Wednesday UAP Hearing

Ziggy_Zaggy — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:15:46 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1gqdab4/megathread_us_congress_ufo_hearing_nov_13th_2024/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139279

Points: 1

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New Simulations Suggest Planet Nine Might Not Be a Planet at All

Ziggy_Zaggy — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 02:51:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-simulations-suggest-planet-nine-might-not-be-a-planet-at-all

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41544826

Points: 3

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Unidentified Golden Specimen Captures Public Imagination

Ziggy_Zaggy — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:36:25 +0000

Article URL: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/oer-updates/2023/golden-orb.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41088107

Points: 2

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How a New Substance Is Set to Change Technology

Ziggy_Zaggy — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/how-a-strange-new-substance-is-set-to-change-technology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40995909

Points: 2

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New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:12:28 +0000

Feel free to attempt to educate me on antimatter then ofc. Otherwise, I'll continue to consume the NASA public R&D slides while laughing off silly comments.

New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:21:43 +0000

Yet nuclear still seems to be a front-runner candidate for net-zero-carbon solutions in the arena of "almost always online" base-load. AKA - what solutions are best at carrying the base-load in low-daylight or low-wind scenarios...?

And datacenters for LLM applications...? How much land will be required to build a power plant facility to power each new LLM datacenter...? What solution carries that base-load during the low-light or low-wind time-periods...?

If this is the status-quo in the US now regarding nuclear fission tech then don't look now but NASA and other nations R&D sectors are already making significant progress towards anti-matter solutions. Luddites beware - the risks with new high-energy tech doesn't get any less scary moving forward but they DO score better on net-zero-carbon metrics.

Nonreciprocal quantum batteries exhibit remarkable capacities and efficiency

Ziggy_Zaggy — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 02:23:58 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-06-nonreciprocal-quantum-batteries-remarkable-capacities.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40629539

Points: 2

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New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:36:20 +0000

...why not just print to PDF then since all browswer support PDF?

New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:26:56 +0000

I have no idea why ppl don't use tools like LibreOffice and OpenOffice over MS Office and the other cloud (joke) products.

If you're working on a file in the cloud instead of a local file then you probably should've already written/bought your own locally hosted server product instead.

OpenOffice Calc (and similar products) are a staple for ppl who need applications that work without all the "c-suite needs their bonus" silliness.

New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "Antimatter Propulsion [pdf]"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:12:11 +0000

Wow, just wow. Great work being done at NASA.

Please don't retire for another 10 years (or more).

New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 22:16:45 +0000

Any more details on this one? What might one use-case be for this application?

New comment by Ziggy_Zaggy in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

Ziggy_Zaggy — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 03:44:31 +0000

https://imgur.com/a/I9S6j12

http://urza.sytes.net:8080/cfusion/Enigma/Core/View/Constell...

iirc, the original ideas came from some clever team from MIT or similar setup. Used for bringing Sketchup and Blender models to life via JS. Intended for local LAN implementations.