Hacker News: _justinfunk

Ask HN: Is there a secret satellite war?

_justinfunk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:27:47 +0000

Are "our enemies" launchings space assets that eat/wound/hijack/destroy our space assets? Do "we" launch space assets that eat/wound/hijack/destroy "our enemies" space assets?

Since all these assets are top-secret on both sides, it seems like it could be a whole dimension of war that I've never considered could be actively underway.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510406

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by _justinfunk in "Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew"

_justinfunk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:36:40 +0000

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

New comment by _justinfunk in "Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew"

_justinfunk — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:04:38 +0000

I think you would actually find biblical scholarship really interesting. It's way more fascinating than you give it credit for.

New comment by _justinfunk in "Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections"

_justinfunk — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:17:37 +0000

You make presumptions to examine arguments.

New comment by _justinfunk in "Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections"

_justinfunk — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:31:46 +0000

Presuming this is just incompetence instead of malice, when the missing paragraphs are replaced, will "Constitution of the United States Website has replaced missing sections" hit the front page of HN?

New comment by _justinfunk in "Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri"

_justinfunk — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:20:03 +0000

More than that, they needed a professional with vision.

We Built an AI Directed Laser That Destroys Moving Targets [video]

_justinfunk — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:27:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrocytwdeEY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42381730

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Refeed – the best way to share podcasts

_justinfunk — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:49:53 +0000

I’m sharing my first iOS app, Refeed. It all started when my wife would send me podcast links, but I wouldn’t listen to them because they weren’t in my podcast player.

Refeed solves that problem by giving users RSS feeds to share that include episodes from other podcasts.

The app builds a new RSS feed from the items in the source RSS files. The original metadata is mostly kept.(1)

The best part is that the episodes that are recommended to me show up in my podcast player of choice, and it totally preserves the analytics and distribution of the Podcast Publishers.

Let me know what you think!

(1) I’m currently proxying the enclosure url (the link to the podcast episode file) through a server, preserving the request headers. I’m hoping to be able to track “subscribers” to the feeds. We’ll see how that goes.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41874994

Points: 1

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Multilayer microhydraulic actuators with speed and force configurations (2021)

_justinfunk — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:58:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-021-00240-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766087

Points: 59

# Comments: 8

The Moon's Orbit Is Weird (Minute Physics) [video]

_justinfunk — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:57:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBcxuM-qXec

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724464

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by _justinfunk in "NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1M Miles per Hour"

_justinfunk — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:09:10 +0000

I'm not being snotty. What is the fixed point from which they are measuring the speed? Is the object moving 1M mph relative to earth? The black hole at the center of Milky Way?

New comment by _justinfunk in "NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1M Miles per Hour"

_justinfunk — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:03:12 +0000

All motion in space is relative. Wouldn't it also be equally accurate to say this object is motionless and everything else is passing it by at 1M mph?

New comment by _justinfunk in "As an ex-Twitter boss, I have a way to grab Elon Musk's attention"

_justinfunk — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:48:10 +0000

"The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free" ― Utah Phillips

Why Star Trek's Graphic Design Makes Sense [video]

_justinfunk — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:31:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D24tYFIVyv0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227778

Points: 2

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New comment by _justinfunk in "Taking a Radio Camping"

_justinfunk — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 04:39:04 +0000

> I had originally intended to spend this trip operating FT8 and CW, but for some reason I found myself really enjoying FT4 (a mode I had never used before), so I spent most of my day camped out on 14080Kc, and then shifted to 10136 and 7074 in the evening.

As a non-radio enthusiast, I was following along until this sentence.