Hacker News: actinium226

New comment by actinium226 in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

actinium226 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:25:54 +0000

Did Claude find this on it's own, or did somebody using Claude find it?

New comment by actinium226 in "Fastpotify"

actinium226 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:10:10 +0000

I don't really get the comments about Spotify having a terrible UX, works fine for me.

It uses 300 MB of RAM on my MacBook. Saving 50MB of RAM in exchange for losing the ability to play lossless files isn't a trade I want to make.

Cool project though, will keep an eye on it.

New comment by actinium226 in "Git at any scale"

actinium226 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:09:11 +0000

If he has such a good reputation, why doesn't he write well? He never actually introduces the point of the article, he merely alludes to it in the concluding paragraphs.

New comment by actinium226 in "Retire the Abstractions"

actinium226 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:46:20 +0000

> The job of abstraction as a cognitive offloader is starting to retire. Agents are taking that job.

Call me when the agents can take my high level directives and write assembly.

New comment by actinium226 in "Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership"

actinium226 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:46:27 +0000

I'd love to see something like this but with jobs created.

New comment by actinium226 in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

actinium226 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:10:51 +0000

Username checks out.

New comment by actinium226 in "Ear Training Practice"

actinium226 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:10:32 +0000

I tried this years ago to try to develop my ability to play by ear.

What I ended up learning is that if you want to learn to play by ear, learn to sing, don't bother with exercises like this, at least not until you've gotten some singing practice in.

When singing, you have to hear the intervals in your head before you sing them, so developing that ability to generate the intervals in your head will help you to recognize them later on.

What I learned from making my own drone (Part II)

actinium226 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:50:52 +0000

Article URL: https://nbelakovski.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-from-making-my-own-887

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375320

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by actinium226 in "It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004)"

actinium226 — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:09:38 +0000

This looks like they simply reinvented PID control. The inputs to the beyond are desired states minus actual states, which is basically how PID works.

Thea Energy Raises $100M Series B Funding to Build Scalable Fusion Power Plants

actinium226 — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:49:50 +0000

Article URL: https://thea.energy/press-release/thea-energy-raises-100-million-series-b-funding-to-build-scalable-fusion-power-plants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298709

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by actinium226 in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

actinium226 — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:08:32 +0000

I don't get how this is meaningfully different from doing something like:

1. Squash all your commits in this branch to one

2. Move that commit to the working directory with the appropriate git reset command

3. Commit hunks as appropriate.

New comment by actinium226 in "Zed 1.0"

actinium226 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:27:04 +0000

VSCode is draining my battery, looking forward to trying this

New comment by actinium226 in "How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way"

actinium226 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:44:15 +0000

Yea since writing this I think it has more to do with the regulator circuit. I plan to do a small rewrite and change the title to something like "When 3.3V isn't actually 3.3V" to more accurately reflect the situation. A decoupling cap would probably still help, but there were some mistakes made on the regulator circuit.

How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way

actinium226 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:27:44 +0000

Article URL: https://nbelakovski.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-what-a-decoupling-capacitor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905208

Points: 174

# Comments: 89

What I learned from making my own drone (Part I)

actinium226 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:56:15 +0000

Article URL: https://nbelakovski.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-from-making-my-own

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543395

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by actinium226 in "Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations"

actinium226 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:01:15 +0000

70 active on average at any given time per the article, which then lists total fleet size, as opposed to number of active cars on average, so it's not a fair comparison.

Although then it says they drive about 4m miles per week, which works out to 57,000 miles per active RA agent per week. A person driving ~25 mph on average 24/7 would do ~4000 miles in a week (and we can assume 24/7 here because they reported active agents, so we assume a team of ~3 people swapping out as driver in this hypothetical).

So that gives you a car/operator ratio of at least 14, and probably more since I bet the average speed is less than 25 mph.

New comment by actinium226 in "Rathbun's Operator"

actinium226 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:17:27 +0000

> # SOUL.md - Who You Are

> _You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God!_

Do you want evil dystopian AGI? Because that's how you get evil dystopian AGI!

New comment by actinium226 in "Vim 9.2"

actinium226 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:34:05 +0000

But where are the AI features?? Gonna get left behind!

Only joking of course, actually quite refreshing to see a new version announcement of something this major without any AI nonsense.

New comment by actinium226 in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

actinium226 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:05:37 +0000

Kind of funny that the people trusting AI too much appear to be the ones who will be left behind.

New comment by actinium226 in "Why is the sky blue?"

actinium226 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:38:29 +0000

Yes! He answers why the sky isn't violet, love it!